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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 458e2c0 | I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3ed558f | You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true. | Naomi Novik | ||
| ae773cc | Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface... | charles stross | ||
| a72a512 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager. | paraphrased tribute | Charles Stross | |
| 55f2dec | Some time later there was a knock at his door. He was surprised to find it was now evening and the room was quite dark. The knock sounded again. The landlord was at the door. The landlord began to talk, but Strange could not understand him. This was because the man had a pineapple in his mouth. How he had managed to cram the whole thing in there, Strange could not imagine. Green, spiky leaves emerged slowly out of his mouth and then were su.. | humor pineapple | Susanna Clarke | |
| 00bcd5f | The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams. | screams simile | Susanna Clarke | |
| 7eaba24 | He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| e9d49fd | And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not as long as there are plums to eat and somebody--anybody--who gives enough of a damn to haul them to you. So long as you bear the least nibblet of love for any other creature in this dark world, though in love portions are never stingy. There are no smidgens on pinches, only rolling abundance. That's how you acquire the resolution for surv.. | Mary Karr | ||
| 9db86ad | The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. | Mary Karr | ||
| d998b68 | Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off. | poetry | Mary Karr | |
| adad215 | No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| d7e8036 | It seemed like a mistake. And mistakes ought to be rectified, only this one couldn't be. Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. I had to find an explanation other than the real one, which was that we were no more immune to misfortune than anybody else, and the idea that kept recurring to me...was that I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and co.. | William Maxwell | ||
| 3e4653f | And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 5d712c6 | Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d87c5bb | They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6b65de8 | Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e8fe8f5 | Wait!" Conrad said. "Did someone... one of my enemies set this fire?" Nix turned back with a grin. "Unless you'd pissed off some wirring-hungry nutrias, then I'm going with no." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 551f5eb | Your time's running out, Valkyrie." Fegley gave another wallop before he squeaked off. Regin narrowed her eyes, watching him till he was out of sight. "One day I'm going to make that little piggy cry all the way home." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 6fa28d0 | What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim? | paranormal-romance-series | Kresley Cole | |
| 4456bd3 | Laissez les bon temps roulez. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 7bdca4b | You are unnerving the hell out of me, Valkyrie." "oh" she frowned, petting her bat fitfully " I must have misread the future for the past." she shrugged. "It happens." | nix-the-ever-knowing | Kresley Cole | |
| 7184637 | She looked as if she were a vampire about to check the time--with a sundial. | Kresley Cole | ||
| f961d14 | The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 54509b0 | But who was more tragic, or who was more damned--the man who knew it, or the man who did not? | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8db6499 | Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful...Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to be a mistake. Meantime, let us be quite clear, it is not merely the comfort of the simple--though it is that too, much to its glory--it is a formidable intellectual position with which most of the first-class minds of the human race, century in.. | faith | Herman Wouk | |
| 39c80fd | Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is. | heaven mortals | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 66608db | The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it. | fear love warrior | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 3eb0327 | If you are religious at all it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, you are the victim of childhood indoctrination. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 62b232d | Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?" | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| c4eb9e7 | We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity's rebellion from God. | gospel justice sin | R.C. Sproul | |
| a1f14fc | Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented? | Betty Smith | ||
| 0d20268 | A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 56d4dec | Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 512e2aa | I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water a.. | mind | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 8d7869a | The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3cbe214 | August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d40d7af | I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d76ad38 | Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6870636 | An apple a day keeps the doctor away. No one's immune to bribery. | funny loki | Joanne Harris | |
| 53d49a5 | Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 9c4c999 | In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 830f870 | You never know which people will affect your life. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 4ae2523 | Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. | lies life truth | Terry Brooks | |
| c5d94e1 | Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers. | autism-spectrum black-and-white conformity right-and-wrong | Richard Wright |