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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b3fa5b6 | Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths." | dissapointment truth | Margaret George | |
| c792c66 | She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| d1ac570 | Had I done the right thing by not telling her? Maybe not. Who on earth wanted the right thing anyway? Yet what meaning could there be if nothing was right? If nothing was fair? Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 69df3df | Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I run, the point being to let the exhilaration I feel at the end of each run carry over to the next day. This is the same sort of tack I find necessary when writing a novel. I stop every day right at the point where I feel I can write more. Do that, and the next day's work goes surprisingly smoothly. I think Ernest Hemingway did something like .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e3a9285 | So just because I don't exist in the sheep man's world, it doesn't mean that I don't exist at all. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| fd2c4d8 | I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot of air. And as time went by, the knot began to take on a clear and simple form, a form that I am able to put into words, like this: Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. It's a cliche translated into words, but at the time I felt it not as words but as that knot of air inside me. Death exists - in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a pool table -.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 20d84da | Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used. | half-used shaving-cream | Haruki Murakami | |
| e195baf | That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 60d2972 | You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand" | dying-well living-well | Haruki Murakami | |
| 5a0bfc1 | As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But .. | consequential electric-wall-clock motion | Haruki Murakami | |
| e0edb96 | You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6cf03ed | By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c8d9146 | It was a strange feeling, like touching a void. | storytelling | Haruki Murakami | |
| 8eb9679 | She was seriously in love, but she never made demands. | love-story lovers | Haruki Murakami | |
| 23cbafe | I'm just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b111b97 | From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2a097f6 | You're here," I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?" | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2a1256e | lbd mn Glq l'shy b`d ftHh, wl bd mn `d@ l'shy l~ 'mknh! | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7f3cef8 | I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That's all. If you think about it, that's kind of like constructing a vacuum. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6aa7bff | Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That's the rule. It can never be exactly the same." A" | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c2c0baf | Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me. | Helen Fisher | ||
| dc1ac99 | but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. | Laurie R. King | ||
| c66dbea | The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 00b237b | Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love." | love | Wilson Rawls | |
| 526f6fc | In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her. | heartbreak | Kim Edwards | |
| 6021ce3 | People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 82e2174 | Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain. | monty-python | Frank Portman | |
| 9da3f34 | How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? | James Lee Burke | ||
| 7ddb18b | I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss. | Woody Allen | ||
| 670b092 | You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter. | Woody Allen | ||
| 70e1a0a | Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath i.. | Steve Martin | ||
| fceb742 | I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point? | Steve Martin | ||
| cae47e6 | It's difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b347269 | Aim for something Rosie, I know you don't want to hear it, but it will help. Aim for what you want and the year will all make sense. Go to Boston if that will make you happy. Study hotel management like you've always wanted. You're only young Rosie, and I know that you absolutely hate to hear that but it's true. What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few love, rosie 29 years time. You're only 17. You and Alex have the rest of you.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e0f8aea | I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically opposed to Jacob, with his Asperger's. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore.. | aspergers-syndrome autism disability | Jodi Picoult | |
| fe251b1 | i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e047006 | I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself. | children motherhood parenting | Jodi Picoult | |
| 2004cd4 | Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0515ea8 | She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7ce7e1f | A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9793529 | Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6059351 | All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| aaaa1fb | Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. | parenthood | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9987ca5 | A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead. | lie life taste truth | Jodi Picoult |