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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e9ecaa5 | On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time. | luck | Janet Evanovich | |
| b32ef2f | You don't have a drop of paint on you," I said. "Why is that?" Ranger smiled, liking that he hadn't gotten hit. "I guess they were hunting pussy." "But I walked into the Motherfuckers room." "Yeah, but babe, your clearly pussy." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 49a7f1a | Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9e51ab8 | Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe." | god | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 92d0684 | Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. | love truth will | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| c74a878 | Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They want God to take them as they are and let them stay that way. They want Him to take away their love of riches, but not their riches--to purge them of the disgust of sin, but not of the pleasure of sin. Some of them equate goodness with indifference to evil and think that God is good if He is broad-minded or tolerant about evil... | sanctification | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 9e5d4e7 | Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6e66388 | You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone. For that you must be part of, and rooted in, an olive grove. This truth was once beautifully conveyed by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his interpretation of a scene from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude: Marquez tells of a village where people were afflicted with a strange plague of forgetfulness, a ki.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 6def1d3 | I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you have a middle class." I think this is a very useful insight. The existence of large, stable middle classes around the world is crucial to geopolitical stability, but middle class is a state of mind, not a state of income. That's why a majority of Americans always describe themselves as "middle class," even tho.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| e2b184b | No matter what your profession - doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant - if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer. | Thomas L Friedman | ||
| d5576b6 | Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| a976ebf | Evil can do anything, for a price. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0f90478 | I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore.... | difficulties friendship letting-go moving-on relationship sister | Lois Lowry | |
| 7c2d970 | You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.' Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.' You risked your life.' | Lois Lowry | ||
| f6d71b1 | It was not just the drink, though, that was making me happy, but the tenderness of things, the simple goodness of the world. This sunset, for instance, how lavishly it was laid on, the clouds, the light on the sea, that heartbreaking, blue-green distance, laid on, all of it, as if to console some lost suffering waybarer. I have never really got used to being on this earth. Somethings I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, tha.. | John Banville | ||
| 777c95e | Life's not a video game, Felix- there aren't a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn't actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over. | life nw video-games zadie-smith | Zadie Smith | |
| 332c0de | Other people's words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going. | Zadie Smith | ||
| f6911f8 | Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopeful that a transformation of this kind might have visited her in the night, but, finding it hadn't, she did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead. | women | Zadie Smith | |
| 410d94e | So. Tell me," Marlowe tried gamely, "what do you think is man's greatest invention?" Jericho turned his head just slightly toward Marlowe, looking him straight in the eye. "God." -- | religion-and-philoshophy | Libba Bray | |
| ac2eaeb | She was too much--for Zenith, Ohio. She'd tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous--she'd accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risque joke, or go riding in cars with boys--and suddenly she was "that awful O'Neill girl" all over again." | Libba Bray | ||
| e43c144 | Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry. | resilience smiles worry | Libba Bray | |
| 7eaf95f | Gonzo narrows his eyes. 'How often do you clean that thing?' 'Every night,' the waitress answers. Her smile is strained. 'That's it? Do you know how long it takes for Listeria to grow under those hot lamps, even with ice?' Here we go. 'It can happen in just five hours. Five hours and you've got the salad bar of death!' The waitress looks confused. 'From Listerine? | Libba Bray | ||
| 1e5306c | Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants. | libba-bray queen | Libba Bray | |
| e6132f0 | I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. | the-sweet-far-thing want | Libba Bray | |
| b768411 | Live life as if today is your last day living. :-) | Libba Bray | ||
| f9c659c | The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over. | Libba Bray | ||
| 656f671 | Sosie wasn't sure how to answer. Since she could remember, she'd had crushes on both girls and guys. They were person-specific infatuations - Brian Levithan's wicked sense of humour was every bit as sexy as Valerie Martnez's sweet smile and amazing krunk routines. It seemed odd to Sosie that she had to make some hard-and-fast decision about such an arbitrary, individual thing as attraction, like having to declare an orientation major: | Libba Bray | ||
| 4800d3c | That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 4316dac | You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9739f10 | Love is a skill you learn. | chuck palahniuk | ||
| 31a27c0 | Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. | love sufferings | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| e390620 | This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e8204f2 | As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ab2823a | Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry... | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 47ed55d | No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4c0bd4f | A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bb0846f | What Tyler says about the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy something beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom. Pounding that .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ad68799 | I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 607eec0 | Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2d467ee | Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights. | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 56b6512 | LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE? | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 39ddd62 | His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there. | migraine pain | Ian Fleming | |
| deae0f0 | Every island to a child is a treasure island. | islands | P.D. James | |
| 5f1c076 | I've always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice. | Nicole Krauss |