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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c036964 | Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| a103000 | The first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ac69306 | Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 954b716 | Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| fade302 | Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 3095800 | Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what's good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck. It comes from analyzing how we process grief and from simply accepting that grief. Sometimes we have less control than we think. Other times we have more. I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 2f71f4b | Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar? | marriage | Georgette Heyer | |
| 724cde9 | You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b6c7e10 | A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 5ff8f24 | Child, you do not know me. You have created a mythical being in my likeness whom you have set up as a god. It is not I. Many times, infant, I have told you that I am no hero, but I think you have not believed me. I tell you now that I am no fit mate for you...My reputation is damaged beyond repair, child. I come from vicious stock, and I have brought no honor to the name I bear. To no women have I been faithful; behind me lies scandal upon .. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| e69e472 | He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results. | courtesy gratitude thank-you | Georgette Heyer | |
| db301a6 | There is honor between bitches | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| a7f893a | Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. | futility interpretation interpretation-of-dreams meaning senselessness | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 206171f | The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 614156b | Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 5cff616 | Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| f63bca3 | I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| e68c3f5 | Again time elapsed. | drew elapsed mystery nancy time | Carolyn Keene | |
| 7a2df66 | Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 24a9ed0 | Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? | T.S. Eliot | ||
| ca8cc1e | James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. [...] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our feelings with ideas; we produce the public, the political, the emotional idea, evading sensation and thought. [...].. | ideas literary writing | T.S. Eliot | |
| 5e4ecc6 | Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stock of nine. There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: 'Stetson! You, who were with me.. | fear humanity london the-wasteland war | T.S. Eliot | |
| cd77cb1 | Democritus and Heraclitus were two philosophers, of whom the first, finding the condition of man vain and ridiculous, never went out in public but with a mocking and laughing face; whereas Heraclitus, having pity and compassion on this same condition of ours, wore a face perpetually sad, and eyes filled with tears. I prefer the first humor; not because it is pleasanter to laugh than to weep, but because it is more disdainful, and condemns u.. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 28524ba | I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 0246e23 | Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| e8460f0 | All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world. | madness van-helsing | Bram Stoker | |
| 7996300 | Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 3e9e16a | Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person (nor are they incompatible). These are beliefs, of course, that one has intuitively about friendships and family; they become less obvious when caught up in a romantic life that mirrors, magnifies, and perpetuates one's own mer.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| e4b0681 | And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing. | Andre Dubus III | ||
| 4167fea | That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 4b09ca2 | Try a little tenderness ... | Sara Zarr | ||
| 8091792 | Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it? | Donna Freitas | ||
| 6bc4030 | Everyone has a price. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 3bb5d81 | Only love can keep anyone alive... | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 486513b | I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 41f3477 | Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm and self-centred. If a man takes their cloak, they are to give him their coat, just to show that material things are of no importance. If people abuse them, they are not to answer back. What does it signify? The things people say of a man do not al.. | freedom oscar personality prison soul soul-of-a-man violence wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
| 3142684 | Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b12a3bc | the Garden of Death" "Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is." | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a54d677 | Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks. | Oscar wilde | ||
| e3202e8 | A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b16900d | MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen! | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 65b80bd | As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 980cb25 | There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.' | Oscar Wilde | ||
| bf43405 | Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. | youth | Oscar Wilde |