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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f0c2121 | I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I'll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I'll think about a career path. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| beb8b97 | Hindsight's a wonderful thing," Klara said. "If we all had it there would be no history to write about." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 7b48bc5 | Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness | hate life loneliness lonely solitude | Kate Atkinson | |
| d18ce88 | A society manufactures the heroes it requires. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 0a9a68d | Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| de1f138 | Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 0263e9e | I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll. | hiroshima normality | John Fowles | |
| 96c5fc8 | I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. | John Fowles | ||
| d5cf7c5 | there are times when silence is a poem. | silence | John Fowles | |
| 80f8cee | The best wines take the longest to mature. | John Fowles | ||
| 91fd675 | The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely, burying his face in her fragrant hair. "Jenny, I love you." She melted against him, molding her body to the rigid contours of his, offering her lips up for his fierce, devouring kiss, then she took his face between both her hands. Leaning back slightly against his arm, her melting blue eyes gazi.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 732e199 | Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 7e97d64 | Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But I can't. I quite literally can't. Because, don't you see, what I know is what I am? And I can't tell you that. You have to find it out for yourself. I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 1a20ca3 | What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a 'fortune,' which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one's homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond's Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hung.. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 6d405f5 | Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well-known lawyer in my neighborhood. "Do you wish to buy any baskets?" he asked. "No, we do not want any," was the reply. "What!" exclaimed the Indian as he went out the gate, "do you mean to starve us?" Having seen his industrious white neighbors so well off--that the lawyer had only to weave arguments, and, by some magic, wealth and standing followed--he had said t.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e554ca0 | Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c1b3709 | I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear. | sleep | Maureen Johnson | |
| 006d730 | We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| ec10145 | Some other facts I picked up: Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbours Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard. Baked beans are very popular in England. For breakfast. On toast. On baked potatoes. They can't get enough. "American History" is not a subject everywhere. England and Britain and the United Kingdom are not the same thing. England is the country. Britain is the island containing England, S.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| a7ef047 | E]ducation is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of elementary and secondary education, of course.... I began to remember what it had been like: the tremendous excitement of the first couple of years, when kids imagine that great secrets are going to be unfolding before them, then the disappointment that gradually sets in when you begin to realize the truth: There's plenty of learning to .. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| c4de7ad | Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. | randomness science | James Gleick | |
| cfec23f | Procrastination is a lazy man's apology. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| e4690a4 | Love was a country he knew nothing about. | James Baldwin | ||
| 0555fb4 | The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left. | love religion | James Baldwin | |
| 6724e49 | And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky. | James Baldwin | ||
| 0c1b1a8 | Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. | James Baldwin | ||
| c42f683 | I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass. | James Baldwin | ||
| 90ddc76 | They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 88248ac | People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection. | Robert Cormier | ||
| bd06a91 | The truth is the light and the light is the truth. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 3f2a13f | You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing! | science | Richard P. Feynman | |
| efc80e8 | I will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work and teach and learn and laugh, yes, I will even laugh through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed the call." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8a4744c | Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f5c3d09 | Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!" | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| 2d3bf01 | Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9add4bc | I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better -- the knack of making people like me. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7f92b52 | When you're paid to do a job, it's better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That's one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See? | honestly jobs minutes time working | Enid Blyton | |
| b6e90bc | Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. | bell hooks | ||
| 60165c7 | Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change. | bell hooks | ||
| b534708 | It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice... there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others--especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth! | antiracism black-prophetic-fire democracy economic-disparity empowerment humanity impoverishment inspiration joy political-motivation political-movements poor-people servant-leadership social-injustice social-justice social-movements | Cornel West | |
| 5e47bb3 | Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d6bb44c | I'm trying very hard not to think about anything I'm doing. Of all the iffy things I've ever done in my life, I've never had to ditch a body before. While it's giving me a migraine right now, I think the fact that I'm not an expert on corpse disposal says a lot of good things about me and my life choices. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 0ae6208 | Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date." | killing | Richard Kadrey | |
| 18738bc | Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)" | end-of-the-world | Richard Kadrey |