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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 494ccd0 | I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| c709bde | Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| cdd9838 | When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| d1cb083 | Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. | evolution existence natural-selection | Richard Dawkins | |
| 914c49e | The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske) | David Baldacci | ||
| f10980c | It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 0a52acf | Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer? | dreams growing-up hope imagination leaving | Betty Smith | |
| 6e9728e | Must you know that yours will be the "better" picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be "better" than an iris in order to justify it's existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 10b3b85 | If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a3f13ce | I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 1601bec | Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3ac8be2 | I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 144dfab | You have a dress with a decolletage to emphasise your breasts. I suppose the cleavage is the proper focus but what I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spreading the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6a7d81f | The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis. | courage feminism | Jeanette Winterson | |
| eeaeb22 | And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a se.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f461485 | I carried recipes in my head like maps. | Joanne Harris | ||
| a4a6b1b | Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random! | Art Spiegelman | ||
| 3c95cef | A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 26a41c6 | Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 948078c | But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target | Richard Wright | ||
| f9a1aa9 | Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some injustice, "your white knight, he will come." One side of Callie's mouth kicked up in a wry smile. Anne had said those words countless times over the last two decades. "Forgive me, Anne, but I'm not so certain that he will." Oh, he will," Anne said firmly. "And when you least expect." I find I'm rather tired of waiting." .. | Sarah MacLean | ||
| 53177ec | Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. you'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 5385907 | Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious. | character life patricia-highsmith teenager the-price-of-salt young | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 0ee4394 | How easy it was to lie when one had to lie! | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| df87f21 | What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| ea90644 | Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 1986426 | Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| d4620a0 | We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn't as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 8094f63 | She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 791ebc0 | Vivienne Westwood, The Sex Pistols, Seven Stars, coffee with milk and strawberry cake. And Ren flowers. Nana's favorite things never change. It was so cool for someone like me who keeps on changing their mind. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 0a91243 | If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike. | anti-racism antiracism belief-in-nonviolence children-victims-of-war civility coexistence compassion-heals-lives compassion-love compassion-wisdom coping-with-change courage-to-love discourse-on-a-better-world diversity ending-terrorism ending-war enemy-quotes faith-in-humanity faith-in-love fear-of-love finding-strength-in-love global-peace-movement global-village good-versus-evil hate hate-versus-love higher-consciousness hope-for-humanity human-nature human-rights-day ideas interfaith-dialogue international-community jihadism-and-love jihadists-and-love living-without-fear love love-and-jihad making-a-difference mindfulness multiculturalism multiculturalismo national-history-day nonviolent-conflict-resolution peacism philosophy-of-life police-culture police-reform postered-poetics-by-aberjhani quote-of-the-day quotes-for-the-new-year race-relations radical-grace spiritual-philosophy sustainbale-humanity terrorism trusting-love unconditional-love wisdom-quotes xenophobia | Aberjhani | |
| f959192 | Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable. | bigotry black-history-month civil-unrest crimean-war cruelty diplomacy faith faith-in-humanity hate-crimes hope-for-the-future intolerance national-history-day nonviolent-conflict-resolution peace peace-movement peacism political-aggression political-turmoil prophecy russia syrian-civil-war ukraine violence war war-crimes we-can-do-better wisdom | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| ec25420 | The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour. | Anthony Powell | ||
| e484d22 | This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. | classic-poems classic-quotes compassion faith grief healing-grief hope infinity inspiration inspiration-for-the-soul inspirational-quotes newtown-connecticut palaces pearls pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter rebirth recovery recovery-from-grief resurrection roses savannah-authors-and-poets sorrow spiritual-transformation spirituality survival transformation | Aberjhani | |
| d8dd179 | Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them. | compassion-heals-lives doomsday-scenarios ending-violent-jihad extinction human-nature humanity-and-society liberation love mass-exterminations national-history-day nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings trust | Aberjhani | |
| e15c092 | Women need to become literary 'criminals,' break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 5c3e89a | R wrote Delahaye about all that had happened to him and about what he, R, wanted: My friend, You're eating white flour and mud in your pigsty. I don't miss Charleville. I don't miss being a bored pig where the sun dries up all brains but sloth. Your brains or feelings're being dried up: dead pig Delahaye. Emotions are the movers of this world. Me: I'm thirsty. What I'm thirsty for--whom I'm thirsty for--I can't get so I drink poisons. I've .. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 4ac1a5b | The ceiling of languages is falling down. Either add to this rubble or shove at least some of it away. Liberty, shit. The liberty to starve. The liberty to speak words to which no one listens. The liberty to get diseases no doctor treats or can cure. The liberty to live in conditions cockroaches wouldn't touch except to die in. The liberty to be an eighty-three-year-old Ukranian shuffling around in her slippers among the cat shit in the slu.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 4d34f41 | Weakness, he has learned, isn't in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| bb96eca | When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 4b567e5 | Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| dbdbcf8 | If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f000d72 | When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| cef7e12 | I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut out my heart or take every pill that was ever made. | health-problems struggle | Laurie Halse Anderson |