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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be20005 | I have all the power, but you will destroy me. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 8d33302 | I love the way you smile at me... knocks me on my arse. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 1cf4201 | Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them. | someone taking-care | Amy Harmon | |
| bf3bf95 | Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look at the spider Suck out that bug's juices! | poetry spiders spiderweb | Bill Watterson | |
| 04b3085 | You know, maybe we don't need enemies." "Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take." | enemies-and-friends friends friendship humor | Bill Watterson | |
| cbf2842 | To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain. | hope | Ann-Marie MacDonald | |
| c42f911 | An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. | David Mitchell | ||
| a71beaf | The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice. | David Mitchell | ||
| 666d0be | How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices. The Chinese didn't want our clothes, tools, or salted herring, and who can blame them? They had no demand. Our solution was to make a demand, by getting large sections of the populace addicted to opium, a drug which the Chinese government had outlawed. When the Chinese understandably objected to this arrangeme.. | drugs hong-kong opium opium-wars | David Mitchell | |
| 2e7330b | Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1ba3180 | Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father's generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. Don't recall its name, but ever since a disciple of the Buddha preached on the spot centuries ago, every bandit king, tyrant, and monarch of that kingdom has enhanced it with marble towers, scented arboretums, gold-leafed domes, lavished murals on its vaulted ceilings, set emeralds into the ey.. | composer immortality music | David Mitchell | |
| 48df4c0 | There are so many cities in every single city. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2fb7c0c | Fear triggers the fight-or-flight response, fueled by adrenaline, which, as it turns out, is chemically related to amphetamines. Granted, it's a very different kind of high for mindfuckers: not a mellow, floaty "my vulva is one with the universe" high but a jittery, revved-up "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck" kind of high. Endorphins are like great downers but adrenaline is uppers all the way. And it's just as addictive. Don't believe me? Go ask an.. | bdsm edge-play sexuality | Tristan Taormino | |
| febc85c | It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b0793e3 | So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower, one whose smart walls had cleaver holes in them that could give her anything: food, a clique of fantastic friends, wonderful clothes. And, best of all, there was this mirror on the wall, so that the princess could look at her beautiful self all day long. The only problem with the tower was that there way no way out. The builders had forgotten to put in an elevator, or .. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| c19332e | The physical beauty...also cleared her mind of worries. Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. | tally tally-youngblood the-uglies | Scott Westerfeld | |
| b803ae5 | For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man. | man manhood rank striving worthy | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 7c6b01c | If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 63b323d | I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| f0f0365 | Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen. | inspirational philosophical-reflection | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 68f7c77 | Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| c1e4083 | Employers sense in me a denial of their values...They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 6db9a5f | Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 5b65c16 | Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 08829ac | The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher .. | Connie Willis | ||
| 9ee5181 | Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich... | poverty-wealth school-reform segregation | Jonathan Kozol | |
| 68f85fc | I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap. | dream | Natalie Babbitt | |
| 6e5ff79 | You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 21d80a4 | All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 72112e4 | Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead... | moving-on-and-letting-go past present | Danielle Steel | |
| cee0a2a | When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be naked, covered in rose petals, and sleeping with the brother of the man who'd kidnapped me. And also he'd be a duke. And possibly my stepbrother. Then one of us would get stabbed with a broken whiskey bottle and/or raped. Turns out the only part I was right about was that one of us was going to get stabbed. | Jenny Lawson | ||
| b7ea645 | Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 6c1506e | I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 14aea94 | What doesn't kill you, makes you fat. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 1822024 | The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away. | existence time world | Henry Miller | |
| 6920030 | The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished. | Henry Miller | ||
| b9f9a29 | Her eyes were so big and bright, as if they saw more than they could comprehend. Bright with terror, and beneath the terror a limitless confusion. That's what made them so beautifully bright. You have to be crazy to see things so lucidly, so all at once. If you're great you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens .. | Henry Miller | ||
| 578b13d | I think that the word does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together. | psychology society | Erich Fromm | |
| 0326c93 | Love is a power which produces love. | amour love | Erich Fromm | |
| a057c9d | It always surprises me when people assume that something an artist has created is based on a true experience or reflects his or her own lifestyle. Often nothing could be farther from the truth. [...] An artist's imagination is his greatest tool. It can create a mood or feeling that people want to have, as well as transport you to a different place altogether. | Michael Jackson | ||
| 0edc3e5 | Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. | progress | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 48ca6ec | It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to see the ghosts of Alfred and Becket. Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago. | philadelphia tradition | G.K. Chesterton | |
| c8642fc | It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty....The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it...we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gain.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 56d66e8 | You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion. | G.K. Chesterton |