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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a1ee393 | Well, you know what grown-ups are,' said Dinah. 'They don't think the same way as we do. I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them - but let's hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we're men and women. | Enid Blyton | ||
| 2cabe42 | The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 8ac8a40 | the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression. | oppression | bell hooks | |
| 62bae86 | But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and I wouldn't have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took a part." The Giver sighed. "You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me - and you - to lift that burden from themselve.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 5c3191c | I can sue you for harassment". "Lets play that fucking game." Lo replies "lets see whose lawyers are better. I'm a goddamn Hale. My family eats shitty fucks like you for brunch. Don't you ever force yourself on a girl ever again" | awesomeness loren-hale | Krista Ritchie | |
| a32ae81 | This was unintentional." It became something more without noticing. Without realizing. "Am I a mistake--" "No, myshka. You're just the unexpected, beautiful thing in my life." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 5248dfb | Why are you so patient with me?" I whisper. "Because every part of me wants to take care of you." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| be9246d | He never gives up on me, even when I disappear at night. Even when I wane like the setting sun. His love is unyielding and exists to cloak me through heartache, through misery, through laughter and pain. I love him in every moment. In every smile. In every frown. And I will love him after every long way down. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 900a581 | You're my favorite fucking wild thing. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 13ca90d | Daisy: "My scar is bigger than your scar." Ryke: "And my cock is bigger than your cock." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 0b517d6 | Back then," he says, "I was so addicted to you." He truly smiles, a very, very rare one. "I still am." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| ad26858 | Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 0a34749 | The road to hell is paved with good intentions, | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| dcf34fc | The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. | parenting | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 6e1bd90 | I'm different,and I like being different."Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. "Maybe I don't like being different,"Meg said."but I don't want to be like everybody else,either." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 27c434d | There's nothing left except to try. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1b89fb2 | She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8b0e4c3 | That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped tears for Jack and Rose and the passengers of the doomed ship. If there was electrical power, Mariam, Laila, and the children watched it too. A dozen times or more, they unearthed the TV from behind the tool-shed,.. | misery war | Khaled Hosseini | |
| fdcd868 | If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 81aa960 | But even when he wasn't around, he was. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4b9c8bc | it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| cf6086c | She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ee81177 | Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4411c71 | She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me. | parent | Khaled Hosseini | |
| ad66340 | you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you. | inspirational respect | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 24ecf94 | She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| cc8a89b | Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 40d42f4 | George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown again.. | heart-warming romance | E.M. Forster | |
| 3fc877a | Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 3f75165 | If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 4acfd01 | Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. "Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't." | Gordon Korman | ||
| b9f2be7 | Amy was profoundly shocked. "A little over an hour ago, our bus was attacked by three men in ski masks. They definitely knew me, and probably Dan, too. We fought them off, but it could've gone either way." "Like if they'd used a cookie truck instead of a gas tanker," Dan added. "Nobody's scared of Oreos." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 04320f5 | Come on, who saw what happened?" "I did," I volenteered. "Well?" "Buttwipe wanted to know what jerkface was looking at." I turned turned eyes on the bloody and dirt-smeared brawlers. "You were barely 3-inches apart. Couldn't you see that you were both looking at each other?" The teacher's face reddened. "Who do you think you are? Jerry Seinfeld?" "You must be confused with another student," I told him. "My name is Capricorn Anderson." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 32fd806 | Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him-on all of us!" | Gordon Korman | ||
| b90c342 | The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it. "Wow! How big is the lock?" Jonah laughed. "There is no lock, cuz. It's an honorary gig. Back in my crib in LA, I've got a whole shed full of keys from different cities. Want to know the kicker? I can't get at them. The gardener lost the key to the shed." | Gordon Korman | ||
| bf06fd7 | It was no place for a Kabra, not even a poor one living in exile with a psychopathic cat. He approached the counter and rand the bell with authority. The clerk turned around. Evan Tolliver. "You're Amy's cousin!" "Yes, I am," Ian confirmed. "I have here a list of items-" "Have you heard from her?" Evan interrupted. "Is she okay?" "Her health is excellent." "No, I mean-" Ian sighed. "Why should you care? She promises to phone you, and she do.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| a212923 | Que nos paso? Tal vez estamos en el mundo para buscar el amor, encontrarlo y perderlo, una y otra vez. Con cada amor volvemos a nacer, y con cada amor que termina se nos abre una herida... Estoy llena de cicatrices. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 81c9d5a | She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 044ab3f | There is room in the human heart for all the divinities. | Isabel Allende | ||
| cd9ccbc | Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 82a1df5 | It's easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 867aabf | Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 686e219 | Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. | courage men sexism women | Isabel Allende | |
| 939831a | For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right. | Yann Martel |