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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5cfa0a | Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 143b041 | As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.) | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8ab94e4 | It's crazy isn't it?" She shook her head. "You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to believe it, and I think it's beautiful." She shook her head again. "It's crazy." | the-bible | Katherine Paterson | |
| c5733e0 | I'm sorry." About what?" He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing." | Tanya Huff | ||
| a62ca8c | lqd ntSra l'nWh `sh | Patrick Süskind | ||
| a2b4414 | fj'h m `d yr~ nfsh, 'y 'nh m`d yr~ nfsh kjz mn l`lm ldhy yHyT yh. lqd tmlkh sh`wr lyD` thwn km lw 'nh b`yd jdan fy lkhrj, km lw 'nh yt'ml l`lm bmnZr mqlwb | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 9000c3c | She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful. | nature wild | Gary Paulsen | |
| 4044c20 | I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 273b84c | in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into... | repentance | Daniel Defoe | |
| 84978ca | Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. | customs life | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 871b23f | Happiness like this is frightening....they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| be78cca | Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one. | childhood coming-of-age | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 97d84a9 | That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does. | life-lesson reality thekiterunner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 8dd59a1 | Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food. | honor love redemption | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 8b21d4f | If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds--even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself. | James Hilton | ||
| 32bd583 | Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling... | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 864535e | Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4e94b9d | She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ff511d9 | To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by "society"." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| a45a1fc | Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 058b742 | People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 2331ffe | Aziz winked at him slowly and said: "...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart." | E.M. Forster | ||
| 207528b | Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. | long-term-relationships pride | E.M. Forster | |
| b5a4115 | You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 36ca4d7 | However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch - American flag place mats, patriotic "body crystals," flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I'm small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place .. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 1a57cb7 | A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 4acbf8d | Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy," I assured her. "Your butt got bigger." | humor silly | Gordon Korman | |
| 71d8e41 | Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll-" It was then.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 4f850ee | The caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken." | cahill dan | Gordon Korman | |
| f76be8e | Trato de volver a vivir ese momento, la tierra roja y humeda, el intenso olor de los bosques de pinos y eucaliptos, donde el tapiz de las hojas secas se maceraba, despues del largo y calido verano, y donde la luz cobriza del sol se filtraba entre las copas de los arboles. Trato de recordar el frio, el silencio y esa preciosa sensacion de ser los duenos de la tierra, de tener veinte anos y la vida por delante, de amarse tranquilos, ebrios de.. | Isabel Allende | ||
| b033206 | Escribo, ella escribio, que la memoria es fragil y el transcurso de una vida es muy breve y sucede todo tan deprisa, que no alcanzamos a ver la relacion entre los acontecimientos, no podemos medir la consecuencia de los actos, creemos en la ficcion del tiempo, en el presente, el pasado y el futuro, pero puede ser tambien que todo ocurre simultaneamente, como decian las tres hermanas Mora, que eran capaces de ver en el espacio los espiritus .. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a0e4ab9 | fy 'shd lHZt ly's, Hyn twSd l'bwb wnjd 'nfsn mHshwryn fy zqq msdwd, tnftH dy'man furj@ ymknn lTll mnh. | Isabel Allende | ||
| beede44 | hnk 'ym s`yd@ w'ym Hzyn@. wkl shkhS hw syd Smth | Isabel Allende | ||
| a166b58 | La beso en la mejillla lo mas cerca posible de la boca, deseando con pasion permanecer a su lado eternamente para preservarla de las sombras. Olia a yerbas y tenia la piel fria. Supo que amarla era su destino inexorable. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 880d35c | She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f19326b | The main battlefield of good is not the open ground of the publis arena, but the small clearing of each heart. | Yann Martel | ||
| fedc295 | It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with life they practically need birth certificates. The plot you've mapped out for them is grand, simple and gripping. You've done your research, gathering the facts; historical, social, climatic culinary, that will give your story its feel of authenticity. The dialogue zips along, crackling with tension. The descriptions burs.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 1a426c1 | Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8912fb1 | It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 941c02f | I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first! | funny harrypotter lol safety weasley weasleytwins | J.K. Rowling | |
| 860c3b2 | Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 739338a | The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived. | summer | J.K. Rowling | |
| 40a2fb5 | Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. | decisions doubts | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5f2677a | Bize aslinda kim oldugumuzu gosteren sey, yeteneklerimizden cok secimlerimizdir... | dumbledore harry-potter hermione-granger ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling |