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| 57cf288 | The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It to.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ed3fddd | It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 21f876a | There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 9283818 | We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 6284670 | We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world. Self-awareness enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we "see" ourselves--our self-paradigm, the most fundamental paradigm of effectiveness. It affects not only our attitudes and behaviors, but also how we see other people." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| ab581f4 | It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously. | self-motivation | Dan Millman | |
| 65891a5 | This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network. | innovation insightful people | Steven Johnson | |
| cc55b28 | Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore. | good-ideas innovation | Steven Johnson | |
| b919146 | The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something -- but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out .. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cb535e8 | Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ff89da5 | A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e130295 | Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." | Douglas Adams | ||
| a66790b | Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3a02f5f | Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a0b46a3 | The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion. | confusion effect humour service waiter zaphod-beeblebrox | Douglas Adams | |
| c646de4 | We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win." "I care about lots of things," said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty. "Such as?" "Well," said the old man, "life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords." "Would you die for them?" "Fjords?" blinked Slartibartfast in surpri.. | irony sci-fi | Douglas Adams | |
| 04da1d0 | to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e3bdadc | War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor, and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3cfd33e | Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us! | frodo tom-bombadil | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 685eea2 | Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. | free-will | Herman Melville | |
| a8f7eaf | Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore? But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God- so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be i.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 48690c3 | The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 25f4435 | Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods. | shakespeare writers writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 818bdd9 | Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3a39e8b | The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6ab963c | Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| c614482 | When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding. | David Allen | ||
| 899af43 | Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. | conception death life | Marilynne Robinson | |
| c254540 | When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my fa.. | grace marilynne-robinson | Marilynne Robinson | |
| f18fceb | Yeah, well, I'll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek) Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I'd like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 76717a6 | To the world's most perfect woman.' It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 7e3d398 | It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 362cc27 | I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods. | paranormal-romance supernatural | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 6ba1d99 | How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns (...) But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else -- what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?" | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 7e19de2 | and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 438a9d2 | You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore. | life rage | Jim Thompson | |
| 9954640 | I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more. | suspense thompson | Jim Thompson | |
| 727473f | I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8d91706 | I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I'd smelled in eighty years. | edward-cullen edward-cullen-quote midnight-sun romance twilight twilight-saga vampire | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 53ece67 | I had no right to want you -- but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire." (Edward Cullen, Eclipse)~Stephenie Meyer" | love sparkly | Stephenie Meyer | |
| b68597e | Real. Does that make me imaginary? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 90aa964 | Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise? | kissing | Stephenie Meyer | |
| f248d51 | When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| b4a9517 | Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. | Sue Monk Kidd |