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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 159ad3f | Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c85940a | Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you | Agatha Christie | ||
| d872c1d | The starting point is a question. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 91e4357 | Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit. | genre writing | Alberto Manguel | |
| 96b4b47 | From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. | libraries reading stories | Alberto Manguel | |
| e5a1229 | Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins. And 'matter'," said Blister. Also 'fatter,'" said Ripkins. Likewise 'chatter'," added Blister. And his surname?" Arch asked. It rhymes with 'that again'," said Ripkins. And 'Flanagan," put in Blister. Also, um...'pad a fin'?" offered Ripkins. Arch and Blister looked at him. 'Pannikin!'" he said proudly. .. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 0fd4bf7 | Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| c49e634 | There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. | intimacy pretence shelby-foote | Tony Horwitz | |
| 6da1dae | The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads. | Shelby Foote | ||
| e00d649 | The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march? | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 7634082 | I do not want to be relieved from any obligation,' said he, goaded by her calm manner. 'Fancied, or not fancied - I question not myself to know which - I choose to believe that I owe my very life to you - ay - smile, and think it an exaggeration if you will. I believe it, because it adds a value to that life to think - oh, Miss Hale!' continued he, lowering his voice to such a tender intensity of passion that she shivered and trembled befor.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1127d2b | She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. She was so tired, so stunned, that she thought she never slept at all; her feverish thoughts passed and repassed the boundary between sleeping and waking, and kept their own miserable identity. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1f21ee0 | She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows!--all are passing!--all is past! | loss time | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 361581f | The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e5c43f1 | I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely. | loneliness | Emma Forrest | |
| 804f7be | It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen in my head. But my cells are made out of her cells so I'm kind of hers. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 7eaebcd | I thought if I told no one it might not be true. | secret tell true truth wide-sargasso-sea | Jean Rhys | |
| ee41cb4 | I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought)." | Jean Rhys | ||
| cd0247b | When a government becomes unjust, honor is often found among the lawless. | Brandon Mull | ||
| b4551d6 | Rachel could see Corinne talking to Jason, but they were too far ahead to hear. | brandon humor mull rebellion seeds zombies | Brandon Mull | |
| 4d3a553 | In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 7b2142d | Literature represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control. | literature writing | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 099caf6 | I was having dinner...in London...when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about "Your country's never been invaded." And so I said, "Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They're us. WE BE BAD. We're the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France, and.. | americans culture europe europeans nationality politics | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 71c5163 | It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected. Finall.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| e8df210 | First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. A ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. Go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. Try out different kinds. Don't get too fancy and expensive. I mostly use a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... You want to be a.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 8074dbb | Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. | ignorance knowledge | Louis L'Amour | |
| 6c9678d | Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 9ab04d9 | A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 7a63118 | When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger. | apologies women | Anne Brontë | |
| 2d264cb | sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5595006 | I looked at her and sighed. In another world, I thought to myself, it might have worked. In another world, in another universe, in another time, as two quite different people, we really might have been able to put all of this behind us, take off to some sun-drenched Caribbean island, and have sex and pineapple juice, non-stop, for a year. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 89c1a4d | It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. | death life missing-someone reading | Will Schwalbe | |
| b187a24 |
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Charles Simic | ||
| a10daab | She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was. | criticism immigrants | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| ac08cf5 | In the recent US elections, we kept hearing of the Lilly Ledbetter law, and if we go beyond that nicely alliterative name, it was really about this: in the US, a man and a woman are doing the same job, with the same qualifications, and the man is paid more because he is a man. So in a literal way, men rule the world. This made sense--a thousand years ago. Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most imp.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a00ca43 | I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life," Curt said with a force that startled her." | love | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| fd552f3 | I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 70e6f48 | he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea. | fear-of-failure hopelessness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 602db49 | If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere. | running-away | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 69ea5d1 | If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30) | mental-illness | Robert Whitaker | |
| 1050f11 | books should go where they will be most appreciated, not sit unread, gathering dust on a foreign shelf, don't you agree? | Christopher Paolini | ||
| debf734 | Buku seharusnya berada di tangan yang paling bisa menghargainya, dan tidak hanya diletakkan tanpa dibaca, mengumpulkan debu dalam lemari yang terlupakan. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 394db2c | I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 40c3e65 | While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift. | Debbie Macomber |