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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ca02da | When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single tas.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 382d796 | If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fd60969 | I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 62407b8 | Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3da30a8 | Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9aac303 | you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 17ce71d | As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c7f449f | I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f30ec06 | If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7189479 | Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million? Lacy would be the keeper of those, because it was the only way for that part of Peter to stay alive. For every recollection of him that involved a bullet or a scream, she would have a hundred others: of a little boy splashing in a pond, or riding a bicycle for the first time, or waving from the top of a jungle gym. Of a kiss good night, or.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 390fe7e | In a lot of ways, having a teenager isn't all that different from having a newborn. You learn to read the reactions, because they're incapable of saying exactly what it is that's causing pain. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a38cf6c | It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c8423d2 | God, what we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I didn't have to fill in the spaces with random conversation. It was okay to just with her. She knew that sometimes I needed that - to not have to take care of anyone or anything, to simply exist in my own space, adjacent to hers. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4340977 | Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going. | lovely off-the-page | Jodi Picoult | |
| 0837fb9 | Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0254673 | It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 5967288 | What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 97a8b73 | He turned his head to look full at me, his hair fire-struck with the setting sun, face dark in silhouette. "Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach," he said softly. "I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it." -Jamie Fraser" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 729fb4e | You're mine, mo duinne...Mine alone, now and forever...Aye, I mean to use ye hard, my Sassenach...I want to own you, to posses you, body and soul." pge 319" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 091eb25 | Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long. | William Faulkner | ||
| e893dd1 | Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired. | Katherine Neville | ||
| 4f68290 | With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before. | fever pleasure romance sex sexy | Anaïs Nin | |
| a939c86 | Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them. | eyes pleasure romance skin | Anaïs Nin | |
| 48976af | Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 53be3ef | It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 73c5358 | You is getting nosier than a parker. | humor | Roald Dahl | |
| 3379112 | The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last." | Roald Dahl | ||
| bf7bfee | Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours. | wonka-inventions | Roald Dahl | |
| 9b44073 | Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 03e086a | Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| c9d0d62 | The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 2f0cbba | They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the have going. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 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.. | death immortality life permanence stones transitory | 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 |