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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