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| de93db8 | Top Gun," I whispered to Lindsey. We'd started pointing out Luc's ubiquitous pop culture references, having decided that because he cut his fangs in the Wild West, he'd been entranced by movies and television. You know, because living in a society of magically enhanced vampires didn't require enough willing suspension of disbelief. -Merit in Chloe Neill's Friday Night Bites" | friday-night-bites vampire | Chloe Neill | |
| 9edc027 | It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children. | Dai Sijie | ||
| d7c83bb | I had to work so hard to find myself again, Alexandr." There was pain in her voice. "I was so lost without you. You left me raw and wounded and trapped in a dark place with no windows or doors. I didn't know how to live without you. I didn't know how to smile or feel or be. It took almost two years before I really accepted that it was over and I had to find a way to go on. I made myself strong. I'm alive again. I can wake up some mornings a.. | go-on happy lost love peace | Christine Feehan | |
| 4091d29 | You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady. | lady life loner | Christine Feehan | |
| 5daf182 | Arthur, you mustn't feel that I am rude when I say this. You must remember that I have been away in strange and desert places, sometimes quite alone, sometimes in a boat with nobody but God and the whistling sea. Do you know, since I have been back with people, I have felt I was going mad? Not from the sea, but from the people. All my gains are slipping away, with the people round me. A lot of the things which you and Jenny say, even, seem .. | T.H. White | ||
| e5efcaa | Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds | T.H. White | ||
| e178389 | He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas. | maturity | T.H. White | |
| a890494 | It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism, to make the grand renunciation. But it takes two to make love, or to make a quarrel. She was not an insensate piece of property to be taken up or laid down at his convenience. You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover's soul was not you own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it. | guenever lancelot | T.H. White | |
| 4cfb29f | They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them. | arthur guinevere honeymoon ill-made-knight lancelot once-and-future-king | T.H. White | |
| 7ea1d61 | Be patient. Be authentic. And be consistent. The trust will come. | Ed Catmull | ||
| e180897 | Y en ese momento, juro que eramos infinitos. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0b70458 | Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 14054b2 | There are other people who have it a lot worse | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9be159b | Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. | slavery | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 9597a9e | No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1ef5dd6 | My dear Socrates ... you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you may confuse them about things they've been doing just fine without getting in trouble. You are destroying people's illusions about themselves. You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don't understand. And you have no answer;.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 4d7e483 | Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship | Ann M. Martin | ||
| 747ec5f | Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection. | Francine Pascal | ||
| 181bacf | There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time...until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| b2b2053 | I'm saying this because it's said breaths are stolen during a passionate kiss. That's not true, Gavin, because I literally can't breathe before your lips even touch mine. I try, but I'm unable to. I can't think when you look at me. You strip my mind bare. You always have, and it's beautiful and consuming. It's magical and everything a girl is supposed to feel. It's said you're truly in love with someone if your skin tingles from their touch.. | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| 566e859 | We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum." | Michael Eric Dyson | ||
| fee470d | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. | agape-love american-history black-history-month civil-rights-movement compassion-heals-lives conflict-resolution courage dreams faith famous-authors famous-speeches great-leaders hope human-rights-day humanity i-have-a-dream-speech leadership love martin-luther-king-day martin-luther-king-jr mlk-day mlkdream50 national-history-day nonviolence nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings spiritual-visions spirituality strength voting-rights-act-of-1965 | Aberjhani | |
| 1e1c320 | I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted. | love trust | Robin Wasserman | |
| bc346df | Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice. | feminism lesbianism practice theory | Alison Bechdel | |
| d424509 | When a child is lost there is no end to the self-torment a parent may inflict. When we love, and the object of our love is small, weak, and vulnerable, and has looked to us and us alone for protection; and when such protection, for whatever reason, has failed, what consolation (what justification, what defense) may there possibly be? | George Saunders | ||
| 396b003 | I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 32b1cba | I am not in charge of this House, and never will be. I have no say about who is in and who is out. I do not get to make the rules. Like Job, I was nowhere when God laid the foundations of the earth. I cannot bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion. I do not even know when the mountain goats give birth, much less the ordinances of the heavens. I am a guest here, charged with serving other guests--even those who present th.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 9482b62 | A dog - a collie - went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. "Shoo," Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand." | sookie-stackhouse-novels | Charlaine Harris | |
| b0410e4 | I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there | Charlaine Harris | ||
| cb85c40 | I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4bc6615 | And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone | romantic sweet | Charlaine Harris | |
| 0e9e85d | I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b143351 | Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn't even known I was in the pool | dead-and-gone sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 7adac16 | I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us. | paranormal romance ronda-thompson untamed-one werewolf werewolves | Ronda Thompson | |
| e41d978 | What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4ea9cc6 | Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 314e56e | There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 79d9c01 | It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness. "Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation." The decision to let go our grievances against other people is the decision to see ourselves as we truly are, because any darkness we let blind us to another's perfection also bl.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 59e1ecc | Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment--or unlearning--of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ea2e8da | Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face. | hope | Marianne Williamson | |
| 95d8c75 | Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. | Richard Peck | ||
| 65ea52e | One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| d3e49c8 | His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 44384c1 | I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage--not like the marriage you have with Cam--until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself. | love marriage | Lisa Kleypas |