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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 073d344 | That they were torn from mistakes they had no chance to fix; everything unfinished. All the sins of love without detail, detail without love. The regret of having spoken, of having run out of time to speak. Of hoarding oneself. Of turning one's back too often in favour of sleep. I tried to imagine their physical needs, the indignity of human needs grown so extreme they equal your longing for wife, child, sister, parent, friend. But truthful.. | world-war-2 | Anne Michaels | |
| 21a199e | Love makes hunters of us all. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 00f74b6 | That moment I felt a bit like crying. I don't really know why. Nana's hand felt so warm that it even warmed my heart. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| d221015 | But I wonder if there is a place I fit in? | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 713ccd3 | This is the story of V and me. Look. Each person has the possibilities of being simultaneously several beings, having several lives. The good family man doesn't have a sense of responsibility. Simultaneously, he's my angel. Simultaneously, his family's a pack of incontinent dogs. In front of men such as him who believe they're respectable, I love to talk about who they really are, the people they don't want to know and socially and politica.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| cf99604 | War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. | peace war | Philippa Gregory | |
| ac032ba | Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 1de3b75 | To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 638c37e | In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 65b506c | The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite. | medical | Richard Preston | |
| ae1501f | I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b8596fe | I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| eb08051 | Why?' She nods. 'She had everything: a family who loved her, friends, activities. Her mother wants to know why she threw it all away?' Why you want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and falls off, roll in coarse salt, then put on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight. Smoke gunpowder and go to s.. | anorexia-nervosa anorexic self-harm starve suicide why | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 0fbaa8d | I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn't used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c67fb60 | I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b0360fd | In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 1b216f0 | If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| dc0407b | All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 39a22e5 | The purpose of Art," his mother, Sylvie, said--instructed even--"is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 98bf3d0 | Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good. | John Fowles | ||
| 4a398d7 | You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad." | John Fowles | ||
| d99f91b | I'm thinking that it will be autumn soon," she said, lifting her gaze to his. "Autumn is my absolute favorite season. Spring is overrated. It's soggy and the trees are still bare from winter. Winter drags on and on, and summer is nice, but it's all the same. Autumn is different. I mean, is there any perfume in the world that can compare with the smell of burning leaves?" she asked with an engaging smile. Matt thought she smelled a hell of a.. | love | Judith McNaught | |
| ce1dd83 | Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go. | Judith McNaught | ||
| e8ef908 | We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 4113931 | There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the comings and goings of the town, his presence softened the ingrained evil that flourished along the invisible margins of the town's consciousness. Any community can be judged in its humanity or cor.. | kindness pat-conroy southern | Pat Conroy | |
| cf1aec6 | I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood. | Barry Lopez | ||
| a24efcd | Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. | life | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 3163346 | I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a03e650 | No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ef2399f | Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ ; November 16, 1857]" | precision storytelling writing | Henry David Thoreau | |
| c86104d | Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness. | zealousness | Terry Eagleton | |
| bd02045 | Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.... | Terry Eagleton | ||
| 6fa4ed2 | You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. | Norton Juster | ||
| f7980b3 | Outside the window, there was so much to see, and hear, and touch -- walks to take, hills to climb, caterpillars to watch as they strolled through the garden. There were voices to hear and conversations to listen to in wonder, and the special smell of each day. And, in the very room in which he sat, there were books that could take you anywhere, and things to invent, and make, and build, and break, and all the puzzle and excitement of every.. | Norton Juster | ||
| 8cc440e | And remember, also...that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. | Norton Juster | ||
| 3ffbe43 | Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 46408cf | Women and music should not be dated. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 3d182b7 | It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 42098ca | Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear. | James Baldwin | ||
| cb50b92 | She knows Daddy better than I do. I think it's because she's felt since we were children that our Daddy maybe loved me more than he loves her. This isn't true, and she knows that now--people love different people in different ways--but it must have seemed that way to her when we were little. I look as though I just can't make it, she looks like can't nothing stop her. If you look helpless, people react to you in one way and if you look stro.. | family-relationships sisters | James Baldwin | |
| 47b7ac1 | There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. | James Baldwin | ||
| 0940adf | Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. | James Baldwin | ||
| 0f217af | It was a gesture of great despair and I knew that she was giving herself, not to me, but to that lover who would never come. | James Baldwin | ||
| f1f7957 | One of the most terrible, most mysterious things about a life is that a warning can be heeded only in retrospect: too late. | James Baldwin |