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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | life knitting 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 | learning anne-shirley | 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 | ||
| 2150ff4 | Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| af0a658 | Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5f2d91a | A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. | notes-from-the-underground vanity | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 1223489 | n lfqr lys khTyy'@, wnm lkhTyy'@ 'n ykwn lmr Gny fyuhyn lakhryn | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 954ca31 | James] Joyce... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.... | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 4f8ca51 | This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9598467 | Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers." | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 5635b38 | Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?" | humor foaly holly | Eoin Colfer | |
| b7ce839 | Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 08425c8 | Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn. | les-misérables | Victor Hugo | |
| 9c75fef | He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. | sky infinite ocean | Victor Hugo | |
| cb37206 | Et puis, tenez, monsieur Marius,je crois que j'etais un peu amoureuse de vous. | pontmercy thénardier Éponine marius les-misérables last-words | Victor Hugo | |
| 136b1ff | There are such repulsive faces in the world. | mankind | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 2d16eb7 | No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d59d736 | I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 58e3735 | When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irr.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e0a68b8 | And there in the middle, high above Prechistensky Boulevard, amidst a scattering of stars on every side but catching the eye through its closeness to the earth, its pure white light and the long uplift of its tail, shone the comet, the huge, brilliant comet of 1812, that popular harbinger of untold horrors and the end of the world. But this bright comet with its long, shiny tail held no fears for Pierre. Quite the reverse: Pierre's eyes gli.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e4067a2 | I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 553d665 | I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too.. | creed | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 84acdf0 | Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. | god helplessness | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 58a7e20 | I soon forgot storm in music. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| f92195c | I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? | travel | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 4726946 | Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 1f1b0a5 | It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 490c78b | Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. | land | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 7f14c10 | She had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him. | love | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 9b5a6d1 | Can I see some ID?" "WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON'T USE ID...THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN." Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug tried looking extra sane to even things out." | funny canadian sane crazy | Adam Rex | |
| c243bfe | why, it beats so i can love you. | heart love | Ronlyn Domingue | |
| 3d3ee78 | Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week. | sandwiches cake meals tea food | Daphne du Maurier | |
| a3cf183 | We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. | plays | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 6c77361 | Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W... | amazon-com bilderberg clinton conspiracy-theory morcan the-ninth-orphan the-orphan-trilogy microsoft google facebook barack-obama conspiracy conspiracy-theories hillary-clinton bill-clinton george-w-bush tony-blair thriller | James Morcan | |
| a1e1219 | Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard. | faith beliefs | Beth Revis | |
| 8812814 | Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people. | Beth Revis |