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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c0b132 | I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2b5d896 | A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 775b63e | I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5c2ff77 | I noticed Wahid's boys, all three thin with dirt-caked faces and short-cropped brown hair under their skull caps, stealing furative glances at my digital wristwatch. ...I unsnapped the wristwatch and gave it to the youngest of the three boys. He muttered a sheepish "Tashakor." "It tells you the time in any city in the world," I told him. The boys, nodding politely passing the watch between them, taking turns trying it on. But they lost inte.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 106de2e | Marriage can wait. Education cannot...Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8fc405e | We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much. | political | James Hilton | |
| 6f6ffd9 | As an entrepreneur in India put it: 'Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 9323d5c | Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them. | literature reading words | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| eae2bc4 | One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted. | E.M. Forster | ||
| e8cc1bb | We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 40cb333 | Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when th.. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8745365 | When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations. | E.M. Forster | ||
| ff34425 | I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul! | E.M. Forster | ||
| f08f720 | Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 4a8eb9b | Free food!" mumbled Hamilton, his mouth full. "No wonder you're rich. You don't have to pay for anything." "Since when is it free?" Jonah demanded. "If I don't leave a big tip, it'll be all over Europe that the Wiz is a cheapskate! They'll seat me behind the sound-man from the penguin movie at the Oscars!" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 5d52023 | You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you can't play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you can't sing. It should suck, but.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 6c0bdf2 | I'm starving. When we check into our hotel, let's ask the desk clerk where we can find one of those vast pizzas." "What are you talking about?" "Your guidebook says Florence is a city of vast pizzas. Look it up yourself." "Those are vast , not pizzas! It means public squares!" Dan's face fell. "Oh." Amy sighed. "I honestly thought the clue hunt took the dweeb out of you. No such luck." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 73900e8 | Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 2235483 | Ja! - Teska rijec, koja u ocima onih pred kojima je kazana odreduje nase mjesto, kobno i nepromjenjivo, cesto daleko ispred ili iza onog sto mi o sebi znamo, izvan nase volje i izvan nasih snaga. Strasna rijec koja nas, jednom izgovorena, zauvijek vezuje i poistovjecuje sa svim onim sto smo zamislili i rekli i sa cim nikad nismo ni pomisljali da se poistovjetimo, a u stvari smo, u sebi, vec odavno jedno. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| b05a72a | No. Grief and anger doesn't shock me." Catherine paused. "Rachel, do you remember that day at the convent when we saw the old biplane? Remember what I said?" Rachel laughed without amusement. "I don't even remember what I said." "'Who can doubt the presence of God in the sight of men whom He has given wings.' I recall that so precisely because I've had time to consider my error." She smiled. "God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain.. | Alan Brennert | ||
| 034005b | lnWas l yrydwn Sdqt, bl yrydwn ksb `yshhm bkrm@. | Isabel Allende | ||
| db2e05e | I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration. | Isabel Allende | ||
| de71248 | lqtl yuklWf qlylan , 'm lbq `l~ qyd lHy@ fhw ldhy yuklWf y bunyW . | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4da10ef | mry ts` w'rb`wn sn@. 'D` ydy `l~ qlby w'qwl bSwt Tfl@: l 'ryd 'n 'kwn mthl 'my, bl s'kwn mthl jdy, qwy@ wmstql@ wslym@ wqdr@, ln 'qbl b'n y'mrny 'Hd wl 'n 'kwn mdyn@ l'Hd; 'ryd 'n 'kwn mthl jdy w'n 'Hmy 'my. | Isabel Allende | ||
| eb976c1 | His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered... | Isabel Allende | ||
| 3c38717 | ytbyn ln fy nhy@ 'ymn 'nn lm n`sh l m ymknn n ntdhkrh | Isabel Allende | ||
| cca9a93 | If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? | Yann Martel | ||
| ba13920 | If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul. | peter-parker yann-martel | Yann Martel | |
| a15e93e | Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness." | religion | Yann Martel | |
| 5f15b9d | Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9cead56 | GRINDELWALD Will we die, just a little? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9dea93c | Well -- I was lucky once, wasn't I?" said Harry, pointing at his scar. "I might get lucky again." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4675035 | GINNY: Does your scar hurt? HARRY: No. No. I'm fine. Now, Nox that and let's get some sleep. GINNY: Harry. How long has it been since your scar hurt? HARRY turns to GINNY, his face says it all. HARRY: Twenty-two years. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9cd930f | And then he heard Mad-Eye Moody's voice, echoing in some distant chamber of his empty brain: Harry bent his knees obediently, preparing to spring. Why, though? Another voice had awoken in the back of his brain. Stupid thing to do, really, said the voice. No, I don't think I will, thanks, said the other voice, a little more firmly . . . no, I don't really want to . . . NOW! The next thing Harry felt was considerable pain. He had both jumpe.. | humour imperius-curse moody | J.K. Rowling | |
| af67f58 | Lockhart cuffed Harry merrily on the shoulder. "Just do what I did, Harry!" "What, drop my wand?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c3502d7 | Who're you writing the novel to anyway?" Ron asked Hermione, trying to read the bit of parchment now trailing on the floor. Hermione hitched it up out of sight. "Viktor." "Krum?" "How many other Viktors do we know?" Ron said nothing, but looked disgruntled. They sat in silence for another twenty minutes, Ron finishing his Transfiguration essay with many snorts of impatience, rolling in up carefully and sealing it, and Harry staring into the.. | ron-weasley viktor-krum | J.K. Rowling | |
| ee4bb8a | Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a98a375 | Let's see . . . ah, yes, this is nice and cozy." It was a broom cupboard." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a824bef | Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 34d8970 | He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cefda0d | I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiration date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 272ea43 | Pilihan kitalah Harry yang menunjukkan orang seperti apa sebenarnya kita, lebih dari kemampuan kita... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 704d922 | It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0f3ffed | Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: "My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and I succeeded in turning her into a yak! Thank you, Kwikspell!" | J.K. Rowling |