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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a7e0ac8 | Ask me, then, if I believe in the spirit of the things as they were used, and I'll say yes. They're all here. All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. And we'll never be able to use them without feeling uncomfortable. And somehow the mountains will never sound right to us; we'll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time, and the mountains were shaped and seen under those names. The names we.. | the-martian-chronicles | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9403a2b | I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 9bf6792 | Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some. | writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 2fe0e62 | Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 67eff44 | Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| f04babb | The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| cf31d3c | When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 57e65b8 | There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 86a116a | We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 28db6dd | What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they'll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough. | grief usa | William Styron | |
| a0f974a | A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already. | torture | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 57edf18 | Behind us, the man laughed. "Looks like we aren't the only ones looking for a little diversion. There's an empty office right over there, guys." Marsten raised his hand in thanks. The couple moved on. I let the kiss continue for five more seconds, then pulled away. "They're gone," I said. Marsten frowned, as if surprised-and disappointed-that I'd noticed. I tugged my hair from his hands. "Okay, coast clear," I said. "Let's go." He let .. | karl | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 96a6740 | He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 6b34cd9 | If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 78bc10a | Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision... | galaxies jernau-morat-gurgeh mistakes regret shame stupidity time-travel | Iain M. Banks | |
| 4d62288 | Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 2bc052b | it's awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you're ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 50617bb | Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You're not taking him to a strip club, are you? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1638ade | I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9dd7a15 | Meski berjuang keras untuk tidak memikirkan dia, aku tidak berjuang untuk melupakan. | forget love | Stephenie Meyer | |
| d746367 | If you really believed that you'd lost your soul, then when I found you in Volterra, you would have realized immediately what was happening, instead of thinking we were both dead together. But you didn't--you said ' ,'" I reminded him, triumphant. "There's hope in you, after all." For once, Edward was speechless. "So let's both just be hopeful, all right?" I suggested. "Not that it matters. If you stay, I don't need heaven." He got up slowl.. | optimism | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 2c8ce08 | I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 195fa89 | I think Ian likes you too much | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d1f5ba7 | Bella: "Why am I covered in feathers?" Bella:"You... bit a pillow? Why?" Bella: "You listen to me, Edward Cullen. I am not pretending anything for your sake, okay? I didn't even know there was a reason to make you feel better until you started being all miserable. I've never been so happy in all my life - I wasn't this happy when you decided that you loved me more than you wanted to kill me, or the first morning I woke up and you were there.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 660729a | If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7592988 | When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. => Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. => It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. | mystery-suspense romance-funny | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 0f6c142 | We stared at each other for a long moment. His hand smoldered against my skin. In my face, I knew there was nothing but wistful sadness--I didn't want to have to say goodbye now, no matter for how short a time. At first his face reflected mine, but then, as neither of us looked away, his expression changed. He released me, lifting his other hand to brush his fingertips along my cheek, trailing them down to my jaw. I could feel his fingers t.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c7fd2c9 | The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| b5d8328 | Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| bd862aa | You know, some things don't matter that much...Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters. | life | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| c766383 | I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. | girls pressure relateable | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 1a03d2f | She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| c9e194e | let us say before i go any further, that i forgive nobody. i wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 3cc0429 | No symbols where none intended. | symbols | Samuel Beckett | |
| 9863d6c | Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature,.. | human resiliency richard-adams survival watership-down | Richard Adams | |
| 663cb11 | For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy, Let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not. When at last he goeth to his final punishment, Let the flames .. | curses libraries thieves | Nicholas A. Basbanes | |
| f6eb56d | I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 346b03c | I think the knowledge came to him at last -- only at the very last. But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude -- and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. Anything approaching the change that came over .. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| a006ab9 | My mom's a doctor, but because she came from India and then Africa, where childhood obesity was not a problem, she put no premium on having skinny kids. In fact, she and my dad didn't mind having a chubby daughter. Part of me wonders if it even made them feel a little prosperous, like | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2175d53 | I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it. | emotions feelings will willpower | Mindy Kaling | |
| f40f15f | It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 7be0466 | Yes," I told her. "I'm angry, so what?" ..... I went on, giving her an executive summary of my crappy life. .... "So of course I feel angry," I said angrily. "What do you expect? It was a stupid thing to ask." "Yes," she agreed. "It was a stupid thing to ask. I see that you're angry. I don't need to ask such a stupid thing to understand that." "So why did you ask?" Slowly she turned herself around, pivoting on her knees, until finally she w.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 49d0b3c | No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain. | hope pain | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 704866c | I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway. | life | Richard Russo |