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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | god religion | 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. | humanity manners shakespeare tempest | 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. | birth identity inspiration inspirational life love name names new-life poetry resurrection shakespeare theater theatre | 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. | honor honour | 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. | life self-determination time | 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. | eat food | 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 | ||
| 1694e8f | You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean and you move the hell on. | James Patterson | ||
| 1575750 | Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy." | James Patterson | ||
| 4441487 | I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it. | James Patterson | ||
| c9238b0 | You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men. | fellow-humans | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 7473ce2 | After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering? | pain suffering | Nancy Farmer | |
| c25589e | Patience and love can do anything. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 8cb5769 | The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b15072c | I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke a language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it, live like a bird or a fox through the winter, and leave the things I had glimpsed to resolve themselves without me. | forest fox myths nature trees woods | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 4af12f0 | But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. | William Goldman | ||
| 70621c1 | Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover. | dan-humphrey don-t-you-forget-about-me gossip-girl poem poetry | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| e8bd415 | Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief. | Jess Walter |