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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e5b212 | La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c3a7f3a | We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| da96b08 | Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 61b3a9a | Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| ab5f5f3 | Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 89316ca | He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him. | control enchanted love lust perfume power scent superhuman | Patrick Süskind | |
| fae5072 | Brian looked back and for a moment felt afraid because the wolf was so... so right. He knew Brian, knew him and owned him and chose not to do anything to him. But the fear moved then, moved away,and Brian knew the wolf for what it was - another part of the woods, another part of all of it. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 19ecf7c | and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| eff8088 | Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore down mentally. What had he said? It seemed vital, suddenly, that she know. Laila closed her eyes. Concentrated. With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, i.. | memory | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 0ca5833 | It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. | mutism quiet silence | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 01b6961 | So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 9b3782c | I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 05983ab | n m yHdth fy 'ym qlyl@ w'Hyn ywm wHd Hty, ystTy` tGyyr tjh lmr kl Hyth. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 46c3fb8 | Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 82d1a21 | The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal...change, as such, is simply not a controversial issue. Yet a common practice among the anointed is to declare themselves emphatically, piously, and defiantly in favor of 'change.' Thus those who oppose their particular changes are depicted as being against change in g.. | politics | Thomas Sowell | |
| f7299fb | On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 06793d9 | But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it--who can describe that? It is so easy for an Englishman to sneer at these chance collisions of human beings. To the insular cynic and the insular moralist they offer an equal opportunity. It is so easy to talk of "passing emotion," and how to forget how vivid the emotion was ere it passed. Our impulse to sneer, to forget, is at root a good one.. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8e3a575 | He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed. | strength | E.M. Forster | |
| e41b169 | He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most. | relationships | E.M. Forster | |
| b46aa07 | They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon. | E. M. Forster | ||
| a29841b | She hated war and liked soldiers--it was one of her amiable inconsistencies. | E.M. Forster | ||
| db22fb8 | The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. | E.M. Forster | ||
| eb3910a | And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished. | love | E.M. Forster | |
| 9ed2ecb | Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The water-tight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8a53bb8 | Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both. | E.M. Forster | ||
| df0f02e | It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 163bc83 | The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn't have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out 'It's a Small World After All,' flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping,.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| afbd0df | A secanja, kad se jednom krenu, ne zadrzavaju se kod pocetka. | ivo-andric | Ivo Andrić | |
| d9e22e1 | If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead, | Isabel Allende | ||
| acd45ee | Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race o.. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a95a602 | I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before. | identity | Isabel Allende | |
| f95c09e | ljmy` ywldwn mzwdyn bmwhb@ m. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 2285d58 | I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 174ad82 | Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente, y optimismo desafiante para encarar el futuro. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 6677eef | fy lHy@ l ySl 'Hd l~ shy, fqT ysyr | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5d5a875 | How accommodating love is; it forgives everything. | forgiving heartbreak love | Isabel Allende | |
| cb1bbb9 | nn tfhwn mqrn@ m` 'b`d lkwn wmsr ltrykh, wkl shy systmr `l~ Hlh b`d mwtn wk'nn lm nwjd `l~ lTlq. | Isabel Allende | ||
| d2b5c1e | Varsta in sine nu ii face pe oameni mai buni sau mai intelepti, ci doar intareste trasaturile pe care acestia le-au avut dintotdeauna. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 51eaa6d | I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. | fearless fearlessness life | Yann Martel | |
| 8d8faa1 | I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive,.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 513ce34 | The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. The sea is without a wrinkle. There is not a whisper of wind. The hours last forever. You are so bored you sink into a state of apathy close to a coma. Then the sea becomes rough and your emotions are whipped into a frenzy. Yet even these two opposites do not remain distinct. In your boredom there are elements of terror: you bre.. | Yann Martel | ||
| ef04cce | I have a story that will make you believe in God. | Yann Martel | ||
| df05cf8 | I would have liked to say, "I'm a doctor," to those who asked me what I did, doctors being the current purveyors of magic and miracle. But I'm sure we would have had a bus accident around the next bend, and with all eyes fixed on me I would have to explain, amidst the crying and moaning of victims...I would have to confess that as a matter of fact it was a bachelor's in philosophy; next, to the shouts of what meaning such a bloody tragedy c.. | Yann Martel | ||
| c183662 | Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground | potter potterhead rowling | J.K. Rowling |