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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76c08b0 | Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. | praise self-loathing self-esteem | Hanif Kureishi | |
| b51861e | What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves | Alain de Botton | ||
| a1b00b5 | Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. | hopes life respite goals desire | Alain de Botton | |
| 859abae | It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts wh.. | reality achievements electronics information thinking concentration | Alain de Botton | |
| a929c13 | She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 8838b91 | Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the place which you dread you will find that they are as different as possible from what you have imagined, just as was the case when you were actually ascending the precipice. I must warn you that I see your enemies lurking among the trees ahead, and if you ever let Craven Fear begin painting a picture on the screen of your i.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| aa21f93 | I know what I have to say. I think of Hillary's advice, how she has been telling me to say something all along. But I am not doing this for her. This is for me. I formulate the sentences, words that have been ringing in my head all summer. "I want to be with you, Dex" I say steadily. "Cancel the wedding. Be with me." There it is. After two months of waiting, a lifetime of passivity, everything is on the line. I feel relieved and liberated a.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 32fcff1 | We are in love and meant to be together. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b6b63d1 | Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of addi.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1e66641 | Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc... | William Blake | ||
| bd35273 | People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. | Doris Lessing | ||
| c7d623e | Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 49e77c9 | It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart. | Avi | ||
| 63e9674 | Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!" | Bill Watterson | ||
| fa376b8 | Sleepwalking?" "Nightmare?" "Homicidal psycho jungle cat!" | Bill Watterson | ||
| 7ea754c | Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it "love" | David Mitchell | ||
| fd0d64f | Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to." | hate history self-disgust cloud-atlas postmodern self-discovery reflection disgust postmodernism | David Mitchell | |
| 1355152 | Reality is the page. Life is the word. | David Mitchell | ||
| 10623f7 | So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b2178be | Find what you want. I will find you. | faith | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 8b4ba2b | Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 738b474 | Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: "destiny" should read "density." | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 218392a | Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 1c64702 | Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober. | Harry Crews | ||
| 0236deb | Well, I'd say fuck too, if I were me. I'd say it backward and forward and around the block, fuck this and fuck that and fuck it all at once, twice, three times. | let-the-great-world-spin fuck | Colum McCann | |
| 18d1ba7 | You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| d216ca9 | At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars. | Craig Thompson | ||
| a622dae | I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals." | Peter Singer | ||
| a19d465 | The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| e42ee9a | John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. | the-yellow-wallpaper patriarchy | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
| 4196ee3 | Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough. | Michael Jackson | ||
| dda9065 | All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that w.. | humanity rome | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 995b049 | I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, "The Marquis de Saint Eustache, I believe." He will say, "The celebrated Mr. Syme, I presume." He will say in the most exquisite French, "How are you?" I shall reply in the most exquisite Cockney, "Oh, just the Syme."' 'Oh shut it...what are you really going to do?' 'But it was a lovely catechism! ...Do let me read it to you. It has only forty-three questions.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f90eb65 | Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. | useful-idiots innocence | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f7d1ab9 | Everything means something. | lyra-belaqua lyra-s-oxford lyra-silvertongue his-dark-materials | Philip Pullman | |
| 0b6f487 | If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 7c40a13 | I prefer the term 'sexual deviant' myself," Saiman said." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5ed3dba | The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?" "No, it's a pie." | pie magic-bleeds ilona-andrews kate lion | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3a6af3a | Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e1304da | For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know-- I've gone to Hell and you're my nursemaid." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b0ebe80 | You're right, my problems are the biggest problems ever," George said. "No, honestly, it's horrible to be me. I'm rich, talented, and I make girls cry." "How do you make girls cry, exactly?" George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forward, and, in a theatrical whisper, said, "My past is tragic. I wouldn't want to burden you with it. It's a pain I must suffer alone.. | funny fate-s-edge ilona-andrews the-edge george | Ilona Andrews | |
| 35ac7bb | Syphilis. Lots and lots of magically delicious Syphilis. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9f343ea | Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. "Hey, do you have any duct tape?" He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. "Coward," Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| dc7f0ec | Torch strode over and stared at the fiver "What's this?" "Some change for you. Buy your flunkies some decent clothes." I dipped my fingers into the jar and smeared think fragrant paste on my face. Torch frowned, mirroring the expression on my aunt's face. "Change?" Oh, for crying out loud. "It's money. We don't use coins as currency now, we use paper money." He stared at me. "I'm insulting you! I'm saying your poor, like a beggar, because y.. | magic-bleeds ilona-andrews kate poor | Ilona Andrews |