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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56f397c | How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything? | Zadie Smith | ||
| f6b6be5 | Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 78c48bc | and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) | Zadie Smith | ||
| a43055c | What do we want from our mothers when we are children? Complete submission. Oh, it's very nice and rational and respectable to say that a woman has every right to her life, to her ambitions, to her needs, and so on--it's what I've always demanded myself--but as a child, no, the truth is it's a war of attrition, rationality doesn't come into it, not one bit, all you want from your mother is that she once and for all admit that she is your mo.. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 62a2acb | we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless-- have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating t.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 0ca733e | I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention. | Libba Bray | ||
| c20fa89 | Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted. | excitement libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 9bb7dd4 | Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word? | Libba Bray | ||
| 28eef68 | Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries. | Libba Bray | ||
| 327bad3 | Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window." | Libba Bray | ||
| daae04b | HI. I'm from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream. | Libba Bray | ||
| cf0e3c1 | Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself? | libba-bray queen | Libba Bray | |
| 19e32c0 | Evie winked at Sam and he whispered low in her ear, making her neck tingle. "Sister, together, we could be a hell of a team." | Libba Bray | ||
| 2500658 | I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den. | Libba Bray | ||
| 2ac6f90 | We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific. | Libba Bray | ||
| b16d62a | All the stories go with you, Franny thought, closing her eyes. All the things I didn't listen to, won't remember, never got right, wasn't around for. All | Ann Patchett | ||
| eb117d7 | The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 49d3c38 | Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. | love | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 3b2e771 | I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel's face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That's the rule. If it's your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3d18266 | There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cbf23db | You decide your own level of involvement. | cooperation self-control social-activism tyler-durden willpower | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| f5715e0 | Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 52c44b7 | Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8e1af48 | Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 452aef1 | It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ecbef18 | Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 07598fa | Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c34b950 | It's not true that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. At least, not all of it. Some of your life might flash. Other portions of your life it might take you years and years to recall. That, I think, is the function of Hell: It's a place of remembering. Beyond that, the purpose of Hell is not so much to forget the details of our lives as it is to forgive them. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6c35e15 | You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b6450f1 | It's all about family [jake]. It was always about family. It will always be that way if I have anything to say about it. | Fern Michaels | ||
| e2ee2f8 | No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space. | spiders | Bill Bryson | |
| 957d726 | Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can. | travel | Bill Bryson | |
| 9dbe92f | Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking up from a long coma. | Bill Bryson | ||
| aaf6e41 | The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose | Bill Bryson | ||
| 358c413 | Brain cells last as long as you do. You are issued with a hundred billion or so at birth and that is all you are ever going to get. It has been estimated that you lose five hundred of them an hour, so if you have any serious thinking to do there really isn't a moment to waste. | Bill Bryson | ||
| e54a568 | Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| afdce74 | If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| a9f593e | Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do? | love | Laura Dave | |
| 6a0f551 | Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?" | humor music sex | E. L. Konigsburg | |
| 16650a0 | But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8f0e2f9 | Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8f0c9df | This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 686b0fd | Problems of the heart always bruised the soul. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6b7cdaa | Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there. | reality | Paulo Coelho |