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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46a483d | I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| dead11a | What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2a5b625 | People say the magic has gone out of the moon now that someone's stood on it. I don't think so. It would take more than a man's foot to steal the moon. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5d02c3b | They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, travelling the world and the seven seas but looking for a reason to stay. I am not looking, I've found what it is I want... I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It mean.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c8e84e9 | When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while? | Günter Grass | ||
| db4b189 | The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. | caring death hindsight knowledge | Joanne Harris | |
| da8b63a | We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 5eb974c | Sticks and stones may break my bones', as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 64d04b8 | she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait until you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until he died.. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| fa526a0 | Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 6b836f7 | I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the tingles. Those warm, excited feelings, the chill bumps, that sense of acceptance, the excitement of the touch that make up the tingles serve as the cherry on top of the sundae. But you cannot have a sundae with only the cherry. | failure-relationship falling-in-love long-term-appreciation long-term-relationships sense-of-falling-in-love successful-marriage | Gary Chapman | |
| 656af6b | That was some weird shit," George W. reportedly said with characteristic Texas bluntness. I couldn't have agreed more." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 2649fe3 | Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have. | Tim Tharp | ||
| 43453b5 | So much crueller than any British colony, they say, so much more brutal towards the local Africans, so much more manipulative after begrudgingly granting independence. But the history of British colonialism in Africa, from Sierra Leone to Zimbabwe, Kenya to Botswana and else-where, is not fundamentally different from what Belgium did in the Congo. You can argue about degree, but both systems were predicated on the same assumption: that whit.. | Tim Butcher | ||
| 47fa367 | Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| ecd5bb0 | Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?" | Louis Sachar | ||
| f4f6309 | We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 788e754 | Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 20460f2 | There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 9b033bb | Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 174a062 | And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 8b3a9e3 | What the hell are you doing up there?' So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been so kind to him as to award him this ecstasy, retributively was going to kill him now. He lost his footing and grabbed for the chimney but missed. Head over thighs he rolled out like a child's toy, smashed into the poking branches of the damn pear tree, which probably saved his life, breaking his fall. He landed with a thud.. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 2970cd1 | There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. | insightful poignant | Anthony Powell | |
| d600a76 | This letter, my very dear Eliza, will not be delivered to you unless I shall first have terminated my earthly career to begin, as I humbly hope from redeeming grace and divine mercy, a happy immortality. If it had been possible for me to have avoided the interview, my love for you and my precious children would have been alone a decisive motive. But it was not possible without sacrifices which would have rendered me unworthy of your esteem... | Ron Chernow | ||
| a69f776 | Without language the only people the rebels can kill are themselves. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 8a7449f | Heart disease syphilis pregnancy All you creeps on the street get away from me | Kathy Acker | ||
| 565d3fc | TODAY I THINK MY RELATIONSHIP WITH HELL IS OVER. It was hell, the ancient hell. Hell: I believed that if I loved V enough, we would love each other. All I know is that I've been returned to earth violently; I've a duty to myself to survive and to see what is. I have to deal with the truth, with nothing else. Did V's charity to me almost cause my death? I, starving, fed on the dream that V loved me and I lived a lie. So forgive me, You who k.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 395c62c | 'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts... | Kathy Acker | ||
| cb9cd66 | Have started your book. Shit, you're smart. I'm at the edge of being totally awed; if I get in any more awe of you, I won't be able to gossip to you especially about sex and relationships - that always fascinates me most of all. Now I'm writing like Jelinek. Fuck, I'm a style sponge. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 443f2a6 | There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 438dcd1 | It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something. | funny humor humour size | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| e28f900 | Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschlaferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity,.. | medicine princess war | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 23fd76c | All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| dff0344 | When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake. | gregory mary | Philippa Gregory | |
| d5c398a | You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| bf3dc78 | For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| aea261f | Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c658c9e | The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose. | patience trick | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| d9826a3 | I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode. | daughters relationships | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 006069a | We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 75b5927 | Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong. | encouragement loneliness memories safe scared strength | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| e04d4da | Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared. | good inspirational laurie-halse-anderson motivational scared the-impossible-knife-of-memory | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| ce693e4 | Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 3cde1be | I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |