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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 670d0a1 | We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it's inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see their primary caregivers at ease expressing their affection (discreetly, within appropriate boundaries) are more likely to embrace sexuality with the healthy combination of respect, responsibility, and curiosity it deserves. By censoring our sexuality, curbing our desires, or renouncing them.. | Esther Perel | ||
| bd5fe76 | Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note. | Julia Glass | ||
| 9121af7 | I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in the hollow hills. But out there in the light I have a young king and a bright sword to do my work for me, and build what will stand when my name is only a word for forgotten songs and outworn wisdom, and when your name, Morgause, is only a hissing in the dark. | arthurian-legend merlin | Mary Stewart | |
| 6307d75 | Yeah? How's this?" Claire, in one smooth, fast motion, pulled an arrow from the bag on her shoulder, slotted it home on the string, and pulled the compound bow back to full extension. She was aiming the arrow straight at Morley's crossed hands, over his heart. He laughed. "You aren't serious--" She fired. The arrow went through both of Morley's hands, pinning them to his chest with the fletching at the end. He stared down in shock at the wo.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| f5465e4 | I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. "She's getting loose!" Narc." | rachel-caine thin-air | Rachel Caine | |
| e13cb6a | You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said." | vampire | Rachel Caine | |
| c0d05b4 | He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy." | morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 09cc3ce | We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 2d7244d | Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 129c10d | SHANE:WANT SOME SHANE ASKED.COME AND GET IT BAT BOY MICHAEL:YOUR NOT MY BLOOD TYPE BRO | Rachel Caine | ||
| bfdfb2c | So you'll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you." "Well...yes." -- | Rachel Caine | ||
| 04fde5d | you don't have the memory of your future; {that}the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 759bc53 | One of the reasons people lock onto motherhood as a key to feminine identity is the belief that children are the way to fulfill your capacity to love. But there are so many things to love besides one's own offspring, so many things that need love, so much other work love has to do in the world. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 16af53b | If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm? | leprechaun question | David Sedaris | |
| fea3c50 | If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm. | David Sedaris | ||
| 2b6ebb5 | The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. | David Sedaris | ||
| 21312fb | When I was this kid's age, you'd be burned alive for such talk. Being a homosexual was unthinkable, and so you denied it, and found a girlfriend who was willing to settle for the sensitive type. On dates, you'd remind her that sex before marriage was just that, sex: what dogs did in the front yard. This as opposed to making love, which was more what you were about. A true union of souls could take anywhere from eight to ten years to properl.. | David Sedaris | ||
| c670950 | but all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes -- being in love. | David Sedaris | ||
| 40ae6f2 | Right. And our first job is to teach her to give a speech on the Grand Balcony in three days." "That does not sound too difficult. Has she done much public speaking?" Amilia forced a smile. "A week ago she said the word no." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| f1f7585 | What kind of meal would you like?" "Something edible would be a pleasant surprise." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 8d9e7eb | Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you." "Who are you quoting now?" "No one," Myron said. "I learned that one first hand." -- | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 39263d0 | There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 7d0f842 | Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret. | revenge | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 1c676ac | Breathe the air, taste the wine, kiss the girls, and always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 663cee2 | We are more than the bodies we inhabit," Fawkes said. "They're little more than clothes, and yet we judge so much by them." | clothes judging-others | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 8f0ec6c | Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 16ab928 | One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| b2865f7 | Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That's a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can't really explain why. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 37b4708 | It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| ca04501 | Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 33c8b38 | That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| e5719e7 | You need the art in order to love the life. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 4576723 | a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. | asia jaywalking | Paul Theroux | |
| e3168a8 | She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| d715067 | Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 4b7e04e | Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently. | life | Tom Perrotta | |
| 27c1fa4 | I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. | William Saroyan | ||
| 1726db4 | The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 31f668f | How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| dbfcbec | You'll be sorry some day. Why don't you ever understand what I'm trying to tell you: it's with your six sense that you're fooled into believing not only that you have six senses, but that you contact an actual outside world with them. If it wasn't for your eyes, you wouldn't see me. If it wasn't for your ears, you wouldn't hear that airplane. If it wasn't for your nose, you wouldn't smell that midnight mint. If it wasn't for your tongue tas.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 45d5bd1 | In the variety of the tone of her words, moods, hugs, kisses, brushes of the lips, and this night the upside-down kiss over the back of the chair with her dark eyes heavy hanging and her blushing cheeks full of sweet blood and sudden tenderness brooding like a hawk over the boy over the back, holding the chair on both sides, just an instant, the startling sudden sweet fall of her hair over my face and the soft downward brush of her lips, a .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 76dfbed | I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow! | Jack Kerouac | ||
| c0e82e1 | Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books -- Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself -- The shelves pile higher -- They're full of misty documents or documents of the M.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 42241f3 | And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words -- We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that wont even last a million years -- The world being just what it is, moving and passing through, actually alright in the long view and nothing to complain about. | Jack Kerouac |