1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
1548
1549
1550
1551
1552
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 77c28d9 | Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 39a680d | She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. | gown ivory-hands miss-hale muslin pink pretty tea tea-time teacups | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| b3426ce | You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It's one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God's name; it's another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it's never just a person, or just a meal, or just an e.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 0e180cf | I think a lot of people quit pursuing creative lives because they're scared of the word interesting. My favorite meditation teacher, Pema Chodron, once said that the biggest problem she sees with people's meditation practice is that they quit just when things are starting to get interesting. Which is to say, they quit as soon as things aren't easy anymore, as soon as it gets painful, or boring, or agitating. They quit as soon as they see so.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 506a1f7 | It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid. | parenthood | Caitlin Moran | |
| 6a0119e | I've seen this idea put forward a hundred times - that a proper feminist would do her own hoovering, Germaine Greer cleans her own lavvy, and Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under that horse, hands still pine-y fresh from Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner. On this basis alone, how many women have had to conclude, sighingly, as they hire a cleaner, that they can't, then, be a feminist? But, of course, the hiring of domestic help isn't a case of wom.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 6ab4a1b | I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: "I can't live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets". In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system." | Emma Forrest | ||
| feae7ba | Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey. | cry fright predator prey scare silence silent whine wolf worry | Robin Hobb | |
| 5f24754 | Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies. | eternity fades forgotten moment | Jean Rhys | |
| 1c6d134 | Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary... | Jean Rhys | ||
| 206aaf0 | I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds -- with God's help I catch some. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 287dfda | You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9b827ea | An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 76dd3b3 | Yes, we have different viewpoints represented among us," she continued. "Yes, we have a displacer in our number, and a half giant, and a seedman who publicly disgraced us." "She's talking about you," Drake muttered to Nollin, loud enough to draw a laugh. "No, Drake, I'm talking about you," Farfalee corrected." | brandon delegation humor mull rebellion seeds | Brandon Mull | |
| c80affe | Drake. He liked dangerous pies." "Why did he join you?" "Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?" "Focus. Why did he join you?" "Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 04db274 | We are pack! | nighteyes pack wolf | Robin Hobb | |
| 53fbe91 | Writing is the act of discovery. | writing-advice writing-life | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 2df1e6b | I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label. | labels | Louis L'Amour | |
| 0da5f9b | I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 22bde91 | If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined. | homor | Louis L'Amour | |
| c60e5a5 | If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation | love sin | Anne Brontë | |
| 5c6597b | All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. | thought truth writing | Anne Brontë | |
| 7edcce9 | You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 2fdaab6 | If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. | slander | Anne Brontë | |
| 287f691 | The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the now. The time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. Then in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 38069f8 | There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 84e4152 | No me preguntes por que, porque ni muerta te lo voy a decir. Nunca te voy a decir que te quiero aunque te quiera. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 6be1a8c | Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be livin.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bba8fe0 | I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn't exist, so I didn't leave. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c4cae0b | There was a certain luxury to charity that she could not identify with and did not have. To take "charity" for granted, to revel in this charity towards people whom one did not know--perhaps it came from having had a yesterday and having today and expecting to have tomorrow. She envied them this. ...Ifemelu wanted, suddenly and desperately, to be from the country of people who gave and not those who received, to be one of those who had and .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ddbe2be | We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what a woman is more likely to do. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 519096d | feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear makeup, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humor, you don't use deodorant. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 130bd59 | We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die. | death-and-dying mortality | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| e9f367f | Love, family, accomplishments - they are all torn away, leaving nothing. What is the worth of anything we do? Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| da2b71f | To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. | christopher-paolini inheritance-cylcle | Christopher Paolini | |
| e9e425e | This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3ae9daf | If I did not move and dance between them the three would turn to stone, for they are passive [...] They would fall asleep if I lay still somewhere. Henry, Gonzalo, Hugh. [...] It is only my dancing, my dancing which animates them. I slide out of Gonzalo's bed like a snake. I slide out of Henry's bed. I slide out of Hugh's bed. [...] I dance untrammeled - return to each full of the space in between, that change of air. Dancing, I find my fla.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b3ddb7e | A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all. | music | Rob Sheffield | |
| 70a3567 | You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life." | song-lyrics | Rob Sheffield | |
| 3ccc4e7 | Should haves lead to death | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| dc55bb2 | Riley squinted. He ran his fingers along my neck. When he found the collar he explored the surface and tried to tug it. "No seams. It doesn't fell like metal. The colour is amazing". "Why?" (Trella) "It blends in. It matches your skin. Didn't you know?" (Riley) "No mirrors in my cell." (Trella) He gasped with mock horror. "So cruel! How did you ever survive?" (Riley)" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| b5ac324 | remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their ideas. If you want the wisdom of the crowd, gather it electronically, or in writing, and make sure people can't see each other's ideas until everyone has had a chance to contribute. | Susan Cain | ||
| e5d19c2 | The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings. | introverts passion rewards success | Susan Cain | |
| 9b15403 | We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts -- which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one-third to one half of Americans are introverts -- in other words one out of every two or three people you know. | Susan Cain |