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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 175d94a | when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever. ~ Fiona MacCarrick ~ | Kresley Cole | ||
| 4097c18 | And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak. At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there." | ethan-maccarrick inspirational love maddy romance sickness | Kresley Cole | |
| b177d07 | dh fqd rjlun rjlan 'w `ynan , fhw y`rf 'nh fqd rijlan 'w `ynan. wlkn dh fqd nfsan - nfsh- flys bmknh 'n y`rf dhlk, l'nh lm y`d mwjwdan hnk ly`rf | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8cb1ffd | Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?" "Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?" My jaw dropped. "What?" "Are you going out with that Cormac guy?" "We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?" "Uh-huh." "And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea?" | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| c10bb31 | No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a2622a3 | Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath. | skin skin-deep | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 1e573d9 | We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| d9ba5b5 | As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ' Michael Shermer, In The Science of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stopper. If you agree that, in the absence of God, you would 'commit robbery, rape, and murder', you reveal yourself as an immoral person, 'and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you'. If, on the other hand, you admit that you w.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 4007e04 | They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 62cffed | The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves. | hypocrisy repentance | R.C. Sproul | |
| be0426d | t]he child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she . She must start out by believing things too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. | Betty Smith | ||
| 164a7fc | Nothing in this universe occurs by accident. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 7ca1be8 | It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw. | Bono | ||
| 7c6b296 | Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down it at furious speed though the days are mummified in lead. It happens so fast once you get started, there's no anchor from the real world to slow you down, nothing to hold on to. Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall. Whatever your private hell, you'll find millions like it in Misery. This is the .. | sadness | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 9390a52 | Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or do.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| adf855f | We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2ca3c2c | A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all. | Joanne Harris | ||
| ca315ce | Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves. | opinion people | Sue Grafton | |
| a5bfb6d | Let the night come. We are not afraid. | lost-souls | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| b21fdea | Terry remembered a summer two or three years ago when there had been a plague of luna moths (...) One night Ghost has mused aloud that to the bats, the moths' blood must taste like creme de la menthe. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 26858f8 | The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 4a82cd7 | After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality. | black-and-white black-history george-zimmerman hypocricy privilege race-relations racism trayvon-martin white-privilege willful-ignorance | Tim Wise | |
| 0817240 | What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did? | Tim O'Brien | ||
| c30583e | You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you. | Louis Sachar | ||
| e85b179 | Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. | family impermanence | Gregory Maguire | |
| 6c43c2b | The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny. | girlfriends money relationships | Kathy Acker | |
| cb08852 | Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party. | new-york-city | Kathy Acker | |
| 654bdd6 | Sex. You can't lie to yourself sexually. If you don't want it, it's the most disgusting thing in the world. | faking-it force rape sex | Kathy Acker | |
| 70f3687 | If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters. | greek-poetry | Kathy Acker | |
| aea913d | I am Outcast." "The kids behind me laugh so loud I know they're laughing about me. I can't help myself. I turn around. It's Rachel, surrounded by a bunch of kids wearing clothes that most definitely did not come from the EastSide Mall. Rachel Bruin, my ex-best friend. She stares at something above my left ear. Words climb up my throat. This was the girl who suffered through Brownies with me, who taught me how to swim, who understood about m.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c542be1 | Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| e4d787d | If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now. Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative. | america native-americans ownership possessions race-relations slavery united-states united-states-of-america us usa white-people | Colson Whitehead | |
| 5a7976d | If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 3c947f4 | As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod" | christopher-paolini eragon inheritance-cycle jeod kill morzan | Christopher Paolini | |
| 5e8dc4f | Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. | John Fowles | ||
| d2396d7 | I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel. | John Fowles | ||
| 2cf5ed6 | You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 10b3d1b | Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. | conformity law | Pat Conroy | |
| 646ffd8 | I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home. | heaven home | Pat Conroy | |
| 370893a | I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. | potential | Pat Conroy | |
| cd0891d | Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested...." -- | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| cb93884 | The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it. | productivity success time | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 171b2c8 | I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e14f054 | Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. | apathy apolitical determinism historical-determinism history marxism politics | Terry Eagleton |