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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71a1c28 | It's a good world if you don't weaken. | Graham Greene | ||
| 37b9955 | It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization - it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt. | Graham Greene | ||
| 983e2e7 | A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible. | Graham Greene | ||
| e005813 | Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked. | love | Graham Greene | |
| 19993cd | One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret. | Graham Greene | ||
| 6e71f63 | When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity... | Graham Greene | ||
| d737ad4 | A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him. | trustworthy | Graham Greene | |
| 43ed380 | When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end. | Graham Greene | ||
| 9c667c8 | You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible. | hate blessing the-blessing | Graham Greene | |
| 9a4ddd7 | Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. | Graham Greene | ||
| 50db024 | Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. | Graham Greene | ||
| 4994d1a | She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy. | youth wisdom | Graham Greene | |
| 210a9a1 | He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps. | intent divination purpose | Graham Greene | |
| 1fc657e | It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there. | Graham Greene | ||
| fd5f20d | It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. | Graham Greene | ||
| 338f8fe | The media response to unusual weather is as ritualized and predictable as the stages of grief. First comes denial: "I can't believe there's so much snow." Then anger: "Why can't I drive my car, why are the trains not running?" Then blame: "Why haven't the local authorities sanded the roads, where are the snowplows, and how come the Canadians can deal with this and we can't?" This last stage goes on the longest and tends to trail off into a .. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 387c535 | Interesting choice," Sullivan said. He slid his gaze over to Paul, who was drumming his fingers on the table in a manic, caffeine-inspired way and blinking a lot. Paul wasn't out-and-out singing along with the king of the dead, but he might as well have put out a big neon sign saying "How's My Driving? Ask Me About My Nerves: 1-800-WIG-N-OUT." --James" | Maggie Stiefvater | ||
| 427f19c | IT HAS TO DO WITH ALL OF US," said Owen Meany, when I called him that night. "SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY--NOT QUITE YOUNG ANYMORE, NOT BUT OLD EITHER; A LITTLE BREATHLESS, VERY BEAUTIFUL, MAYBE A LITTLE STUPID, MAYBE A LOT SMARTER THAN SHE SEEMED. AND SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING--I THINK SHE WANTED TO BE GOOD. LOOK AT THE MEN IN HER LIFE--JOE DIMAGGIO, ARTHUR MILLER, MAYBE THE KENNEDYS. LOOK AT HOW GOOD THEY SEEM! LOOK AT HOW DES.. | John Irving | ||
| ed8f5a3 | Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, "If this is your doing--!" "I promise you it is not. If I thought that he had the smallest notion of your hostility, I should say that he had rolled you up, Charles, foot and guns!" He was obliged to laugh. "I doubt if he would have the smallest notion of anything less violent than a blow from a cudgel. How you can tolerate the fellow!" "I told you that I was not at all nice in my ideas. Come, don't let us talk .. | cousin ulterior-motive | Georgette Heyer | |
| 2a33ced | People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. | women humor | Georgette Heyer | |
| 9900e67 | God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore. | meaning reality | Tess Gerritsen | |
| ef8031f | No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - | death identity identity-crisis doom despair | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 16c1cf0 | I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 7d3cc61 | We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones | Lisa Unger | ||
| 173987c | We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| e847a7a | There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 8807e65 | I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; The worlds revolve like ancient women Gathering fuel in vacant lots. | preludes t-s-eliot | T.S. Eliot | |
| 7fb130c | You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 9380d04 | All time is unreedemable. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 03ce5a5 | If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me. | michel-de-montaigne | Michel de Montaigne | |
| aeee71d | The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. | time | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 9b8468e | what they show tells you what they want to hide. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 9d69107 | I love you, I said, but not out loud. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| dbafcb0 | Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart. | humor | Craig Clevenger | |
| 9b00d89 | I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over...And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that | drug-user hallucinations-sleep love-oe-my-life soulmates lost-love | Craig Clevenger | |
| 2159d41 | Candle is an X-ray, it's a matter of wavelength. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 569a75e | l 'Hd yktfy bshy' . 'Gn~ rjl fy l`lm yHwl 'n ykwn 'Gn~ . kl wHd y`ml fy 'Hd lmktb bht@ llwn y`rf hdh . kl mn ydf` rhn `l~ byt bht y`rf hdh . ynfqwn ml ymlkwn `l~ 'Tflhm lbhtyn ldhyn lhm mstqbl bht . kl k's 'w qdhf@ nrd 'w nZr@ thny@ lmr'@ , thms llrjl fy 'dhnh b'n yTlb 'kthr , `ndm l ySGy llhh 'w `ndm ynZr l~ Hyth l ynbGy lh . | Craig Clevenger | ||
| a543ead | The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| e061075 | i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 2a3e3f1 | I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress. | dermaphoria | Craig Clevenger | |
| 9b87109 | We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 7b8f546 | That's not a father. That's a sperm donor. Forget him. He's a mess. Concentrate on me. I'm terrific. -(Linc Blaise) | mine | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 5e2f971 | The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| f260760 | The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all. | Sara Zarr |