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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1daaa60 | People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 63c0fe5 | I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. "They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday," Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never mad.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| c75352d | Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 8428366 | Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it." | janet evanovich | ||
| ab12dc6 | For the most part, Ranger had a consistent personality. He wasn't a guy who wasted a lot of unnecessary energy and effort. He moved and he spoke with an efficient ease that was more animal than human. And he didn't telegraph his emotions. Unless Ranger had his tongue in my mouth it was usually impossible to tell what he was thinking. But every now and then, Ranger would step out of the box, and like a little treat that was doled out on spec.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 59fb98c | Of course it's your fault," Grandma said. "You must be doing something wrong, if you know what I mean. Maybe you need to buy a book that tells you how to do it. I hear there are books out there with pictures and everything. I saw one in the store the other day. It was called A Sex Guide for Dummies." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| cfd698b | If anything happened to you, I'd be so destroyed they'd have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian. | love | Janet Evanovich | |
| 8bd981a | As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ade4631 | A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 907155f | Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now." Valerie - To the Nines" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 95b86a5 | I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionally mature. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e2eb424 | The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives. | faith life mediocrity p315 truth wisdom | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 9334eff | Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love. | life love wants | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 9d6724f | En 1492, los nativos descubrieron que eran indios, descubrieron que vivian en America, descubrieron que estaban desnudos, descubrieron que existia el pecado, descubrieron que debian obediencia a un rey y a una reina de otro mundo y a un dios de otro cielo, y que ese dios habia inventado la culpa y el vestido y habia mandado que fuera quemado vivo quien adorara al sol y a la luna y a la tierra y a la lluvia que la moja. | columbus-day conquista native-americans | Eduardo Galeano | |
| 03cd224 | Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3d4f96f | Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love." | faith gifting journey love | Lois Lowry | |
| a87f5ef | Sometimes I felt that growing up and being a girl was about learning to be afraid. Not paranoid, exactly, but always alert and aware, like checking out the exits in the movie theatre or the fire escape in a hotel. You came to know, in a way you hadn't as a kid, that the body you inhabited was vulnerable, imperfectly fortified. On TV, in the papers, in books and movies, it isn't ever men being raped or kidnapped or bludgeoned or dismembered .. | Claire Messud | ||
| beda79d | Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through. | life | Claire Messud | |
| 3b41b77 | This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 0769672 | No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless." "I" -- | Zadie Smith | ||
| aaa934f | Involved. At least that was the right word, Alsana reflected, as she liftes her foot off the pedal, and let the wheel spin a few times alone before coming to a squeaky halt. Sometimes, here in England, especially at bus-stops and on the daytime soaps, you heard people say "We're involved with each other," as if this were a most wonderful state to be in, as if one chose it and enjoyed it. Alsana never thought of it that way. Involved happene.. | Zadie Smith | ||
| a4bdd75 | She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in the dock. As Dr Byford explained, she was really the victim of a vicious, peculiarly female psycological disorder: she felt one thing and did another. She was a stranger to herself. And were they still like that, she wondered - these new girls, this new generation? Did they still feel one thing and do another? Did they still.. | generation objects women | Zadie Smith | |
| 2e10c93 | Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member of the orchestra--they'll take a cue from a clarinet, from an oboe, even. I am one of those. My writing desk is covered in open novels. I read lines to swim in a certain sensibility, to strike a particular note, to encourage rigour when I'm too sentimental, to bring verbal ease when I'm syntactically uptight. I .. | writing-craft writing-process | Zadie Smith | |
| 1c40b27 | Taylor clapped her hands three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is something my blind meemaw would wear to bingo night. And Miss New Mexico -- aren't you from the chill-out state? Maybe you can channel up some new-age-Whole-Foods-incense calm right about now, because we have a big job ahead called st.. | Libba Bray | ||
| a1edeba | As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefi.. | crazy imagination quick-plot-summary | Libba Bray | |
| 7260f89 | The land has a memory. Every stream and river runs with a confession of sorts, history whispered over rocks, lifted in the beaks of birds at a stream, carried out to the sea. Buffalo thunder across plains whose soil was watered with the blood of battles long since relegated to musty books on forgotten shelves. Fields once strewn with blue and gray now flower with uneasy buds. The slave master snaps the lash, and generations later, the ance.. | lair-of-dreams libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 35c69d6 | Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. "A pro, I see." "What else is there to do in Ohio?" | Libba Bray | ||
| 55bf816 | They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor. | money position truth world | Libba Bray | |
| 1de019f | It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all. | Libba Bray | ||
| 24632ee | What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want. | Libba Bray | ||
| 9902c0e | Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7cd0344 | I've spent the last two hours worried that you were bleeding to death in a ditch," Evie continued. "Now that I know you're okay, I just want you to be bleeding to death in a ditch." "Aww, Lamb Chop, you missed me." | Libba Bray | ||
| 5b3c592 | There are always those perfect times with the people we love, those moments of joy and equality that sustain us later on...These moments are the foundation upon which we build the house that will shelter us into our final years, so that when love calls out, "How far would you go for me?" you can look it in the eye and say truthfully, "Farther than you would ever have thought was possible." | Ann Patchett | ||
| 104c763 | This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bedc069 | I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. | inspirational-attitude monsters | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ffada55 | Listen up. Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.' Sometimes Rant said, 'You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.' If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 48e3c13 | I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 241b449 | Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9abfb53 | So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 14d533a | Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a Book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8fbb488 | Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 007ce84 | This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time. | tyler tyler-durden | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 52e3f65 | The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0d1e24f | Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. | fight-club humor | Chuck Palahniuk |