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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 990e006 | Her eyes were olive green--incisive and clear. | Dan Brown | ||
| ae1621c | Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid. | Robert Greene | ||
| a7feefc | Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly--not through words and received ideas. It was flexible and receptive to new information. Retaining a memory of this Original Mind, we cannot help but feel nostalgia for the intensity with which we used to experience the world. As the years pass, this intensity inevitably diminishes. We come to see the world through a screen of words and opinions; our pri.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 3e6addc | You may think that what you'd like to recapture from your youth is your looks, your physical fitness, your simple pleasures, but what you really need is the fluidity of mind you once possessed. | Robert Greene | ||
| 1aff125 | Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious. | Robert Greene | ||
| f993520 | She cared. She gave a crap. When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son; I fell as easily as you fall into your pillow at night. And I didn't want it to end. That's the best way I can explain it. I knew it was impossible. But I didn't want it to end. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 6afe3f1 | Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ca7f826 | my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah" | Mitch Albom | ||
| 192be60 | And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. | Mitch Albom | ||
| eb712f1 | Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette | kathryn lasky marie-antoinette princess versailles | Kathryn Lasky | |
| d9df57e | Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 2996e16 | The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another--it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time. | elderly old seniors | John Scalzi | |
| 5c1d725 | Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience blended so that nothing remained but the moment. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 74d7f69 | n kl `dhb nSb bh f~ hdhh ldny Hq w`dl l'nn ntfn~ f~ Hbh `l~ Hyn 'nh l tstHq l lmqt. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1cf3b52 | The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 0dc9652 | He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| df481fa | Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a815f87 | But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth. We have come from God (continued Tolkien), and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming.. | christ myth myths splintered-light sub-creator tolkien true-myth | Humphrey Carpenter | |
| 7f39cee | You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. | drugs junkie manners medication | William S. Burroughs | |
| cc3c6eb | The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. | love | William S. Burroughs | |
| 4648451 | This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 6d5eaeb | there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 9838764 | The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 8efa44d | The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society. | Michael Crichton | ||
| cdb9ea2 | No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create...a generation of permanent cripples failed seekers who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate as.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 0190ee6 | What does it mean to be yourself?" he asked. "If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you're doing that already. If it means to act like you're exempt from society's influence, that's the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to 'be yourself' is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for li.. | Scott Adams | ||
| f4087ff | It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to d.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 9ecdb3c | What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 62d4231 | But what is the philosophy of this generation? Not God is dead, that point was passed long ago. Perhaps it should be stated Death is God. This generation thinks - and this is its thought of thoughts - that nothing faithful, vulnerable, fragile can be durable or have any true power. Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb. The brittle shell of glass loses its tiny vacuum with a burst, and that is that. .. | Saul Bellow | ||
| d9b2dd2 | He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly. | Chaim Potok | ||
| f665818 | Atencion -decia Bobby Thompson-. Este es uno de los lobos que camina entre ustedes. | stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| 8456c64 | Herk threw up the mouse, the hamburger he'd eaten for lunch, and some pasty glop that looked like tomato soup. He was just starting to ask his mother what was going on when she threw up. And there, in all that puke, that old dead mouse didn't look bad at all. It sure looked better than the rest of the stuff. | charlie decker disgusting king rage richard stephen vomit | Richard Bachman | |
| 591a182 | having stormed the German nuclear base in Santiago nearly single-handed back in 1953. | Richard Bachman | ||
| b3e7a1a | Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got. | Richard Bachman | ||
| a11e99c | I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ed5e88b | I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks." | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 610cb54 | I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed and sung me moonstruck, kissed me quite insane. And before you think that's cheesy,that's Sylvia Plath. Google her, young Padawan. | Leah Raeder | ||
| 813c16a | You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 778429a | So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 961d00f | Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different. | war | Sherwood Smith | |
| 2477c44 | I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| d13e33a | Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9973947 | What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 3342e97 | It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are. | Orson Scott Card |