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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 34dddaf | why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed. "i can't!" dylan shouted back,his face twisted with an anger i'd never seen from him. "you can,"i said through gritted teeth."just point your wings that way and flap!" | James Patterson | ||
| 9cfe5f0 | I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my "perfect other half." Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half, then i needed to give my first half a seriouis look-see." | James Patterson | ||
| c9a7f8f | Thank you for inviting me here today " I said my voice sounding nothing like me. "I'm here to testify about things I've seen and experienced myself. I'm here because the human race has become more powerful than ever. We've gone to the moon. Our crops resist diseases and pests. We can stop and restart a human heart. And we've harvested vast amounts of energy for everything from night-lights to enormous super-jets. We've even created new kind.. | James Patterson | ||
| 281822a | Okay, so, flying," I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. "Flying is ... great. It feels great when you're doing it. It's fun. Pure freedom. There's nothing better." Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face. "So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof." | funny humor smooth smooth-max smile wings lol | James Patterson | |
| e80b991 | I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do. | James Patterson | ||
| ec17cbb | There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 749263f | You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. | Maya Angelou | ||
| ed00ebe | One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . . | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 181cd09 | It's always better to be doing. | sameth mogget lirael | Garth Nix | |
| fe296cf | I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 8d2804a | Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c9db305 | Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1270e46 | People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied the world's dreams, helped to make sense of the great human problems. Just as the dreams of individuals exist to give subconscious support to their conscious lives, so do myths serve as society's dreams. They uncover the dark, hidden places where mysteries dwell and can turn to nightmare if left u.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 362cbdf | There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 1f4f56c | Time had ceased to feel linear. She looked up through the crisscrossing branches, thick with buds, into the night sky. The stars tugged at her gaze, trying to pull her up among them, or she was pulling them down to her. She was on the verge of some great discovery, she realized, but she had no idea what it was, what it related to, whether it even had anything to do with her at all. Was she a participant, or an observer? Did the world center.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 0107d60 | She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 023979d | As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors. | books | Miguel Serrano | |
| 452c7d8 | a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| edc2c27 | Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 09939f0 | Banality is sometimes striking. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 054763e | Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 10ef8c9 | Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart." -- | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 883e8c1 | More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d6e2a3a | The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay? | Tom Robbins | ||
| 7ae96e6 | In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 94aaab6 | A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall. | free-will life still-life-with-woodpecker tom-robbins | Tom Robbins | |
| 95dc0fb | Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones.. | immortality death life transitory stones permanence | Tom Robbins | |
| 4aa5d19 | I define wholehearted living as engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It's going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| d527a9a | Oprah. Her advice is tacked to the wall in my study: "Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn't work that way." | Brené Brown | ||
| 4293799 | 1. People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. 2. Speak Truth to Bullshit. Be Civil. 3. Hold Hands. With Strangers. 4. Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart. | Brené Brown | ||
| 21cb844 | Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt people and reinforce their own isolation. I have started to believe that crying with strangers in person could save the world. | Brené Brown | ||
| 856ba3b | When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable. If we dismiss all the criticism, we lose out on important feedback, but if we subject ourselves to the hatefulness, our spirits gets crushed. It's a tightrope, shame resilience is the balance bar, and the safety net below is the one or two people in our lives who can help us.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 8f7f150 | Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. | Brené Brown | ||
| ae9d6d6 | I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay. | Joan Didion | ||
| ebfa052 | The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. | invention | Nikola Tesla | |
| cba29b9 | I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it. | nothing-to-lose insanity fearlessness | Paul Auster | |
| 35cd971 | T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of. | literature reading passion bookworm | Paul Auster | |
| 6ff097f | This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. | William Golding | ||
| f3d951f | Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in! | William Golding | ||
| da257ff | The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble... | William Golding | ||
| fc7a2c6 | They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. | Golding William | ||
| 485cc8f | I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant .. | Alice Sebold | ||
| a10c09b | If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 47b6901 | Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. | Ayn Rand |