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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e31a5e | You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 43f59e5 | The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b805fcf | Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfash-ionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. Like pulling on a Missoni sweater over Trussardi slacks and Pollini shoes,.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f799560 | Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand) | lies feelings | Haruki Murakami | |
| 68619ee | I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. | haruki murakami | ||
| e8fe8ea | You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 00642b6 | I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing."." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d462f2c | I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 435daf3 | Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror. | time silence warped shrinking wavering seconds reflections mirrors surreal | Haruki Murakami | |
| 181e83a | I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0753c16 | Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. | spaghetti | Haruki Murakami | |
| 29f7ce2 | But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8584148 | The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the backyard was filled with little rainbows as the sun touched the dew. It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the p.. | visual-moments | Larry McMurtry | |
| 8897f27 | Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot. | history | Simon Schama | |
| 9dad32f | It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 9051273 | It was great seeing Annie again. I realised what a terrific person she was and how fun it was just knowing her. And I thought of that old joke, you know. The guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, my brother's crazy. He thinks he's a chicken." and the doctor says, "well, why don't you turn him in?" and the guy says, "I would, but o need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they're to.. | Woody Allen | ||
| 56adb7d | Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things. | travel tourist | Tahir Shah | |
| 099658a | My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. | Steve Martin | ||
| b35a752 | both you and paintings are layered... first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows, footprints in the snow, so to speak. Then pencil scribbles on the stretcher, usually by the artist, usually a title or date. Next the stretcher itself. Pine or something. Wooden triangles in the corners so the picture can be tapped tighter when the canvas becomes loose. Nails in the wood securing the pi.. | beauty painting | Steve Martin | |
| 14f8cf3 | But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right? | moving-on letting-go goodness inspiration life love | Cecelia Ahern | |
| d523889 | nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| fff632e | then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bf3b8bb | Perhaps I've been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3cbe698 | Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready. | Chris Gardner | ||
| 8ca02da | When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single tas.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 382d796 | If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fd60969 | I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 62407b8 | Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3da30a8 | Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9aac303 | you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 17ce71d | As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c7f449f | I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f30ec06 | If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7189479 | Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million? Lacy would be the keeper of those, because it was the only way for that part of Peter to stay alive. For every recollection of him that involved a bullet or a scream, she would have a hundred others: of a little boy splashing in a pond, or riding a bicycle for the first time, or waving from the top of a jungle gym. Of a kiss good night, or.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 390fe7e | In a lot of ways, having a teenager isn't all that different from having a newborn. You learn to read the reactions, because they're incapable of saying exactly what it is that's causing pain. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a38cf6c | It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c8423d2 | God, what we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I didn't have to fill in the spaces with random conversation. It was okay to just with her. She knew that sometimes I needed that - to not have to take care of anyone or anything, to simply exist in my own space, adjacent to hers. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4340977 | Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going. | lovely off-the-page | Jodi Picoult | |
| 0837fb9 | Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0254673 | It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 5967288 | What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 97a8b73 | He turned his head to look full at me, his hair fire-struck with the setting sun, face dark in silhouette. "Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach," he said softly. "I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it." -Jamie Fraser" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 729fb4e | You're mine, mo duinne...Mine alone, now and forever...Aye, I mean to use ye hard, my Sassenach...I want to own you, to posses you, body and soul." pge 319" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 091eb25 | Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long. | William Faulkner |