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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 92e1aa5 | When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right. | privilege | Jodi Picoult | |
| dd61092 | The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| fe587a3 | Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6c645f6 | Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7b07305 | Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last." And he bent his head to my upturned face." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ccdf8c2 | what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 027964f | The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. | James Joyce | ||
| a8fdea0 | Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!" | Roald Dahl | ||
| ce590dc | It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible." | magic nothing-is-impossible | Roald Dahl | |
| 0a0ebfd | We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39) | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 407da28 | Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 2188759 | To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 4384f11 | I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens. I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direct.. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| dfc57ac | I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more i.. | inspirational life | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| c34cad2 | nthz lfrS@ ltt'lm bqdr mtstTy` ln w'nt shb , l'n hdhh l'mwr l tdwm Twl lHy@. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d2ebc20 | Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love | love sex | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 209b82a | A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 579ce03 | Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists"." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 4f3c85c | Es la vida, mas que la muerte, la que no tiene limites. | vida | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 5772eca | Sin embargo, antes de llegar al verso final ya habia comprendido que no saldria jamas de ese cuarto, pues estaba previsto que la ciudad de los espejos ( o los espejismos) seria arrasada por el viento y desterrada de la memoria de los hombres en el instante en que Aureliano Babilonio acabara de descifrar los pergaminos, y que todo lo escrito en ellos era irrepetible desde siempre y para siempre, porque las estirpes condenadas a cien anos de .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f0de2b6 | And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on. But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. | seuss | Dr. Seuss | |
| 7492982 | The Conch Shell's tint was that of a vagina blowing bubble gum. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 58f22aa | At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage. | Tom Robbins | ||
| cd1dcef | I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning. | Tom Robbins | ||
| fb51beb | In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow do.. | disruption doubt order revolution system | Tom Robbins | |
| dda3ca3 | Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey s.. | laws sociology | Tom Robbins | |
| 0a4de52 | The protagonist, Amanda, discusses her sex relationship with her husband, John Paul -- As long as it's done with honesty and grace, John Paul doesn't mind if I go to bed with other men. Or with other girls, as is sometimes my fancy. What has marriage got to do with it? Marriage is not a synonym for monogamy any more than monogamy is a synonym for ideal love. To live lightly on the earth, lovers and families must be more flexible and relaxed.. | relationships | Tom Robbins | |
| d63dad5 | Of this, I am actually certain. After collecting thousands of stories, I'm willing to call this a fact: A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. | Brené Brown | ||
| 92f8d94 | We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don't reflect our fullness. Yet when we don't risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilder.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 4eec1a9 | True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it's safer. It's a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are. We want true belonging, but it takes tremendous courage to knowingly walk into hard moments. | true-belonging | Brené Brown | |
| 7627f33 | Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 4b0d716 | That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty | David Guterson | ||
| eaec273 | i will stay alive. | Dave Pelzer | ||
| 62d15d6 | Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down you.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e839e78 | I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5459a7f | But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation. | injustice justice law legal-system power privilege | Howard Zinn | |
| ad4d1b4 | There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world. | coruage indignation injustice inspiration popular-movements | Howard Zinn | |
| 9cd330d | I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword. | love protection | Tite Kubo | |
| 2730f9b | The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. | humanism justice universe | Roger Zelazny | |
| 71704f8 | What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. | custom knighthood | Tamora Pierce | |
| 0385c52 | Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. | truth | Tamora Pierce | |
| 59dfcf5 | So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| ecf4e54 | Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!" And I'd say, "I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you." | dog-handler partners responsibility scent-hound talking-to-animals trailing-a-scent | Tamora Pierce | |
| 411f2a0 | Funfunfunfunfun! | joy | Tamora Pierce |