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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 834f0e2 | Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past. | Emily Giffin | ||
| ea4419d | I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 0046a34 | And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. | lovers mortality death life love | H. Rider Haggard | |
| c16bfe1 | It is right it should be so; Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Thro' the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine. - "Auguries of Innocence" | William Blake | ||
| 5341ead | about William Blake) As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, "I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual g.. | freedom living happiness william-blake glory effort creativity | Brenda Ueland | |
| 212fbf8 | Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 3cedfe8 | Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big. strong, stiff hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye whaire ye stand, where yir fuckin parameters ur. | self-destruction | Irvine Welsh | |
| 5072d80 | Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT? | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 7cceeaa | For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 64265be | This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance. | generality prototypes specificity | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| 44b9e49 | You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any. | Leif Enger | ||
| dd70c24 | Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map. | Leif Enger | ||
| cea6565 | Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| fee258e | And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do! | words writing | David Almond | |
| 933531f | All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 87c08ed | We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 673de45 | What was it like... to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 6965e43 | They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 8af6226 | He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 238cdcc | Fern has Ugly Girl Syndrome." Bailey said, out of the blue. "Also known as UGS ... She grew up thinking she was ugly. She doesn't realize that she shed the ugly a long time ago. She's beautiful now. And she's just as pretty on the inside, which is a side benny of UGS." | Amy Harmon | ||
| b56f0d0 | Life isn't perfect,people aren't perfect, but there are moments that are. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 44da178 | And in weeping there was power. The power to heal, the power to release pain and let go, the power to endure love and to shoulder loss. And as the weeks became months, I cried less and smiled more. And peace became a more frequent companion. | Amy Harmon | ||
| a693911 | Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that. | rain hot-chocolate snuggle read snow | Bill Watterson | |
| 637b199 | Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic. | magic reading imagination | Ann-Marie MacDonald | |
| 655ca6a | Under a smoky streetlamp I stood face to face with my beloved and pricked my fingers against the diamond studs of her immaculate shirt front. Being tall, she slipped her hands naturally about my hips and pulled me close. And being bold, I put my mouth on hers and this time went inside and told her all the things I'd been longing to. Dark and sweet, the elixir of love is in her mouth. The more I drink, the more I remember all the things we'v.. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| a484220 | Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9ab3209 | Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic if anyone ever writes "I woke up and it was all a dream" at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop-out, it's the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But every single morning we really do wake up and it really was all a dream." | reading writing dreams english | David Mitchell | |
| 95a76d0 | No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 5216847 | That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 451fbc3 | that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| aef50f2 | And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made .. | so-yesterday scott-westerfeld hunter pokemon | Scott Westerfeld | |
| ced9fcb | I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength--and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this, too, I saw.... Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I .. | self-knowledge annlaw taran | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 6910c70 | Behind one truth there is always yet another. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 7288dd5 | For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest. | wanderers prydain taran taran-wanderer | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 4c83172 | Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God's echoes and God is Narcissus. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| d7fa439 | I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only.. | sears-catalogue | Harry Crews | |
| 735ca00 | The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair. | human-experience | Connie Willis | |
| a977047 | Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 78415c8 | If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom. | music philosophy | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| e19531d | By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too. | Peter Singer | ||
| f22a69d | Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are "merely aesthetic". That is a mistake. We go to great lengths to preserve the artistic treasures of earlier human civilisations. It is difficult to imagine any economic gain that we would be prepared to accept as adequate compensation for, for instance, the destruction of the paintings in the Louvre. How shoul.. | nature | Peter Singer | |
| 5db4676 | A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 3966154 | I suppose I'm the one responsible for destroying myself. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 4d424ae | Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts. | Martin Amis |