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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7631980 | I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| d1fc21f | She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.... | school | Maureen Johnson | |
| 5b5300b | Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| c21c87f | This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources." | law london procedures | Maureen Johnson | |
| 4923af9 | Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 7afa8f6 | Her kung fu is that powerful. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 33deacb | The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a thing in it. The thing might have been a sandwich at some point, or an animal, or a human hand...but what it was now was fuzzy and putrid. A minute later, Ginny was down the stairs, out the door, and gone. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| da10797 | I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 724055e | If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael" | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 6d42097 | I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort of something?' 'Something that would soothe you,' he promised. 'I'm sure there would be swords involved. Bloodshed. Peril. That kind of thing. | Lynn Kurland | ||
| df597ee | People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. | nigeria south-korea worldview | Chinua Achebe | |
| 84ee194 | When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth | education life motherhood teaching | Chinua Achebe | |
| 585c8b0 | Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the p.. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| e5394c4 | Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world. | writing | Chinua Achebe | |
| fedc035 | When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 742ac6e | In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word means - the strangest people in one's life are the people one has known and loved, still know and will always love. Here, both I and the vocabulary are both in trouble, for does not imply . A stranger is a stranger is a stranger, simply, and you watch the stranger to anticipate his next move. But the people who elicit from you a depth o.. | love people strangers | James Baldwin | |
| c35ada6 | What white people have to do is try and find out in their own hearts why it is necessary to have a 'nigger' in the first place, because I'm not a nigger. I'm a man. But if you think I'm a nigger, it means you need it. | James Baldwin | ||
| c0a71a0 | If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others- do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world | James Baldwin | ||
| d87dd6b | People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior. | James Baldwin | ||
| f85e3d6 | Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected. | James Baldwin | ||
| be56535 | A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. | evil fear wickedness | James Baldwin | |
| 5f9bad7 | And if the word means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. | america integration love race-relations reality united-states us usa whites | James Baldwin | |
| 3884110 | It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 3b972c2 | In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| a31534e | All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| bbfd99e | I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 0a1e9c9 | Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| e5083f2 | A world no longer of haves and have-nots, but of the engaged and the apathetic. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 2af2a9b | Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 060df9f | What did you do?" Fred asked. "There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it." "Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?" -- | James S.A. Corey | ||
| db60be1 | His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars. | words | James S.A. Corey | |
| dac8c2b | I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter) | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a0c8a9a | Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1dded4c | Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b0548c0 | There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7847ecc | it's so dreadful to have nothing to love -- life is so empty -- and there's nothing worse than emptiness... | life love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 5a0f9c2 | Diana: "Gilbert told Charlie Sloan that you were the smartest girl in school, right in front of Josie." Anne: "He did?" Diana: "He told Charlie being smart was better than being good looking." Anne: "I should have known he meant to insult me." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4771928 | Beauty was all around them. Unsuspected tintings glimmered in the dark demesnes of the woods and glowed in their alluring by-ways. The spring sunshine sifted through the young green leaves. Gay trills of song were everywhere. There were little hollows where you felt as if you were bathing in a pool of liquid gold. At every turn some fresh spring scent struck their faces: Spice ferns...fir balsam...the wholesome odour of newly ploughed field.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a6dc42e | Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is." | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| dd0fd72 | What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy! | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 016ebc2 | Fear is the original sin," suddenly said a still, small voice away back--back--back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something." Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice." | fear overcoming-fear sin | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 31e505d | Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot! | Enid Blyton | ||
| c08f235 | A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover. | feminism memoir writing | bell hooks | |
| ef4a06c | Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it. | Bell Hooks |