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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 72a7d84 | Like my hairstyle?" she asked. "It's great." "How great?" "Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 80428f7 | Our worlds are all jumbled together--your world, my world, the sheepman's world. Sometimes they overlap and sometimes they don't. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cc60dd9 | But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 27528cd | Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4a90498 | The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3990cd6 | In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spe.. | life love religion theory | Haruki Murakami | |
| 826d513 | Maybe in a few years I'll be able to explain things better, but after a few years it probably won't matter anymore, will it? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 584a756 | It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ed66f65 | Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9801541 | Loving someone isn't about what you can live with, accept or tolerate. For me, it's about the one person you can't live without. Too know that part of your life will never be the same without that one person being apart of it. | m-m | Piper Kay | |
| d6cf470 | Who asked them dern pigs?" he said. "I guess they tracked us," Augustus said. "They're enterprising pigs." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8c0ed7e | Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2fc6f91 | I suppose there's a time in practically every young boy's life when he's affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love. I don't mean the kind a boy has for the pretty little girl that lives down the road. I mean the real kind, the kind that has four small feet and a wiggly tail, and sharp little teeth that can gnaw on a boy's finger; the kind a boy can romp and play with, even eat and sleep with. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 79b7389 | Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. | Kim Edwards | ||
| 9f53dfd | does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 75de1e4 | Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 6610848 | the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 0a888cc | I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, 'Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?' I replied, 'Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 8b711a8 | What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile. | Walker Percy | ||
| 545feb9 | Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course. | Walker Percy | ||
| ce99bc7 | You're still in love' 'No I'm not, I'm not She'll always be a part of me, and she's an important person in my life but for the two of us something wasn't working.' | christina vicky | Woody Allen | |
| 31fac1e | Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. | storytelling truth | Tahir Shah | |
| d0e2c45 | Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. | respect survival | Tahir Shah | |
| f27f9b3 | My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled "What". He shouted, "You heard me," thundered up from his chair, pulled his belt out of its loops, and inflicted a beating that seemed never to end. I curled my arms around my body as he stood over me like a titan and delivered the blows. This was the only incident of its kind in our family. My father was never physically abusive toward my mother or sister and he was never a.. | Steve Martin | ||
| a872136 | As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and espec.. | life-changing | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 6339efd | I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 670e13e | You can't hold on to all things forever, no matter how hard you grip them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| cbd089e | Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you be asking is, Can you live without her?" -- | dying love maureen oliver values | Jodi Picoult | |
| 908f8c9 | I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f151cad | After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| eb95613 | I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6d3ec08 | You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4107493 | A child who suffers from PTSD has made unsuccessful attempts to get help, and as the victimization continues, he stops asking for it. He withdraws socially, because he's never quite sure when interaction is going to lead to another incident of bullying.... Different people have different responses to stress. In Peter's case, I saw an extreme emotional vulnerability, which, in fact, was the reason he was teased. Peter didn't play by the code.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9a50481 | You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6a2c4df | Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away. | inspirational | Jodi Picoult | |
| 577bb48 | Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove. | humor life parenting | Jodi Picoult | |
| 81cc43e | Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!" | humor | Jodi Picoult | |
| 889d531 | newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas | newborns | Jodi Picoult | |
| a7a4fd3 | What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doi.. | last-day-on-earth relatable truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 23e2c2b | I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 384ef14 | Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction--not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be...just because you're you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a1e104f | Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn't quite so accessible to all. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9bc4592 | There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 47de229 | Babies are such blank slates. They don't come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don't like. They don't come into this world with anything, really, except a need for comfort. And they will take it from anyone, without judging the giver. I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurtur.. | Jodi Picoult |