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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d1d26c | In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed. | Neil Strauss | ||
| d85a1fe | Grace sat down where the chair wasn't. | humor | Ellen Raskin | |
| 3509d91 | Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you...Or perhaps life has been cruel. "I don't know sir" I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well." | Arthur Golden | ||
| ff5a35b | I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. | life-lessons | Arthur Golden | |
| dd016b3 | We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves. | Arthur Golden | ||
| e031d83 | Because you're the one. Because I've never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don't want any of that with me, I'll give you the best I've got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don't want it. | Nora Roberts | ||
| e3ad60f | Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me." | cameron-quinn | Nora Roberts | |
| 50a7ad3 | You need a place just a click over middle range. Don't want to go all-out first time, but you don't want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place." "Bob, you're going to give me an ulcer." "This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn't want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you'll split it. Wom.. | friends friendships humor love | Nora Roberts | |
| 3a2eac3 | Nodding, Parker ate. "He's an exceptional kisser." "He really is. He . . . How do you know?" When Parker just smiled, Emma's jaw dropped. "You? You and Jack? When? How?" "I think it's disgusting," Mac muttered. "Yet another best pal moving on my imaginary ex." "Two kisses, my first year at Yale, after we ran into each other at a party and he walked me back to the dorm. It was nice. Very nice. But as exceptional a kisser as he is, it was too.. | kissing relationships | Nora Roberts | |
| 7b9e877 | Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 1db108f | I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked." "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 16bb864 | Survivors lived with their mistakes. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 23a863d | Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love ... still it was not enough - boy, did I feel sorry for him. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| cef166a | If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| ec3a4f7 | That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. | poet | G.K. Chesterton | |
| d3e079b | The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness. | clason sun | George S. Clason | |
| cdb6422 | It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| e71732f | You are free when you gain back yourself," Madame Wu said. "You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be .. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 49a129d | You are right," he had said. "Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, 'Know thy neighbor as thyself." That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 195414f | And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3a36e75 | There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings. | Rick Warren | ||
| fbaad7b | Funny how time goes on, things change, and yet, some things stay exactly the same. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 908a9ce | I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything. | John Grisham | ||
| 8803ceb | life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done. | truth-of-life | John Grisham | |
| 03f6ce2 | Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you. | John Grisham | ||
| 3c71838 | Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise." | lady-crane sir-phillip-crane | Julia Quinn | |
| c935537 | When you walk into a room," he said softly, "the air changes." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5ae6300 | Isn't it nice," the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, "to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?" And then she walked away, leaving Penelope wondering if maybe she wasn't quite what she'd thought she was. Maybe--just maybe--she was something a little bit more." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 3a45730 | It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing." "Most would call that a blessing." She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 965c9c0 | A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 026180b | Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh. | Anne Carson | ||
| a139edc | Don't worry where I am. I'll tell you when I get there. | Michael Lewis | ||
| e83439e | When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you. Just you, and my eyes staring at you. When you're gone the World starts again and I don't like it as much. I can live in it, but I don't like it. I just walk around i.. | James Frey | ||
| 489f418 | I think love is a rare thing in the World. If you think you have it with this Girl, then fuck whoever tries to stop you and fuck their Rules. Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again. | James Frey | ||
| aec0245 | I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. | principle-of-priority priorities urgent | Steven Pressfield | |
| 566eb71 | The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration. | inspiration motivation writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 0f099f7 | M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more | Anne Carson | ||
| e366aa9 | The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita. | Anne Carson | ||
| 6145fb8 | You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick. | humans | Anne Carson | |
| f5a1c62 | Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate... | translation words | Anne Carson | |
| 15e51da | A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space. | eros-the-bittersweet knowledge thinking thought | Anne Carson | |
| 21407bb | You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where do I put it down? | Anne Carson | ||
| 6f2c54b | Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave. | freethought slave speak | Euripides | |
| 3586792 | Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. | George P. Pelecanos |