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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ae804f | You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns. | religion | Graham Greene | |
| a9a30a9 | One forgets so quickly one's own youth... | Graham Greene | ||
| f937b6e | When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week. | Graham Greene | ||
| 6f2d594 | I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me. | Graham Greene | ||
| 6a89c28 | In a crisis perhaps it is old cliches one clings to, like a child to a parent. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1fef391 | But . . ." Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. "You said that there's weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation." "It does," said Beverley. "The explanation is a wizard did it." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 63c379b | But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 7a99aa7 | The secret to a good life," he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 0a041b9 | It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. | mercy | Peter Kreeft | |
| 47033ae | We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor." -- | lean-in | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 7f7212a | She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 83d8298 | Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are. | nature maternity-care technology | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 8fb7b2d | Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| b958cd8 | The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| bf76c20 | New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram--to see what will happen if she has an abortion--you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn't. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants. | freedom common-sense | Bill Maher | |
| b55f4dd | Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden | S.E. Hinton | ||
| b4ed666 | A choice of pains. That's what living was all about. | struggle women decisions gender sad | Audre Lorde | |
| 86436e8 | Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us? | quotations | Audre Lorde | |
| 48718ca | Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 90c3f95 | For I have known them all already, known them all - Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume? And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, T.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6e54ca2 | A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) | simplicity | T.S. Eliot | |
| 685263d | You both love Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne and Melville, Flaubert and Stendahl, but at that stage of your life you cannot stomach Henry James, while Gwyn argues that he is the giant of giants, the colossus who makes all other novelists look like pygmies. You are in complete harmony about the greatness of Kafka and Beckett, but when you tell her that Celine belongs in their company, she laughs at you and calls him a fascist maniac. Wal.. | Paul Auster | ||
| d3d3be8 | But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things. | politics culture | T.S. Eliot | |
| ae475d6 | For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it! - | willfullness | T.S. Eliot | |
| bdae96f | Yet when we came back, from the hyacinth garden, Yours arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing. Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Oed und leer das Meer ('waste and empty in the sea')" "I remember Those are pearls that were his eyes." "Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead, u.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| a72ffe1 | This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. | mortality poetry | T.S. Eliot | |
| c6e653c | They see my fingers, they run. Dominique. Alicia. Penny. They see my fingers, they want their hair pulled. Alex. Renee. Kristin. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 4488eb9 | nHn fqdy ldhkr@ , ldhyn Hkm `lyhm b'n y`yshw fy HDr 'bdy sry` lzwl , qd khlqn 'kthr lbtkrt lbshry@ t`qyd : ldhkr@ . ky nkhff `l~ 'nfsn m`rf@ Hqyq@ 'lym@ ; hy mrwr lzmn ldhy l ymkn tGyyrh , wstHl@ strj` lHZth wwqy'`h . jyfry swnbnd | Craig Clevenger | ||
| aa03e2e | If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil. | inventing-love loving-an-idea wanting | Craig Clevenger | |
| 5b00ec6 | lknhm l ytwq`wn nhm lfDwl . blnsb@ llfDwlyyn , y`tbr kl fshl Dw jdyd yslT `l~ lmshkl@ . | Craig Clevenger | ||
| f1bf501 | Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193" | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 2988b10 | I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed--not sex--but sex was how we got there. | lovers marriage | Amy Hempel | |
| e7e88fc | And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain. | Max Barry | ||
| 69a361a | Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium. | Will Eisner | ||
| 4d87abf | We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 47c3684 | Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 696d013 | The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 87f1fa0 | Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly. 'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out. | julie-ann | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 4ed83f2 | The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| e9c44a3 | I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant). | pact soul | C.S. Friedman | |
| 5470f67 | The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day. | Sara Zarr | ||
| ded9f5c | Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 7c2466c | I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 95339c0 | It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?' Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers. | Rudyard Kipling |