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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4a44478 | If some area of your life sucks - do something else. Life is too short - and too long - to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is for a fact wide. It is high time we started settling for more. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| de25b8a | Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| d8ebc12 | My good sense bitch slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6a19713 | be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| cf0f5b1 | I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 70ba577 | this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 1e5a488 | Moments left, Teddy thought. A handful of heartbeats. That was what life was. A heartbeat followed by a heartbeat. A breath followed by a breath. One moment followed by another moment and then there was a last moment. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 822033f | Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 35277b7 | Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 7993c7c | Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| bbe9e84 | I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer. I would put my sisters. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ea78e8a | She wasn't surprised when his character revealed itself--if you waited long enough, it always did. Like the dawn. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 56505e3 | all cynicism masks a failure to cope. | John Fowles | ||
| ba8e6d0 | cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet. | John Fowles | ||
| 16fd31e | Was it me you were discussing?" he countered with lifted brows. "I couldn't tell from the description you were giving. Since when am I kind, considerate, refined, and amiable?" "You're angry," Victoria concluded on a sigh. A low chuckle rumbled in his chest and his arms tightened, drawing her close to his leann, muscular body. "I'm not angry," he said in a husky, gentle voice. "I'm embarrassed" | Judith McNaught | ||
| 1664fcb | Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word "loser" and add it to your resume and walk aro.. | loss lesson-from-lossing loser-quotes losing-quotes loss-quotes life-lesson losing | Pat Conroy | |
| a7c5c98 | Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay. | Pat Conroy | ||
| ef08519 | It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one. | yankee | Pat Conroy | |
| bcd8a21 | I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh! | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 19d01c8 | What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| b4f9564 | No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 0ee4c27 | If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. | safety | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d8eb0c0 | The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9c66e0f | We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not. | Norton Juster | ||
| 0f663a3 | What a shame," signed the Dodecahedron. "They're so very useful. Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, .. | Norton Juster | ||
| 7150a5a | All the money, all the power--none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 7d43659 | Listen, haircut...' Did you just call me ?' he asked. Yes. You know there's no reason we can't go online. It's crazy.' Why'd you call me haircut?' he asked, touching his hair. 'Is it because I have a great haircut?' You figure it out,' she answered. -Clio and Aiden, Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson | Maureen Johnson | ||
| c347081 | I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 6787392 | How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We.. | Barack Obama | ||
| 2622650 | We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible. | education | James Baldwin | |
| e399787 | In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5d5961d | There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that must accept . The terrible thing, old buddy, is that must accept And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they ca.. | racism white-people african-americans superiority race-relations inferiority | James Baldwin | |
| acb88f6 | We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something." | Kate Jacobs | ||
| cc14b7b | Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? | love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0027c8c | Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5e2a1ec | I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writ.. | writing characters villians | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9f7ce8b | Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3f1ab26 | But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress -- because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while... | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 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 | |
| f7e7309 | To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes (this last is necessary). Endure evil from them, not getting angry with them if possible, 'remembering that you, too, are a human being'. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3f1f556 | Beauty is a riddle | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 69bb471 | One cannot love what one does not know. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |