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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c2b5a5 | That's what's so ironic about the conservative backlash against BDSMers. With increased visibility comes increased bigotry, and conservatives continue to rally against kinky events by local groups to get them shut down. What the anti-kink fanatics don't understand about us is that we're geeks. Sex nerds. SM intellectuals. We pay money to spend a weekend going to classes. | conservativism kink | Tristan Taormino | |
| f3a1ac9 | Bubbly is bogus. | uglies tally scott-westerfeld tally-youngblood zane | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 1283d96 | They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect." I had to ask. "You running away?" "We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills." | scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 73b96c3 | If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? | storytelling | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 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/. | worth erich-fromm erich-seligmann-fromm fromm | 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 philosophy modern-relationships western-culture society | 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. | magic-bleeds ilona-andrews | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7aa942d | Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3ba61c5 | Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1fc9b3e | God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 396dae8 | The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 2c214b8 | There are wolves within, and there are sheep without. | church | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 1712970 | What do I love when I love my God? | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 7b1cfd8 | No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. | nazism nietzsche | Walter Kaufmann | |
| 944a0ed | Fire burns blue and hot. Its fair light blinds me not. Smell of smoke is satisfying, tastes nourishing to my tongue. I think fire ageless, never old, and yet no longer young. Morning coals are cool: daylight leaves me blind. I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind. | poem fire | Penny Reid | |
| 125c69e | The best stories, I feel, are those that are self-deprecating and involve some thread of irony. | Penny Reid |