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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 13e92cf | Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. | homosexuality love nature parenting sterility | E.M. Forster | |
| d84a7b4 | It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?" | E.M. Forster | ||
| e3ca6a9 | He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 14507e3 | My father says that there is only one perfect view -- the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it. | perception the-sky view | E.M. Forster | |
| b6cd46c | Science explained people, but could not understand them. | science | E.M. Forster | |
| e506406 | The best part about being a nerd within a community of nerds is the insularity - it's cozy, familial, come as you are. In a discussion board on the Web site Slashdot.org about Rushmore, a film with a nerdy teen protagonist, one anonymous participant pinpointed the value of taking part in detail-oriented zealotry: Geeks tend to be focused on very narrow fields of endeavor. The modern geek has been generally dismissed by society because their.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| b8e27e7 | Wonderful. What's the point of throwing a hissy fit without friends and family on hand to hear it?" -Amy Cahill" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 0f1bcba | Tako se na kapiji, izmedu neba, reke i brda, narastaj za narastajem ucio da ne zali preko mere ono sto mutna voda odnese. Tu je u njih ulazila nesvesna filozofija kasabe: da je zivot neshvatljivo cudo, jer se neprestano trosi i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji cvrsto "kao na Drini cuprija"." | vreme život | Ivo Andrić | |
| 90b22b6 | lktb@ mthl lsh`wdh@ : lykfy khrj 'rnb mn lqb`@ , bl yjb `ml dhlk b'nq@ wTryq@ mmt`@ | writing | Isabel Allende | |
| da9bbab | He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 627219c | When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims. | Yann Martel | ||
| 09c2f19 | Religion is more than rite and ritual. | rite ritual | Yann Martel | |
| 314b583 | So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this wo.. | Yann Martel | ||
| eb3f358 | Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time." Page 212." | Yann Martel | ||
| 768780a | To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun? | Yann Martel | ||
| 2ab16d4 | Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God? | god human-suffering | Yann Martel | |
| 97cd109 | Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. | Yann Martel | ||
| 16bae6a | I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e7e3733 | They were bullyin' him, Hermione, 'cause he's so small!" said Hagrid. "Small?" said Hermione. "Small?" "Hermione, I couldn't leave him," said Hagrid, tears now trickling down his bruised face into his beard. "See -- he's my brother!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 35c32ce | Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight. | innuendo | J.K. Rowling | |
| 253203e | A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b3678bb | I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ee711fd | Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid's pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 60cd6ed | Neither can live while the other survives . . ... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 588a1a4 | but the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable. | ollivander the-wandmaker | J.K. Rowling | |
| c11f67e | Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. "Harry -- yer a wizard." -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| dc42f03 | Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 210ea9e | As a sobbing Wood passed Harry the Cup, as he lifted it into the air, Harry felt he could have produced the world's best Patronus. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8ccfd1f | SCORPIUS: "We send a memory -- like a Pensieve -- stand over him and send a message, hope he reaches for the memory at exactly the right moment. I mean, it's unlikely, but . . . Stand over the baby -- and just repeatedly shout HELP. HELP. HELP. I mean, it might traumatize the baby slightly." ALBUS: "Only slightly." | albus-potter albus-severus albus-severus-potter scorpius scorpius-malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 97b854d | D'you know what that - (he called Snape something that made Hermoine say "Ron!")" - is making me do? I've got to scrub out the bedpans in the hospital wing. Without magic!" He was breathing deeply, his fists clenched. "Why couldn't Black have hidden in Snape's office, eh? He could have finished him off for us!" | detention funny humor ron snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8abbb6d | because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling. | Mark Haddon | ||
| d2dae0a | Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| dce6f1d | I love you," he finally whispered. She leaned forward and touched his face. "I know. And I love you, too." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7363d16 | It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 619e93b | gracias por venir a mi vida y darme alegria, gracias por amarme y recibir mi amor a cambio. Gracias por los recuerdos que seran atesorados por siempre. Pero sobre todo, gracias por mostrarme que llegara un momento en el que finalmente puedo dejarte ir. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 84183b0 | Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b55a730 | I love you,too, Garrett. But sometimes love isn't enough. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 772d17f | I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind: I can't see it, but I can feel it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 35a3000 | I've come to understand that arguing with [my wife] about it has never solved anything. So instead of denying it, I've learned to take her hands, look her in the eyes, and respond with those three magic words every woman wants to hear: "You're right, sweetheart." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b5bbd4d | That's what I don't like about college, by the way. It's like a lot of people don't believe these years really count, so you're allowed to experiment with... whatever. There's such a casual view about things like sex and drinking and even drugs. I know that sounds really old-fashioned, but I just don't get it...to be honest, I'm kind of disappointed in those two people I heard about, and I don't want to sit there trying to pretend that I'm .. | love true-love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 0ce0208 | It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 47a4443 | God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry. | home nicholas-sparks tears the-longest-ride wisdom | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 0c895a0 | You need to learn patience, you grasshopper | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5d44c4d | It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or pr.. | Marisha Pessl |