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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ef4a66 | I have permission to live off campus." She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 75ff830 | Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| af9c776 | Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route to becoming. All the magic and glass mountains and pearls the size of houses and princesses beautiful as the day and talking birds and part-time serpents are distractions from the core of most of the stories, the struggle to survive against adversaries, to find your place in the world, and to come into your own. Fairy tale.. | folk-tales hans-christian-andersen stories swans the-wild-swans transformation | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 172da65 | If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. | gold values water | Rebecca Solnit | |
| b66f94f | Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 4204840 | she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch | David Sedaris | ||
| 5bc7c52 | There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. | naked religion | David Sedaris | |
| 54f5460 | Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you. | David Sedaris | ||
| 7243158 | Stealing swords," Royce muttered mostly to himself. "Okay, let's take a look at this tower. The sooner I see it, the sooner I can start cursing." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 60480b0 | Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as silence. | quiet suri wisdom | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 718332a | If this keeps up, we're going to own Melengar," Hadrian mentioned. "What's this we stuff?" Royce asked. "You're retired, remember?" "Oh? So you'll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?" "Sixty-forty?" Royce proposed." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 4bd9149 | Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 225b697 | The disorder is more common in women." Note the construction of that sentence. They did not write, "The disorder is more common in women." It would still be suspect, but they didn't bother trying to cover their tracks. Many disorders, judging by the hospital population, were more commonly diagnosed in women. Take, for example, "compulsive promiscuity." How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the lab.. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 176f89d | The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| d800e6c | There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 729e5df | The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart? | love | Cornelia Funke | |
| d18f2ab | Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us! | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 3c64daf | He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 0e33a8b | travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts. | Paul Theroux | ||
| bb80b5c | Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave. | William Saroyan | ||
| 6837455 | i've been reading whitman, you know what he says, cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that's the attitude for the bard, the zen lunacy bard of old desert paths, see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, dharma bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and there have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerator.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 8533bcd | America is a lonely crock of shit... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 695e345 | An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 504ff7c | Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| d65b4f6 | Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven. Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven. The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 52d0b6a | How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible... | William Gaddis | ||
| b4d4a68 | Put on the lights there, now. Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent pr.. | William Gaddis | ||
| a78927b | It was as if God himself saw that my intention was to make my outer self match my inner fabulosity and didn't think the world could handle such an explosion of amazingness. So instead of letting me get to the gym where I would have transformed myself into a walking sex god, he created a Dunkin' Donuts out of nothing and then gave them away for free. I didn't make it to the gym. I had a bear claw instead. And a maple bar. And some donut hole.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 526dd3e | This is my social face," he said lightly. "Don't confuse it with the animal beneath." | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 2f6a285 | Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?" | you-suck | Christopher Moore | |
| 98a5683 | But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them." | shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 1457b22 | Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living. | living perseverance | Nancy E. Turner | |
| 2548849 | What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad. | life vikings | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 02599f4 | If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| dae2fb1 | Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7ddc216 | Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2b86089 | You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it's not always your heart that betrays you. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3559afd | It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli | fear love | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 67ca845 | Every day I am thankful for Luke, the real love of my life, my Prince Charming, my rescuer. He saved me from my biggest enemy, myself. | luke | L.D. Davis | |
| d7772da | I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| f12b440 | lbTwn lfrG@ tstyqZ bkran . | José Saramago | ||
| e41032e | Ht~ fy 'sw' lmHn qd tjd khyran kfyan ymknk mn Html lmHn@ ! | José Saramago | ||
| 384aebf | lns yt`wdwn y shy . | José Saramago | ||
| f70b4c0 | la muerte, por si misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre. | hombre men muerte | José Saramago |