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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 399d621 | Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f065e9c | You're the best man I ever met," I said. "I only meant...it's such a strain, to try and live for two people. To try to make them fit your ideas of what's right...You do it for a child, of course, you have to, but even then, it's dreadfully hard work. I couldn't do it for you - it would be wrong even to try." I'd taken him back more than a little. He sat for some moments, his face turned half away. Do ye really think me a good man?" he said.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 65074ce | I would not piss on him was he burning in the flames of hell," Grey said politely. One of Hal's brows flicked upward, but only momentarily. "Just so," he said dryly. "The question, though, is whether Fraser might be inclined to perform a similar service for you." Grey placed his cup carefully in the center of the desk. "Only if he thought I might drown," he said, and went out." | lord-john-grey pardloe | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 142a2b0 | But how shall I tell you all these things," he said, the line of his mouth twisting. "And then say to you -- it is only you I have ever loved? How should you believe me?" The question hung in the air between us, shimmering like the reflection from the water below. "If you say it," I said, "I'll believe you." ..... "Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 22e240e | Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b034cd0 | I didn't say you shouldn't worry, do you think I don't worry? But no, you probably can't do anything about me.' 'Well, maybe no, Sassenach, and maybe so. But I've lived a long enough time now to think it maybe doesna matter so much-- so long as I can love you.' -Claire & Jamie Fraser | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4bb5211 | I've never been afraid of ghosts. I live with them daily, after all. When I look in a mirror, my mother's eyes look back at me; my mouth curls with the smile that lured my great-grandfather to the fate that was me. No, how should I fear the touch of those vanished hands, laid on me in love unknowing? How could I be afraid of those that molded my flesh, leaving their remnants to live long past the grave?...All the time the ghosts flit past a.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1505f4b | It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. | society | William Faulkner | |
| 312e62e | Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. | William Faulkner | ||
| 5b6ce35 | I have left my book, I have left my room, | James Joyce | ||
| 967a4b8 | Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now. | sadness | James Joyce | |
| cea841c | When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water. | James Joyce | ||
| 3de6a39 | I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you? | James Joyce | ||
| 29a1f92 | Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| bc9a6bd | Some people, I am told, have memories like computers, nothing to do but punch the button and wait for the print-out. Mine is more like a Japanese library of the old style, without a card file or an indexing system or any systematic shelf plan. Nobody knows where anything is except the old geezer in felt slippers who has been shuffling up and down those stacks for sixty-nine years. When you hand him a problem he doesn't come back with a cart.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| d01c5c1 | Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | limits men | 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 | ||
| 199e663 | a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| c937489 | This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 872dfdb | My brain feels like a cool, deep lake. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3293d39 | Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9f2fdfd | He's got courage," Alex said. "Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost him and--" | alex anger courage raoul-of-goldenlake | Tamora Pierce | |
| 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 | ||
| 2b70071 | And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| fcca09b | And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 3783dc8 | For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more. | St. Augustine of Hippo | ||
| f92e066 | No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George. | Penny Reid | ||
| fb1d16f | I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans. | sad trapped | Karen Hesse |