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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 993b413 | But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 wish wicked | 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. | prejudice war compassion humanity fear trust charter-for-compassion compassion-action-network cultural-differences cultural-diversity global-community military-conflict opportunity-quotes polarization slpendid-literarium stop-killing-each-other waging-peace peacism antiracism terrorists militarization assumptions compassion-heals-lives nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings nonviolence overcoming-fear terrorism xenophobia uncertainty political-philosophy panic desperation | 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 | heaven expected hatuey indian hell | 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 |