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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a83871 | T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. | life-and-living pain problems scarlett-o-hara | Margaret Mitchell | |
| c1d7494 | But, Ashley, what are you afraid of?' 'Oh, nameless things. Things which sound very silly when they are put into words. Mostly of having life suddenly become too real, of being brought into personal, too personal, contact with some of the simple facts of life. It isn't that I mind splitting logs here in the mud, but I do mind what it stands for. I do mind, very much, the loss of the beauty of the old life I loved. Scarlett, before the war, .. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| a0dc965 | Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| d899309 | There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act--a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a18e29f | to explore the inner country of his own soul. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 6a02a27 | Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone? | Polly Horvath | ||
| 714c855 | And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces--spaces you know can't ever be filled. | Bette Greene | ||
| 0aa2500 | Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy. | Lauren Bacall | ||
| 5187af4 | She had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8a9d29c | I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 7d40d60 | I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a72f08e | An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| dbf9dcb | Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. When shutting drawers and flinging wide an hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not a.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| eff85e9 | This is... mating, it's not love. | Beth Revis | ||
| 44ae5b0 | Im here and he's not. That I'm alive and he's... | tearjerker | Beth Revis | |
| d5923f9 | She was a good person. She didn't deserve to die." "I don't think it works that way." | Beth Revis | ||
| 27e0a30 | You could have valued our lives more than your secrets. | Beth Revis | ||
| 54b0157 | There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real. | James Salter | ||
| 4f16d43 | Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future. | James Salter | ||
| cae0a53 | Doc begs me for the wires to fix the pump. We should at least keep putting the hormones in the water," he insists, "so that they don't start mating with relatives." "Most people don't want to commit incest," I say dryly." | Beth Revis | ||
| 8ebcb97 | There was a sudden, shocking sound that echoed through Garion's head like an explosion. "What was that?" Zakath exclaimed. "You heard it, too?" Garion was amazed. "You shouldn't have been able to hear it!" "It shook the earth, Garion. Look there." Zakath pointed off toward the north where a huge pillar of fire was soaring up toward the murky, starless sky. "What is it?" "Aunt Pol did something. She's that clumsy..." Belgarath and Beldin w.. | David Eddings | ||
| 5db1679 | As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things. | women | David Eddings | |
| fb18620 | She alluded to 12 Years a Slave. "There he was," she said, speaking of Solomon Northup. "He had means. He had a family. He was living like a human being. And one racist act took him back. And the same is true of me. I spent years developing a career, acquiring assets, engaging responsibilities. And one racist act. It's all it takes." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3774e29 | An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 7669c78 | The two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black," said the great South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun. "And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals." And there it is--the right to break the black body as the meaning of their sacred equality. And that right has always given them meaning, has always meant that there was someone down in.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1a9abeb | Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered. I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made. That is a philosophy of the disembodied, of a people who control nothing, who can protect nothing, who are made to fear not just the criminals among them but the police who lord over them with all the moral authority of a protecti.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 565d3a0 | Let's die of it before we're too old. | life_universe_everything | John le Carré | |
| b0d4d2b | Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out, go back on your tracks. Be testy, be cussed, be difficult. Drink like a fish; don't give way on the ideology, they won't trust that. They want to deal with a man they've bought; they want the clash of opposites, Alec, not some half-cock convert. | lying-games spy | John le Carré | |
| 4b93c3e | He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary. | John le Carré | ||
| 7d3af45 | The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed. | John le Carré | ||
| aa75dac | It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 8c6a5a6 | Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you. | perfect | Markus Zusak | |
| 5d58bfb | A KEY WORD*** Imagined | imagine | Markus Zusak | |
| 3b2aeb0 | She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion. | Markus Zusak | ||
| feb364b | You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore. I don't want to pray that Max is alive and safe. Or Alex Steiner. Because the world does not deserve them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 75ac573 | El corazon de los humanos no es como el mio. El de los humanos es una linea, mientras que el mio es un circulo y poseo la infinita habilidad de estar en el lugar apropiado en el momento oportuno. La consecuencia es que siempre encuentro humanos en su mejor y en su peor momento. Veo su fealdad y su belleza y me pregunto como ambas pueden ser lo mismo. Sin embargo, tienen algo que les envidio: al menos los humanos tienen el buen juicio de mor.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c0da181 | The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems. | city sky | Markus Zusak | |
| 7effbcd | Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 49944fc | A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter. | winner | Markus Zusak | |
| a636b72 | She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers. Her hands were trembling, her lips were fleshy, and she leaned in once more, this time losi.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| fbd39c0 | As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. | keyboard love madame-bovary music piano romance | Gustave Flaubert | |
| ad0b775 | There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 8f0d976 | It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you. | George Eliot | ||
| 141b786 | Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone. | George Eliot |