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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cfbaeaa | It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me--and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. Shame. Shame.' It's society's way of dealing with someone different. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 11766d6 | Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 4a1db27 | I sure did live in this world.' 'Really? What have you got to show for it?' 'Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.' 'Lonely, ain't it?' 'Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 07a23d0 | I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 84e76b4 | They were staggered to learn that a real tangible person, living in Minnesota, and married to their own flesh-and-blood relation, could apparently believe that divorce may not always be immoral; that illegitimate children do not bear any special and guaranteed form of curse; that there are ethical authorities outside of the Hebrew Bible; that men have drunk wine yet not died in the gutter; that the capitalistic system of distribution and th.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| cab7a3a | Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. | discipleship sin | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 6f211fe | I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'why not?' 'because you'll just end up using it against me. | falling-in-love | Francine Rivers | |
| b88da62 | All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon. | Raymond Carver | ||
| d4343de | The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 95252a2 | I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 4441d6b | I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me. | page-147 the-bell-jar sylvia-plath | Sylvia Plath | |
| ea56e62 | She must be very secure in herself, I suppose, in them, for it not to bother her, to walk where another woman has walked before. She obviously doesn't think of me as a threat. I think about Ted Hughes, moving Assia Wevill into the home he'd shared with Plath, of her wearing Sylvia's clothes, brushing her hair with the same brush. I want to ring Anna up and remind her that Assia ended up with her head in the oven, just like Sylvia did. | Paula Hawkins | ||
| 06c16fb | The day I went into physics class it was death. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 33f3169 | Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| fb28c3a | We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything | John Updike | ||
| b3cb3bc | Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing. | madness | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| cda2b8a | not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| f32ec46 | He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 38f716a | A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? | irony hurt | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 661eb6c | This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair. | William Styron | ||
| 01828e5 | He didn't want the respect of people who weren't worth wiping his nose on--people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him. | respect | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 91c3f5c | We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying--every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| cdd7b3b | I know and I'm sorry. (Epithymia) So am I. I'm sorry I ever trusted you with the one thing you knew I loved above all others. You ungrateful bitch! I hope your actions haunt you into eternity. (Apollymi) (Apollymi blasted her sister to death.) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b1353cd | My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| e22dd01 | I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again? | world | Peter S. Beagle | |
| ade6065 | The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. | hotel noir ominous phone night | Jim Thompson | |
| f8e0026 | a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers. | life problems | Jim Thompson | |
| 7ca7409 | You've got no time at all, but it seems like you've got forever. You've got nothing to do, but it seems like you've got everything. You make coffee and smoke a few cigarettes; and the hands of the clock have gone crazy on you. They haven't moved hardly, they've hardly budged out of the place you last saw them, but they've measured off a half? two-thirds? of your life. You've got forever, but that's no time at all. | Jim Thompson | ||
| d30f4c5 | If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. | Jim Thompson | ||
| c7e2036 | Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses." " , eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted. "Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect.. | excuses erens justifications belief instinct | Iain M. Banks | |
| e2bfa3c | I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 92bc416 | Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar's obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn't cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus." | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 30f918d | There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass. | same-sex homosexuality transgender queer | Iain M. Banks | |
| f37cbc9 | My arms broke free from my control. My left hand reached for his face, his hair, to wind my fingers in it. My right hand was faster, was not mine. Melanie's fist punched his jaw, knocked his face away from mine with a blunt, low sound. Flesh against flesh, hard and angry. The force of it was not enough to move him far, but he scrambled away from me the instant our lips were no longer connected, gaping with horrorstruck eyes at my horrors.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 2f0a97d | Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. .. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5e97d6d | I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1688bb4 | Ia segalanya yang kau inginkan, sekaligus segalanya yang tidak bisa kau miliki... | soulmate | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 7e9a737 | Odd as this might sound, I suppose I'm glad you're here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen] | rivalry | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 99a34dc | Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan" -- | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| b87f0be | Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk," he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest. "Drunk?" I objected. "You're intoxicated by my very presence." He was grinning that playful smirk again." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d7e1bbb | There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. | love-story love edward-cullen twilight-saga midnight-sun | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 920d68b | Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories. "Well, now, here's a pickle." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| adfc0fe | Bella: "I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not." Edward: "And I should feel sorry that you're not sorry, but I don't." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7528ad7 | Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to.. | Patricia C. Wrede |