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d479197 Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'. Fritjof Capra
7682ec9 The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the , the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images. Laurie R. King
fb13b3b At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful? disappointed feeling felt her in-love love no-peace not-rather painful times use what-if Larry McMurtry
d277217 and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood. Kim Edwards
ac6687e You're not worried about anything, are you?" said Danglers. "It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you." "That's exactly what worries me," replied Dantes. "I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it." -- Alexandre Dumas
584e781 To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy
0e67921 I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else. James Lee Burke
27a93af Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know? Woody Allen
8a101b3 So, I can hurt now, or hurt later. Steve Martin
1e82e09 they worry about my sanity i join with them on that Cecelia Ahern
c03b282 Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day - nothing - they're gone. Just like that. Then you write to them, and you're ignored, and then you write to them agai.. lesson life quote time Cecelia Ahern
ad5aa65 Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight. love quote Cecelia Ahern
4c7971d the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life. friendship Cecelia Ahern
e45a42b That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You're both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds. inspirational life Cecelia Ahern
86fe157 Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow. hope inspirational lesson life love Cecelia Ahern
100c343 Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules. Cecelia Ahern
6d9c229 It's hard for everyone isn't it? Anyone who says it's easy is a liar. There's this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we're living in such different worlds, I don't know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he's been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing o.. Cecelia Ahern
c356972 Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don't have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you're in trouble. Cecelia Ahern
3fde918 Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. nurses Jodi Picoult
423d716 I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies. Jodi Picoult
df6a989 In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future. decisions future leave-behind no past path yes Jodi Picoult
da43b97 You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?" Jodi Picoult
0cadcfd The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit. Jodi Picoult
97789a5 Love is not an equation... It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. Jodi Picoult
e35bac5 You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you. Jodi Picoult
c845dd7 Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center. Jodi Picoult
4e3aa38 Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult
831d067 You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them. like love Jodi Picoult
935081e You say you don't see color...but that's all you see. You're so hyperaware of it, and of trying to look like you aren't prejudiced, you can't even understand that when you say race doesn't matter all I hear is you dismissing what I've felt, what I've lived, what it's like to be put down because of the color of my skin. Jodi Picoult
00c6ba5 True love can break the most powerful curse Jodi Picoult
322253f People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. --NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Jodi Picoult
d8b7bf6 You don't look at another person's plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough. Jodi Picoult
a6dba19 I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach." His hand cupped my breast, gently now. "I suppose I find myself lonely without ye." Diana Gabaldon
d3bb11b You are beautiful," he whispered to me. "If you say so." "Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?" "That's not what I mean. I mean--if you say it, then it's true. You make it true." Diana Gabaldon
92eb0c7 I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented. Diana Gabaldon
c956a42 Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit could eat a cabbage down to the roots, and from the looks of things, he'd brought friends. I sighed and squatted to repair the damage, packing rocks and earth back into the hole. The loss of Ian was a constant ache; at such moments as this, I missed his horrible dog as well. I had brought a large collection of cuttings and seeds from River Run.. humor jamie-fraser nature outlander Diana Gabaldon
393593c You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough. Diana Gabaldon
2284f4a You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it. Diana Gabaldon
242423f It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything. William Faulkner
63e192b I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God. William Faulkner
f5bc656 When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again. William Faulkner
039d38e I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help a man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and s.. William Faulkner
5f6b847 Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it. James Joyce
095ebe1 How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize upon and readers expect? Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish? Where are the suburban infidelities, the promiscuities, the convulsive divorces, the alcohol, the drugs, the lost weekends? Where are the hatreds, the political ambitions, the lust for power? Where are speed,.. Wallace Stegner