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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1bf0e33 | Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am... | city-of-glass peter-stillman | Paul Auster | |
| 90f3e8d | I'm saying you'll never know if you made the wrong choice or not. You would need to have all the facts before you knew, and the only way to get all the facts is to be in two places at the same time--which is impossible. | Paul Auster | ||
| 2bf9661 | once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died. | Paul Auster | ||
| 0090ed7 | But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well today. I am doing so much better than I have ever done before. | Paul Auster | ||
| 79d71e3 | And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some purpose to his being lost. Cut off from everything that was familiar to him, unable to discover even a single point of reference, he saw that his steps, by taking him nowhere, were taking him him nowhere but into himself. He was wandering inside himself, and he was lost. Far from troubling him, this state of being lost because a source of happi.. | lost memory | Paul Auster | |
| 5d43443 | And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. | William Golding | ||
| 05e7717 | All that glisters is not gold, | William Shakespeare | ||
| 870d9f1 | He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human. | human-nature monsters ralph savages survival | William Golding | |
| d631678 | Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 32fb27a | Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 51d9921 | And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO | Ayn Rand | ||
| 2f2c11a | Why did you decide to be an architect?" "I didn't know it then. But it's because I've never believed in God." "Come on, talk sense." "Because I love this earth. That's all I love. I don't like the shape of things on this earth. I want to change them." "For whom?" "For myself." "How old are you?" "Twenty-two." "Where did you hear all that?" "I didn't." "Men don't talk like that at twenty-two. You're abnormal." "Probably." "I didn't mean it a.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6c202f3 | You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d97909d | There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively in.. | guilt injustice innocence innocent justice law morality morals values | Ayn Rand | |
| cefe813 | Cuando advierta que para producir necesita obtener autorizacion de quienes no producen nada; cuando compruebe que el dinero fluye hacia quienes trafican no bienes, sino favores; cuando perciba que muchos se hacen ricos por el soborno y por influencias mas que por el trabajo, y que las leyes no lo protegen contra ellos, sino, por el contrario son ellos los que estan protegidos contra usted; cuando repare que la corrupcion es recompensada y l.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 8b5fa5e | When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are." | Ayn Rand | ||
| eceb359 | It is not any crime you have committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors or flaws, but the blank-out by which you attempt to evade them - it is not any sort of Original Sin or unknown prenatal deficiency, but the knowledge and fact of your basic default, of suspending your mind, of refusing to think. Fear and guilt are your chronic emotions, they are real and you do deserve them, but they don't.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 5fdef33 | It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. | growing-up poetry | Billy Collins | |
| 75bba0e | People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people. | Nora Roberts | ||
| cd8861b | Do you want to fix it?" "I just said I was in love with her. Why wouldn't I want to fix it?" "You want to know how?" "Goddamn it, Del." He drank again. "Yes, since you're so fucking smart. How do I fix it?" "Crawl." Jack blew out a breath. "I can do that"." | Nora Roberts | ||
| d457790 | He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4d681ec | Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often." | happily-ever-after | Nora Roberts | |
| dc8435e | What do you want?' 'All of it.' She laughed, but there was something brittle in the sound that broke his heart. 'I'm selfish and greedy and want all. I want everything I can snatch up and hold, then I want to go back and get more. Why can't I want the simple and the ordinary and the quiet, Aidan? Why can't I be content with easy dreams?' 'You're so hard on yourself, mavourneen. Harder than anyone else can be. Some people want the simple and.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| c6a95a2 | What do you think? Does everything look right? " " You really expect me to look at anything but you? " She laughed even as her pulse jittered. " Boy, I must be in bad shape when a shopworn line like that hits the mark. " " I mean it, " he said and watched her smile fade. " I adore looking at you. " Laying a hand on her knees with a long, slow, thorough kiss. " Beautiful Margo. mine. " " Well, you're certainly taking my mind off my .... | Nora Roberts | ||
| 925193f | They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3c88340 | But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. | beginnings starting-over | John Steinbeck | |
| b123dfa | I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course I see visions. Anyone would." "But you don't believe in them?" Doc asked hopefully. "I don't find it a matter for belief or disbelief," the seer said. "You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks into the ocean. Do yo.. | nature visions | John Steinbeck | |
| 205657e | We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ec4480a | I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ce254d8 | Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents for this nonsense. Children must be very wise and secret to tolerate adults at all. And the greatest nonsense of all that adults expect children .. | children education experience learning | John Steinbeck | |
| 54d77df | Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain. | suffering | Arthur Golden | |
| 605175d | Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment. | Arthur Golden | ||
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| 272b6fb | I love you," was his reply. "I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe in you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us." -- | best-interests despite faith family love mothers replies see sight trust | V.C. Andrews | |
| 2294c49 | Traveling is more fun-- hell, life is more fun--if you can treat it as a series of impulses. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 3964108 | It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| b54ad9a | I want him to live," he says. I watch, helpless, as the pain slips out. Tears fall when he whispers, "But damn it, I want to live, too." | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 4b7c485 | When you meet someone so different from yourself, in a good way, you don't even have to kiss to have fireworks go off. | kiss love | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 2dfe2ab | And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating." | food | Julia Quinn | |
| 295e214 | No words for the passion. No words for the need. No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment. And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington. And it was glorious. | love romance | Julia Quinn | |
| 5a6c2a8 | There were only so many ways a man"s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn"t survive another puncture." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9483a40 | It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 954b148 | Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half--well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month." "Such tenderness for your youngest child," Hyacinth muttered. "It quite undoes me." | Julia Quinn |