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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2be620a | The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more. | desk shelves study writer | Alberto Manguel | |
| d4983d2 | We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. | vocabulary words | Alberto Manguel | |
| af49384 | Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing -- or not doing -- better than anyone else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 73ca17b | Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. | cakes humor modesty pretense tea-parties | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 4b75c44 | Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken. | Rob Bell | ||
| e49f320 | But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn't his point. He's often not talking about "beliefs" as we think of them--he's talking about anger and lust and indifference. He's talking about the state of his listeners' hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbors, about the kind of effect they have on the .. | faith inspirtational religion theology | Rob Bell | |
| abb7333 | Most people worth knowing enjoy reading. | Brandon Mull | ||
| c0e2d1e | A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2bbccf9 | Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer. "Are you the thing that followed Tark? You should keep following him. He's the real mastermind. Shoo. Go hide." No response. "Okay, how about you stand guard while I sleep. Keep the giants away. Sound good? All in favor, hold perfectly still. Fine, I guess we have a deal." | brandon humor jason lurker mull rebellion seeds | Brandon Mull | |
| e93de64 | Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot." | nerd | Brandon Mull | |
| 9dc2e9c | Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent." | humor money talent | Brandon Mull | |
| 68fc753 | You're free to dream however you wish," Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic--" "Then don't ask us to share your weakness!" Jason interrupted." | brandon mull prophecy strength weakness | Brandon Mull | |
| fa2ba92 | Every moment is enormous and it is all we have. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 72eae8c | Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| ffc8fb3 | I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good. | inception silliness | Natalie Goldberg | |
| e76a2f2 | Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e5dd3f7 | There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin. | beginning coincide depression empty end ending initiate lead loss mark mourn mourning numb passage show sign sorrow space start time | Robin Hobb | |
| d2149c8 | All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f8c6754 | It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| cdcf354 | I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don't know why they'd decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain.. | enormous funny hyperbole rooms | Hugh Laurie | |
| ee77416 | Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| ba1e4ee | I was having a drink with Hugh Laurie, with whom I'd worked on his series House, and I told him I wanted to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies. Without blinking, he improv'd at me, "Awwww, you'll be back," wagging his finger. I laughed and filed it away. Thanks, Hugh Laurie." | Lin-Manuel Miranda | ||
| 1daf02b | You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are aware that this low-bred fellow, who deserves to be pilloried, has, by the dirtiest jobs, made his way in the world; and that the splendid position he has acquired makes merit repine and virtue blush. Yet whatever dishonourable epithets may be laun.. | deceit deception endearments hypocrisy life life-lesson masks misanthropy morality people roguery society traitor truth vices | Molière | |
| 0f429d0 | At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men. | humour | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| b87f280 | These are little things but sometimes it's the little things that sting the most. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f50460e | In America, you don't get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 01aead0 | Left weaponless, Roran was forced to retreat before the remaining soldier. He stumbled over a corpse, cutting his calf on a sword as he fell, and rolled to avoid a two-handed blow from the soldier, scrabbling frantically in the ankle-deep mud for something, he could use as a weapon. A hilt brushed his fingers, and he ripped it from the muck and slashed at the soldier's sword hand, severing his thumb. The man stared dumbly at the glisteni.. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 1a0a86f | A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it. | christopher-paolini inheritance-cylcle | Christopher Paolini | |
| 5b89cc5 | Your heart has to let your head know what it wants. | wants | Debbie Macomber | |
| f346f4f | The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 501fdd9 | But bringing people together is what music has always done best. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 635288a | My mind's screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 8066008 | You have slipped under my skin, invaded my blood, and seized my heart. You have poisoned me. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 723abfc | My whole desire is to burn myself away. | desire | Hafez | |
| a7d8f3c | Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties in exchange. She wanted to combine two things which are, in actual human experience, incompatible; she wanted to r.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 62a8199 | But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science, an art, hovering between these categories like Muhammad's coffin between heaven and earth, a unique yoking of opposites, ancient and yet eternally new, mechanically constituted and yet an activity of the imagination alone, limited to a fixed geometric area but unlimited in its permutations, constantly evolving and yet sterile, a cogitation .. | games | Stefan Zweig | |
| a087162 | Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire. | Marilyn French | ||
| 4dd08e9 | But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. | forgive | Kristan Higgins | |
| 7b3d3ea | Ground rules, Tanner," he growled. Tanner paled. More good. "No alcohol. No smoking. No drugs. No looking at other girls. You can dance with my daughter. Your hands will avoid the danger zones, which are here, here and here." Liam gestured to his chest, groin and ass. "You can kiss her. Once. At 10:59 p.m. tonight, when you'll be standing here once again. I will be on the other side of this door, waiting for her. Am I clear?" "Yes, sir," Ta.. | dating-in-your-thirties parent | Kristan Higgins | |
| 70c4559 | Don't look so sad," she said. Her eyes were full of tears. "I can't help it," he said. "I am sad." "I'm sorry I've made you so unhappy." "Don't be sorry for that. Be sorry that you made me so happy. That's what hurts, woman. That you made me so happy." | Ken Follett | ||
| 514abfb | The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while. | one-last-thing-before-i-go | Jonathan Tropper | |
| bd97b06 | I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion. | life love | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 4471b22 | Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try." | Jim Butcher | ||
| fe50cd5 | I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles | humor | Jim Butcher |