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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a766c72 | You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table..." a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question,"... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob" | Lora Leigh | ||
| f544421 | Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went | Lora Leigh | ||
| 448d682 | Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see. | women | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 58842b2 | In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 0189eb1 | anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something! | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| ad900af | People can be slave ships in shoes. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| ac123b9 | Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?' afterward than before. Anyway, the force of somewhere in space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| d3d9ea6 | It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. | solitude quote inner-peace | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 9d481d8 | Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty. | memories eight childhood-memories nostalgia | Jenny Han | |
| 2964e92 | He grinned. "And you've got yourself a nickname. I'm thinking 'Shorty'" "I'm five eight without heels." "It's not a description. It's a nickname. Get used to it, Shorty." We stood there for a moment, waiting for the tension to evaporate. When it did, we smiled at each other. "Don't call me Shorty," I told him. "Okay, Shorty." "Seriously, that's very immature." "Whatever you say, Shorty. Let's call it a night." "Fine by me." I'd worry about .. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 2522c54 | I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win." Merit/Jonah" | sarcasm | Chloe Neill | |
| b138588 | Ladies and...ladies" Luc said "since the sexual harassment has already started I assume you've recognized that we have a special guest." -- | Chloe Neill | ||
| 9ee63b3 | Oh nookie in the stacks.Figures you're the type to have that fantasy, grad school and all. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 2ae4d6a | Sentinel, you are always the most beautiful woman in the room, irrespective of what you're wearing. And most especially and preferably when you're wearing nothing at all. | too-hot-to-live-alpha-hero | Chloe Neill | |
| 8c2ee5a | As I'm not currently being chased, I see no need to run. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 3e29908 | Meditation here is not reflection or any other kind of discursive thinking. It is pure concentration: training the mind to dwell on an interior focus without wandering, until it becomes absorbed in the object of its contemplation. But absorption does not mean unconsciousness. The outside world may be forgotten, but meditation is a state of intense inner wakefulness. | Anonymous | ||
| 31b5e53 | Now faith is being sure of what we believe in and certain of what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1) | Anonymous | ||
| 83862e2 | And if all the trees on earth were pens and the ocean [were ink], with seven oceans behind it to add to its [supply], yet would not the words of Allah be exhausted [in the writing]: for Allah is Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom. | Anonymous | ||
| a143f4a | Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts.. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| a421e81 | The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves. | John Fowles | ||
| 29bcb82 | During a party, Luis Bunuel, seduced by Carrington's beauty and emboldened by the notion that she had transcended all bourgeois morality, proposed (with his characteristic bluntness) that she become his mistress. Without even waiting for her answer, he gave her the key to the secret studio that he used as a love nest and told her to meet him at three o'clock the next afternoon. Early the next morning, Leonora went to visit the place alone. .. | Alejandro Jodorowsky | ||
| b0eefe9 | Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. | Anonymous | ||
| 974078f | Bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you | Anonymous | ||
| 5f28b07 | The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village .. | history technology | Freeman Dyson | |
| 423e5ec | No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. | money god love | Anonymous | |
| e75b058 | I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 91f2367 | Sometimes lying was the better part of valor and the only way to save a man's butt. | Christine Feehan | ||
| ede4255 | A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired. | merlyn the-once-and-future-king | T.H. White | |
| 83a624f | They are all my favourites. All of them. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b0527e4 | If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. | people love | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 587927c | It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 6c2642a | The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities when they present themselves. So I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill. The strategy is, then, to tinker as much .. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 788d53a | Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ef0b203 | Kate," Lucern interrupted. "What?" she asked warily. "I do not need blood." He tugged her off balance and into his lap. "All I need is you." | lucern | Lynsay Sands | |
| 83d5f54 | Te cansaras primero que yo. Llegare a donde quieres llegar antes que tu estes alli -dijo el que iba detras de el-. Me se de memoria tus intenciones, quien eres y de donde eres y adonde vas. Llegare antes que tu llegues. | subconscious myself | Juan Rulfo | |
| 1bc6ee8 | Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it's also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between "the devil's peace" and God's true peace. A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interr.. | Shane Claiborne | ||
| e0d1cb1 | Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. | prejudice racism hope ignorance | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| c457a98 | People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 379a81a | I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| 2baa083 | The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living. | Joseph Epstein | ||
| c5148aa | Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all. | Joseph Epstein | ||
| dfe3402 | No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 4828855 | i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees. | true-blood sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| edea741 | But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. | Barbara Kingsolver |