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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bf5b6a0 | I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart. | words literature reading | Virginia Woolf | |
| 21cc425 | What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 7bdded7 | Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 3299c6e | Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure | words | Seamus Heaney | |
| 07b82a3 | As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| acd100b | But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. | fate religion god | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ab9cc05 | Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6322f61 | But gay marriage is coming to America first and foremost because marriage here is a secular concern, not a religious one. The objection to gay marriage is almost invariably biblical, but nobody's legal vows in this country are defined by interpretation of biblical verse - or at least, not since the Supreme Court stood up for Richard and Mildred Loving. A church wedding ceremony is a nice thing, but it is neither required for legal marriage .. | marriage gay-rights same-sex-marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4088567 | The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1435933 | Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| f9909e7 | In order to elucidate especially and most clearly the origination of this error (...) let us imagine a man who, while standing on the street, would say to himself: "It is six o'clock in the evening, the working day is over. Now I can go for a walk, or I can go to the club; I can also climb up the tower to see the sunset; I can go to the theater; I can visit this friend or that one; indeed, I also can run out of the gate, into the wide worl.. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 698fcb7 | I tried to love you less.I couldn't. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 0a1c6ae | I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone." | poetry love sonnet | Neil Gaiman | |
| 46947a2 | Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. | life growing-up | Neil Gaiman | |
| 4b77114 | It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 72c323e | Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children? | media | Neil Gaiman | |
| 59ee136 | But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9073311 | I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them. | mirage elderly desert | Neil Gaiman | |
| af0f4b6 | It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3d5008f | There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f159f46 | Now me," said Mr. Vandemar. "What number am I thinking of?" "I beg your pardon?" "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully." | wordplay | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0fdf944 | When people tell you there's something wrong with a story, they're almost always right. When they tell what it is that's wrong and how it can be fixed, they're almost always wrong. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a8e0945 | Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." | goals-in-life authors growing-up goals writers | Neil Gaiman | |
| 445910b | You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But -- you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar... Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven? | heaven hell | Neil Gaiman | |
| 06744c0 | Literary critics make natural detectives. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| e0342fb | On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| ceb9796 | The people around you are generally mysterious. You are never quite sure about their intentions. They present an appearance that is often deceptive--their manipulative actions don't match their lofty words or promises. All of this can prove confusing. Seeing people as they are, instead of what you think they should be, would mean having a greater sense of their motives. | Robert Greene | ||
| fa12e59 | If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well. | Robert Greene | ||
| 6077cf9 | It is natural to want to employ your friends when you find yourself in times of need. The world is a harsh place, and your friends soften the harshness. Besides, you know them. Why depend on a stranger when you have a friend at hand? Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. TACITUS, c. A.D. 55-120 The problem is that you often do not know your friends as well as you imagine... | Robert Greene | ||
| 7d110b0 | It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics. | Robert Greene | ||
| 2e82217 | Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me." | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 7cb8f6d | I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life. | revenge princess-bride | William Goldman | |
| 60740ea | Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face. "By S. Morgenstern. Great Florinese writer. The Princess Bride. He too came to America. S. Morgenstern. Dead now in New York. The English is his own. He spoke eight tongues." Here my father put down the book and held up all his fingers. "Eight. Once in Florin City..." | William Goldman | ||
| 492af73 | Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 53d2616 | You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle" | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 2550ea1 | Tristan's Mom: What are these? Tristan: Your granddaughters. Tristan's Dad: Don't worry honey, you don't look old enough to be a mother let alone a grandmother. Tristan's Mom: Again with the flattery, thank you dear. Where did they come from? Tristan: Camie gave birth last night. Jeff: I didn't know she was pregnant. Tristan: She wasn't. It was a miracle. Tristan's Mom: Do they have names? Tristan: Phineas and Ferb. Jeff: From the cartoon? .. | Jenn Cooksey | ||
| 3cb3898 | I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 1b1caaa | Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don't mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| a597fcf | If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you'll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 4698ae3 | The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility--of being unable to undo what one has done--is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself. | plurality promise | Hannah Arendt | |
| 05b19e2 | We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what." Dr. Finch smiled. "Well, we know now. I'm just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn't talk to you the way I'm talking--" "Why not, sir?" "You wouldn't have listened to him. You couldn't have listened. Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level." | Harper Lee | ||
| 21b6a4d | Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street. | Harper Lee | ||
| d3a6a1d | I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me. | ministry | Watchman Nee | |
| 04fd0f2 | It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption. | humility | Ellis Peters |