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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2116b7f | I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| daf9b04 | m ythyr nf`lk, m ykhyfk, lknh 'Hynan yhyjk, lys lTb` lmbGt ltHwlk, nm hw tHdydan lsh`wr lGmD wlshdyd lwT'@ 'nk l t`ysh tHwlan, 'n shyy'an lm ytGyr,'nk knt hkdh `l~ ldwm Ht~ n lm t`lm hdh Ht~ lywm: dhk fy lmra@ lmshqwq@ lys wjhk ljdyd, nm l'qn`@ hy lty thwt, Hjrtk j`lth tnShr, lkhmwl j`lh tsykh, 'qn`@ lTryq lqwym, l'fkr lyqyny@ ljmyl@. | Georges Perec | ||
| ca55673 | To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water's edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt. | Georges Perec | ||
| d0ea5f1 | Sometimes I think I like you," Gus said. "And then you talk or breathe or exist and I'm not so sure." | T.J. Klune | ||
| d0c8ae4 | There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 71f3381 | Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?" | relationships torment | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 88b1e3f | as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 0227522 | That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that." | Christopher Moore | ||
| 2d76b8a | It was watching Madeline Alby eat cheese with every ounce of her being, like it was the first and best time, that made him realize that he had never really tasted cheese, or crackers, or life. And he didn't want his daughter to live that way. He'd moved her into her own room the night before...He hadn't slept well, and had gotten up five times during the night to check on her, only to find her sleeping peacefully, but he could lose a little.. | Christopher Moore | ||
| fe186ea | I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.) | love amelia nefret | Elizabeth Peters | |
| aa8a44a | I hoped he was right, but one thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention. | bloody-bones laurell-k-hamilton | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 11e24bb | Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1fd57be | A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ceb7c10 | being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| bc9fa35 | I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| cf2e2ab | Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 42a67b0 | Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education. | Sam Harris | ||
| 5240a68 | It has been estimated that 50 percent of all human conceptions end in spontaneous abortion, usually without a woman even realizing that she was pregnant. In fact, 20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all. | Sam Harris | ||
| aea0896 | The men and women on death row have some combination of bad genes, bad parents, bad environments, and bad ideas (and the innocent, of course, have supremely bad luck). Which of these quantities, exactly, were they responsible for? No human being is responsible for his genes or his upbringing, yet we have every reason to believe that these factors determine his character. Our system of justice should reflect an understanding that any of us c.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 98c0dc4 | If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| fa482df | What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? | Jules Verne | ||
| a02ed03 | As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome." | Jules Verne | ||
| 2ec2579 | Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8066471 | I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3995595 | I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. | war culture guns | Don DeLillo | |
| d4c8037 | Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. | Don DeLillo | ||
| fb384f5 | TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walked around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to peopl.. | tourists | Don DeLillo | |
| ce8c48f | It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over. 6. | John Bunyan | ||
| 0fb4c33 | Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| e4a63dd | And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass an.. | happiness love pathetic dependence helplessness sense-of-humor | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 6a9dc97 | status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth. | wealth | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 540b35a | I find you in these tears, few, | Philip Levine | ||
| 9567671 | Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? | Richard Bach | ||
| a1aee32 | The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves. | Richard Bach | ||
| b154f6c | ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE But please walk softly as you do. Frogs dwell here and crickets too. Ain't no ceiling, only blue Jays dwell here and sunbeams too. Floors are flowers - take a few. Ferns grow here and daisies too. Whoosh, swoosh - too-whit, too-woo, Bats dwell here and hoot owls too. Ha-ha-ha,hee-hee,hoo-hoooo, Gnomes dwell here and goblins too. And my child, I thought you knew I dwell here...and so do you. | poem | Shel Silverstein | |
| df93b09 | Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other. | success | Michelle Sagara West | |
| 620901e | You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?" | humor | Kim Harrison | |
| 98cd299 | Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better. | Kim Harrison | ||
| bb7b32c | They tried to kill me," he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. "You saw them!" "Yeah?" I spouted off. "They weren't very good at it!" (Trent and Rachel)" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 86c7942 | You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living! | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 384137d | The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 7586989 | Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery. | teasing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| e85218c | Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens. | noninterventionism realism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0308b94 | The literal mind is baffled by the ironic one, demanding explanations that only intensify the joke. A vintage example, and one that really did occur, is that of P.G. Wodehouse, captured by accident during the German invasion of France in 1940. Josef Goebbels's propaganda bureaucrats asked him to broadcast on Berlin radio, which he incautiously agreed to do, and his first transmission began: Young men starting out in life often ask me--"How .. | Christopher Hitchens |