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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 66411c9 | In the morning, she was not sure that she had slept as much as lived a set of vivid dreams, letting them linger so that she would not have to open her eyes and see the room. | restlessness | Colm Tóibín | |
| 07f7c39 | It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself--in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| be1c6ba | I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and listens and cries. Music does that to her...I didn't understand for a long time. But I do now. The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart. | self-description | Harlan Coben | |
| 1e827f4 | We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be dealing with some industrial-strength shit. Their lives may be in pieces. They may be in the midst of incalculable tragedy and turmoil, and they may be hanging on to their sanity by a thread. But we don't care. We don't see. We just keep pushin.. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 77bc773 | You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too someday... | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0763327 | Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter. | meta | Agatha Christie | |
| b2fe1ba | That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad. | Agatha Christie | ||
| b32bfdc | I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?.. | miss-marple nemesis | Agatha Christie | |
| a520329 | Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else. | Agatha Christie | ||
| a4dd955 | You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love. | generosity love selfishness | Agatha Christie | |
| a3baa38 | You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky." "We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the , comes later." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1e2fbf1 | The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don't want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they have not got the energy to fight. | Agatha Christie | ||
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| fd096f6 | There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| cd2f626 | Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| 11fab54 | It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." - Snipes (185)" | enlightenment ignorance philosophy science sight | Ron Rash | |
| 0f60fc2 | Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| b0be93a | If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two. | jem protectiveness threat | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| df52662 | It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. | margaret-hale north-and-south | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| c2a1320 | The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are. | feminism how-to-be-a-woman life person self | Caitlin Moran | |
| f9cf47c | I'm learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn't observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you're calling it a cunt, biting its tongue and waiting. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0b7fe6e | Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I.. | relationships | Emma Forrest | |
| 0175870 | Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. | the-civil-war the-killer-angels the-south | Michael Shaara | |
| 9fa9bb5 | I don't know why hurting means getting better. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| be470fe | She'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 192496f | You want to know what I'm afraid of? All right, I'll tell you. I'm afraid of men - yes, I'm very much afraid of men. And I'm even more afraid of women. And I'm very much afraid of the whole bloody human race. Afraid of them? Of course I'm afraid of them. Who wouldn't be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas? [...] And when I say afraid - that's just a word I use. What I really mean is that I hate them. I hate their voices, I hate their eyes, I .. | cruel cruelty fear guts hate horrible horror human-race humanity hyenas idiocy idiotic men suicide women | Jean Rhys | |
| a002d9b | Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, .. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 43e6677 | It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned? | heartbreak | Jean Rhys | |
| e2a19fd | It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think? | Jean Rhys | ||
| 944f362 | It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money. | government-spending politics | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 16ac8fd | I think talent is like a water table under the earth--you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. | writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| f992724 | You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 3b7dca8 | The truth is an offense but not a sin Is he who laugh last, children! is he who win Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird One sheep must learn, children! to respect the sheperd | Bob Marley | ||
| e1d6673 | To Fitz and the Fool. My best friends for over twenty years. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 018933f | Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning. | bite brawl fair fight killer lawless lose murderer no-holds-barred poisoner pride rule ruthless skirmish strike win | Robin Hobb | |
| fbbc14b | Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 62efc23 | Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 19a4896 | What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| c41b7e3 | Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")" | Cornell Woolrich | ||
| 7e563ba | If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage? | deceit evil friend friends-betrayal harm life people rage society wrongdoing | Molière | |
| a762a0e | If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential. | feminism gender-roles gender-stereotypes | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| a72c593 | Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth. | Amos Oz | ||
| 2c90c71 | I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself. | Amos Oz | ||
| 8957ad6 | Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, it affects them deeply and has inspired many of their lovliest songs. There is one that tells of this love, if you want to hear it. | Christopher Paolini |