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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e40369 | But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 0d1a05d | When the language one identifies with is far away, one does everything possible to keep it alive. Because words bring back everything: the place, the people, the life, the streets, the life, the sky, the flowers, the sounds. When you live without your own language you feel weightless and, at the same time, overloaded. Your breathe another type of air, at a different altitude. You are always aware of the difference. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 52e02df | On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl. | food | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| e2c04d6 | Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| f9dcd54 | sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| dfab0ed | Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d67f992 | You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ca201a8 | You have to look!" Johnnie Walker commanded. "That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in, Mr. Nakata. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand sti.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7b0926d | Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress? | sex women love seduction | Haruki Murakami | |
| c373244 | She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| fc2a80e | What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have" | pithy | Haruki Murakami | |
| cb3dc31 | It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 28e2e38 | Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemed a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore. You're left with this pile of kittens lolling all over one another. Warm with life, hopelessly unst.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 63f324c | If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8846654 | I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8964647 | It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b077226 | Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 66dbfda | You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won't come out | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6372e02 | Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a3bd262 | Force yourself to explain it and you create lies. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0d6de32 | As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0b9ae53 | m yj`l mn 'swy hw 'n n`rf 'nn lsn b'swy. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 25a7024 | This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope. | life | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4890047 | Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2c1fb3d | Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 06f8397 | I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while. Its only confusing if you believe it has to make sense. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 46acffe | Still, in the end, we all die just the same. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b4bc49d | True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own? | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| acfbb90 | Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes... | Julie Andrews Edwards | ||
| 323e4e6 | After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly? | Kim Edwards | ||
| 9b90c36 | Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. | Frank Portman | ||
| 586ed31 | When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn't meet expectations. But when asked about what they regret most when they look back on their lives as a whole, people tend to identify failures to act. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 5058e19 | I wonder if my watching him from the armchair is what it's like to be God, if there is a God. He sits back and sees the big picture, just as I could see that if the bluebottle just moved up a few inches, he'd be free. He wasn't really trapped at all, he was just looking in the wrong place. I wondered if God could see a way out for me and Mum. If I can see the open window for the bluebottle, maybe God can see the tomorrows for me and Mum. Th.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d135fda | So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for. | ruby | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 5aa03ad | Love was one of those feelings that you could never control. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4eaade7 | At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can do: 1. Breakdown, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying on the facedown on the ground banging your fist and kicking your legs. 2. Laugh | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| abe350f | Dreams should make you think, 'If I had the guts to do it and I didn't care what anybody thought, this I what I'd really do'. | time dreams life do lesson | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 984a586 | I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it's not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I've met some great guys here, but I didn't grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don't feel like they are real friends. I haven't kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b36ffaa | For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. | relationships memories romance music | Jodi Picoult | |
| 8fde856 | I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said. | suicide death love emily-gold | Jodi Picoult | |
| 358cf73 | There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself. | evolution humor truth jodi-picoult reflection quietness peace food | Jodi Picoult | |
| c232daa | Men don't traipse. We... Swagger | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fe2bfd1 | Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 61c7a78 | Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again. | Jodi Picoult |