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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f1c7b99 | A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it. | fate love | Haruki Murakami | |
| 545ae3f | Things change every day, Mr Nakata. With each new dawn it's not the same world as the day before. And you're not the same person you were, either. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bc4ae00 | There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| eef67fc | At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8b0905f | I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 74d3072 | People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have the leisure to be bored, but not to grow tired of something. Most people can't distinguish between the two. | kafka-on-the-shore | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7ae9b6d | If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 91c464b | Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2cd236c | The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground | japan law media terrorism | Haruki Murakami | |
| 99190fa | Folding her arms and closing her eyes, Hatsumi sank back into the corner of the seat. Her small gold earrings caught the light as the taxi swayed. Her midnight blue dress seemed to have been made to match the darkness of the cab. Every now and then her thinly daubed, beautifully formed lips would quiver slightly as if she had caught herself on the verge of talking to herself. Watching her, I could see why Nagasawa had chosen her as his spec.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1abaf54 | And in that moment, he was finally able to accept it all. In the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood. One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root o.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e95698c | We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences. | living poetry | Wisława Szymborska | |
| 80a24a1 | One more comment from the heart: I'm old fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. Homo Ludens dances, sings, produces meaningful gestures, strikes poses, dresses up, revels and performs elaborate rituals. I don't wish to diminish the significance of these distractions-without them human life would pass in unimaginable monotony and possibly dispersion and defeat. But these are group .. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 44cda5b | Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot begin to comprehend the motives of a person who dedicates a large portion of her life to the contemplation of a God in whom she only marginally believes." I felt stunned, as if she had struck me in the diaphragm. She looked down at me, trying to measure the effect of her words. Mary, you believe in the power that the i.. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 702d0ae | Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 79365df | Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 5166f96 | What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself! | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a5fefad | Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 21bf982 | I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 109fb65 | Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 33e1bbd | Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. | Walker Percy | ||
| b29fefc | Stories are a communal currency of humanity. | storytelling | Tahir Shah | |
| 05b1260 | Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up. | Steve Martin | ||
| 67acf1e | I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by heart. It's like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a group who sang a famous song. It's something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there's an.. | curiosity | Cecelia Aherna Ahern | |
| 3bbf125 | Don't ever take it for granted when people look into you're eyes... You've no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it is an angry glare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3a09ed0 | If you can't put magnolia on a wall then there are always a million other colors you can use, if you can't pay your phone bill then just write letters telling them. I'm not playing down the importance of these things, yes you need money for food, yes you need food to survive, but you also need sleep to have energy, to smile to be happy, and to be happy so you can laugh, just so you don't keel over with a heart attack. People forget they hav.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1cc1986 | You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 92bea1e | Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a3ba530 | You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you're doing, where you are, who you're with, and if you're OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and who can protect you from your fears. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 81b74f6 | We see being Flawed as a strength, Celestine. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser. These so-called perfect leaders we have now have never made a mistake. How can they have learned what's right and wrong, how could they have learned anything about themselves? About what they feel comfortable doing, about what they feel is beyond the scope of their character? The more mistake you have .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ca94a3f | Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bcf30ad | If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The last photograph you had of your mother? A birthday gift from your best friend--a bookmark embroidered by her? A ticket stub from the traveling circus that had come through town two years ago, where you and your father held your breath as jeweled.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 51e9184 | You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dd578fc | Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 749a96f | But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ba8ecd2 | Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan. | goals jodi-picoult lone-wolf plans | Jodi Picoult | |
| 62a73bf | I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of the.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7607fc3 | Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4f5eb01 | You have to understand what you're missing before you can really feel a loss. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3621857 | It's the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship. It's not always perfect; it's not always pleasant--but because it is rooted in respect, it is unshakable. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5222eb5 | Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a65220a | She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8016520 | And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3408a3c | Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?" | Jodi Picoult |