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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 55a0b29 | In America, alas, beauty has become something you drive to, and nature an either/or proposition--either you ruthlessly subjugate it, as at Tocks Dam and a million other places, or you deify it, treat it as something holy and remote, a thing apart, as along the Appalachian Trail. Seldom would it occur to anyone on either side that people and nature could coexist to their mutual benefit--that, say, a more graceful bridge across the Delaware R.. | nature | Bill Bryson | |
| c0aa3a9 | We are all eaters of souls. | Dan Simmons | ||
| dd8bced | I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 1bf9ec6 | I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. --Connor Kane | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 4bdb93d | Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c6931af | A surprising fact about the magician Bernard Kornblum, Joe remembered, was that he believed in magic. Not in the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams, and bat wings. Not in the kitchen enchantments of Slavic grandmothers with their herbiaries and parings from the little toe of a blind virgin tied up in a goatskin bag. Not in astrology, theosophy, chiromancy, dowsing rods, seances, weeping statues, werewolves, wonders, or miracles. What be.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 0ebd94c | In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 63b74f1 | However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 910376c | I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b9e1187 | We have to be prepared for change. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a60a7ee | Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 295ab10 | That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say. | heroes madmen | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8f7e3b3 | If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day. | sufferings | Paulo Coelho | |
| 6cab835 | The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 62a806e | Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e5aed2e | If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 403c46a | n lHb ytjl~ f~ Gyb lHbyb kthr mnh f~ HDwrh | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a8d95ce | It's [your Personal Legend] what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize thei.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c2724c9 | 'wd 'n 'bq~ `l~ Hly mjnwn@, 'Hy Hyty km 'tkhylh `l~ Tryqty, l `l~ Tryq@ lakhryn. hm y`tqdwn b'nhm Tby`ywn l'nhm yqwmwn jmy`an bl'mwr dhth. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5c8a1cb | We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface. | spiritual inspirational portobello witch transformation | Paulo Coelho | |
| 5a929c2 | Above all though we are responsible for rein-countering at least once in every incarnation the soul mate who sure to cross our path. Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days... We can also allow our soul mate to pass us by, without accepting him or her or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that soul mate and b.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fab5070 | This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 11431b1 | Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...' Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddamn toilet seat. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 646fc4d | Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody | J.D. Salinger | ||
| c0de191 | I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 741e8a4 | It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 4508dd5 | But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousa.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 75e3961 | What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?' 'Why not?' She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams. 'Because... I don't know,' she sighs. I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest. | youth kim vest los-angeles | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| b270614 | There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 98da3af | Did I ever tell you that I want to wear a big yellow smiley-face mask and then put on the CD version of Bobby McFerrin's 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' and then take a girl and a dog--a collie, a chow, a sharpei, it doesn't really matter--and then hook up this transfusion pump, this IV set, and switch their blood, you know, pump the dog's blood into the hardbody and vice versa, did I ever tell you this? | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| fae0d9a | Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks "basically unfilmable" and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| d01a583 | Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before. | manipulation | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 3db4c60 | No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 03cdd48 | I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 62678f6 | Before I leave, the Eurotrash girl tells me she likes my gazelleskin wallet. I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off, but the music, George Michael singing "Faith," is too loud and she can't hear me. Back upstairs I find Patricia where I left her," | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 747c0aa | suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 7a81914 | He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all. | nihilism glamour | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| c425701 | her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 5e9e7cc | As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor of the truth. ...This is what a writer does: his life is a maelstrom of lying. Embellishment is his focal point. This is what we do to please others. This is what we do in order to flee ourselves. A writer's physical life is basically one of stasis, and to combat this constraint, an opposite world and another self have to be const.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 5af03a1 | Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that. | lost | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| a848e41 | For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 40ac2d8 | A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. | Thomas Moore | ||
| bf23087 | Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha! | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0faf181 | That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil? | Hermann Hesse |