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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 01d1dcb | They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 40535f4 | The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c8967aa | You are loved, and your purpose is to love. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 5495037 | when we think we have things already figured out, we're not teachable. Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 27c60c4 | Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.) | Marianne Williamson | ||
| e8a6af3 | You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit f.. | career needing-work self-esteem unemployment work | Marianne Williamson | |
| e16aaff | Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican. | david-berlinski science-vs-religion | David Berlinski | |
| 2c503f5 | The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product. | labor society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 68e400b | My heart only beats as an echo of yours. | rhys-winterborne | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 32f7a78 | Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 85d35d7 | Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| db87f47 | I've never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| e62482d | You sweet...beautiful...lunatic," he heard himself mutter." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 994bd6b | I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| d81a066 | Take too much time, and time will take you. | carpe-diem inspirational inspiring mortal mortality motivating motivational seize-the-day time | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 08124ae | Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.. | John Irving | ||
| beaf26d | It seems to me that people who don't learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability--there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material--but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called 'good students' are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shr.. | John Irving | ||
| 6bd6591 | Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met. | John Irving | ||
| 3360ed7 | There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean"." | John Irving | ||
| fab869a | If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything." | John Irving | ||
| 265dcc3 | I don't want you to describe to me--not ever--what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand. | John Irving | ||
| 38bee92 | Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?" "Yes." "I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot." "I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you." "I did wait until I was outside before I threw up." | hero whining | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 7306357 | Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 2704037 | Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 0c70407 | It was a meal that we shall never forget; more accurately, it was several meals that we shall never forget, because it went beyond the gastronomic frontiers of anything we had ever experienced, both in quantity and length. It started with homemade pizza - not one, but three: anchovy, mushroom, and cheese, and it was obligatory to have a slice of each. Plates were then wiped with pieces torn from the two-foot loaves in the middle of the tabl.. | Peter Mayle | ||
| 7ff8dfc | Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust. | intimacy love relationship | Michel Faber | |
| 74ba1b3 | And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear. | kushiel punishment | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 0df01d4 | Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. | kushiel-s-dart | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 415e33a | But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked. | mistake unchecked | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 1c6345d | I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie. | truth | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 38d65a6 | I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more than the feminine response to caresses and comfort which in the minds of most women passes for it. It is a passive feeling capable of being roused for any object, as the vine can grow on any tree; and the wisdom of the world recognises its strength when it urges a girl to marry the man who wants her with the assurance that love will follow... | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 65a0d81 | I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| bc88a1a | When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? | christianity god religion sacrifice | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 09bdd49 | And now, dear reader, the story is over. It is time for you to cross the bridge once more and return to the world you came from. This river, which is and is not the Thames, must continue flowing without you. You have haunted here long enough, and besides, you surely have rivers of your own to attend to? | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 065fad8 | What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 9901f7d | Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely .. | choirs living sing singing song | Richard Llewellyn | |
| d2a1772 | the best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design. | John Gribbin | ||
| 94f86cf | Men jag kan inte doda nagon', sa Jonatan, 'det vet du, Orvar!' [...] 'Om alla vore som du', sa Orvar, 'da skulle ju ondskan fa regera i all evinnerlighet!' Men da sa jag att om alla vore som Jonatan, sa skulle det inte finnas nagon ondska. | non-violence | Astrid Lindgren | |
| 73dd3b2 | I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think. | philosophy | David Gerrold | |
| 60d3506 | At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had succeeded. | Edward St. Aubyn | ||
| 2847e83 | I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. | Alan Moore | ||
| c2f7d3d | The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend. | cities clothes houses life machines masterpieces personalities pretend romances rooms wars | Alan Moore | |
| 9452f1f | I have so very much. I have so very little. | Alan Moore | ||
| a7e2a7b | Initially, you continue doing what you used to do with her, out of familiarity, love, the need for a pattern. Soon, you realise the trap you are in: caught between repeating what you did with her, but without her, and so missing her; or doing new things, things you never did with her, and so missing her differently. You feel sharply the loss of shared vocabulary, of tropes, teases, short cuts, injokes, sillinesses, faux rebukes, amatory foo.. | Julian Barnes |