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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1c58167 | But, God knows best, I concluded. | belief-in-god god | Anne Brontë | |
| e051610 | I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. | conversation enjoyment faculty friendship silence | Anne Brontë | |
| 3a0cdf1 | So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day | Robin Hobb | ||
| f1af95d | Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world, is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be swallowed in the night, sway with the wind, and when the smooth snow vanishes, it will lie distorted upon the uneven earth. But the tree continues to be. Do you understand that? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 385f758 | I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. | nature | Robin Hobb | |
| 496cccf | When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a498200 | One of Mom's favorite passages from Gilead was: "This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, what is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation.?"...But the question from Gilead, Mom said, was always the thing you n.. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 62981a3 | One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. Sure, sometimes they'll elude you by hiding in improbable places... But at other times they'll confront you, and you'll literally stumble over some tomes you hadn't thought about in weeks or years. I often seek electronic books, but they never come after me. They may make me f.. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| e25d358 | El amor consiste en encontrar a alguien con quien compartir tus rarezas. | rareza | Rosa Montero | |
| e1db6d4 | Sur quelque preference une estime se fonde, Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde. | judgment preference | Molière | |
| 6ff38e9 | I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d992eb2 | But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with fragile egos. The a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1297786 | He had first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. But he began to be appalled by the air of unreality, the careful manipulation of images to create a parallel life, pictures that people had taken with Facebook in mind, placing in the background the things of which they were proud. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7986d5d | I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 33fbdf8 | Lo que hace soportable la vida es la idea de que podemos elegir cuando escapar. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 8057a31 | We walk the paths we choose. | Barbara Wood | ||
| d066b6e | I don't expect to see perfection before I die. Lord, if I did I would have stuck my head in the oven back in Tucson, after hearing the stories of some of those refugees. What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, "What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 20e6636 | Don't eat earwax avoid roasted cabbage and look on the bright side of life -Angela | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 7152864 | When I saw Faolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 329d1aa | Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 145be27 | It is easy to be calm when there is nothing to worry about, Eragon. The true test of your self-control, however, is whether you can remain calm in a trying situation. You cannot allow anger or frustration to cloud your thoughts, not at the moment. Right now, you need your mind to be clear. Have you always been able to remain calm at times like this? The old dragon seemed to chuckle. No. I used to growl and bite and knock down trees and tear.. | humor inspirational | Christopher Paolini | |
| e1cec5e | We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood we discover a cult or club fantasy: the dream of the portentous solidarity of those who have been chosen to be allowed to read. In the ancient world--indeed, until the dawn of the modern nation.. | grammar humanism language reading | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 1c6ec91 | Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, I was consoled in adversity, I was prepared for both joys and sorrows, I acquired one of the most precious sources of strength of all: an understanding of human beings, insight into their motivations. | literature reading words | Anaïs Nin | |
| 59ef04f | Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place. --Diary 6, pg. 52 | Anaïs Nin | ||
| d3ee0ee | Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 82f852e | I stepped closer to him and lowered my voice. 'If you could change one thing, what would it be?' He pulled the sheep pendant from his pocket. A question filled his eyes. I held out my hand. Riley placed it in my palm and I curled my finger around the necklace, pressing the metal into my skin. | regret | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 9f36f67 | Generals trump Majors," Ursan said. "True, but do princes trump generals?" "I attacked him." "Ryne's not the type to hold a grudge." Ursan considered. "Isn't he a king? Both his parents died" "Technically, yes. But he hasn't assumed the title." "Neither has Prince Kerrick," Ursan said. " Don't you find that odd?" "Not with Kerrick. He loved his father very much. I think it's still too painful for him to assume the title. Plus he hasn't been.. | ursan | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 77f5585 | Don't worry," I said. "These men are good. They're going to heal the world." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 048e715 | It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 771257a | In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works. | leif story-weaver valek yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 2a0f0cd | There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet. | Susan Cain | ||
| e1e91fe | Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is saying; reading body language and facial expressions; smoothly taking turns talking and listening; responding to what the other person said; assessing whether you're being understood; determining whether you're well received, and, if not, figuring out how to improve or remove yourself fro.. | hsp introvert | susan cain | |
| 308d284 | INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent's death, or abuse. They're more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan's high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as "social anxiety disorder," a chronic and disabling form of shyness." | Susan Cain | ||
| dfde69c | Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess sucha key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own. | introverts quiet susan-cain | Susan Cain | |
| f05ca62 | It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people; it's how we treat one another. As you grow older, you'll find that people of every religion think they're the best, but that's not true. There are good and bad people in every religion. Just because someone is Muslim, Jewish, or Christian doesn't mean a thing. You have to look and see what's in their hearts. That's the only thing that matters, and that's the only detail God cares .. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 092917a | I've made up boyfriends too' Karen said, nodding her head slowly. 'The best man I ever dated was all in my head' 'Thank you!' I exclaimed. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| fbd7b76 | Movie directors often shoot funerals in the rain. The mourners stand in their dark suits under large black umbrellas, the kind you never have handy in real life, while the rain falls symbolically all around them, on grass and tombstones and the roods of cars, generating atmostphere. What they don't show you is how the legs of your suit caked with grass clippings, cling soaked to your shins, how even under umbrellas the rain still manages to.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| fce1c62 | We're ostriches and the whole world is sand. | dresden-files harry-dresden philosophy | Jim Butcher | |
| 3aa8907 | It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 32f9f7c | No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6d37333 | It took a freaking to put this together, Michael." I hefted my staff. "Fortunately," I said, and took a two-handed swing at the nearest stand of slender, delicate crystal. It shattered with gratifying ease, and the encasing light around the greater circle began to waver and dissipate. "It only takes a monkey with a big stick to take it apart." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 686a76b | The Senior Council--" "Couldn't find its heart if it had a copy of , X-ray vision, and a stethoscope." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1ebde08 | But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ce43ee2 | But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God would not permit such errors to be made in the Holy Word." "I thought God gave everyone free will. Which would presumably - and evidently - include the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another." "Stop making me think. I'm believing over here." | religion | Jim Butcher |