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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0ab3da3 | She is an incredibly intelligent idiot | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3e3498a | I just can't see the upside in this," I heard myself say by way of explanation. Later he said that if John had been sitting in the office he would have found this funny, as he himself had found it. "Of course I knew what you meant to say, and John would have known too, you meant to say you couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel." I agreed, but this was not in fact the case. I had meant pretty much exactly what I said: I couldn't.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 78bdffc | Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep. | Joan Didion | ||
| a2e3d9d | I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. | Joan Didion | ||
| 4b1fff0 | you can't punish someone for a lack of affection, can you? You can't force a child to love you just because he's your child. | Paul Auster | ||
| 70ecb81 | As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think. | Paul Auster | ||
| 6dfc65c | He would conclude that nothing was real except chance. | Paul Auster | ||
| 13ab9cb | In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so - which amounts to the same thing. The world of the book comes to life, seething with possibilities, with secrets and contradictions. Since everything seen or said, even the slightest, most trivial thing, can bear a connection to the outcome of the story, nothing must be overlooked. Ever.. | Paul Auster | ||
| c05ff58 | Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don't take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins. Drink eight glasses of water a day. Pull for the Mets. Watch a lot of movies. Don't work too hard at your job. Take a trip to Paris with me. Come to the hospital when Rachel has her baby and hold my grandchild in your arms. Brush your teeth after.. | inspirational life love peace | Paul Auster | |
| d8cb4d0 | The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were on the other side of one of those holes, you were free of yourself, free of your life free of your death, free of everything that belonged to you. | Paul Auster | ||
| 697c0a0 | Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. | images painting paintings time | Paul Auster | |
| 1b08e18 | When you live in the city, you learn to take nothing for granted. Close your eyes for a moment, turn around to look at something else, and the thing that was before you is suddenly gone. Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it. | Paul Auster | ||
| 5ee4c4d | It was something like the word 'it' in the phrase 'it is raining' or 'it is night'. What that 'it' referred to Quinn had never known | Paul Auster | ||
| bed6ee9 | ndm ktb l thmny lGrf@ lty 'shGlh. lmsH@ lHqyqy@ llktb@ hy lSfH@ 'mm nfy, `ndm ktb kl lGrf tSbH khfyW@ | Paul Auster | ||
| 9cbdc01 | n`m , hnk 'shy kthyr@ 'sh`r blkhjl mnh . 'Hynan l tbdw ly Hyty 'kthr mn slsl@ mn lndmt , wln`Tft lkhTy'@ , wl'khT lty l utGtfr . hdhh hy | Paul Auster | ||
| b5e9a05 | Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stum.. | Paul Auster | ||
| adcacb8 | If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and eventually the public will grow tired of you. You have to keep testing yourself, pushing yourself as hard as you can. You do it for yourself, but in the end it's this struggle to do better that endears you to your fans. | Paul Auster | ||
| 962af2e | Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance. | Paul Auster | ||
| e7595c3 | The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn't really anyone, and I wasn't really alive. I was just someone who pretended to be alive, a dead mean who spent his days translating a dead man's book. | Paul Auster | ||
| b9525d9 | A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. | Paul Auster | ||
| 5abe971 | But suddenly, after all this time, I feel there is something to say, and if I don't quickly write it down, my head will burst. It doesn't matter if you read it. It doesn't even matter if I send it - assuming that could be done. Perhaps it comes down to this. I am writing to you because you know nothing. Because you are far away from me and know nothing. | Paul Auster | ||
| 5f231a2 | If only one had time to think! | William Golding | ||
| b3c3996 | The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone. | William Golding | ||
| e66c38e | I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe." | William Golding | ||
| a151a03 | Ignorance was bliss. | ignorance | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 3bf9d8b | The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people." | humor | Alice Sebold | |
| fd9d9f8 | At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows. | Alice Sebold | ||
| a149b4d | At some point, to counter the list of the dead, I had begun keeping my own list of the living. It was something I noticed Len Fenerman did too. When he was off duty he would note the young girls and elderly women and every other female in the rainbow in between and count them among the things that sustained him. The young girl in the mall whose pale legs had grown too long for her now too-young dress and who had an aching vulnerability that.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| f31102b | Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn't watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I'm afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that cou.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 80d6202 | Proof that no investment is yours forever. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d238ea0 | The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 1832272 | Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 19c967f | it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son. | Anne Tyler | ||
| de1d9ef | But it's like time is sort of ... balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 56abd1b | She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 039e568 | quantum mechanics--the physics of our world--requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. | physics quantum-mechanics science | Brian Greene | |
| 0ab5bbf | We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest -- the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest -- finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are.. | science the-universe | Brian Greene | |
| 1d0eea5 | That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect. | judgement lack-of-judgement | John Steinbeck | |
| 41c7051 | We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins. | cheating coffin death | John Steinbeck | |
| b2d5d69 | To the stars, on the wings of a pig. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f8eafb1 | Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in 'Thou shalt.' Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But 'Thou mayest'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8bfb193 | Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl, and Kino's pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man's enemy. The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the s.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9dbcb6c | Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 6929b02 | Because, all too often, the things that we're the most resistant to are precisely what we need. And the things we're most scared to let go of are exactly the ones we most need to relinquish. | Neil Strauss |