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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f244143 | Always wear pretty underwear, on account of you just never know. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| 8252156 | I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right. | people things-that-happen so-true | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 36b2469 | What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? | stairs | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| a18ee20 | Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. | sadness melancholy | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| c1428ab | Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| bd17aeb | I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn't touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn't drown. | kissing pain | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 56d26b7 | I am thawing. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5a38374 | This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e316347 | How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble? | repentance | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 96e5b97 | They looked down on her; and she looked up through them. | John Fowles | ||
| bcdf1de | I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee. "Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 7247d91 | Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun. | science | Richard Rhodes | |
| 117dac5 | It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9894a45 | There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2d6f4f5 | Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context." | ignorance | Norton Juster | |
| d0b92dc | Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 5c1a4d1 | Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a leprechaun..." -- | keith | Maureen Johnson | |
| 83ac885 | Guess what? The Nazis didn't lose the war after all. They won it and flourished. They took over the world and wiped out every last Jew, every last Gypsy, black, East Indian, and American Indian. Then, when they were finished with that, they wiped out the Russians and the Poles and the Bohemians and the Moravians and the Bulgarians and the Serbians and the Croatians--all the Slavs. Then they started in on the Polynesians and the Koreans and .. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 67c5323 | Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had. | James Baldwin | ||
| 1b6acf6 | It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us. | life philosophy | James Baldwin | |
| 44f356b | He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. | James Baldwin | ||
| 88ca494 | Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both. | truth-telling people lives fool | James Baldwin | |
| 0d49e70 | Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| a9eeb9d | His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| a58a6f5 | You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| b377b7d | Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f11ca61 | There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 562d747 | There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been. | remembering | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 020b6a8 | I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3f5c202 | To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is! | understanding | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 607b900 | And two years ago this morning I woke wondering what delightful gift the new day would give me. These are the two years I thought would be filled with fun." "Would you exchange them - now - for two years filled with fun " "No " said Rilla slowly. "I wouldn't. It's strange - isn't it - They have been two terrible years - and yet I have a queer feeling of thankfulness for them - as if they had brought me something very precious in all their.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7a45f0d | Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with the suffering people experience as a consequence of racial exploitation and oppression. The need to make gay experience and black experience of oppression synonymous seems to be one that surfaces much more in the minds of white people. Too often it is a way of minimizing or diminishing the particular .. | bell hooks | ||
| 303df68 | Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication. | relationship honesty love communication | Bell Hooks | |
| 0ba5009 | We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries. | libraries library | Marilyn Johnson | |
| 27143fe | Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 89b43bf | It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! | wisdom positivism | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| dbe3747 | In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3896c2d | All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5406b80 | the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7b5a3d0 | lw 'mkn 'n ytwSl kl mn (whdh mstHyl bHkm lTby`@ lnsny@) l~ lkshf `n jmy` 'fkrh, l~ lkshf `n jmy` hdhh l'fkr dwn 'n ykhsh~ 'n yTl` lns l `l~ m yjrw' 'n yqwlh l'Hd, wl `l~ m yjrw' 'n yqwlh l'`z 'Sdqy'h fHsb, bl 'yD `l~ m ykhsh~ 'n y`trf bh 'Hyn lnfsh, lkhrjt mn l'rD `fwn@ tblG mn lntn@ 'nh tkhnqn jmy`. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ef101e2 | I want to suffer and be purified by suffering! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0a01202 | THOMASINA: ....the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue. Oh, Septimus! -- can you bear it? All the lost plays of the Athenians! Two hundred at least by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides -- thousands of poems -- Aristotle's own library!....How can we sleep for grief? SEPTIMUS: By counting our stock. Seven plays from Aeschylus, seven from Sophocles, nineteen from Euripides, my lady! .. | grief-and-loss | Tom Stoppard | |
| 4681cf9 | Lyor Cohen, who I consider my mentor, once told me something that he was told by a rabbi about the eight degrees of giving in Judaism. The seventh degree is giving anonymously, so you don't know who you're giving to, and the person on the receiving end doesn't know who gave. The value of that is that the person receiving doesn't have to feel some kind of obligation to the giver and the person giving isn't doing it with an ulterior motive. I.. | Jay-Z | ||
| d1a77bf | Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. | Anonymous |