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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ae6d701 | We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him. Our landlady and the delicatessen man are our mourners, and we leave nothing behind us but a frock-coat and a fiddle, or an easel, or a typewriter, or whatever took we got our living by. All we have ever managed to do is to pay our rent, that exorbitant rent that one has to pay for a few square feet of space near the.. | Willa Cather | ||
| 545725a | In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in. | Willa Cather | ||
| e0189b7 | Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty autumn air. She always loved to watch them, to think of their vastness and distance, and of their ordered march. It fortified her to reflect upon the great operations of nature, and when she thought of the law that lay behind them, she felt a sense of personal security. That night she h.. | Willa Cather | ||
| 8fc1e68 | So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life. | knitting life twenty-something | Kate Jacobs | |
| d301c52 | A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5e36bae | We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts. | language | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 2f73e64 | Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5901b1a | Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world | anne-shirley learning | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 7905e06 | There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e9ff0ea | Anger is the fluid love bleeds when you cut it. | Walter Hooper | ||
| 424679a | Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us. | Bell Hooks | ||
| f14c017 | When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture. | bell hooks | ||
| 82f8edd | I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag." | home identity jewish nationality religion self-reliance | Michael Chabon | |
| dc8c24a | Don't drink too much." "When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop." "I'll have to get a shorter name." "I'll have to forget how to spell it." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| c94a348 | playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy buzzers. Plus, you can get-I mean, "access"-the Internet and find anything you want. Music. Maps. Porn. Anything. If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 07f73e6 | The bad thing about nerd stars: they're so high up that it's hard to hear or see unless you exist in space with them. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 7cf351f | She's my fucking sun, and even though she's set tonight, she means nothing less to me. I love her just as fucking madly. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 29e2d5a | You don't need to replace me. You can have me, sweetheart." I pant for air. "Say that again." His lips brush my ear, hot breath warming me. "How about I just fucking kiss you?" | Krista Ritchie | ||
| abb1ae4 | I had sex," I blurt out for the second time. All eyes immediately fixate on Connor, who has been very quiet. His phone is gone and his hands are in his pockets. "Yes, it was with me," he answers the non-existent question." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| b849589 | I secretly want to raise my hand and say, introvert in the building! | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 84a6f54 | I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, 'delusions' are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It's the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5dbbee1 | When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way. | contradiction imagination intellect mind wisdom | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 9324459 | If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be." | madeleine-l-engle walking-on-water | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| b19b6b1 | Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own. | quiet silence | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| fc3df20 | I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 4f90956 | He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in | lovely | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| be5e93d | She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones." -- | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3961df4 | Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ac1bea6 | I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. Regret... When it comes to you, Mariam jo, I have oceans of it. I regret that I did not see you the day you came to Herat. I regret.. | regret values-in-life | Khaled Hosseini | |
| bf8178b | She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7ce24a2 | Must have been quite the culture shock, going there." "Yes it was." Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b1b0fa9 | There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing. | James Hilton | ||
| 99c84e5 | One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver. | nature peacefulness | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 214389b | Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 5f46659 | But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book. | E.M. Forster | ||
| ab563c3 | If you let yourself go I am sure you are sensible. . . . You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 1372777 | Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 94fefdf | Desperately, Phoenix attempted to maneuver both tips of the instrument around the bullet. He knew that each move caused Nellie unimaginable pain, but he could not grasp the target. "It's no use," he sobbed. "And my hand is going numb." In a frenzy, Nellie shouted something into the gag, but no one could understand her. "I beg your pardon, child?" queried Alistair. Nellie spat out the rag and rasped, "Get the Kabra chick!" "Natalie?" Fiske e.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 55507cc | My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 732deb5 | Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view. | generations | Ivo Andrić | |
| 2b782f0 | lktb@ hy tfHS Twyl l'`mq lnfs, rHl@ l~ 'shd khwf lw`y `tm@. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 53f048d | Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 21b1c67 | As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I'm not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What's done is done; I have to look ahead. | love moving-forward people stupidity | Isabel Allende | |
| 39ea431 | She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment. | Isabel Allende |