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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e0efb5 | Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release. | Leah Raeder | ||
| 0d43131 | How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 3d5f61c | Paul screamed out words as he struggled to stand. "Good...gracious...mercy...mama...you people...are !" | James Dashner | ||
| aaffed5 | Ah, dude," Paul said. "What if they beam around like in ?" Sofia snorted. "I'll be sure to ask Dark Gator if I see him." Paul burst out laughing; Tick held hid laugh in pressing his mouth closed. What?" Sofia asked. What did you call him?" Paul asked. Dark Gator." Man, oh, man, you are too good to be true Miss Italy, too good to be true." Still chuckling, he walked towards all the people. "I think I see a restaurant up there. Let's ch.. | James Dashner | ||
| b7c6286 | context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. I mean, lets face it:when you're eating simple barbecue under a palm tree, and you feel sand between your toes, samba music is playing softly in the backgroud, waves are lapping at the shore a few yards off, a gentle breeze is cooling the sweat on the back of your neck at the hairline, and looking across the table, past the column of empty Red Stripes at the .. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| e987340 | Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29). | god-s-grace god-s-love prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| f3e78e6 | Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. | catholicism christianity jesus-shock philosophy sloth spirituality theology violence | Peter Kreeft | |
| 9da5cf6 | If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don't ask what seat. You just get on. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| dd825ae | Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. | sacrifice | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 1c9b753 | As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. I have seen so many women inadvertently discourage their husbands from doing their share by being too controlling or critical. Social scientists call this "maternal gatekeeping" which is a fancy term for "Ohmigod, that's not the way you do it! Just move aside and let me!"...Anyone who wants her mate to be a true partner must treat him as an equal--and equally capab.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 176ece2 | To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 03ede3c | if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my--er--icy set-downs!"(Alverstoke)" | icy stammer | Georgette Heyer | |
| 1ce187d | Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 4fabfff | It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is right! Only--Is it being--not very comfortable--and cross--and not quite happy, when you aren't there?" "That, my darling," said his lordship,taking her ruthlessly into his arms,"is exactly what it s!" "Oh--!" Frederica gasped, as she emerged .. | lord-alverstroke true-love | Georgette Heyer | |
| 16a2de9 | The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 95e7af9 | Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost .. | questions | Lisa Unger | |
| f8927db | People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 03d98a6 | Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too. | sunset | S.E. Hinton | |
| fab1b73 | You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 6ad8578 | If you want to see something funny, it's a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother. | funny siblings | S.E. Hinton | |
| 916e120 | Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes. I am responsible for educating teachers who dismiss my children's culture in school. Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate .. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 0aaa261 | We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present. We do not have to suffer the waste of an amnesia that robs us of the lessons of the past rather than permit us to read them with pride as well as deep understanding. We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about--survival and growth. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 820c5f2 | Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room | T.S. Eliot | ||
| a438901 | He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's. And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled, Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair - Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there! And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray, Or the Admiralty lo.. | dr-moriarty mac-the-knife macavity master-criminals | T.S. Eliot | |
| ead797f | No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a progress start a scene or two Advise the prince no doubt an easy tool Deferential glad to be of use Politic cautious and meticulous Full of high sentence but a bit obtuse At times indeed almost ridiculous-- Almost at times the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my h.. | loneliness mermaid regret trousers | T. S. Eliot | |
| a261577 | Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. | knowledge understanding | Michel de Montaigne | |
| a0b41f7 | My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they're being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what's behind their eyes. | rorschach rorschach-test | Craig Clevenger | |
| 6fa19b3 | I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life. | Amy Hempel | ||
| c522223 | I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all. | love money | Max Barry | |
| 408a9a3 | 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.' | intimacy lexicon privacy vulnerability | Max Barry | |
| f3bbf83 | The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 0c0d849 | The blood is life... and it shall be mine! | Bram Stoker | ||
| 46e34a5 | how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. | Jim Fergus | ||
| 8e3a53d | She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. | Bram Stoker | ||
| ab13138 | She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 953c2a2 | Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead." | humor | Jennifer Crusie | |
| b061aa0 | You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7cdb624 | Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 6160c4d | I'm rarely good, Merit. But I'm often spectacular. | too-hot-to-live-alpha-hero | Chloe Neill | |
| 3fa26c4 | In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you. | emotional queen-isabella touching | Carolyn Meyer | |
| aad09d3 | A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. | reading truth | Andre Dubus | |
| 83d85ab | Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know." | Sara Zarr | ||
| 300b679 | My whole life has been one big broken promise. | Sara Zarr | ||
| d06a26c | God help us for we knew the worst too young. | life youth | Rudyard Kipling |