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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d02003 | I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. | despair sad | Holly Black | |
| a8b64f1 | They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody! | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 716a790 | I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated. | physical-change | Beatrice Sparks | |
| 0b8adbe | There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was far more important to me to self-destruct than to admit I had a problem, let alone allow anyone to help. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 74a8485 | OY! Stop playing around and lets cook already!" *smack* J-just now, that made a really loud noise.." Do you wanna hear it again?" N-no, you'll just hit me again!" Kyo and Tohru" | funny humor fruits cook hit kyou loud noise smack kyo tohru | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 2286f00 | I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| d44e265 | Time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze your guts out. And sometimes it flies. And is gone somewhere, somehow, before you know it was even here. As if time is only here to make you miserable. That's the only reason for time. To squeeze you. Crush you. To tie you up in knots and make yo.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 53a0e1e | The enemy ate away at their will so they could not resist, their bodies not only craving, but needing the very poison that ground them into that pitiable state of being; the mind diseased and crippled by the enemy it was obsessed with and the obsession and terrible physical need corrupting the soul until the actions were less than those of an animal, less than those of a wounded animal, less than those of anything and everything they did no.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 8e785fb | They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days and then I saw the errors of my ways, saw so clearly that I was killing the wrong person. Its not me that needs killing, its them. Funny how things can change in the wink of an eye. | suicide killing | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 8d19fe3 | He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| da5b408 | he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 2b5177f | We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 828ee9d | I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 60cadb4 | We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9770849 | Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. | trees reincarnation | David Mitchell | |
| 8bfe6f2 | You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish. | heartbreak | Plum Sykes | |
| 15d62f3 | Time flies with you | mitch-albom the-time-keeper thoughtful | Mitch Albom | |
| 5cc73de | You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5636127 | In every artist's life, there comes a person who lifts the curtain on creativity. It is the closest you come to seeing me again. The first time, when you emerge from the womb, I am a brilliant color in the rainbow of human talents from which you choose. Later, when a special someone lifts the curtain, you feel that chosen talent stirring inside you, a bursting passion to sing, paint, dance, bang on drums. And you are never the same. | Mitch Albom | ||
| d14212b | It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor." | time inspirational late plan | Mitch Albom | |
| fa67ce4 | but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5424f34 | No one gets left behind, remember? | five-people-you-meet-in-heaven war left-behind | Mitch Albom | |
| cfbb0cf | The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| ec10246 | Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 968fcc1 | Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8b58253 | I don't judge, not even myself. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2fcf495 | There is a line somewhere in that translates out to, roughly, 'The world is awful.' Yes, I said to myself as I shot across the Bay Bridge not giving a fuck how fast I drove, that sums it up. That is high art: 'The world is awful.' That says it all. This is what we pay composers and painters and the great writers to do: tell us this; from figuring this out, they earn a living. What a masterful, incisive insight. What penetrating intelligen.. | dubious-revelation world | Philip K. Dick | |
| f2002a8 | Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 531ab49 | I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote . It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." ." | wagner opera rejection | Philip K. Dick | |
| c375164 | Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f0c0b31 | Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b906f72 | Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? | future psychosis german totalitarianism nazism government fascism power | Philip K. Dick | |
| a7400f9 | Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step. | science-fiction | Philip K. Dick | |
| 815e45e | I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e2984ad | Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e8e9680 | Sometimes I dream--" "I'll put that on your gravestone." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0daafef | In a civil war... every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a6cf9c0 | but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall--falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go un.. | death degradation oblivion dying | Philip K. Dick | |
| 8c09668 | ql lshykh `bd rbh lty'h: m byn kshf lnqb `n wjh l`rws wsdlh `l~ jthth l lHZ@ mthl khfq@ qlb. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| fbaa75d | 'l m '`jb l`wlm lt~ tnTw~ `lyh lnfws. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5afe9f2 | O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an.. | theatre imagination chorus globe-theatre history-plays staging stage | William Shakespeare | |
| d95ef3e | Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course,.. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 5ecb0c0 | The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like , and have that be all right. | disabilities | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 7c1f185 | Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender b.. | gratitude | Barbara Kingsolver |