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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ffc06f0 | All the people around Hester hate her and despise her and think she's a total freak. The kid's beyond human law and human consideration. How do you feel about yourself when every human being you hear and see and smell every day of your being thinks you're worse than garbage? Your conception of who you are has always, at least partially, depended on how the people around you behaved towards you... You don't know. How can you know anything? H.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 50ae3dc | We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 11172d3 | Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 99a250d | too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreams like that's going to get them somewhere Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it | nightmares slaying | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| a537251 | My earbuds were in, but I wasn't playing music. I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5064a41 | In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops - I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent be.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 331e350 | She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!" | school spanish-class | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 840251d | I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 69798e9 | Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 5208510 | Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| bb56800 | Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 60afc66 | Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon. | moon | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 74f9a07 | It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 4b6e012 | Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 5917385 | The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. | women-s-strength | John Fowles | |
| 49561d8 | It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted a forehead of stunning gold above the horizon, lifted straight out of filigreed, light-intoxicated clouds that lay on the skyline in attendant veils. Behind us, the sun was setting in a simultaneous congruent withdrawal and the river turned to flame in a quiet duel of gold....The new gold of moon astonishing and asc.. | childhood memories moon nature south-carolina sun sunset twilight | Pat Conroy | |
| e672e8e | Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself. | Pat Conroy | ||
| d6a0991 | Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me eve.. | Pat Conroy | ||
| eb045f3 | I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood. | smiling | Pat Conroy | |
| bd1ce46 | Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak--and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us...Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back i.. | carolina tranquility | Pat Conroy | |
| e76e3d1 | The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9def932 | Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 44ad67d | today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many. | Norton Juster | ||
| db3d206 | There is nothing so serious as a game. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| f5e7cd4 | Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 26ef28a | Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| e2296f1 | There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice. | culture evolutionary-process prison | Daniel Quinn | |
| a6e35a1 | This story takes place a half a billion years ago-an inconceivably long time ago, when this planet would be all but recognizable to you. Nothing at all stirred on the land except the wind and the dust. Not a single blade of grass waved in the wind, not a single cricket chirped, not a single bird soared in the sky. All these things were tens of millions of years away in the future. But of course there was an anthropologist on hand. What sort.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| b69907a | We all behave like Maxwell's demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose sonnets and sonatas, and put our rooms in order, and all this we do requires no great energy, as long as we.. | entropy information maxwell organization | James Gleick | |
| 67fc855 | If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 21312b8 | Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did. | James Baldwin | ||
| 3890c5a | It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you. | James Baldwin | ||
| 23fff97 | She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| fc258f6 | I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting g.. | ralph-ellison | Ralph Ellison | |
| 7471bd7 | Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust | favourite-quote tragedy | John Webster | |
| 819cb18 | Last man standing," Amos replied with another grin. "It's in my job description." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| c165da2 | Posthuman. It was a word that came up in the media every five or six years, and it meant different things every time. Neural regrowth hormone? Posthuman. Sex robots with inbuilt pseudo intelligence? Posthuman. Self-optimizing network routing? Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he'd ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were cap.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| d1c5c59 | Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| cb3ed22 | Here's the thing," Amos said. "If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we'd all be doing things, and we'd all wind up having a worse day, just in general." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| fcf383f | It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! | cosmology creation humor physics science stars | George Gamow | |
| 32129e3 | innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 78f7ebe | I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon" | l-m-montgomery redheads spirit temper | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 431ecd0 | Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing. | poem | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ca0b70b | You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you. | growing-up l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery |