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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bbe04f0 | Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d1e51f1 | Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| ff0e5d1 | Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder. | scripture | Leif Enger | |
| 791bc5b | You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals. | love | Michael Connelly | |
| a8fcf18 | If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days. | Anne Stuart | ||
| 74ac9fd | You are the ever-expanding universe to me | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| aa704e1 | So many miracles have not yet happened. | miracles | Kate DiCamillo | |
| a2c7a22 | Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day. | dream morning | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 97b7c01 | I can't control what you see or how you interpret what you see any more than I can control what you think of me. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 9fe9c90 | We never saw what was obvious until we were hit over the head with it. | Amy Harmon | ||
| bce2f51 | For the word is quick and powerful Sharper than any two-edged sword Piercing even to the dividing asunder Of soul and spirit Of joints and marrow It is a discerner of the thoughts And intents of the heart | Amy Harmon | ||
| e2f1d12 | Suddenly yearning had a flavor. It tasted like a king, a beautiful, frightening, infuriating man who flew into my life and began to free my words. | Amy Harmon | ||
| d9a11a0 | I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life. - Such as? - Procrastination and rationalization. | Bill Watterson | ||
| ab46588 | Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount. | drinking guilt | Tom Hodgkinson | |
| d938f55 | One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all along: However much you love them, your own children are only ever on loan. | David Mitchell | ||
| 95d9cbe | If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. | perspectives winning interesting thoughtful losing | David Mitchell | |
| 69645c1 | Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well. | David Mitchell | ||
| 12542b3 | You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information from one mind into the other. | David Mitchell | ||
| fa5b4cb | Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. | war | David Mitchell | |
| 2c2aafe | Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter." | peanut poisoned scott-westerfeld peeps cal steel | Scott Westerfeld | |
| fc09bd2 | Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| fa2e0db | Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 518de9b | so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM | page-62 | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 750fed3 | In the blue time, math kicked ass. -Dess | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| addddc7 | Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead. | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | ||
| d1e7fde | Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? | writing knowledge | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 352b707 | Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 103629c | True allegiance is only given willingly. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 3276314 | If you want truth, you should begin by giving it. | trust truth sharing | Lloyd Alexander | |
| deefc68 | You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. | sadness apathy | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| cd677b1 | He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase. | Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball | ||
| 36d503c | My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8c0bd79 | I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room. | Jay McInerney | ||
| ba498de | Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for. | Colum McCann | ||
| e38da0c | I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again. | Colum McCann | ||
| 9c4bd3c | That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own. | Colum McCann | ||
| a9a0858 | I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it." | truth | Colum McCann | |
| bd67a6d | Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| c8b7a5e | Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...? | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| d2041cc | The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings. | equality | Peter Singer | |
| e87377d | If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by--though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed. | sex | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 907b275 | Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 33361dd | Eyes of blue and hair of fire Are the keys to your desire. Angel's voice and will of steel Shall force the dark witch to kneel. Death to bind and bind to break Sun and moon for all our sake. Prince of night, daughter of day, Bound as one the witch they'll slay. Same hour they their first breath drew, On her last, the witch will rue. Join the two named in this verse And see the end of the curse. | Danielle L. Jensen | ||
| e9f70ba | I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man. | Henry Miller |