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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c829f0f | You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2d220f8 | Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months." | prayer truth | Anne Lamott | |
| 74efa88 | One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness | madness sanity nuts tribe insanity | Anne Lamott | |
| e45da90 | But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want. | Amy Tan | ||
| 5ca0d9e | A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat | carnival ferris-wheel forest werewolf wolf | Richard Brautigan | |
| 06e9c2a | When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them." -- | Shirley Hazzard | ||
| d6efb10 | There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes. | humour romance young-adult-romance young-adult-fiction | Simone Elkeles | |
| 0b0035c | Is that your cheap way of telling me you want to kiss me?" He looks into my eyes, his dark gaze capturing mine. " , I always want to kiss you." | young-adult-romance young-adult-fiction | Simone Elkeles | |
| 84acc77 | A cell phone rings. I can feel the vibration through Brittany's pants. "It's hers," I say. "Answer it," Isa Instructs. I already feel like I've kidnapped the girl. Now I'm gonna answer her cell? Shit. Rolling her a bit, I feel for the bulge in her back pocket. "Contesta," Isa whispers loudly, this time in Spanish. "I am," I hiss, my fingers clumsy as I fumble for the phone. "I'll do it," Paco says, leaning over the seats and reaching towa.. | drunk-and-passed-out-brittany paco isabel | Simone Elkeles | |
| 337ecd5 | The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors. | lovers | Salman Rushdie | |
| e0caa9c | The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 4066143 | Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. | diaspora | Salman Rushdie | |
| e7c192e | When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1ef1d53 | Give up on me " he begged her. "I don't like people dropping in to see me without warning, I have forgotten the rules of seven tiles and kabaddi, I can't recite my prayers, I don't know what should happen at a nikah ceremony, and in this city where I grew up I get lost if I'm on my own. This isn't home. It makes me giddy because it feels like home and is not. It makes my heart tremble and my head spin." "You're a stupid, " she shouted at hi.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| bb07a3f | A change in direction was required. The story you finished was perhaps never the one you began. Yes! He would take charge of his life anew, binding his breaking selves together. Those changes in himself that he sought, he himself would initiate and make them. No more of this miasmic, absent drift. How had he ever persuaded himself that his money-mad burg would rescue him all by itself, this Gotham in which Jokers and Penguins were running r.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| a7c59d9 | All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none. | religion god | Salman Rushdie | |
| 29b1dda | Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f7ffc4e | Carlos Castaneda said, "We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." -- | Timber Hawkeye | ||
| d80d639 | Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b6d18a4 | Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. | shakespeare humanity tempest manners | William Shakespeare | |
| ac38704 | I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere; | prince-hal | William Shakespeare | |
| da5b617 | Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. | puck | William Shakespeare | |
| d3523f7 | How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena) | William Shakespeare | ||
| ffbf722 | I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. | theatre shakespeare names poetry inspiration identity life love inspirational new-life birth resurrection theater name | William Shakespeare | |
| f1e22bb | What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. | honour honor | William Shakespeare | |
| 54cd5e2 | This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings. | William Shakespeare | ||
| ebb50d1 | If your mind dislike anything obey it | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9dcd321 | Let every man be master of his time. | time self-determination life | William Shakespeare | |
| 2bc63de | A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness. | Henry James | ||
| 7e06f04 | what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| b0b8b0b | When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| fa72c9e | And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 58c7986 | Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. | love | Philip Yancey | |
| e1270d1 | Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head. | humor | Carl Hiaasen | |
| ff1d731 | He's coming over," Lindsay says. "What do you want me to do? Kick him in the balls? I've been dying to kick him in the balls." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 4e44571 | I'm... a blank canvas. There's nothing here to love. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| c56d8b5 | The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them. | James Redfield | ||
| 56fe28e | He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw. | James Patterson | ||
| 6ce208f | Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie. | food eat | James Patterson | |
| 4c52ef8 | Hi, Max," she said, pushing her shades up onto her curls. "I hope your wearing sunscreen," i said, "your gonna have hella wrinkles by the time your ten." "Want some daiquiri?" she offered, pointing at a blender. "Is it traitor flavored?" I asked." | James Patterson | ||
| d23a8fe | Hey. Not sure what's going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don't do anything stupid. Don't come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write. | James Patterson | ||
| d21e20e | Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say? | James Patterson | ||
| 77d7807 | We is always so much better than I. | James Patterson | ||
| 9f4416a | fang will be the first to die | James Patterson |