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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fcc735a | That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 871003b | There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| ce313c3 | It is easy to be wise after the event. | true wisdom | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 9874143 | Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristi.. | murder greed gems precious-stones jewels sherlock-holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 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 | ||
| d8413f3 | I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was. | Claire Messud | ||
| 0fa176a | I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow. | Claire Messud | ||
| 2ad6e4b | All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram. | John Banville | ||
| 12be248 | People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 465693d | There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route. | Zadie Smith | ||
| bdda2a1 | Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 3c1a643 | We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a holy war. Jihad! And certainly we could argue this out in the street, but I think, in the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution---it is not my solution. So I do not know what it is you would like me to say. Truth and firmn.. | religion jihad | Zadie Smith | |
| a69a796 | Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny. | junior-webster mysteries miracles | Libba Bray | |
| ceb7699 | Agent Jones held Sinjin's face in his hands. "I'm going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals." "How right you are, strange delusional man," Sinjin said." | humour libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 1786f00 | And yet, you're still alone. All that trying and still you stand apart, watching from the other side of the glass. Afraid to have what you truly want because ? So much better to wrap yourself up in the longing. The yearning. The restlessness. Poor Gemma. She doesn't quite fit, does she? Poor Gemma--all alone. | Libba Bray | ||
| 9732597 | The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair. | unfairness-of-life | Libba Bray | |
| b0777f5 | You're special. I'm special. The whole world's special, so don't you forget it. The universe wants us All to be happy, Full of smiles and all that stuff, All that stuff That's happy and smiley. So get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now! | Libba Bray | ||
| 68c0064 | Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?" | humor bovine bray helmet libba going | Libba Bray | |
| 0ced91e | It isn't the bloody weather!" I've shocked them into silence. I should stop. Apologize for my outburst. Make amends. Blame the climate. But I cannot. Something in me has given way and it cannot be put back again. "Did you know that he had returned to the laudanum? That he couldn't give it up? That our good intentions were not nearly so powerful as his will to die?... No, Thomas. Is this the life you want for me? To be like you? To wear blin.. | life | Libba Bray | |
| d1fdac8 | No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4a43d37 | Most of the time, we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. It's not such a bad thing, being loved for what you can do.' 'But the other is better.' 'Better. I hate to say better, but it is. If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 70beba5 | No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d437792 | There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f42ef81 | The lucky ones are just born dead. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1bf66a5 | It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself. | artwork frame | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4bb520e | No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1374835 | Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3b28ac9 | We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e06a65c | Condoms ribbed for extrasensitivity. The last thing I need is extrasensitivity. Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours. This seems to really miss the point. I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c687bb2 | Nothing is static. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| adc73b5 | How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7378b2f | And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight. | fight | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| dca2e7f | If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fc15093 | What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5eb28f2 | Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. | bond relaxation danger | Ian Fleming | |
| ae33b49 | Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 6827541 | I glanced at my watch - it was two minutes to eleven; just right for lunch when and if we ever got to the godforsaken lodge - and took some comfort from the thought that at least I still had my wits about me. Or at least I felt as if I did. Presumably, a confused person would be too addled to recognize that he was confused. Ergo, if you know that you are not confused then you are not confused. Unless, it suddenly occurred to me - and here w.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 0d20287 | I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place. | home tourism | Bill Bryson | |
| 2d80a29 | What a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill Bryson Highway of Life suddenly seem far away and harmless, and the world becomes tranquil and welcoming and good. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 4f696da | You have to live to really know things, my love | Dan Simmons | ||
| fd916ed | Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| c6c4c9d | Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides. | E.L. Konigsburg |