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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | motive experience | 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 | ||
| 65db9ea | You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right. | David Gemmell | ||
| c7e0ac2 | There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket. | inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 2d3fdf5 | To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c6856b | A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 767e750 | A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire .. | love grace | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 820bdeb | A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5885755 | You can resist the seductions of grandiosity, blame, and shame. You can support other people in their creative efforts, acknowledging the truth that there's plenty of room for everyone. You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. You can battle your demons (through therapy, recovery, prayer, or humility) instead of battling your gifts--in part by realizing that your demons were never the on.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5301c0e | But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c7ba689 | You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 509d7d6 | But. My hammer," said Thor. "Shut up, Thor," said Loki" | thor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 224bc32 | When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6455090 | We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c01535d | 'Door,' called Richard. 'Don't do it. Don't set it free. We don't matter.' 'Actually,' said the marquis, 'I matter very much. But I have to agree. Don't do it.' | london-below wise-guys | Neil Gaiman | |
| d0a13e1 | Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me. | memory | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6123fc7 | You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2e0ee6e | And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1487f82 | Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. | religion | Neil Gaiman | |
| 895fdff | And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take t.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 90143c6 | It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 29e0a5d | Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson. | Ann Beattie | ||
| 16ac7d2 | Her life] had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| ffef34f | The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting onto them. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 34a855a | Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?" | Jude Watson | ||
| 2185414 | I am not worried if scientists go and explain everything. This is for a very simple reason: an impala sprinting across the Savannah can be reduced to biomechanics, and Bach can be reduced to counterpoint, yet that does not decrease one iota our ability to shiver as we experience impalas leaping or Bach thundering. We can only gain and grow with each discovery that there is structure underlying the most accessible levels of things that fill .. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 66fbde5 | You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you want to see, depending on your mood, and this disconnect from reality is the source of the bad de.. | Robert Greene |