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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cfca7f5 | I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 447b97e | My body is not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive care and drive. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 73ad9ea | The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting." | grandma-mazur | Janet Evanovich | |
| 1c1325d | I blink back the threat of tears, swiped at my nose and narrowed my eyes. "Listen to me, you two bags of monkey shit, "I yelled. "I am not in a good mood. My car keeps stalling. The day before yesterday I threw up on Joe Morelli. I was called a fat cow by my ex-husband. And if that isn't enough...my hair is ORANGE! ORANGE, FOR CHRISSAKE! And now you have the gall to force yourself into my home and threaten my hamster. Well, you have gone to.. | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 6ac5f46 | It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence." Joe Morelli" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 4e59b05 | With the exception of dessert, food is food. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d53b1fd | I can't cut back. I've turned into a sex addict. I get within a foot of Ranger or Morelli and I'm ready to go ... and go, and go, and go, and go." "That's a lot of going. I'm a retired professional, and it'd be a lot of going even for me. What you need are granny panties. You put on a big ol' pair of ugly granny panties and you won't be dropping your drawers no more. And even if you forget in the heat of the moment, and you pull your skirt .. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 528049e | God's a busy guy. He don't have time to micromanage. What are the chances he heard that? It's early in the morning. He's probably having breakfast with Mrs. God. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| bd87d06 | The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. | christianity spirituality philosophy self-perfection self-surrender egocentrism | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| e44960f | Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets." | sherlock-holmes sarcasm | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 2cc961d | Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Goethe)--We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| a387779 | Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fe.. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 0ab7d19 | We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 3f8004c | Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 3a6e561 | how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold? | Lois Lowry | ||
| 638f1ba | There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will. | John Banville | ||
| 0a0e58f | Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him. | John Banville | ||
| a8db11a | He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 239268a | He was having an odd paternal rush, a blood surge that was also blood and was presently hunting through Howard's expansive intelligence to find words that would more effectively express something like | Zadie Smith | ||
| 2e7ac42 | She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that, ideas and the philosophies of the past, it's very hard to find someone around here to really talk to. That's the tragedy of the thing really I mean, when you think about it. Certainly I can't find anyone around here to talk to anymore. And for.. | Zadie Smith | ||
| fac810e | Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know? | Zadie Smith | ||
| c26f515 | Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better. | Zadie Smith | ||
| ada837e | What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it's too late? What if you can't? Then you must find a way to live with it. | Libba Bray | ||
| 03eaac4 | I changed my mind. I don't want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker." "There are people who do that," Duff said. He'd barely sipped his rum. "Really? What do you call them?" "Alcoholics." | Libba Bray | ||
| 8687028 | One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a sword fashioned out of wood. Most formidable, she was, though I didn't quite know how formidable. As I sat in my study, I heard screaming from outside. I ran to see what the commotion was. Sarita called to me, wide-eyed with fear, "Oh, Mr. Doyle, look- over there!" The tiger had entered the garden and was making his way toward where our Gemm.. | love gemma-doyle tiger | Libba Bray | |
| ae65e94 | Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust. | Libba Bray | ||
| f19dabf | Who the heck is Don Quick-oats? | Libba Bray | ||
| 6bf6ab5 | He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it. | Ann Patchett | ||
| fa03ec3 | In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 641ee31 | Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 07a126e | Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted | snuff chuck-palahniuk | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 9f0cf98 | These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0e276b0 | We wanted to blast the world free of history.... picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind w.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f9de2fd | The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object. | miracle | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 8a4d9bc | Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 162e5a6 | Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 87ef0c7 | It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. | living life construction importance-of-existence | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| c2773bc | With every lecture, you're forced to look again at every choice you've made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3050198 | They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so--bad. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3497fc6 | Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one. | secret mask mystery psychology | P.D. James | |
| 941f505 | After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 00907e4 | Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you." | Nicole Krauss | ||
| c684b82 | Aside from myself, there was no sign of me. | existence loss self | Nicole Krauss | |
| b641d90 | There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular. | Nicole Krauss |