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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 450ecb7 | So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I'll be able to live in it. Really, it's an investment. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 688e19d | If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 512aa40 | All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3d953ea | But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge. | tragedy | Margaret Atwood | |
| 82f0cd9 | I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that's how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ba8df8e | the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time. | John O'Donohue | ||
| eddfe56 | If you're scared, tell me. If you need to cry and scream, then do it. And you sure as hell don't walk away from us because you think it would be better for me. Here's the reality, Echo: I want to be your side. If you want to go the mall stark naked so you can show the world your scars, then let me hold your hand. If you want to see your mom, then tell me that, too. I may not always understand, but damn, baby, I'll try. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 95d0ade | You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?" | Julie Garwood | ||
| b292821 | For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him. | Julie Garwood | ||
| c22ee87 | Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes. | wisdom luck | Robert Jordan | |
| 3f358e2 | It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid. | stupidity | Robert Jordan | |
| edd1340 | p.s. In case you don't know what "Do what needs to be done" means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC missive from Mat to Galad" -- | Robert Jordan | ||
| c334243 | God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| b0d0ca1 | I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive. | survive | Christine Feehan | |
| 504b678 | I find myself wondering how many other memories are hidden from me in the recesses of my own brain; indeed my own brain will seem to be the last great terra incognita, and I will be filled with wonder at the prospect of some day discovering new worlds there. Imagine the lost continent of Atlantis and all the submerged islands of childhood right there waiting to be found. The inner space we have never adequately explored. The worlds within w.. | Erica Jong | ||
| 8f7fc4f | Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. | religions systems | Erica Jong | |
| 2027563 | Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt. | relationships women | Caitlin Moran | |
| 703b98d | The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 2fd169f | The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 474e624 | The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination- an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfilment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for survival of those who may look like the kee.. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 2acec2b | Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply. 'Women bear the brunt of poverty. What choices does a woman have in life, especially in times of misery? She can marry or live with a man. She can bear children and bring them up, and be abused by her man. Have you read Buchi Emecheta of Nigeria, Joys of Motherhood? Tsitsi Dangarembga of Zimbabwe, say, Nervous Cond.. | poverty feminism suffering women arundhati-roy buchi-emecheta indian-literature meena-alexander miriama-ba susie-tharu tsitsi-dangarembga novels gender-equality women-s-fiction women-writers | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | |
| 6ecb4bb | Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 1426f87 | And now such a warm commotion, such busy love. | Alice Munro | ||
| 9fa683e | He remembered the pride-filled glow that had swamped Gyoko's face and he wondered again at the bewildering gullibility of people. How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces and they were on their knees slitting.. | James Clavell | ||
| 2a17f39 | If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| f5c6cdb | I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f22a36d | In the end, everyone loses everyone. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 589948d | I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ea7f0f0 | What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 28da3e9 | Abraham didn't say, "What do you want?" He didn't say, "Yes?" He answered with a statement: "Here I am." Whatever God needs or wants, Abraham is wholly present for Him, without conditions or reservations or need for explanation." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| da134c1 | From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 0fd3176 | The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 8c7cf2c | However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them. | limitations relationships limits mystery | Ian McEwan | |
| 0d10e27 | She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how to start - she simply did not have the trick of it, the row that cleared the air, and could never quite believe that hard words could be unsaid or forgotten. | silence not-saying | Ian McEwan | |
| 5a92043 | When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp? | Milan Kundera | ||
| a41fbf6 | Illusions are more common than changes in fortune | Franz Kafka | ||
| 9df62ca | In a way, I was safe writing | writing way | Franz Kafka | |
| 8e9cc3d | Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 16053d9 | Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c1a10de | Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 0c5af50 | I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c5d69aa | Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 856373a | In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3d03058 | Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women? | Milan Kundera |