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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1aa44d1 | I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding | funny-but-true old | Stephanie Perkins | |
| c5f4cbe | There is no one true church, no one chosen people. | church faith people | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| ce4ff7e | When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. | censorship silence voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 3b3daab | but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 497b278 | I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 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. | animals black dogs racism | 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. | egypt iggy river | 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 surprise tears | 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 | ||
| dd779b1 | By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right. | Scott B. Smith | ||
| f97d0d3 | And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. | human-nature | Mario Puzo | |
| e4e67d3 | Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone | friendship | Mario Puzo | |
| 190381f | And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. | secrecy | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 4c7ba8c | And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes." | Jess Walter | ||
| 09fe9e6 | There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits. | discussion logic propaganda rhetoric | Hannah Arendt | |
| a24664a | I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 695da97 | I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| e51e49d | ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and retaining your success. It repulses advantages and opportunities. It's a magnet for enemies and errors. It is Scylla and Charybdis. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cb0899b | The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e83b999 | This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible if you thought that these myths should be understood literally. Hence the furor occasioned by , published by Charles Darwin. The book was not intended as an attack on religion, but was a sober exploration of a scientific hypothesis. But because by this time people were reading the cosmogonies of Genesis as .. | evolution religion science | Karen Armstrong | |
| 94148ce | We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. | hopes reason truth | Charles Darwin | |
| a8c4dd2 | To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 2b77d49 | All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 455f53e | Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches, when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to do things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's life. I sugg.. | Harper Lee | ||
| e06d52a | Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. | Harper Lee | ||
| ab1aa3f | At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how those discoveries may one day transform life on Earth. Absent such curiosity, we are no different from the provincial farmer who expresses no need to venture beyond the county line, bec.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| d4d67f3 | Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine. | Hannah Hurnard |