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| 06e7316 | To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see overall patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or at least the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology or in states of mind which allow us to travel to .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 44961b1 | I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for believing in me " I said and maybe they understood and maybe they didn't." | pack werewolves wolves | Carrie Vaughn | |
| 129acfb | I started a new page and wrote a title at the top: "Ten Ways to Defeat Macho Dickheadism." Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I could defeat that I could save the world." | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 7060fd3 | It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off! | carrie-vaughn diana jill pirates steel swashbuckling teen wound ya young-adult | Carrie Vaughn | |
| 98355b4 | We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring. | insight journalism | Jon Ronson | |
| b056b9b | W]e all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them? | shame vulnerability | Jon Ronson | |
| 452608b | To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 7de3081 | Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn't have to live with it anymore--the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5000641 | Even in darkness your lips taste of sunshine | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 7806b8e | Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5e9f0a5 | Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, "sensible" religion may not be doing that. But it is making the world safe for fundamentalism by teaching children, from their earliest years, that unquestioning faith is a virtue." | questioning religion | Richard Dawkins | |
| 989e72c | Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 1e96f17 | As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 8bcccc2 | unlike, say, the sun, or the rainbow, or earthquakes, the fascinating world of the very small never came to the notice of primitive peoples. if you think about this for a minute, it's not really surprising.. they had no way of even knowing it was there, and so of course they didn't invent any myths to explain it. it wasn't until the microscope was invented in the sixteenth century that people discovered that ponds and lakes, soil and dust, .. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 14a8f11 | Well, you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it...whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 73ac0f5 | I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths. | relativism truth | R.C. Sproul | |
| 520441d | It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2a3eaed | A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb. | Betty Smith | ||
| 34fdfad | Gertrude's remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word "Woe," which she handed out gaily declaring, "Woe is me." | gertrude-stein | Ross Wetzsteon | |
| a7a2333 | Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 9c0d1b4 | Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 3ab00ee | I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes. | Michka Assayas | ||
| 7b2a819 | Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 490acb9 | I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt. | feelings head-and-heart | Jeanette Winterson | |
| e0f94d2 | Slightest accidents open up new worlds. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 9f4f8a2 | I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. | writing | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 8556a93 | I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 74b1ae2 | What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 193234a | When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. | child jeanette-winterson pregnancy sexing-the-cherry woman | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 24a183f | What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 42d814f | There's good news and slightly less good news. | good-news loki | Joanne Harris | |
| c2cd724 | You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif." | humour loki sarcasm | Joanne Harris | |
| e8cc49d | I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time, and I wish I could say: I did this five years ago. I made this mark, this ring caused by a wet coffee cup, this cigarette burn, this ladder of cuts against the wood's coarse grain. This is where Anouk carved her initials, the year she was six years old, this secret place behind the table leg. I did this on a warm day seven summers ago w.. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 156dddf | And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 357563f | Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it." | Barry Hughart | ||
| 70872f0 | Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week...Then you could see what it is, friends! ... | Art Spiegelman | ||
| 10b4f12 | The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime | marriage-humor marriage-mistakes marriages successful-marriage | Gary Chapman | |
| 49a5fc7 | I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself. | Richard Wright | ||
| a365095 | It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life. | Richard Wright | ||
| 0141dba | I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal silence of the marshes, and the shivering light on them, and the whisper of the spartina and sweet grass in the wind and the little liquid splashes of who-knew-what secret creatures entering that strange old place of blood-warm half earth, half water. I thought of the song of all the birds that I knew, and the soft singsong of the co.. | Anne Rivers Siddons | ||
| 959b9fa | When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 24be5a5 | In Michaela's favourite restaurant, I lift my glass and cutlery spills onto the expensive tiled floor. The sound crashes high as the skylight. Looking at me, Michaela pushes her own silverware over the edge. | Anne Michaels | ||
| d63497a | And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| fff70b1 | What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary.. | longing lost-love love wicked | Gregory Maguire |