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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 719026e | Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her. | Amy Tan | ||
| 728e8a3 | When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no , no inside knowing of things. If she had , she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear. | Amy Tan | ||
| 33c0c4f | I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind -- poom!-- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen. | Amy Tan | ||
| befed35 | He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity. | Amy Tan | ||
| 9093b04 | With hope, a mind is always free. | Amy Tan | ||
| 81c91d6 | I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| a59605c | This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean -- next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That's what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| c7974cd | Holy shit! Where's a cell phone camera when you need one? | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7311975 | Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 9a1d0a8 | This attitude means you haven't met a girl worthy of your attention. You'll want to get caught if the right girl comes along. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 03bb557 | My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| d954b99 | Marley!!! | John Grogan | ||
| 449e5c4 | What pillow can one have like a good conscience? | pillow sleep | John Steinbeck | |
| e514dcd | I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am. | maggie | Simone Elkeles | |
| dfa82e9 | Sometimes things are better off forgotten. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| dbb4b50 | Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she's got on. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| b72918c | You can't keep her." I know that. But I'm not ready to give her up just yet." | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 295abe4 | La union de dos almas sinceras no admite impedimentos. No es amor el amor que se transforma con el cambio, o se aleja con la distancia. !Oh, no! Es un faro siempre firme, que desafia a las tempestades sin estremecerse. Es la estrella para el navio a la deriva, de valor incalculable, aunque se mida su altura. No es amor bufon del tiempo, aunque los rosados labios y mejillas caigan bajo el golpe de su guadana. El amor no se altera con sus bre.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9c55c5c | Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke? | William Shakespeare | ||
| a8ef5de | Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.-- Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9ee4d12 | I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 044dc96 | Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed. | John Berendt | ||
| 9d4a80f | that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| b2121e9 | Away and mark the time with fairest show, False face must hide what false heart doth know. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4dbd6dc | If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... | blessings empowerment freedom happiness husbands independence marriage matrimony self-determination singles | William Shakespeare | |
| 4ba4822 | Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world; now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4970c15 | And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother | William Shakespeare | ||
| 92c1867 | Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. | drinking merriment unkindness | William Shakespeare | |
| b8d7835 | O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! | William Shakespeare | ||
| baa3d7f | But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 3f481a9 | What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red." "My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended." | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9f0ac60 | Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated | William Shakespeare | ||
| 633daa3 | She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1998f28 | Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out! Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze, But that this folly doubts it. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9618511 | For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away | hamlet | William Shakespeare | |
| 245e2f3 | HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a begg.. | dining king polonius social-classes | William Shakespeare | |
| dc049a4 | I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 255940d | The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6223fb6 | O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4359fe7 | There's daggers in men's smiles | William Shakespeare | ||
| 928b74b | Shall I show you the half-dozen other rooms in this hospital where these scenes are repeated? And what of the other hospitals? Printing House Square is small and tame. Even in the private institutions uptown you can see a show just like this: there is nothing as disgusting as an obese cadaver in which all the futile pleasures of many years finally arise to fill it full-blown with stinking rotten gases. The city is burning and under siege. A.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 53eb764 | Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves. | cities imagination justice mankind | Mark Helprin | |
| 75176da | Not everything is meant for all to hear. | voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| a75d751 | It's a large as life and twice as natural | Lewis Carroll |