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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6b6ce4 | I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. | crisis garbage life truth understanding yourself | Jodi Picoult | |
| 473a9dc | I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| aab9f40 | I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period. | humor life | Jodi Picoult | |
| 110994c | Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 394962a | Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's. | problems | Jodi Picoult | |
| eb44531 | My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 86b9318 | Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a7cbdc5 | The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive. | rape sexual-assault survivor tenth-circle victim | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4211849 | There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9d59738 | Jacob like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7aca668 | What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| afee75f | Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ea75bc2 | It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach," he said simply." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d35b163 | We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you."One large hand rose to stroke my hair."D'ye mind the blood vow that I swore ye when we wed?" "Yes, I think so. 'Blood of my blood, bone of my bone...'" "I give ye my body, that we may be one," he finished. "Aye, and I have kept that vow, Sassenach, and so have you." He turned me slightly,and one hand cupped itself gently over the tiny swell of my stomach. "Blood.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| afc76fe | He shook his head and squeezed my hand tight. "You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered, "You are my heart-- I am your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?" --Jamie" -- | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b87bfc6 | If one day, a bhailach...ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8038e0b | One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. | William Faulkner | ||
| 989acd0 | Did you ever have a sister? did you? | William Faulkner | ||
| ec36488 | He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had .. | William Faulkner | ||
| 38f2d6b | Between grief and nothing I will take grief. | William Faulkner | ||
| e5dd6df | That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events. | William Faulkner | ||
| d851132 | I wish some man or other would take me sometime when hes there and kiss me in his arms theres nothing like a kiss long and hot down to your soul almost paralyses you...I love flowers Id love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and waves rushing then the beautiful country with the fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things and all the fine cattle going about.. | James Joyce | ||
| 261312e | The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys. | James Joyce | ||
| 488ab8f | The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM! | James Joyce | ||
| dee4325 | I'll tickle his catastrophe. | James Joyce | ||
| 34b6b94 | wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. | good paradise philosophy | Wallace Stegner | |
| 6dff13e | In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| fb725a0 | Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn't everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it. | dreams journeyss lights | Roald Dahl | |
| 77cdc33 | Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around. | words | Roald Dahl | |
| 23038e8 | All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 3f9f30b | There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver" | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 3bba073 | It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 602a895 | Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ca y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in the air and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday. Fermina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she .. | love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| c10cb5c | The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7bcc516 | lHkm@ t'tyn fy lwqt ldhy l t`wd bh dht nf` | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7ad5986 | Old people, with other old people, are not so old. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d234a8a | A mask has but one expression, frozen and eternal, yet it is always and ever the essential expression, and to hide one's telltale flesh behind the external skeleton of the mask is to display the universal identity of the inner being in place of the outer identity that is transitory and corrupt. The freedom of the masked is not the vulgar political freedom of the successful revolutionary, but the magical freedom of the Divine, beyond politic.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a158273 | Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called economic depression, for example, societies suffered for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably disclosed that there were plenty of goods available. Plenty of co.. | economic-depression money recessions wealth | Tom Robbins | |
| 87d241d | To concentrate on heaven is to create hell. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 664c35e | Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledg.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a0b0c00 | He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. | Tom Robbins | ||
| c429f8c | We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time. | Brené Brown | ||
| 06e857f | When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life. | Brené Brown | ||
| bc35f14 | Just because we didn't measure up to some standard of achievement doesn't mean that we don't possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see the value in what we can create or achieve doesn't change its worth or ours. | Brené Brown |