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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f67c6ea | When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered. | Norton Juster | ||
| f97ebe8 | Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?" she inquired. "Or the quiet and calm just as the storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? E.. | Norton Juster | ||
| 85f933d | i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 902d8be | I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just said porn," Scarlett said. "No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 15685fb | Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. | James Gleick | ||
| b04587a | If I could make you stay, I would,' he shouted. 'If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you--if I could make you stay, I would.' He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. 'One day, perhaps, you will wish I had. | love | James Baldwin | |
| c12a45b | I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms. | James Baldwin | ||
| e9ef580 | The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while. | land prairie | Willa Cather | |
| b2e5879 | A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it. | Robert Cormier | ||
| a03db6a | Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 60c2f99 | They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him | Ralph Ellison | ||
| c79359b | If life transcends death Then I will seek for you there If not, then there too | chrisjen-avasarala haiku life-after-death love love-poetry poetry | James S.A. Corey | |
| 9955af5 | It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in a great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are fully appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to view life as part of this universal mystery of greatest depth, is to.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 96974a0 | We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of .. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 8c1b16c | Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own. | love sleep | L.M. Montgomery | |
| aeaae12 | Long after Pacifiique's gay whistle had faded into the phantom of music and then into silence far up under the maples of Lover's Lane Anne stood under the willows, tasting the poignant sweetness of life when some great dread has been removed from it. The morning was a cup filled with mist and glamor. In the corner near her was a rich surprise of new-blown, crystal-dewed roses. The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree a.. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| 94d2a6c | People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne. | people | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 382954e | Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. 'I don't know why, but the meals we have on picnics a.. | eggs evening food indoors meals nature outdoors picnics | Enid Blyton | |
| e96e6fa | white supremacy" is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term "internalized racism"- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term "white supremacy" enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to e.. | prejudice race white-supremacy | bell hooks | |
| 314886f | Once upon a time black male "cool" was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships of life without allowing their spirits to be ravaged. They took the pain of it and used it alchemically to turn the pain into gold. That burning process required high heat. Black male cool was defined by the ability to withstand the heat and remain centered. It was defined by black male willingness to confront reality, to face the truth, and b.. | identity masculinity | bell hooks | |
| d752d32 | Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. | bell hooks | ||
| ec02599 | In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle | poverty | Cornel West | |
| b2e1e38 | Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this na.. | Cornel West | ||
| 7f57259 | An impassioned spirit truly paints the gray world with color. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| a1a105a | I sincerely think that Connor is asexual. Like a sponge. He probably wouldn't even notice if you hit on him. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 4fb9ed5 | We've become something of a family. A dysfunctional, fucked up family. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 7a77659 | People say you can't describe love, but I have this theory that you can. It's just subjective. Do you want to know what love feels like for me? It's breathing and suffocating. Sobbing and smiling. Yearning and fading. To ache that much harder. To live that much larger. It's every moment. Every single, tiny one. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 254d667 | I love all of you. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 2623649 | Don't you ever fucking apologize for another guy's offense. | kiss-thesky ryke-meadows | Krista Ritchie | |
| 6a44777 | We're no longer welcome at that particular hotel...for eternity. Those were the manager's exact words." Connor loosens his bowtie. "I don't blame him for thinking we're immortal. In some preclassic civilizations, I'd be considered a god." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 0f53a79 | The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a53675d | I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I fill you with Naming. Be! Be, butterfly and behemoth, be galaxy and grasshopper, star and sparrow, you matter, you are, be! Be caterpillar and comet, Be porcupine and planet, sea sand and solar system, sing with us, dance with us, rejoice with us, for the glory of creation, seagulls and seraphim angle worms and angel host, chrysanthemum.. | dance | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| ce72ef2 | My heart is heavy, she thought. It's not just a saying. It is what is--heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness. | emptiness heavy-hearted sadness | Katherine Paterson | |
| b207e28 | Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 59ff907 | All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 84f41c9 | She considers for a minute before saying, "I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that. I should have been more kind." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 99dad33 | If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8fd69a5 | about cliches. Avoid them like the plague. | writing-advice | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6073668 | The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| cb761e7 | It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c4f02e3 | Things happen to people by accident. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b1c7928 | Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. | Andrew Weil | ||
| 4747ed6 | She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. | E.M. Forster | ||
| e387478 | When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves." | lock-away | Gordon Korman |