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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 677f7ab | From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts...and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own...Such is the cost of immortality. No person is w.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 0460a65 | What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future? | Alan Lightman | ||
| 6eb7e65 | A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the mo.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| c1d9dc3 | Stealing money from humans is rewarding both financially and spiritually. | lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| 34b74c8 | Yes, wolf, I see all. And by all, I mean some. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 35ce555 | Okay, now you really don't need to do that blushing virgin bit anymore--I got to ogle your body at my leisure for hours. Matter of fact, I had so long, I could have painted you, instead of just taking pictures with my sat-phone." He held up his phone with a wink. "I loathe you," she said, precariously bending to collect her toiletries and clothes. As she headed for the bathroom, she gave him the evilest eye she could muster...." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 92dfcd8 | I'll do this to you till there's something to take the place of your vows--until you see the two of us together as your religion." (Garreth)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 716fdcb | Let's do this! Rock out with your cocks out! | Kresley Cole | ||
| 5c082c1 | If something happens to me, what would it take to get you to watch over her?" Chase wiped sweat from his brow. "To make sure she gets off the island alive?" "More than you can give. Such as a firstborn to go with my others. Matching set and all." | Kresley Cole | ||
| c266166 | The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle. | kresley-cole valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 50f0c2c | He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, " Let's talk about who should be forgiving who." "Whom," he corrected. "Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?" | iad lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| b01771c | I doubt she'll welcome you if I tell her you undressed me." "Maybe she'll only welcome me." Smart-ass." | evie funny humor jack kresely-cole poison-princess smart-ass undressed | Kresley Cole | |
| 9c78b6b | the rain is coming. little sister, the night broke. the thunder cracked my brain finally. the rain is coming, i promise you. i didn't mean to but your tears will bring life back. purple flowers grow, the colour blood looks in the veins. they'll sprout out of my chest. i promise you they'll crack the ground, grow over the freeways, down the slopes to the sea. i'll be in their faces. i'll be in the waves, coming down from the sky. i'll be ins.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 7f074f9 | What shall we do? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, and watermelon hearts? | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| f2eed4d | And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you'd read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 46fd648 | The simplistic way of not conforming is to see what is in style in our culture and then do the opposite. If short hair is in vogue, the nonconformist wears long hair. If going to the movies is popular, then Christians avoid movies as "worldly." The extreme case of this may be seen in groups that refuse to wear buttons or use electricity because such things, too, are worldly. A superficial style of nonconformity is the classical pharisaical.. | nonconformity | R.C. Sproul | |
| 0d769dc | You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life. | Betty Smith | ||
| b40cace | A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive. | feathers poetry | Gertrude Stein | |
| 3f66677 | A rose is a rose is a rose. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 042e0bd | There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful--lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance? | effort love work | Jeanette Winterson | |
| ef6aee9 | By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. | life | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 7210f6a | I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a715ca6 | Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you. | living | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 2fb0b7c | I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6b44698 | The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. | Joanne Harris | ||
| e3bd30d | If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross. | Günter Grass | ||
| 2836d2a | But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| d7673e6 | Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara. | Terry Brooks | ||
| 8d8a186 | Sexism is all the big and little ways that society draws a box around women and says, 'You stay in there. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| d9a6c73 | In my experience, the balancing act women in politics have to master is challenging at every level, but it gets worse the higher you rise. If we're too tough, we're unlikable. If we're too soft, we're not cut out for the big leagues. If we work too hard, we're neglecting our families. If we put family first, we're not serious about the work. If we have a career but no children, there's something wrong with us, and vice versa. If we want to .. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| e9eb7d4 | Imagination, like reality, has its limits. | reality | Tim O'Brien | |
| 4c52ad4 | Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 44d8ba4 | A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not. | believe curses lizards | Louis Sachar | |
| 491464e | Do you like her' ''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 6e961aa | Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. | good-and-evil greater-good | Sheri Holman | |
| 3a499c5 | Of course. You get everything from books. | knowledge reading wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
| 7694820 | We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 24f3053 | Find a pile of gold and sit on it. | grendel | John Gardner | |
| 3656641 | I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. "Accident," I whisper. I will fall. I seem to desire the fall, and though I fight it with all my will I know in advance I can't win. Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving towards it. I look down, down, into bottomless blackness, feeling the dark power moving .. | John Champlin Gardner Jr. | ||
| 7c1b2f8 | So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. | introspection | John Gardner | |
| 5afcd95 | I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already. | being-a-reader biblioholism bookishness books learning reader reading | Anthony Powell | |
| 9e797bf | What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds? | solitude | Kathy Acker | |
| 6758fc3 | LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways. LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world. What has usually been called the world is the male world. | lesbians world worldview | Kathy Acker | |
| 0b9b246 | For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the court of judgment of calculation, the instrument of domination, and the means for the greatest exploitation of nature. | Kathy Acker |