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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bfaa106 | Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d5dec49 | i) We are hard on each other and call it honesty, choosing our jagged truths with care and aiming them across the neutral table. The things we say are true; it is our crooked aims, our choices turn them criminal. ii) Of course your lies are more amusing: you make them new each time. Your truths, painful and boring repeat themselves over & over perhaps because you own so few of them iii) A truth should exist, it should not be used like th.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 57e0440 | What is the real breath of a man -- the breathing out or the breathing in? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3f14bbf | It was the thumbprints of human imperfection that used to move him, the flaws in the design: the lopsided smile, the wart next to the navel, the mole, the bruise. Was it consolation he'd had in mind, kissing the wound to make it better? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ed574c8 | There is never only one, of anyone | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 0421a52 | Why are you so interested in amoebas? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6cbbf43 | Everything is post these days, as if we're all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 899bfcb | You know I love you. You're the only one." "She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them." | lies love manipulation | Margaret Atwood | |
| 9d5fd6c | Laughter distances us from that which is ugly and therefore potentially distressing, and indeed enables us to obtain paradoxical pleasure and therapeutic benefit from it. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 724b345 | Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| f631b39 | You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam" | shadow the-children-of-the-red-king | Jenny Nimmo | |
| 96573e7 | Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. | John O'Donohue | ||
| eb12e0b | Echo, how could you think I would leave you? How can you doubt how I feel? | Katie McGarry | ||
| c181424 | The door flew open, almost smacking me in my face. I opened my mouth to yell at the asshole busting the door, but stopped the moment i came face-to-face with my own personal siren, my nymph-Echo. This time, she wouldn't walk away. Wrapping my arms around her, I walked her backward into the brick. "Tell me you chose me, Echo." She licked her lips. Those green eyes smoldered, calling me to her. "I chose you." For the first time in three ye.. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 1390a31 | Silences seem longer in darkness. I think it's because it's harder to lie when the lights are off. There's a rawness that only belongs to the night and the truth can't help but be set free. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 19615f1 | God, I wish I was free. I wish I was a bird floating in the breeze. | Katie McGarry | ||
| ceb95f4 | We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 31e9444 | We English have perfect eyesight." Alec finally turned to look at her. "Are you jesting with me, wife?" "You decide, husband." "Aye, you are," Alec answered. "I've already learned all about the English sense of humor." "And what have you learned?" "You don't have any." | humor | Julie Garwood | |
| ea76512 | What did you say to the messenger, mi'lady? Do you remember the exact words of your last proposal?" She recognized Quinlan's voice behind her. How in thunder could she possibly remember? Hadn't any of them been listening? She couldn't turn to face Quinlan because their leader still had hold of her, and he didn't seem to be the least bit inclined to let go. "I probably said, 'Will you marry me?'" Connor smiled. He pulled her toward him, lowe.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| c78055a | Sene sovya caba'donde ain dovienya | knives luck mat-cauthon melindhra wheel-of-time | Robert Jordan | |
| 1836bda | The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 9e4225d | Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost? | Robert Jordan | ||
| 8401af0 | Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess | Robert Jordan | ||
| 7c1671d | Remember the flame, lad, and the void." It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it--fear, hate, anger--until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything." | Robert Jordan | ||
| 2b2d384 | All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 38ba980 | of them?" Mat spluttered. "Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!" | Robert Jordan | ||
| d0c154a | In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 4ed534a | You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway. | knowledge wisdom | Robert Jordan | |
| 47eb57c | The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality. While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way. This is particularly true of theories which are based on statistics. The distinctive thing about real facts, however, is their individuality. Not to put too fine a point on it, once could say that the r.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 90e44c0 | Dylan's friend Linus Millberg appears out of the crowd with a cup of beer and shouts, 'Dorothy is John Lennon, the Scarecrow is Paul McCartney, the Tin Woodman is George Harrison, the Lion's Ringo.' ' ,' commands Dylan over the lousy twangy country CB's is playing between sets. 'Easy,' Linus shouts back. "Kirk's John, Spock's Paul, Bones is George, Scotty is Ringo. Or Chekov, after the first season. Doesn't matter, it's like a Scotty-Chekov.. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 985d28c | A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you "make" out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a point, and Profane knew he had reached it, where you know how much you can and cannot do. But every now and again he got attacks of acute optimism." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 20c5dfd | She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold - I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 00f221d | I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6a7764b | I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting your penis in their mouth. | sex | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| dc4bc64 | Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a2096ab | It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ef26b02 | A lot of the time I'd get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in deep space, but not in the fascinating way. It's just that everything was incredibly far away from me. It was worst at night. I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't c.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 45ff1e9 | Years were passing through the spaces between moments. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ee64daa | The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6ecbbd6 | He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father. | men | Ian McEwan | |
| 54b1f8f | Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience. | futility humor | Ian McEwan | |
| a6e3ee4 | Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 7332cc5 | Don't unpack your heart. One detail tells the truth. | Ian McEwan | ||
| b848548 | I squeezed her hand and said nothing. I knew little about Keats or his poetry, but I thought it possible that in his hopeless situation he would not have wanted to write precisely because he loved her so much. Lately I'd had the idea that Clarissa's interest in these hypothetical letters had something to do with our own situation, and with her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect. In the months a.. | Ian McEwan |