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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d94787b | I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. | Holly Black | ||
| 841de86 | There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?" | Holly Black | ||
| b9b2cbb | I'd have died without them [books]. Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books. | go-ask-alice | Beatrice Sparks | |
| 2220768 | I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much. | memoir marya-hornbacher wasted eating-disorder bulimia | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 88e82d2 | Shigure: We have just | humor laugh fruits-basket shigure | Natsuki Takaya | |
| c853f55 | Ayame: In fact, perhaps it would be easier if we just discussed me instead. Yuki: What would be the point in that? Ayame: Oh, in that case, I should be prepared to talk about why I chose this lyrical professional overflowing with fantasy! It's because I wanted to create something. Even I, who have a charisma that wafts of noble refinement, have times when I lose confidence! Ans so I had this uncontrollable urge to try making something. Anyt.. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 062af0e | That's why you can't be worried about the world. They'll just do you in anyway. You can't depend on them because sooner or later they'll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 5b22011 | This guy is different. I see him once in a while and we have fun and theres no pressure. We just have a good time. And he still writes for tranks and downers. A couple of weeks ago we flew down to the Virgin Islands for a weekend. It was a ball. Hey, crazy. Sounds great. Yeah. So your folks are still footin the bills, tilting his head toward the rest of the apartment, for the pad and so forth? Yeah. She laughed out loud again, Plus the fift.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| dfda494 | Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 921e865 | Love means knowing when to let go. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 7e6c16f | A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look. | rain sleet snow weather | Edward Gorey | |
| 06e8e47 | If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 309817d | Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5eac907 | and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 99cf71a | I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind." | life | Mitch Albom | |
| 448dce2 | There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. | relationships | Mitch Albom | |
| cc26db8 | Pero en ciertos casos es mas digno dejarse llevar de un impulso ciego, provocado por un gran amor, que oponerse a el. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 4443b4d | You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 36a1d61 | He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands. | landscape german language irish | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| cfd8739 | There is plenty of work for love to do. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| d2af3ef | hl fkrt ywm fy m`ny lHy@? -l m`ny lh l lHb. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8a89997 | The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat | sci-fi | John Scalzi | |
| a92e58a | The old man said, 'You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 52aba48 | Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her, and then, with malice, patched her together badly. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ce163e2 | We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a6c371a | You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?" We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can." | laughter grief doctors disease | Philip K. Dick | |
| 5995e1a | There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 09fee8b | lqr@ fy mSr mlh@ rkhyS@ wln ttTwr Ht~ tw'mn b'n lqr@ Drwr@ Hywy@ | reading | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 7c7adaf | you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3e6d351 | Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?' I shook my head. 'No, but I've watched. I know what you mean.' The walls of a heart are thick and strong, and the surgeons use heavy needles. It takes a good bit of strength, but it pulls together neatly. As much as anything it's like binding a book. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5032ba3 | A mother's body remembers her babies--the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has its own entreaties to body and soul. It's the last one, though, that overtakes you. I can't dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. . . . That's how it is with the firstborn, no matter what kind of mother you are--rich, poor, frazzled half to death .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bc33a0f | You're asking yourself, Can I give this child the best possible upbringing and keep her out of harm's way her whole life long? The answer is no, you can't. But nobody else can either. Not a state home, that's for sure. For heaven's sake, the best they can do is turn their heads while the kids learn to pick locks and snort hootch, and then try to keep them out of jail. Nobody can protect a child from the world. That's why it's the wrong thin.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1c2d060 | Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2967688 | Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. | money poverty wealth heaven christianity god provision stewardship sharing riches luxury help kingdom | Randy Alcorn | |
| cb02764 | For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 20c8f48 | I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all. | understanding world puzzle | Jeannette Walls | |
| 4547f7e | No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics. | life love parenting | Jeannette Walls | |
| 80d13ca | sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 9025c05 | Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 5f10879 | all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country. | nascar sponsorship politics humor | Brad Thor | |
| 9732746 | Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and worry; an umbilical spot of grace where we were each first touched by God. It is this spot of grace that issues peace. Psychologists call this spot the Psyche, Theologians call it the Soul, Jung calls it the Seat of the Unconscious, Hindu masters call it Atman, Buddhists call it Dharma, Rilke calls it Inwardnes.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| a3f2b52 | Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface | Mark Nepo | ||
| 203208f | Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 072d20c | He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret | Joseph Heller |