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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f5139f | You...are...a...fridge...with wings. We're...freaking...ballet...dancers. | James Patterson | ||
| 1816b40 | Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all. | jeffrey jeffrey-archer | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 50f5016 | In the immortal words of Maya Angelou ... people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9fb2f40 | remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind. | life-lessons mother | Maya Angelou | |
| 81c45ce | Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 195c6d2 | Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a284822 | Jerott, for God's sake! Are you doing this for a wager?' said Lymond, his patience gone at last. 'What does anyone want out of life? What kind of freak do you suppose I am? I miss books and good verse and decent talk. I miss women, to speak to, not to rape; and children, and men creating things instead of destroying them. And from the time I wake until the time I find I can't go to sleep there is the void--the bloody void where there was no.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b6ef89e | All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace e.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| a2d1f3f | There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. | knowledge learning self siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| efdfad7 | Helene Lagonelle's body is heavy, innocent still, her skin's as soft as that of certain fruits, you almost can't grasp her, she's almost illusory, it's too much. She makes you want to kill her, she conjures up a marvelous dream of putting her to death with your own hands. Those flour-white shapes, she bears them unknowingly, and offers them for hands to knead, for lips to eat, without holding them back, without any knowledge of them and wit.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| c948346 | Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart." | William Goldman | ||
| 03cf16a | But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something. | William Goldman | ||
| eb619c4 | I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 47846e3 | Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 907dfba | If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, "This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing." | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 4c24ba8 | Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity. He had asked for a bottle of red wine and had drunk half of it. He refused the help of the Protestant minister the Reverend William Hull who offered to read the Bible with him: he had only two more hours to live and therefore no "time to waste." He walked the fifty yards from his cell to the execution chamber calm and erect with his hands bound behind him. When the guards tied his ankle.. | Hannah Arendt | ||
| c19ad57 | She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| e3b66de | Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement. | relationships | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 429086e | Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. | summer | Harper Lee | |
| 354b664 | I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea. | Harper Lee | ||
| d40172b | I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. | Harper Lee | ||
| 913dba0 | Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets. | Harper Lee | ||
| e478400 | Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flied in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, af.. | Harper Lee | ||
| 8a27b56 | at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 56f181b | If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 03528bf | Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believ.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 21b46a1 | We take this idea of love with us into adulthood. Grown up, we hope for a re-creation of what it felt like to be ministered to and indulged. In a secret corner of our mind, we picture a lover who will anticipate our needs, read our hearts, act selflessly and make everything better. It sounds 'romantic'; yet it is a blueprint for disaster. | Alain de Botton | ||
| e445929 | The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted .. | coffee exhaustion nervous-energy relaxation work | Alain de Botton | |
| 1755d7c | He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor. | intelligence professionalism significance vulnerability | Alain de Botton | |
| 55b844e | I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game. | relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| b36a244 | The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. | pluralism | William Blake | |
| 29906fb | It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d12b3fb | Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you've been away. It's as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| c37005c | don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 96c6c87 | I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate | Doris Lessing | ||
| 7fcae9a | He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb. | hero heroes | J.V. Jones | |
| 05fcbf7 | And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing. | love | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 365776f | Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| f75b85c | It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end." | David Mitchell | ||
| aad197d | I think about pinball, and how being a kid's like being shot up the firing lane and there's no veering left or right; or you're just sort of propelled. But once you clear the top, like when you're sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen, suddenly there's a thousand different paths you can take, some amazing, others not. Tiny little differences in angles and speed'll totally alter what happens to you later, so a fraction of an inch to the right, and.. | David Mitchell | ||
| b5deefc | This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself. | David Mitchell | ||
| ca4fb26 | Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay. | names sex | David Mitchell | |
| 4d94669 | But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| cb320cb | Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years. | Scott Westerfeld |