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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a8cc380 | Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me. | dogs racism animals black | Stephanie Perkins | |
| b8aae7b | If Fang is in any way harmed while I'm gone-if he gets a hangnail-you won't see another morning. Are we clear on that? | James Patterson | ||
| 5700742 | You know, I've heard you actually have to have sex to get pregnant. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 78d2fd9 | Why did he do it?" "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| fc40da7 | Time to die. -Evil Angel | James Patterson | ||
| 2b3f30c | You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen | James Patterson | ||
| 6251d31 | The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations. | James Redfield | ||
| d758faf | Here's a nice image for a life in balance," she said. "You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass." "I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces." -- | life | James Patterson | |
| 410f85f | Denial is not just a river in Egypt. | iggy river egypt | James Patterson | |
| edebc36 | Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming. | James Patterson | ||
| 5955e5e | As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations." -- | Maya Angelou | ||
| b4695a5 | The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 1fccb8c | I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 1e92df4 | Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen. | nick tears surprise | Garth Nix | |
| df85489 | A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face." | Garth Nix | ||
| 0e2b3ce | It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 7ec8561 | I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 21c28be | Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 08f7238 | That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 15ae94d | Listen to me. I know something else. It will begin again. 200,000 dead and 80,000 wounded in nine seconds. Those are the official figures. It will begin again. It will be 10,000 degrees on the earth. Ten thousand suns, people will say. The asphalt will burn. Chaos will prevail. An entire city will be lifted off the ground, and fall back to earth in ashes...I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You're destroying me. You're good for me. Ho.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 1af0c9a | And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d2ce33e | O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 7790fa9 |
Ella le pregunto por esos dias si era verdad, como decian las canciones, que el amor lo podia todo. < |
Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 6278114 | but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ceaccf9 | We'll grow old waiting. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 209b0c6 | Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 44b2aee | I've lived most of my adult life outside the law, and never have I compromised with authority. But neither have I gone out and picked fights with authority. That's stupid. They're waiting for that; they invite it; it helps keep them powerful. Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided. And it is fairly easy to do all three. If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, act lovingly; if you believe every which way.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 7527dde | Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 226b0d6 | I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men. | men limits | Tom Robbins | |
| 9aa911a | I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7e9d591 | Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. | Brené Brown | ||
| f4f7c87 | Pain is unrelenting. It will get our attention. Despite our attempts to drown it in addiction, to physically beat it out of one another, to suffocate it with success and material trappings, or to strangle it with our hate, pain will find a way to make itself known. | Brené Brown | ||
| b99e1b9 | As Brene Brown puts it, "I went to church thinking it would be like an epidural, that it would take the pain away . . . But church isn't like an epidural; it's like a midwife . . . I thought faith would say, 'I'll take away the pain and discomfort, but what it ended up saying was, 'I'll sit with you in it." | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| bb5a40e | Some mornings you wake up fully in your body, and you know this is all there is--the air, the shape your body makes in the air, your hand, the skin that covers your hand, the air that covers your skin, the light that fills the air, a few colors in the light, this one thought, this dream dissolving--it is a dream that, in your half-awake state, embarrasses you. You don't tell it to the woman waking up beside you, the woman you love, because .. | Nick Flynn | ||
| d4b3a6e | We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat." | irony loss drinking audrey-hepburn breakfast-at-tiffany-s bar the-recession new-yorkers bars new-beginnings snobs cat vanity failure | Gillian Flynn | |
| 1674c33 | Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effor.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 06428c3 | It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself; Nathanael West perceived that, in The Day of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination most indelibly were the fires. For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 8309a9f | Just think it, and chances are it will happen. | Paul Auster | ||
| 2aefbeb | Jonathan Safran Foer's 10 Rules for Writing: 1.Tragedies make great literature; unfathomable catastrophes (the Holocaust, 9/11) are even better - try to construct your books around them for added gravitas but, since those big issues are such bummers, make sure you do it in a way that still focuses on a quirky central character that's somewhat like Jonathan Safran Foer. 2. You can also name your character Jonathan Safran Foer. 3. If you're w.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2a600cd | It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain. | Paul Auster | ||
| e91cdba | Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. | Paul Auster | ||
| 90390e5 | Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land. | Paul Auster | ||
| 632f89b | You'll get back to where you came from. | William Golding | ||
| e6d75ed | Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance. | Robert M. Pirsig |