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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cdcb3bb | Quiero tanto a mi madre... No me importa si es cursi decirlo. Creo que en mi proximo cumpleanos voy a comprarle un regalo. Creo que esa deberia ser la tradicion. El hijo recibe regalos de todo el mundo y el compra uno para su madre, ya que ella tambien estuvo alli. Creo que seria bonito. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 713cf70 | in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0794cb4 | on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 94279fc | Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| fab1930 | The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything, | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 13af041 | What, are you like Buffy or something? A vampire slayer?" I wish. "No, but my sister is. And my boyfriend's a vampire so I know a lot about their kind." Jayden shrinks back from me, wide-eyed. "No, no. He's one of the good ones. Not all vampires are evil," I assure him. "So...you're dating...Edward Cullen." "Sure, if you have to relate it all to a Stephenie Meyer book," I grudgingly agree. "But don't say that to Magnus's face. He's a card-c.. | Mari Mancusi | ||
| 3b16f8e | The sky was filled with fat stars, swollen from the long night. The moon had risen briefly and then slipped out of sight. It was one of those sad moons that no one looks at or pays attention to. It had hung there a while, misshapen, not shedding any light, and then gone to hide behind the hills. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 5ae17cd | I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 8ed717f | Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals. | privilege status-quo | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 519c8df | We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. | civil-rights civil-rights-movement conscience hatred nonviolence peace protest racism racism-in-america resistance segregation | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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| 64901a3 | It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! | psychological-insight | Alison Bechdel | |
| 9082259 | The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you,' he said, 'by the grace of God.' (Walter Brueggemann) | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 905162e | It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 65bdc20 | Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL" | Brian Tracy | ||
| e64c2c3 | People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 608b0ad | Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7aa515c | If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 9949665 | Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don't Care. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e923b65 | Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 9cfa249 | i hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 96760de | Anyone got X-ray vision?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him? | superhero-reference | Charlaine Harris | |
| b46a59f | They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven't been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4ad90f4 | You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. | idiom optimism | Charlaine Harris | |
| 6e08860 | I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't." "The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock." | humor sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 6539f3c | The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e5338e8 | You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8212792 | I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9826e83 | Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" I think it's fear. Codi, I hope you won't be hurt by this, but I don't think I'll ever be going back. I don't think I can." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 57f15f7 | This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. | loneliness | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 483a32a | He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes." | girls | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| a4a64ff | When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday... | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d20ca99 | When someone mattered like that, you didn't lose her at death. You lost her as you kept living. | mother | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 63f9b15 | whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you. | peace | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 66216a9 | Insomnia's different," I said. It was hard to explain this to people. "You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f9090c3 | Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution of regard for the individual." A premium is placed on conformity to the cult group; deviation is penalized. "Beauty" is derivative; conforming to the Iron Maiden [an intrinsically unattainable standard .. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry dieting double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexual-violence sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| a2ce04a | We - as readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share knowledge of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the same swirl of story. We have only to reach out into the air and pluck a piece of it. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 4fffa74 | September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone. | Richard Peck | ||
| 69a34e2 | But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| b2278ab | Can't you just tell me now?" "No, I need someone to eat with." A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed to believe that I'm your only option?" "No. But you're my favorite option." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 00be436 | My point is, when someone is hurting you, they can call it whatever the hell they want. They can even call it love. But words lie, actions don't. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 77cd9a4 | I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you... | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 7e7a560 | Interrupting what promised to be a long spate of fatherly advice, St. Vincent said in a clipped voice, "It's not a love match. It's a marriage of convenience, and there's not enough warmth between us to light a birthday candle. Get on with it, if you please. Neither of us has had a proper sleep in two days." Silence fell over the scene, with MacPhee and his two daughters appearing shocked by the brusque remarks. Then the blacksmith's heavy .. | humor marriage wedding | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 0664053 | His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing. | kiss liberty love sugar-daddy | Lisa Kleypas |