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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20bef28 | I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| fb8957a | He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 085b986 | Her eyes weren't blinking. There was still something almost dead in them, something very far away. She seemed to be seeing all the way through to the back of him and beyond, out into the cold space of the future in which they would both soon be dead, out into the nothingness that Lalitha and his mother and his father had already passed into, and yet she was looking straight into his eyes, and he could feel her getting warmer by the minute. .. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| dbae572 | Use well thy freedom. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 9d8c2c5 | The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion. | thomas-moore law-of-attraction | Thomas Moore | |
| 0fd7457 | How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 7c4eef2 | What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to fac.. | travel reality | Hermann Hesse | |
| 86c916a | Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 60c8b3f | knt 'shtq shwqan Hqyqyan l'n '`ysh bshkl Hqyqy w lw lmrh wHdh, 'n '`Ty shyy'an mn nfsy ll`lm, 'n 'dkhl fy `lqh w m`rkh m`h | Hermann Hesse | ||
| cdc0a70 | When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. | youth hermann-hesse maturity roots soul | Hermann Hesse | |
| 88038e1 | My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6d498cf | Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles bring them into conflict with the normal life of average people and the traditional values and bourgeois conventions that they uphold. A personality is the product of a clash between two opposing forces: the urge to create a life of one's own an.. | personality | Hermann Hesse | |
| d73f14f | In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a1dddfd | In many college English courses the words "myth" and "symbol" are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain't no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbil.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0703aa7 | A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d1a0f24 | The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. | revolution | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7353ade | You gave Briar over to them?" We fell into step back toward our own camp. "Az explained the state you found her in. I didn't think being exposed to battle-ready Illyrians would do much to soothe her." "And the Winter Court army is much better?" "They've got fuzzy animals." I snorted, shaking my head. Those enormous bears were indeed fuzzy--if you ignored the claws and teeth." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f916139 | You bought chocolate--as far as I'm concerned, you're my new favorite person. | lysandra chocolate haha | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 29edc75 | Dance, Feyre," he whispered." | acotar tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d4e8b5f | That sounds a lot like, ' I have more secrets that I'm going to spring on you whenever I feel like stopping your heart dead in your chest. | the-ashryver-cousins aelin-ashryver-galathynius secrets | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ae6aafb | If Rhysand was Night Triumphant, I was the star that only glowed thanks to his darkness, the light only visible because of him. I | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 92ecd22 | His words were coated with glorious boredom | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 308a149 | It didn't excuse what he'd done. Even if he'd...saved me-I choked on the word-from having to refuse Tamlin. Having to explain. | sarah-j-maas rhysand feyre tamlin new-adult-romance new-adult | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0a19b67 | Rhys looked up, his face gleaming with tears. He went still as I leaned in, kissing away one tear. Then the other. As he had once kissed away mine. When my lips were wet and salty with them, I pulled back far enough to see his eyes. "You're mine," I breathed." | rhysand tears | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ebbe4f4 | Last night... I'm sorry if I was too forward with you." He paused. "Celaena, you're grimacing." Had she been making a face? "Er- sorry." "It did upset you, then!" "What did?" "The kiss!" ... "Oh, it was nothing," she said, thumping her chest as she cleared her throat. "I didn't mind it. But I didn't hate it, if that's what your thinking!" She immediately regretted saying it. | kissing | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6713df1 | Nesryn Sobbed, tugging and tugging. Sartaq smiled at her gently. Sweetly. In a way she had not yet seen. "I Loved you before I ever set eyes on you," he said. "Please," Nesryn wept. Sartaq's hand tightened on hers. "I wish we'd had time." A Hiss behind him, a rising bulk of shining black Then the prince was gone. Ripped from her hands. As if he had never been." | sadness love sartaq-urus sjm nesryn-faliq tower-of-dawn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 63f8493 | I took his name, Erawan spat, writhing as the words flowed from his tongue under Damaris's power. I wiped it away from existence. Yet he only remembered it once. Only once. The first time He behelded you. Tears slid down Dorian's face at the unbearable truth. | kingdom-of-ash | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ab12f0c | There are other ways around it, she had added with such quiet venom. We might not be able to deal with him, but there are some friends that I made across the sea ... | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1546613 | For him, that's what battle is. A Symphony. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 867261e | Do you even know how to laugh? | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0cb9c11 | War--war was coming. And they might not all survive it. | war survivors | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 75b5cf8 | When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me... | leadership death | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0e729a5 | Celaena stared at the dark, tilled earth, a chill wind rustling her veil. Her chest ached, but this was the one last thing she had to do, the one last honor she could give her friend. Celaena tilted her head to the sky, closed her eyes, and began to sing. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e404920 | The next time, Emissary, I'll come say hello. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 983ada1 | We have Not one In common No two Are shaped alike The third Because of that eye we lack In the fourth Direction there is hope The fifth Is at the heart -Orihime Inoue | halcyon-days goodbye | Tite Kubo | |
| b864adc | If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is. | funny spouses | Julie Powell | |
| 4dff592 | To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| aaa6319 | Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline" | kindness love friendzone love-at-first-sight | Raymond E. Feist | |
| ebd314d | She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away. | nealan protector-of-the-small | Tamora Pierce | |
| 9b38530 | Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 0a5a47c | I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed." | kyprioth funny-humor | Tamora Pierce | |
| 8c5e889 | Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 68b66e4 | Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 04776bd | This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting--to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture. | animal-welfare animal-rights veganism vegetarianism meat hunting animals food | Michael Pollan |