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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d3258b8 | The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser. | boys dating etiquette fifteen humiliation love manners regret | Beverly Cleary | |
| f4d6413 | She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. | Maya Angelou | ||
| f799a45 | Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come. | Maya Angelou | ||
| d210ae8 | If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape. | humor | Maya Angelou | |
| 545576b | Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 8116985 | This bed yawns beneath the weight of our absent selves. | bed drifting-apart loneliness yawn | Maya Angelou | |
| 19eb107 | Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful. | Garth Nix | ||
| 8d9fbc9 | If you are lost, I will find you. If you are in danger, I will protect you," he said seriously. "It's what a gentleman does, Elysse." ~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neil" | heroic romance | Brenda Joyce | |
| 09f6e99 | Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams. | Miriam Toews | ||
| d67bf65 | I don't mind," he whispered. "If I had a soul, I'd probably wind up in hell anyway." | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 1fbd61f | Kate viewed him suspiciously. "I don't see why I should abandon my entertainment because of your conscience." "It isn't quite conscience so much as horrified admiration," said Lymond." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 3375c52 | If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f0e7a62 | Valar Morghulis- All men must die | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1d00a40 | I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 6531306 | There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all. | Charles de Lint | ||
| b5a37ae | Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you.. | life spirit | Charles de Lint | |
| c1abdd8 | Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 2f28cf0 | But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair. | past | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 8899f08 | Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| f93f38a | Look. (Grow-ups skip this paragraph.) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it is my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming up, torture you've already been prepared for, but there's worse. There's death coming up, and you better understand this: Some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty. Nobody warned me and i.. | William Goldman | ||
| ab49bd7 | One thing you know when you're ten is that no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out. | William Goldman | ||
| 7c4fd25 | It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out. | William Goldman | ||
| 927f5c6 | His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. | first-lines military | David Morrell | |
| ad98226 | When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us - we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 210f3e8 | The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters | Mario Puzo | ||
| 05c4f47 | Leave the gun, take the cannoli. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 6215a13 | most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. | ignorance | Yvon Chouinard | |
| 0a30197 | oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 8f92f3c | She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine." I looked over at my answering machine. Sure enough, the light was blinking. The woman really was a detective. "It's some girl," La Guerta said. "She sounds kind of sleepy and happy. You got a girlfriend, Dexter?" there was a strange hint of a challenge in her voice. "You know how it is," I said. "Women today are so forward, and when you are as handsome as I am they absolutel.. | humor serial-killer | Jeff Lindsay | |
| a7062d5 | Too many of us move through our lives with our true selves buried below layers of repressed emotion. With so much energy channeled toward sustaining the repression, there is little left over for the deeper questions. The consequences of our evasion are profound. Our stockpiles toxify into a cache of weapons that turn inward against the self: quick fix, long suffering. As Rumi said, "Most people guard against the fire, and so end up in it." .. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 7660894 | My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 6b77363 | On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men. | literature writing | Heather O'Neill | |
| db4ce5d | You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. | David Benioff | ||
| 7557bfd | His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway | metaphor | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 00a55c4 | And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them. | trouble | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 3261d78 | Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| f7b1cf9 | Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night." | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| be2439b | I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most. | Charles Darwin | ||
| ceeccbc | Origin of man now proved.--Metaphysics must flourish.--He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. | evolution metaphysics | Charles Darwin | |
| 0953027 | A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined. | education | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| f1da7dd | To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one a.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 5246f60 | Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time. | psychology | Julian Jaynes | |
| 699ed8a | Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite 'telescope envy' at gatherings of amateur astronomers. | neil-degrasse-tyson physics telescope universe | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 8e307fe | Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart. | prayer surrender | Watchman Nee |