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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 644764a | Increasingly, life seems fractured, as if his past had been lived by someone else. It isn't just that the place he now resides in and the people around him are poles apart, it's like he himself is an entirely different person. The overriding obsessions and foibles of the man he'd once been now feel utterly ludicrous to the current resident of his mind and body. The only bridge is rage; when angered he can taste his old self. But in Californ.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ca2218d | In Scotland we've been exporting every straight cunt tae Canada fir generations. Result? They're boring fuckers, and we're a drug-addled underclass. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| adb649e | Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be. | chasing-the-dragon heroine skagboys smack | Irvine Welsh | |
| ed4ad88 | Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there would not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 90f6014 | The best way ah knew tae strike a chord without compromising too much tae the sickening hypocrisy, perversely peddled as decency, which fills the room, is tae stick tae the cliches. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 074c3f4 | Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 101f5b8 | Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear his voice in your head urging you to eat? Eat, eat eat. Your mother's cries. Do you hear them? You should be Bruce. Because I know that it's never left you alone. Now you can eat what you want to eat. For me, for you, for all the others. Now you can consume to your heart's con.. | eat eating food parents tapeworm | Irvine Welsh | |
| 156e7ba | Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 7347f41 | The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at h.. | kittens | Doris Lessing | |
| cbb67ab | I wish my wish would not be granted! | self-referential strange-loop | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| 940bef5 | One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just . | contentment friends friendship love | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| fe452ee | There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be the.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| eb08b77 | If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it's better than rats. | rake | Anne Stuart | |
| 8b82257 | The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53 | David Almond | ||
| fd8107b | Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 3e1aaa3 | Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 0ea4175 | It's a funny world, Hobbes." "True." "But it's not a hilarious world....unless you like sick humour." "The world is probably funnier to people who don't live here." | Bill Watterson | ||
| 6818978 | I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness. | animals friendship love | Bill Watterson | |
| e1e6c48 | Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. | illness pain | Tom Hodgkinson | |
| fc9228d | We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 1a0ebf1 | The 7 Secrets of Happiness 1. Think positively. 2. Do work you love. 3. Avoid anger. 4. Give generously. 5. Be grateful. | matshona-dhliwayo-quotes philosopher-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotations philosophy-quotes solomonology-quotes wisdom-quotes wise-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 910c2c3 | One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars. | death-and-dying life | David Mitchell | |
| 8dcfcb0 | Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation." | David Mitchell | ||
| 8f7c3c9 | I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them. | David Mitchell | ||
| defa418 | As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. | satire writing | David Mitchell | |
| f0e5461 | Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! | David Mitchell | ||
| f479d39 | A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty... | David Mitchell | ||
| 81981e7 | If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one's will to power, then of all Nea So Copros's slaves we surely are the most miserable. | David Mitchell | ||
| 615c32a | I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood" -- | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| bf8f139 | No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us. | leviathan war | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 04cb511 | Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| c7172d4 | Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace | lace last-days peeps scott westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 31a615c | You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears. | best-friends friendship sadness | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 9ed2838 | I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 5fca934 | No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it." | fame wise-words | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 2d938d1 | Stars to live by. Stars to steer by. Stars to die by. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 35d9ae8 | I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 2f60d4c | This is why classical thought concerning structure could say that the center is, paradoxically, within the structure and outside it. The center is at the center of the totality, and yet, since the center does not belong to the totality (is not part of the totality), the totality has its center elsewhere. The center is not the center. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 0efcee2 | You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 96322f8 | Whenever we roam be beside me. When you're allone. When you go. When no one comes along. And for all we Wander. Encounter and open Allways curl up with me. Give me pain, past and fury. Betray my way. I won't abandon you.- | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 945674e | If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| f9b08e2 | There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else. | Harry Crews | ||
| 5d3d112 | Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge." | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| e3f0d57 | My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice. | Anne McCaffrey |