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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f73d8e | There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon. | Willa Sibert Cather | ||
| 8657a1a | Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me. | travel | Ralph Ellison | |
| 4fbb337 | it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 0f33381 | That's the trouble with not being in your own field: You don't take it seriously. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| d83d154 | Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I'm always afraid going over bridges. I can't help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jackknife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. But I always have to open them for all when I think we're getting near the middle. Because, you see, if the bridge did crumple up I'd want to see it crumple. What a jolly rumble it makes! I always like the ru.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 105fc0c | But now she loved winter. Winter was beautiful "up back" - almost intolerably beautiful. Days of clear brilliance. Evenings that were like cups of glamour - the purest vintage of winter's wine. Nights with their fire of stars. Cold, exquisite winter sunrises. Lovely ferns of ice all over the windows of the Blue Castle. Moonlight on birches in a silver thaw. Ragged shadows on windy evenings - torn, twisted, fantastic shadows. Great silences,.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4f5a1f8 | I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it. | sensitiveness shadow | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 5d12d58 | I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 402383e | But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years -- each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immorta.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 894741e | But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ee9765b | the Lake of Shining Waters was blue -- blue -- blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4d5dc33 | When he said good evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 55a8b3e | Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind. | bell hooks | ||
| fcfe60c | Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. | despair isolation loneliness | Bell Hooks | |
| 91e2bdc | Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. | Lois Lowry | ||
| e36aaf4 | you have more than you know. And people will want what you have. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6d18f0e | For all for children To whom we entrust the future | Lois Lowry | ||
| 457df29 | The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 34ec339 | There's the opposite of love at first sight. There are people walking the earth that the moment you meet them, you want to punch them and keep punching them. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a8ec1a1 | There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| b8a544e | It would all be done with keys on alphanumeric keyboards that stood for weightless, invisible chains of electronic presence or absence. If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths? It would have to be up one le.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 51ecb35 | This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3e65d6b | George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his." | george-macdonald suffering | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7baabe3 | But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a743c37 | when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 05272dd | Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! | pain | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 40d61b7 | You're the proverbial diamond in the rough. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 0a69860 | I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 2ecb95d | lq`d@ lthny@ tqwl b'n l`Tr y`ysh m` lzmn , flh mrHl shbbh wnDjh wshykhwkhth wfqT `ndm ytkhT~ mrHl l`mr lmkhtlf@ mHfZ `l~ ryjh blwtyr@ dhth y`tbr `Tr njH . | Patrick Süskind | ||
| e4a3501 | He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! | solitude | Patrick Süskind | |
| 3fd09bb | bws` lbshr 'n yGmDw '`ynhm 'mm mhw `Zym 'w jmyl, w'n yGlqw adhnhm 'mm l'lHn wlklm lm`swl wlkn lys bws`hm lhrwb mn l`bq l'nh shqyq lshhyq, m`h ydkhl l~ dhwthm, wlystTy`wn SdWh n rGbw blbq `l~ qyd lHy@, nh ydkhl l~ '`mqhm, l~ lqlb mbshr@, Hyth ytm lfSl lHsm byn lmyl lyh 'w Htqrh, byn lqrf mnh 'w lrGb@ fyh, byn Hbh 'w krhh. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 9fbc852 | And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 5d2577e | Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 --and all that followed-- was already laid in those first words. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4b18b7a | You say their stories, it is gift they give you. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3a950b6 | It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 05fe6de | God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b3d182f | No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not. | nancy-friday sex women | Nancy Friday | |
| e274e0d | Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 3e4cda0 | One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life! | E.M. Forster | ||
| a29e4f6 | It makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others? | E.M Forster | ||
| 3743b46 | Nista zivo covjek ne moze izgubiti, niti moze covjek biti trajno nesrecan, | Ivo Andrić | ||
| e341a0d | shyy'an fshyy'an 'khdh Gybk wkhsrt 'khr~ fy Hyty bltHwl l~ Hnyn `dhb | missing | Isabel Allende | |
| 591c4c8 | The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. | Yann Martel | ||
| e8740d0 | And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood. | J.K. Rowling |