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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 77543cd | He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?" | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 7f6f646 | Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 62d7fb8 | Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only science. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| dfe3676 | Is it possible to love something so much, you imagine it wants to destroy you only because it has denied you? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 2225679 | I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| a06e646 | He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake. | Colum McCann | ||
| 715a5a6 | If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. | Colum McCann | ||
| f975975 | The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. | Colum McCann | ||
| e87d663 | For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul? | Craig Thompson | ||
| 3b3ae16 | For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 890c846 | Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98C/. | erich-fromm erich-seligmann-fromm fromm worth | Ernest Becker | |
| 3614972 | If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that .. | freedom modern-relationships philosophy society western-culture | Erich Fromm | |
| baf39c1 | Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but moving, growing, working together; even when there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves. There is only one proof for the presence of love: the depth of the relationship, and the aliveness and strength in each person concerned; this is the fruit b.. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| a6932e8 | As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War--they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do. | war | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 008bc89 | somehow one must love the world without being worldly. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 11fb841 | Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive. That it should be not like a palace with marble walls and polished floors, and guards standing at the doo.. | religion | Philip Pullman | |
| 8c903f3 | And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence. That was how these creatures looked now, these beautiful pilgrims of rarefied light, standing around the gi.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 63a845a | Sometimes the Universe smiled. Mostly she kicked me in the face, stomped on my ribs once I fell down, and laughed at my pain, but once in a while she smiled. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 54bef8a | Curran scrutinized Mart's face. "I can't figure out if he wants to kill you or screw you." "I'll be glad to make the choice for him." Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?" "You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 458145c | I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4c46eca | Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a6527c7 | One doesn't let her fiance fight a horde of ghouls by himself. Some things were just not done. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 225e965 | My point is, I would never hurt you or your family." I raised my chin at him. "If you tried to hurt my mother, I would totally kick your ass." "Aha." "Yes. You would be lying on the ground, crying, 'No more, no more,' and I would be kicking you in the stomach, wham, wham, wham!" He laughed softly." | humor jim | Ilona Andrews | |
| c107054 | Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she'd hook me up with a clue | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d7db7e5 | His training had a fatal flaw: he cared. He asked me what I wanted to eat for dinner. He knew I liked green, and if he had a choice between a blue sweater and a green one, he'd buy the green one for me even if it cost more. I like swimming, and when we traveled, he made it a point to lay our route so it would go past a lake or a river. He let me speak my mind. My opinion mattered. I was a person to him and I was important. I saw him treat o.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3fd0b0a | We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasn't a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f26617e | I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ba3903f | I can buy your contract." "No, you can't. Any sale of our mortgage requires my consent, and I won't consent to it." He grinned. "You don't want to work under me?" "I'm not even going to dignify that with an answer." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| b7ed75f | Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f1c6617 | Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try." He blinked and laughed softly. "I never know what you'll say next." "I don't either." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cf69801 | When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours. | ilona-andrews magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7aa942d | Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 629a50f | A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty--and, by which definition, a philosopher--dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. | plays stoppard | Tom Stoppard | |
| d47a73d | All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 8822a91 | You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free | Anonymous | ||
| 662a463 | Around the world-even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution-many thoughtful people are making a deep, concerted search for a way to live in harmony with each other and the earth. Their efforts, which rarely reach the headlines, are among the most important events occurring today. Sometimes these people call themselves peace workers, at other times environmentalists, but most of the time they work in hum.. | Eknath Easwaran | ||
| 8ec8cba | The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer. | Anonymous | ||
| 223ff34 | Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. | Anonymous | ||
| e6578e5 | The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat. | toil | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| 8a3feef | When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 6353e56 | I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| af1aaf3 | As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f03a51c | God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d568fed | There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. | definition god truth | Victor Hugo |