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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a12f7ea | Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart. | passion romance love love-heals mystical-passion twin-flames passionate-love healing rebirth survival recovery | Aberjhani | |
| 8b707cb | Hamilton, the human word machine, | Ron Chernow | ||
| fc40e15 | What she really wanted [...] was [...] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit." | surpassing-yourself limits | Kathy Acker | |
| bdeeb5a | Come alive, dead heart, and sing. | Kathy Acker | ||
| b3af195 | I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment. | life-lessons life realizations | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 40c3061 | I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York's broodmare." I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. "You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn't that sin?" His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breas.. | romantic love inspirational | Philippa Gregory | |
| 0f4c845 | We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 5628be7 | I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am." She nods her head slowly. ,,What do you think you'd look like?" "Smaller, for a start." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a27be2d | The parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing Glenn Close in one of her psycho roles. I am the Victim. Mom: [creepy smile] "Thought you could put one over us, did you, Melinda? Big high school students now, don't need to show your homework to your parents, don't need to show any failing test grades?" Dad: [bangs table, silverware jumps] "Cut.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| bcd2dd4 | Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| cb6206e | You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 388dcb3 | As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless. | world life plans guns ideas weapons safety protection | Colson Whitehead | |
| 82fba7e | Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad. People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communica.. | John Fowles | ||
| 68178d6 | The world began in hazard and will end in it. | John Fowles | ||
| 6f6a610 | You needn't worry about your appearance, my dear, because true beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 399a079 | That announcement caused an immediate reaction among the inhabitants of the ballroom, who began looking at one another in surprise and then turned to the balcony, but it was nothing compared to the reaction among the small group of seven people who'd been keeping a vigil of hope. A jolt went through the entire group; hands reached out blindly and were clasped tightly by other hands; faces lifted to the balcony, while joyous smiles dawned br.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 3dec9e6 | It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters. | Pat Conroy | ||
| c25a0b7 | Honor is the presence of God in man. | honor | Pat Conroy | |
| 78d3fdf | But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| e110680 | I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 25ee4a9 | If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal. | life dogmatism | Terry Eagleton | |
| cf42a81 | Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again. | Norton Juster | ||
| af14d5c | I can't fight pirates without coffee. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 687f05b | I'm the last of the mad ones. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 2ad472f | Boo: "Go talk to her." Callum: "About what?" Boo: "Anything." Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'" Boo: "I do that." Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong." | humor callum ghosts | Maureen Johnson | |
| 7dca594 | These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 904b627 | I]n Africa I was a member of a family--of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas--but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not.. | family philosophy community | Daniel Quinn | |
| 7ccffb4 | What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal. He did not think he was particularly vain, but the questions were growing tiresome. "A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?" "Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing." "As if he dashed into an anvil." "Pay no attention," Harriet said to him. "She l.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| e4106f9 | There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. | James Baldwin | ||
| 7e27eca | In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 336feaf | Whose little boy are you? | racism youth religion god harlem james-baldwin renaissance institution epiphany coming-of-age black church | James Baldwin | |
| 0d4fe2e | People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the .. | socioeconomic-failure american-dream | James Baldwin | |
| c9dedd1 | I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him. | James Baldwin | ||
| e5752b2 | Many a night that summer she left Dr. Archie's office with a desire to run and run about those quiet streets until she wore out her shoes, or wore out the streets themselves; when her chest ached and it seemed as if her heart were spreading all over the desert. When she went home, it was not to go to sleep. She used to drag her mattress beside her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates fr.. | Willa Cather | ||
| fff65a8 | There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated. | money | Kate Jacobs | |
| 30ccd45 | I thought if you told people , they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| e8b0a3d | In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1ce06d6 | But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e854727 | Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9523596 | unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 6fb2b80 | Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about the nature of male and female roles can be solved by women's working harder. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 908387b | As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer. | bell hooks | ||
| 5496179 | But artists aren't the only marginalized folks controlling real estate. Think about the colonizing role that wealthy white gay men have played in communities of color; they're often the first group to gentrify poor and working-class neighborhoods. Harlem is a good example. Gays have moved in and driven up rents, as have renegade young white students, who want to be cool and hip. This is colonization, post-colonial-style. After all, the peop.. | neo-colonization queer | bell hooks | |
| 59226c3 | My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |