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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f26e9b4 | Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e27072f | I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. | leo-tolstoy literature russia | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 71f6b7e | I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 958b0f8 | There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 38af81f | I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself | Daniel Keyes | ||
| df2e0e6 | Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| b61d96a | I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 41bae14 | Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| e67f6c7 | Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly! | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| c89acc1 | What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. | courtship discord disharmony empowerment gender inequality irony love marriage matrimony sarcasm storytelling subjection women | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 4c26ba7 | They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. | gone-with-the-wind | Margaret Mitchell | |
| ec29c07 | Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| c952524 | I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! | envy faustus jealousy marlowe seven-deadly-sins | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 534d7c7 | Sometimes it take courage to leave. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 251d3a4 | My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards... | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 596f756 | He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now. | Daphne Du Maurier | ||
| d5c65b1 | You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell. | Beth Revis | ||
| 6f56b90 | it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly." | David Eddings | ||
| 4dc075b | Zakath stared at the floor. 'I suddenly feel very helpless,' he admitted, 'and I don't like the feeling. I've been rather effectively dethroned, you know. This morning I was the Emperor of the largest nation on earth; this afternoon, I'm going to be a vagabond.' You might find it refreshing,' Silk told him lightly. Shut up, Kheldar,' Zakath said almost absently. He looked back at Polgara. 'You know something rather peculiar?' What's that?' .. | fantasy happiness | David Eddings | |
| 0d469c1 | Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan. | David Eddings | ||
| 5fa4d19 | I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen | David Eddings | ||
| 07d2846 | But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 04ebee9 | The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 722e77c | Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body--it is heritage. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 4acdcc9 | The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later. | R.L. Stine | ||
| 3b5508d | There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation. | John le Carré | ||
| 9e9a846 | Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ca5b9ff | You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 95c5f34 | Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails gliding across the spinal cord of each book. It sounded like an instrument, or the notes of running feet. She used both hands. She raced them. One shelf against the other. And she laughed. Her voice was sprawled out, high in her throat, and when she e.. | library | Markus Zusak | |
| fff9d85 | I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. | James Joyce | ||
| 80dfb3f | In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt: it seemed to be a world where people behaved the best to those they did not pretend to love and that did not belong to them. And if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Nothing but poverty and the .. | George Eliot | ||
| 8ff496a | Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. | love | George Eliot | |
| 9b5d953 | We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. | experience motive | George Eliot | |
| cfa6ad2 | I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions. | George Eliot | ||
| 5fa5326 | Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3dfb8f3 | He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word - on the earth at the foot of the oak tree. He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding; or the deck of a tumbling ship - it was anything indeed, so long as it was .. | summer | Virginia Woolf | |
| 074f8ff | I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b8b75bd | Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 06afaaf | Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 365c9d7 | Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8a7d4c3 | Come along,' she said. 'They're waiting.' He had never felt so happy in the whole of his life! Without a word they made it up. They walked down to the lake. He had twenty minutes of perfect happiness. Her voice, her laugh, her dress (something floating, white, crimson), her spirit, her adventurousness; she made them all disembark and explore the island; she startled a hen; she laughed; she sang. And all the time, he knew perfectly well, Dal.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| fa12d3a | Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7e9b9ec | Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. | passion | Dante Alighieri | |
| eedcb44 | all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. | Dante Alighieri |