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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 647fac2 | Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli. | humor | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 29e95a1 | I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| fe91fb8 | Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 15516cc | The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| f214dc3 | There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being. | self-acceptance being | John Fowles | |
| 8b2655a | I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. | collector fowles john resentment selfishness shame weapons fight | John Fowles | |
| 1e41cbf | Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch. | Pat Conroy | ||
| fe35a9c | These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexe.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 5ac646d | Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. | relationships technology | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 889b7ea | I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. | smile | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d81636a | I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. | humour funny humor lambs slaughter twilight | Maureen Johnson | |
| 780f6ff | Of course I worry too much," Nate said. "But I'm usually right. The people who worry are always right. That's how that works." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| f958560 | Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye." How could she say anything else?" | Lynn Kurland | ||
| d4b97ff | Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 2d07771 | Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good.. | pushing-the-limits | Chinua Achebe | |
| 73e3745 | I have met only a very few people - and most of these were not Americans - who had any real desire to be free. Freedom is hard to bear. It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has there.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5cbdbe5 | It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one's own life, accept the.. | James Baldwin | ||
| f16c454 | love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now. | love | James Baldwin | |
| a0071aa | Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 888ad7a | War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8882dde | I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I -- as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again -- it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| be4f24c | But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?" | fiction dimples anne-shirley l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 2f6803d | There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e960d6c | If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8fc7523 | You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours! | honesty muddled firm judgement decisions motives | Enid Blyton | |
| 90b85aa | Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of oppressed and/or exploited groups as well as those radical visionaries who may have race, class, and sex privilege, to define and determine alternative standards, to decide on the nature and extent of compromise. | bell hooks | ||
| dc2332e | Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. | bell hooks | ||
| 66a334e | To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity. Caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being. When we love maleness, we extend our love whether males are performing or not. Performance is different from simply being. In patriarchal culture males are not allowed simply to be wh.. | men | Bell Hooks | |
| bef70d6 | Girls are always saying things like, "I'm so unhappy that I'm going to overdose on aspirin," but they'd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic." | suicide depression death diary-entry rachel-klein sad-girl teen-angst the-moth-diaries unhappy journal panic self-harm dying | Rachel Klein | |
| 510ad3b | The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 01ac3ee | In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5f6da26 | We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner. and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 630d18f | Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f600f64 | But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 452bfd3 | Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon. | hope good-deeds nobility-of-spirit gluttony mercy values sin | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b2dc909 | Septimus. When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore. Thomasina. Then we will dance. Is this a waltz? | Tom Stoppard | ||
| d1f6491 | He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| fb12b25 | Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency df living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume? | Tom Stoppard | ||
| dcfcb48 | One day at a time. | Alcoholics Anonymous | ||
| 0c86540 | John 1:5 "Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it" | light | Anonymous | |
| 4dd7fbb | How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive? | George Orwell | ||
| 061bd49 | Welcome to Telepathics Anonymous. Don't bother introducing yourself. | humor telepathy | Bauvard | |
| 196c081 | Two natures beat within my breast The one is foul, the one is blessed The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous | faith christian-living | Tara Leigh Cobble | |
| 8900030 | Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand--shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to.. | light god matthew-5-14-16 | Anonymous |