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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 40766bf | This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than.. | the-page perec representation | Georges Perec | |
| e19d249 | Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way? | William Gaddis | ||
| d2b4fe3 | If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple? | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f83aef2 | Because sometimes it's about letting go of what your mind tells you and following what your heart shows you instead. That's how you know it will always be real. | letting-go | T.J. Klune | |
| 8da9da7 | Round 5: Telling him I felt bad about the puppy-shirt thing, I told him we could go pick out a dog at the pound now that we had a yard for it. Instead, I took him to the dentist. Winner: Bear "Rock Star" McKenna." | T.J. Klune | ||
| 7315bd3 | I think you are seriously overestimating my dancing abilities. My kind of dancing usually ends up on the Internet, where people watch it so they can stop feeling sorry about their own lives. You know how people say they have two left feet? It's like I have no feet and my stumps are attached to wheels shaped like triangles. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 394c055 | You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right." -- | coyote-blue | Christopher Moore | |
| 6a37a75 | All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right? | science | Christopher Moore | |
| cc85027 | Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess | humor chrisptopher-moore | Christopher Moore | |
| 41a2bac | Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light. | Christopher Moore | ||
| f13a4f9 | You may be a lady but you are still the man! | Lynda Barry | ||
| 202a7d8 | Magic?' Kate snorted. 'There's no such thing. Is there?' 'Magic?' Barnabas shrugged. 'Why not? Magic is cool.' 'But there has to be a rational explanation.' 'Oh there is,' Barnabas led her our of the cave and back to the shore. 'But a rational explanation is rather complex. We're dealing with a psycho-temporal entity manifesting through a critical mass of its sentient shell...um. Magic sounds more fun. | summer-falls | Amelia Williams | |
| 7a6592e | There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| b533d15 | There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1303452 | No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2e124a9 | This was one princess who could rescue her own damn self. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c84f7e1 | I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions. | faith religion sam harris delusion | Sam Harris | |
| d68dc62 | ql l'`m~ 'nt Hr. ftH lh lbb ldhy kn yfSlh `n l`lm, wql lh thny@an, dhhb f'nt Hr. ln ydhhb. sybq~ fy mknh wsT lTryq, hw wlakhrwn, mr`wbyn l y`rfwn 'yn ydhhbwn. | José Saramago | ||
| 27bd878 | Past glories are poor feeding. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 1378919 | The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature. | transcendentalism simple-living | Isaac Asimov | |
| ee09ad7 | The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 211738d | A circle has no end. | geometry riddles paradox | Isaac Asimov | |
| 8c65ee8 | Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that. | Jules Verne | ||
| cf0f378 | And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2e91bc8 | That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 31053a5 | There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d84a8e5 | Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3a7c918 | Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians. | civilisation | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 50eb5cd | It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. | Richard Bach | ||
| a2e6e7d | At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off. Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head. | Linda Howard | ||
| f29d72f | Don't kiss me," she said warningly. "I don't intend to," he replied, smiling a little. "I don't have my whip and chair with me." | kiss | Linda Howard | |
| 5be3281 | Larry's such a liar--- He tells outrageous lies. He says he's ninety-nine years old Instead of only five. He says he lives up on the moon, He says that he once flew. He says he's really six feet four Instead of three feet two. He says he has a billion dollars 'Stead of just a dime. He says he rode a dinosaur Back in some distant time. He says his mother is the moon Who taught him magic spells. He says his father is the wind That rings the m.. | poem humor | Shel Silverstein | |
| dbf4772 | Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges. | algaliarept trent-kalamack rachel-morgan | Kim Harrison | |
| 95cbc62 | Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 4b0e630 | Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her. | romance into-the-woods trent-kalamack jenks rachel-morgan paranormal urban-fantasy | Kim Harrison | |
| a949165 | I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)" | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| e252e57 | I want to chase the butterflies. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 345669d | Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors--the living--could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in ad.. | suicide war christianity friends sacrifice death religion christian-martyrs conscription kamikaze memorials poppies self-abnegation suicide-attack martyrs masochism orwell november comrades soldiers theocracy ugliness causes martyrdom self-importance patriotism principles fanaticism childhood torture | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 789fe6f | I'm going away anyway. I am. Do you hear me? I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I am not, I'm not retarded. I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I am not, I'm not retarded. There's nothing wrong with my brain. Do you know what the Teacher Ghosts say about me? They tell me I'm smart, and I can win scholarships. I can get into colleges. I've already applied. I'm smart. I can do all sorts of things. I know how to get A's, and they say .. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 6524567 | News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 704f60d | I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowled.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 1e0cd17 | For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified. | death incarnation catholicism resurrection | Flannery O'Connor | |
| fbdf24b | There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| d8b64e5 | free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. | Flannery O'Connor |