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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a521102 | he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered .. | the-things-they-carried tim-o-brien virgin | Tim O'Brien | |
| 43ffb7b | I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our wives, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us." | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 158ef43 | The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 730d1bb | Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second. | Louis Sachar | ||
| d177996 | The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable. | Louis Sachar | ||
| bb7394c | Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| bfc2907 | The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 28455aa | Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| ef19d79 | Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only..." | rain wicked wish | Gregory Maguire | |
| 48c1aa7 | But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want. | reality | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 2c42f9e | On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence. | antiracism assumptions charter-for-compassion compassion compassion-action-network compassion-heals-lives cultural-differences cultural-diversity desperation fear global-community humanity militarization military-conflict nonviolence nonviolent-conflict-resolution opportunity-quotes overcoming-fear panic peacism polarization police-reform police-shootings political-philosophy prejudice slpendid-literarium stop-killing-each-other terrorism terrorists trust uncertainty waging-peace war xenophobia | Aberjhani | |
| 56c9ae7 | The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained, | Ron Chernow | ||
| b573610 | After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other | expected hatuey heaven hell indian | Kathy Acker | |
| 55d1bfe | That night I followed him whenever he let me. I had to. Followed him into strange, complicated actions, very far, bad and good actions. But I was never allowed into his world. What was I to him? A fantasy. I gave him another identity. Whenever I lay next to him in a bed and it was night, I was too excited to fall asleep, too unwilling to lose a chance that I might be allowed to enter his life. Since he wanted fantasy, what I wanted didn't m.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 9cfe26c | I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious | Kathy Acker | ||
| 13a0a6e | Fucking just tell me what you want and I'll go with it. That's what you do when you do s/m scenes. You discuss rules beforehand. 'Cause otherwise it's all too dangerous and there has to be trust. Well, it's the same, for me, with vanilla sex or without sex. If you don't discuss the rules, then the shit power games are outside the bed and they hurt. I'm truly no longer interested in either hurting or being hurt. It's all boring and I want to.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 27acca4 | Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that to be human, and woman, includes the possibility and even the act of murder. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 4daea95 | So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 4d20b92 | Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.' I should be grateful.' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| eefd142 | They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8604e61 | Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly." | high-school zombies | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 3fd7aa5 | Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn't even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f2971cd | A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow." | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 4a19f92 | Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. | love | Armistead Maupin | |
| 2beccb5 | A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 55c8796 | You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. | John Fowles | ||
| 1f14a1c | His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad. | John Fowles | ||
| 7c17d39 | He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human. | John Fowles | ||
| 766bd51 | The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ... | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 0181f46 | How do you expect to keep our seeing each other a secret? You've been all over the news here for years. People will recognize you wherever you go." "I won't be recognized, but you will. You're America's corporate sex symbol; you're the one whose motto is "If it moves, take it to bed." Matt and Meredith" | Judith McNaught | ||
| 4632e93 | Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said" Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in." | Judith McNaught | ||
| e990c46 | In earlier times, one had an easier conscience about being a person than one does today. People were like cornstalks in a field, probably more violently tossed back and forth by God, hail, fire, pestilence, and war than they are today, but as a whole, as a city, a region, a field, and as to what personal movement was left to the individual stalk - all this was clearly defined and could be answered for. But today responsibility's center of g.. | Robert Musil | ||
| d023031 | Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of? It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed. | dying face living mirror | Christopher Isherwood | |
| bd4295d | Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 7052d96 | This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that.. | bustle industriousness leisure work | Henry David Thoreau | |
| e4f120a | I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 6623395 | Be not simply good; be good for something. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 68256a5 | You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us? | Norton Juster | ||
| 862fd37 | God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours. | religion | Barbara Hambly | |
| 437c4f5 | You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Do you know how many children I have buried--children I begot in my youth and strength? Twenty-two. I did not hang myself, and I am still alive. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| d66e567 | There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 9fc391c | If dirty words frighten you...I really don't know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty. | James Baldwin | ||
| 3ba5e26 | One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2abd9fd | Antonia had always been one to leave images in the mind that did not fade - that grew stronger with time. In my memory there was a succession of such pictures, fixed there like the old woodcuts of one's first primer...She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true...She was a battered woman now, not a lovely girl; but she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still s.. | Willa Cather |