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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a7ed28e | Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired." | Libba Bray | ||
| 4d64a2b | Oh shit! Can you say 'fuck' in a graveyard or will it jinx you with the undead? | Libba Bray | ||
| 78174db | There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another... | Libba Bray | ||
| 42336c0 | All the times I say, 'Don't see me'? With you, I wish I had an opposite power: See me. See me, Evie. See all of me. There's a fella who loves you right here. I'm not perfect. I'm a handful. But you know what? So are you. There. Not sugarcoating it. | Libba Bray | ||
| ba07c11 | Hasta la vista, bitch. | Libba Bray | ||
| c6c0686 | Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. "Not interested. Love's messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans." | Libba Bray | ||
| 085d42a | I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves. | Libba Bray | ||
| 54ac29e | Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational ... stuff." | Libba Bray | ||
| 3270d1c | Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you. Remember... the magic (sic)... is a living thing, joined to whomever it touches and changed by them as well... You must come to know everything-even your darkest corners. Especially those...Everything has its price. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8c93acc | Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4e3e5a7 | You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatne.. | responsibility life love thomas-doyle gemma-doyle yearn control | Libba Bray | |
| 36d1717 | I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again. | Ann Patchett | ||
| d3af538 | Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid and dependable as the earth itself. | Ann Patchett | ||
| f6cdcd0 | If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 57dd5a9 | Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ded10b5 | Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7f5aea9 | Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d550872 | It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. | fear rejection evil | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| c831df2 | It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cda2ba3 | Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights. | humor | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 5db401a | You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f790de6 | Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own. | photograph chuck-palahniuk phoenix stealing | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 589dbb9 | How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe God's hate is better than His indifference. If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption. Which is worse, .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 213d304 | Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 16ccaaf | She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f0227a5 | Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e034fc8 | Losing all hope was freedom. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3534710 | In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cb9642e | Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time." | running-out-of-time | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 48f78e4 | Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time joy was felt, and a first time for sadness. For a while, new feelings were being invented all the time. Desire was born early, as was regret. When stubbornness was felt for the first time, it started a chain reaction, creating the feeling of resentment on the one hand, and alienation and loneliness on the other. It might have be.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| ceb1f45 | Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 37c6a53 | The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me. | Bill Bryson | ||
| bff4f41 | We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the .. | myth human-condition mythology | Karen Armstrong | |
| 0a1616a | Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped. | time love | Laura Dave | |
| d48c653 | When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one mor.. | time writing death life charles-dickens regret writers old-age | Dan Simmons | |
| 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." | identity religion self-reliance nationality home jewish | Michael Chabon | |
| 4769a26 | Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves; if she doesn't court disapproval, reproach, and general wrath, whether of friends, family, or party appa.. | writing truth self-revelation revelation secrets | Michael Chabon | |
| 49995dd | We are accustomed to repeating the cliche, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange co.. | communality clichés obscurity experience children | Michael Chabon | |
| 8ffac9e | But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a2cae40 | He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. | Max Lucado | ||
| 1bd2e38 | Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 19ccec5 | And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fb87399 | The story of one person is the story of all of humanity. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a8072ef | Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by. | Paulo Coelho |