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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99f77be | When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us. | memory past youth | Aimee Bender | |
| 1a4013e | No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness. | beautiful blessing blindness description guilt hope hymn ineffable mood wordless | Aimee Bender | |
| 0c23343 | When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed. | stories truth | Orson Scott Card | |
| 757e81d | Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5a27fdb | Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0cac5aa | Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3e3f806 | Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| effa3a8 | I am a creature of chemicals. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 608e068 | A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2e8f219 | Love is random; fear is inevitable. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d5212b8 | That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends. | friendship life winning | Orson Scott Card | |
| 0783e4e | If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! --Gerul | Brian Jacques | ||
| 5047217 | Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 06705be | Cannot a Beast be tamed? | beauty beauty-and-the-beast romance tamed | Robin McKinley | |
| a2b0d03 | He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 3f3a358 | One can always find something lovely to look at or listen to,' said Anne. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 33aabc5 | For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it... | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 445e24c | Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his .]" | motivation raison-d-être sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| e5a0fc9 | What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever." | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 026ff54 | So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| a876601 | I have taken to living by my wits. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| cc12c23 | I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. | paradise | Henning Mankell | |
| 678236e | But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| e1c3bb1 | It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? | decisions good-and-bad good-and-evil | Anthony Burgess | |
| 0235963 | The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists? | anthony-burgess book-quotes books | Anthony Burgess | |
| 609de0a | Bueno, que me cuelguen si no es ese gordo maloliente, el cabron Billy y toda la porqueria. ?Como estas, botellon de aceite de cocina barato? Acercate, que te dare una en los yarblocos, si es que los tienes, eunuco grasiento. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 94aa9ca | Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say. | anthony-burgess book-quotes books | Anthony Burgess | |
| a3ba8c0 | Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high preaching goloss: '--The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mec.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 0e51f9f | What's all this about sin, eh?' 'That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney. 'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom.. | reason sin | Anthony Burgess | |
| b5dcf34 | We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 40f8888 | Quizas el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien, | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 0a20877 | We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 12f4c64 | The twenty-first chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that huma.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 0ebb024 | Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had. | school-of-life | Anthony Burgess | |
| 2718e4a | When we pray we admit defeat. | motivation spirituality taking-action | Anthony Burgess | |
| 1f12313 | It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness." | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 5194466 | And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| a84d08c | Dreams go by opposites I was once told. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 2036e0e | Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors. | nadsat | Anthony Burgess | |
| 4a6eaa4 | Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 591ad0a | You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. | good-and-evil government-corruption | Anthony Burgess | |
| 8eefec3 | Each man kills the thing he loves | Anthony Burgess | ||
| ee16586 | You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen. | anthony-burgess book-quotes books | Anthony Burgess | |
| ce0d791 | The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. | reality reason reliance society truth | Anthony Burgess |