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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3fb382d | Well," I say brightly, "we're getting on splendidly, aren't we? Glad to see you're all becoming friends over your mutually violent desires." | derrick elizabeth-may fae gavin kairan pixies the-falconer | Elizabeth May | |
| a24e20b | All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't think it's that simple." "Sure it is." "The earth moved," she said softly. "That has to be more than bodies communicating." | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | ||
| e1312b7 | I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped... | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 001a476 | Because survival is insufficient. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| a7955d0 | I am not gone but merely walk within you. | Nicholas Evans | ||
| c7204d7 | Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble. | man secret trouble | Sophie Kinsella | |
| db5dac8 | If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 530a6a3 | You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy! | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 049690f | Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6f9808a | She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| f0b7228 | There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way. | humor method wisdom | Margaret Atwood | |
| 9ae474a | Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6fb180e | He'd developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 12f3ae4 | But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| a43c224 | He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 73ff51e | I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias. We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourse.. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 1a52fd5 | We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields - and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian. | humor | Dodie Smith | |
| 44bf38e | On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time is transfiguration. Time minds possibility and makes sure that nothing is lost or forgotten. That which seems to pass away on the surface of time is in fact transfigured and housed in the tabernacle of memory. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 1fb4afc | It's an innocent kiss at first. Soft lips meeting; a gentle pressure that creates a slow burn. The type of kiss you give to someone that means something. This isn't the type of kiss to be wasted on me. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 0c8aa3d | Raw emotions and the need to hold him close overwhelmed me. Every part of ached for him-my mind, my soul and my body. Without hesitation, i closed the gap between us and pressed my lips eagerly to his. Noah's hands were everywhere, my hair, my face, my back, and for the love of all things holy, my breasts. My hands roamed his glorious body just as greedily. After drugging me with delicious kisses for not nearly long enough, his warm lips s.. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 76341d9 | I'm still not good enough for a girl like her, but she's back in my life and she needs someone to protect her. I'll fill the role and absorb as much of her light as I can before she leaves me behind in the darkness. | Katie McGarry | ||
| d83a443 | Everything is changing. My relationships are changing, my future is changing, my feelings are changing. My life is one big constant state of flux. I grew up scared of spiders, bees and dark corners in dimly lit basements. But this foe...change...it terrorizes me like nothing before. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 7937d79 | I've got you. I promise. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 787998d | Everything in her life was in flux and she needed strong, steady and stable. Oddly, she found those three things in me. Who would ever have guessed I'd be the reliable sort? | Katie McGarry | ||
| 53b6954 | we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay. | haley love power west | Katie McGarry | |
| 332d324 | The surgical nurses were right. Theo Buchanan was gorgeous.. and sexy as hell. But none of that should matter. She was his physician, nothing more, nothing less.. His hair was sticking up and he needed a shave, but he was still sexy. There wasn't anything wrong with her noticing that.. unless, of course, he noticed her noticing. | Julie Garwood | ||
| a03d128 | Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not. | Robert Jordan | ||
| c8d9537 | When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back. | wheel-of-time | Robert Jordan | |
| e778d1d | That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 85b07b5 | Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die. | Robert Jordan | ||
| ce24b7c | If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 4c5a056 | If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory." | faith glory god hearts letting-go life thankfulness | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 6bbff79 | I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves ! | Erica Jong | ||
| 52650cd | All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. | Erica Jong | ||
| b50a5bb | And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethre.. | families-of-victims murder terrorism | Barack Obama | |
| 2b6e612 | What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 3bc540f | I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. | pride | Alice Munro | |
| 8ea140c | And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 2504c74 | I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 9525cb2 | It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world." "But it was not the end of the world," Grandfather said. "It was. He just did not come." "Why did he not come?" "This was the lesson we learned from everything that happened - there is no God. It took all of the hidden faces for Him to prove this to us." "What if it was a challenge of your faith?" I said. "I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this." "Wha.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9bbd5bb | It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 93ab583 | Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a8a75fe | Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e2064b4 | When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep. | Nick Hornby |