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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc8541a | The universe knows someone is missing, and slowly it attempts to replace him. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fe4ce27 | I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a7140d2 | It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods, | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a2fc69b | It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6604fca | Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Being open about who you were at a moment in time when you were in a difficult or an impossible place matters more than anything. Having a place the story starts and a place it's going, that's important. Telling your story as honestly as you can and leaving out the things you don't need, that's vital. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d513059 | It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3c55ad8 | I like things to be story-shaped. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f957531 | The witch was as old as the mulberry tree She lived in the house of a hundred clocks She sold storms and sorrows and calmed the sea And she kept her life in a box. | trigger-warning witch witch-work | Neil Gaiman | |
| abfb939 | He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e1c0fec | Once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed and breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole,' and they would become whole, not be broken people, not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9cd9db2 | The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: " | confluence creative-process ideas writing | Neil Gaiman | |
| 72ded15 | And on the subject of naming animals, can I just say how happy I was to discover that the word yeti, literally translated, apparently means "that thing over there." ("Quick, brave Himalayan Guide - what's that thing over there?" "Yeti." "I see.")" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b20233d | I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 23998bc | Life is sad. Here is someone. | lovers | Lorrie Moore | |
| 168f3d9 | We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 0b31b1e | I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you can't have it." Buy my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I don't need .. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 78bf097 | You're in trouble. Do you expect me to just walk away?" "I wouldn't hold it against you if you did." "In know you wouldn't. That's only one of the reasons I'm crazy about you. I've got a million more." "Just a million?" "Okay, a million plus one--your cat." She giggled. "You're bonding with Saladin?" "Somebody has to protect that cat from your cousin Ian. And I feed him. The cat. Not Ian. He's on his own. Anyway, if that doesn't get me Perf.. | Jude Watson | ||
| bd0b27c | The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 059c568 | person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, | Robert Greene | ||
| b735f97 | Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on. | Robert Greene | ||
| 6942b78 | If you lead the sucker down a familiar path, he won't catch on when you lead him into a trap. | Robert Greene | ||
| e22b8f0 | Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own. | Robert Greene | ||
| b164394 | I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. | Robert Louis Stevenson with an introduction by Sid Hite | ||
| d5d8d70 | Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man.... Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations--they are the device of another to get you into his power.... (Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658) PART | Robert Greene | ||
| 3b82b86 | Everything in life can be taken away from you and generally will be at some point. Your wealth vanishes, the latest gadgetry suddenly becomes passe, your allies desert you. But if your mind is armed with the art of war, there is no power that can take that away. In the middle of a crisis, your mind will find its way to the right solution. Having superior strategies at your fingertips will give your maneuvers irresistible force. As Sun-tzu s.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 0387433 | If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 6e19515 | This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8a75a2f | At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fccd5c2 | When you're in bed, you're dead | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1019890 | Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 37e96b0 | Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. | Mitch Albom | ||
| aead461 | That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b73f14d | Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way." | family-tree | Mitch Albom | |
| 5c91616 | She wasn't easy on me, don't get me wrong. She smacked me. She scolded me. She punished me. But she loved me. She really did. She loved me falling off a swing set. She loved me stepping on her floors with muddy shoes. She loved me through vomit and snot and bloody knees. She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fe40d05 | This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died--what I call your 'spiritual security'--knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. | life love security truth | Mitch Albom | |
| ade6621 | Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| bdcaf69 | Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK! | insult nonsense otulissa | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 6bc39a6 | I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still cannot see. (Mrs. Plithiver) | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| dbf661c | Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is first black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 3849c56 | One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma) | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 9fe0d08 | There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed tea. And three mugs -- one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| b6cb390 | This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect. | city edinburgh intellect | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 57f61da | You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 66d7d3c | American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World | disney-world humor | Adam Gopnik |