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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 08beaf0 | I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 072827f | Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectual mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 69cd299 | INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD Janey dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks instead of objects. Janey has to fuck. This is the way Sex drives Janey crazy: Before Janey fucks, she keeps her wants in cells. As soon as Janey's fucking she wants to be adored as much as possible at the same time as, its other extreme, ignored as much as possible. More than this: Janey can no longer perceive herself wanting. Janey is Want. It.. | eurydice sex want | Kathy Acker | |
| 9b401cf | the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2f7ec3d | Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other. | monarchy women | Philippa Gregory | |
| e1f446b | Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lo.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 97d180d | Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim. | fiction henry-viii historical-fiction katherine | Philippa Gregory | |
| 518ec11 | Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger. | history margery-jourdemayne women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 9e8169c | He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne. | historical romance | Philippa Gregory | |
| 8b935e2 | Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 266a9bc | I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 759da3e | Ouch," he said. "Move your foot." "No." "Go away." "Glad to see you, too." "What are you doing here?" I asked. "You missed the bus," he said. "I'm sick." "Need chicken soup?" "Actually, it's my period," I lied. "Killer cramps." "Chocolate and a heating pad?" "How do you know that?" "I have an older sister and my mom is a kick-ass feminist," he said. "I'm probably the only guy in school who can buy tampons without having a seizure. Look, at .. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e4eb543 | The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e0f8fdb | The rules are very strict... | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 8a6524c | I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 9b6c87e | Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 1a429c9 | If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. | atheist coward intelligence | John Fowles | |
| 5c0edc3 | But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them. | shed tears | Judith McNaught | |
| db636c8 | Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers. | strangers | Pat Conroy | |
| 1adc6ae | Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up. | Pat Conroy | ||
| ef25056 | They keep telling you, when you're older, you'll have experience--and that's supposed to be so great. What would you say about that, sir? Is it really any use, would you say?" "What kind of experience?" "Well--places you've been to, people you've met. Situations you've been through already, so you know how to handle them when they come up again. All that stuff that's supposed to make you wise, in your later years." "Let me tell you somethin.. | life life-advice | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 24327c3 | I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4cc1313 | We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8598768 | Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish. | Graham Masterton | ||
| a52af53 | It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking, | Maureen Johnson | ||
| e5791e6 | i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole .. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 6091b04 | Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 0042b71 | She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.) | humor humour | Maureen Johnson | |
| 1f55506 | She couldn't take her eyes off the boxers. Mostly, she had a view of the back, but he turned halfway when he looked over. She commanded herself not to look at the front flap, which, of course, was exactly what she honed in on. He spit and put his mouth under the tap to get some water. All while just wearing underwear. All while she just stared at the crucial spot of the Action Pants. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 35ea19b | Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 1089517 | The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: | culture failure progress | Daniel Quinn | |
| c382297 | A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!" | homelessness jobs objectivism poverty | Daniel Quinn | |
| 73fe4f4 | You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live... I think there are many among you who would be glad to release the world from captivity... This is what prevents them: They're unable to find the bars of the cage. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 740acbb | Charity ... is the opium of the privileged; from the good citizen who habitually drops ten kobo from his loose change and from a safe height above the bowl of the leper outside the supermarket; to the group of good citizens (like youselfs) who donate water so that some Lazarus in the slums can have a syringe boiled clean as a whistle for his jab and his sores dressed more hygienically than the rest of him; to the Band Aid stars that lit up .. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 95e5b1d | It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make t.. | racism | James Baldwin | |
| 1acd37d | I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c25bbe8 | And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself. | Robert Cormier | ||
| dd0c05e | He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 6dfa172 | That man's asshole must be tight enough right now to bend space. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 13c31cc | No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| bedfc3a | Murtry swung first, so technically, that was self-defense. And if I'd wanted him dead, don't you think he'd be dead? It's not like I quit hitting him because I was tired. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| cfb215c | Once is never. Twice is always. | once pessimism quip twice wisdom | James S.A. Corey | |
| 7216fef | If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur. Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She'd look up through a dome-covered sky at the great red spot, close enough to see the swirls and eddies of a storm larger than her home world. She'd tasted water thawed from ice as old as the solar system itself. And it was that human dissatisfaction, that human audacity that ha.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 05261dd | I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. | physics science | Richard P. Feynman |