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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46f5198 | Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line. | John Berger | ||
| 8fec620 | What more do they want? She asks this seriously, as if there's a real conversion factor between information and lives. Well, strange to say, there is. Written down in the Manual, on file at the War Department. Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as a spectacl.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 72f7e9a | She couldn't stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence in tears. They seemed to know what she wanted, even if she didn't. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 745ef0e | The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 398afd8 | You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 826fbe2 | If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 20845d4 | She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 344a36a | Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ed59d9b | That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 0c45292 | I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse -- to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 5a1e54d | Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 0dcf3fd | For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 8e31161 | At times, he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words. But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the Arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue. He said they comforted him, eased his heart. "They'll comfort you to . Mariam jo," he said. "You can summon then in your time of your need, and they won't fail you. God's words will never betray you, my girl." | religion | Khaled Hosseini | |
| ce6d814 | I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself. | forgiveness wisdom | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6f753c1 | these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 747b5f2 | Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. | descriptive khaled scared | Khaled Hosseini | |
| c3b157a | That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic--being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me--the Magic is in me. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c23441d | How does thee like thyself? | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 93945e1 | It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe itself... | europeans islam slavery the-west | Thomas Sowell | |
| d529aa8 | The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. | Alcoholics Anonymous | ||
| c5fca86 | You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything." -- | future machine science-fiction | E.M. Forster | |
| 170fa21 | I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness? | sassiness | E.M. Forster | |
| cfed5e5 | There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world...just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things...Choose a place where you won't do very much harm and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine. | life light | E.M. Forster | |
| 737fdfa | It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much. | life planning | E.M. Forster | |
| e8ed1f9 | While the melodrama of hucking crates of tea into Boston Harbor continues to inspire civic-minded hotheads to this day, it's worth remembering the hordes of stoic colonial women who simply swore off tea and steeped basil leaves in boiling water to make the same point. What's more valiant: littering from a wharf or years of doing chores and looking after children from dawn to dark without caffeine? | Sarah Vowell | ||
| de59ecb | Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at the door in the morning, and lo, there is a newspaper, in sight like unto an emerald. And holy, holy, holy is the coffee, which was, and is, and is to come. And hark, I hear the voice of an angel round about the radio saying, "Since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell." And lo, after this I beheld a great multitude, which no man could number, of shoes... | heaven life miracles | Sarah Vowell | |
| 126a3ee | Yeah!" shouted Jonah, twirling the much larger Hamilton around the restaurant in a victory dance. The other diners watched in amazement. This wild display was hardly the public image of the too-cool-for-school Jonah Wizard. "What's the matter?" Hamilton challenged. "Haven't you ever seen a happy rapper before?" -- | Gordon Korman | ||
| a3a1442 | How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 30d0d9d | I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 3431a2b | She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a90d231 | Vayase al carajo -Bueno, para alla vamos. Usted viene conmigo | Isabel Allende | ||
| 6d662e0 | The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4a24234 | Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love--but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up. | god love | Yann Martel | |
| f56716a | Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4ec8ddf | Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God. | religions | Yann Martel | |
| c2d1c86 | Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy. To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can be a relay race run over many centuries, with innumerable generations passing along the baton, the quick resolution of Christianity has a dizzying effect. If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush.. | Yann Martel | ||
| d214675 | I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind .. | Yann Martel | ||
| b20913f | It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 08b886a | Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 318fe72 | EXPECTO PATRONUM!!! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ac00a2a | The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. "I've got to go back, haven't I?" "That is up to you." "I've got a choice?" "Oh yes." Dumbledore smiled at him. "We are in King's Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to...let's say...board a train." "And where would it take me?" "On," said Dumbledore simply." | death | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7e9071f | Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f5b09d2 | Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 609e441 | How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever? | clever girls harry-potter hermione-granger jk-rowling page-538 the-half-blood-prince | J.K. Rowling |