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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c7399a | We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? | parenting | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9b5e5c3 | maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix-- not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f3938db | Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. Like falling in love or finding god, if it ha...ppens to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else - and language only takes you so far. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b496ebf | I believe in Hell...but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 56e46b2 | It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. | extraordinary life ordinary truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 159be95 | A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c33347e | We Pisces, we're a special breed. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fe0ae04 | Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen. After that, if you don't watch out, you can spend all your time tallying your losses and gains in endless narrative. All you love has fled or been taken away. Everything fallen from you except the possibility of jolting and unforewarned memory springing out of the dark, rushing over you with the velocity of heartbreak. May wa.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 7d2e42d | He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and felt the quiver of his muscles, exhausted, and the sheer hard strength still in him, that would hold him up, no matter how tired he might be. We stood quite still for some time, my cheek against his chest and his face against my hair, drawing strength from each other for whatever might come next. Being married. | marriage strength | Diana Gabaldon | |
| ae7d5a2 | So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 674feca | Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. "And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well!" He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 417a259 | Damn you, Sassenach!" his voice said, from a very great distance. His voice was choked with passion. "Dam you! I swear if ye die on me, I'll kill you!" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8bb759f | Yes. Just now, I was actually trying to rank 'I love you, I like you, I worship you, I have to have my cock inside you,' in terms of relative sincerity. Did I day that? he said sounding slightly startled. Yes. Weren't you listening? No, he admitted. I meant every word of it though. His hand cupped one buttock, weighing it appreciatively. Still do come to that. What, even that last one? I laughed and rubbed my forehead gently against his che.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| af92ab7 | Where are you going?" I asked, as Frank swung his feet off the bed. "I'd hate the dear old thing to be disappointed in us," he answered. Sitting up on the side of the ancient bed, he bounced gently up and down, creating a piercing rhythmic squeak. The Hoovering in the hall stopped abruptly. After a minute or two of bouncing, he gave a loud, theatrical groan and collapsed backward with a twang of protesting springs. I giggled helplessly into.. | frank | Diana Gabaldon | |
| d7ed9ed | It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone. | William Faulkner | ||
| 7f549c1 | The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on. | William Faulkner | ||
| 566f76b | A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. | James Joyce | ||
| b4e36b1 | You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought. | James Joyce | ||
| 9417417 | No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse. | James Joyce | ||
| 924204a | Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman. | James Joyce | ||
| a07846b | For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers. | James Joyce | ||
| e5994e6 | By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him. | James Joyce | ||
| 9905f51 | every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . . | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 67e3916 | Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth? | Elie Wiesel | ||
| c0bd91b | Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 4a55297 | Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d520221 | Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. | death life | Tom Robbins | |
| 8d99e85 | Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. | ethics humor relativism | Tom Robbins | |
| bb24e45 | Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are. | friends identity maturity peers | Brené Brown | |
| 341d764 | Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. | Brené Brown | ||
| 56d0446 | After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave." | bravery courage fear scarcity | Brené Brown | |
| 90f2499 | True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are. | Brené Brown | ||
| 4f48081 | Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. | scientists | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 91d6e7b | The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e20bbf0 | It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels | children | Douglas Coupland | |
| 4091d34 | Maybe people with weird haircuts are like structures that become interesting only after being wrecked - Florida ranch houses half-fallen into sinkholes; bankrupt malls; civilizations after a nuclear war. I feel a warm tragic glow knowing I may be of interest to the world only once I have been destroyed. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 1b2d7db | Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8fb3f85 | Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 99a188c | We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 08c5b42 | Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster. | time | Douglas Coupland | |
| 859fac0 | Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3727998 | I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn't do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| df13b97 | I'm going to love Lily how I want to love her. Overwhelmingly, uncompromisingly. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| ec3e4e0 | We have consumed each other from day one. And we truly never let go. | Krista Ritchie |