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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd96290 | Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division. | bob-woodward government military obama-s-war war | Bob Woodward | |
| d5dfe3f | I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men like Belasius wait for them. But I believe there must be one who is God Himself, like the great sea, and all the rest of us, small gods and men and all, like rivers, we all come to Him in the end. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 8108c74 | I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 7588efa | I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you." | comfort feelings shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| ce0c6e5 | What's her name? Claire, what's her name? | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 5a05dce | Myrnin to Claire: "If anyone comes to bite you while I'm gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 33ad0e1 | So, been attacked by any vampires yet?" "Not one." "Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?" It's been really quiet on the supernatural front" "Too bad, 'cause I got attacked by a devil dog. It was not awesome." | dogs fall-of-night giant-spider supernatural vampires water-monster zombie | Rachel Caine | |
| 70726f6 | So we do nothing?" Claire asked. "We do the best nothing you've ever seen." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1ff8938 | Won? He's one of them! How exactly is that winning?" Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. "I don't know, Eve. I'm just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him." "Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend," Eve said grimly. "How sweet. Romance isn't dead. O.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1fc0cb8 | eve)"what?" (claire)"monica got him to ask me. Told them to do this." (eve)"bitch! okay,i take it all back. She needs a good blowtorching." "no",Claire said faintly."Nobody deservs that. Nobody." (eve) "Great.Saint Claire,the patron saint of the kick-me sign." | Rachel Caine | ||
| c233214 | The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--" "You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking." He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means th.. | claire-danvers funny-humor michael-glass | Rachel Caine | |
| dd760da | Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn" | Rachel Caine | ||
| acd40c5 | Georgia O'Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, "from the faraway nearby." It was a way to measure physical and psychic geography together. Emotion has its geography, affection is what is nearby, within the boundaries of the self. You can be a thousand miles from the person next to you in bed or deeply invested in the survival of a stranger on the other side of the world." | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 3359091 | The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace. | page-255 walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| ff91588 | Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable. | walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| dbb1b5d | In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story. | mountains nature page-144 walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| b58c9da | Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, the loose diagonal rhythm of arms swinging in synchronization with legs in a body that felt long and stretched out, almost as sinuous as a snake...when you give yourself to places, they give you.. | travel walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 122ee64 | Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It's a book to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It's for all of us. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| b9af1d0 | Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 06a4a06 | I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot. | David Sedaris | ||
| e200fc3 | I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives. | David Sedaris | ||
| f6fb46e | Have a blessed day." This can make you feel like you've been sprayed against your will with God cologne." | David Sedaris | ||
| 3369a40 | I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me. | David Sedaris | ||
| 401fe51 | I understand I've made an unusual lifestyle choice. But the label 'crazy' bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response. When someone asks if you're crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say yes, which makes you crazy, or you can say no, which makes you sound defensive, as if you fear that you really are crazy. There's no good answer. | hermit isolation solitude | Michael Finkel | |
| e6a0004 | Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. | Michael Finkel | ||
| 2747787 | I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. | gods mischief moon | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 272baad | So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected. | hero story | Cornelia Funke | |
| 86a1514 | She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| a73c173 | Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 28b0238 | Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault. (341) | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 05094f1 | I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed. | William Saroyan | ||
| 469b234 | And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f71d567 | They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f759bf7 | The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual life is. All these people thinking they're hardheaded materialistic practical types, they don't know shit about matter, their heads are full of dreamy ideas and notions. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f9425f5 | Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148) | prude religion sexuality | Jack Kerouac | |
| ac897e9 | I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. | books creativity determination dreams endurance famous-authors famous-quotes-from-classic-books genius jack-kerouac language literary-inspiration literature nanowrimo national-poetry-month prolific-authors the-writing-life words writers writers-and-writing | Aberjhani | |
| 32e1545 | I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones? | jack-kerouac pride skeleton | Jack Kerouac | |
| f05ac20 | What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?" She didn't know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| e5745d1 | Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 399157e | The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now. That's the story. That's the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they're all running around like chickens with heads cut off. I will try to teach it but it will be in vain, s'why I'll end up in a shack praying and being cool and singin.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 3d58ee8 | Any drinker knows how the process works: the first day you get drunk is okay, the morning after means a big head but so you can kill that easy with a few more drinks and a meal, but if you pass up the meal and go on to another night's drunk, and wake up to keep the toot going, and continue on to the fourth day, there'll come one day when the drinks wont take effect because you're chemically overloaded and you'll have to sleep it off but can.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| fc4b149 | Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifference n'apprend rien: c'etait un leurre, une illusion fascinante et piegee. Tu etais seul et voila tout et tu voulais te proteger: qu'entre le monde et toi les ponts soient a jamais coupes. Mais tu es si peu de chose et le monde est un si grand mot: tu n'as jamais fait qu'errer dans une grande ville, que longer sur quelques kilometres des facades, des devantures, des pa.. | indifference solitude | Georges Perec | |
| bd4d5bb | What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down. | Georges Perec | ||
| 74676b1 | she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her. | Ford Madox Ford |