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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b7437a1 | And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. | life right wrong | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9ab8e10 | Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life experience can make all the difference. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| a76d970 | Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now. | prayer | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 9b3713d | You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, the seven masks I have fashioned an worn in seven lives, I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves." Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-.. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 965aac3 | And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| a8065d2 | You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Always you have been told .. | life love | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 0752380 | Look at the Darkness, giving birth to the Sun | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 1a070c8 | You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| ba80808 | So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love. So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness .. | sam waiting | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| 3a132b8 | That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the sou.. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 7cbf4bc | It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 47f6dee | Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 2fb0baa | There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| a9e3a46 | Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life. | Carol Shields | ||
| be1fc82 | A disruption of the circadian cycle--the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life--seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief. | depressed depression health insomnia intensity mental-health mental-illness psychology relief rhythm | William Styron | |
| fa3bbf0 | The Apricot Ice-cream Disaster had cost a whole evening of my life, compensated for only by the information about simulation algorithms. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 4dded49 | The door cracked open. "Decent?" Rafe asked. "Yep" "Damn." He pushed it open. "If you're hoping to see something, the trick is to not knock first." "That would be wrong," he said as he walked in. "The trick is to hope you say 'no, but come in anyway.'" "Ah." | rafe | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 4042a54 | I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 4d7b97a | Wish all my corpses would do that. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 9bdf593 | He's having a vision," I said. "That's what happens." (Maya) "Attractive, I know," Corey said between gritted teeth. "And now I get new witnesses to my humiliation. Wonderful." "We're used to it," Chloe said. "Derek used to do that when he Changed. Only worse." "Thank you for sharing," Derek muttered. She grinned. "You're welcome." | corey derek maya-delaney visions | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 6486b9a | Do you really think he untied you? .. He was just checking his kids handiwork. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| ff2573e | The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. They knew well enough what was happening. But even to themselves they pretended that all was well, for the food was good, they were protected, they had nothing to fear but the one fear; and that struck here and there, never enough at a time to drive them away.They forgot the ways of wild rabbits. They forgot El-ahrairah, for what use had they for tricks and cunning, livi.. | Richard Adams | ||
| 1da3069 | Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate. | rabbits | Richard Adams | |
| 626c5dd | Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves. | evil human-cruelty | Richard Adams | |
| 5c9d07d | The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said." | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 721586a | some things aren't any good unless they're shared. Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| b9e2171 | When I was a young man and very well thought of, I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied. I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins, And I never spoke love but I knew that I lied. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them know The secret I shelter and savor and save I wait for the one who will see through my seeming, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.' The years drifted over like clouds in the heavens; The ladi.. | destructiveness habit lament sin vice | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 5724ce4 | What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| fc43a2d | I finished the ale, started to order a third one, and decided against it. I'd had enough. More than enough. Or I never would have. You take just so much from a bottle, and then you stop taking. From then on you're putting. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 3cd7f32 | In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He'll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can't figure out whether the hero's laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff--a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is,.. | Jim Thompson | ||
| f6f7bbc | I've missed you." The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all." -- | J.D. Salinger | ||
| c51d923 | Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 98a92b9 | Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step. | stephenie-meyers the-host | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 28ca607 | I've never been drawn to someone the way I am to you, and I have been from the very first moment I met you. It's like the difference between...between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1b3f462 | I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me. | funny twilight vampire | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 2577168 | You are my business! | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 3c5fe70 | It's just the body,' I repeated. 'That's not it at all!' he disagreed. 'It's not the face but the EXPRESSIONS on it. It's not the voice, but what you SAY. It's not how you look in that body, but the THINgS YOU DO with it. YOU are BEAUTIFUL!!! | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ad9ea48 | After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8035794 | There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan" | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| da241aa | He raised his hand, hesitant, conflict raging in his eyes, and then swiftly brushed the length of my cheekbone with his fingertips. His skin was as icy as ever, but the trail his fingers left on my skin was alarmingly warm - like I'd been burned, but didn't feel the pain of it yet. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 730c819 | Imprinting." I heard the smile disappear from Cat's face. "Next." I repeated myself. "Are you referring to Stephenie Meyer's books?" "Yes," I said. A little unwillingly. Cat chuckled. "There's no shame in reading enjoyable books. But this topic is better discussed later." "Got it." | jessie | Shannon Delany | |
| dedd61b | You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets.. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 11df887 | If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 3024c4d | We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump. | Paul Bowles |