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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 186b523 | The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0d692ff | Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect grape again and again. I walk through the house reciting it and leave its letters falling through the air of every room. I stand by the big silence of the piano and say it. I say it in front of a painting of the sea. I tap out its rhythm on an empty shelf. I listen to myself saying it, then I say it without listen.. | Billy Collins | ||
| 619a81a | Dear Pat, You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, 'Why don't you make something for me?' I asked you what you wanted, and you said, 'A box.' 'What for?' 'To put things in.' 'What things?' 'Whatever you have,' you said. Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts--the pleasures of .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4984b17 | And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ec30c92 | Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. | John Steinbeck | ||
| de21035 | He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row | hazel john-steinbeck | John Steinbeck | |
| 4a4afd7 | But you can't start over, Only a baby can start over. You and me, Why, we're all that's been. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3b903b0 | I should have known [...] I am the rain. [...] I am the land [...] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 35a7a4c | The land is so much more than its analysis. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 25992c8 | The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4065f20 | It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0ad7fd8 | The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 12db1d3 | In this life, we don't meet many people who truly love us, who accept us for who we are, who put us before themselves. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 10b5e41 | In the dance of infatuation, we see others not as they are, but as projections of who we want them to be. And we impose on them all the imaginary criteria we think will fill the void in our hearts. | Neil Strauss | ||
| dcd7769 | Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency. | Piers Anthony | ||
| af55ed6 | I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow - though I can't think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7b797c3 | If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny. | forgiveness love | Arthur Golden | |
| b2a573d | I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away. | decisions inspirational life | Nora Roberts | |
| 69b6853 | Doc is getting ready to do a Pap-smear on Reece)) "Looks healthy," Doc commented. "Good, because it hasn't been getting any exercise in quite a while." When she heard Willow smother a laugh, Reece just closed her eyes. She had to remember some old saying about being careful of thoughts. They become words." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 420202b | It might be fun." "Love's supposed to be." Laura smiled. "When it's not hell." | Nora Roberts | ||
| f082486 | She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 395d74c | The sparrow still falls. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| f3f98dd | Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect, and walk into freedom. | Rick Warren | ||
| 91b2f40 | Knowing your purpose motivates your life. | Rick Warren | ||
| 4c174c2 | I don't know if boys are intimidated by her or afraid of her or what, but I know her heart is open and ready for a special guy to walk in. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 416679f | Friends will keep us happy. Our family keeps us warm. We'll party through the good times and hold tight through the storms. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| db59153 | Sleep little one Sleep Grow strong And grow wings The world is waiting for you | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 88c6ed8 | I know she fought She fought hard but she didn't win | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 5820fec | Let the day reveal itself to me in its own time, in its own way. I am yours, Today. I am yours | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| fb66dce | He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all. | John Grisham | ||
| e35cdd4 | If you can't come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| c69bfaf | You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented." | humor | Julia Quinn | |
| 044374a | I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice." | romance | Julia Quinn | |
| 8dcf565 | I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 24da3ad | I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm. | bevelstoke julia-quinn sebastian-grey ten-things-i-love-about-you | Julia Quinn | |
| c7fa982 | Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who'd taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only. | Julia Quinn | ||
| dbaa98d | I'm not trying to impress you," he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. "Gads," he said, blinking in surprise. "What is that ?" Hyacinth followed his gaze. Several of the Pleinsworth progeny, one of whom appeared to be costumed as a shepherdess, were milling about. "Now that's an interesting coincidence," Gareth murmured. "It might be time to start bleating," she agreed. "I thought this was meant to be a poetry recitation." Hyacin.. | henry-viii humor sheep unicorn | Julia Quinn | |
| ee78b8f | It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you. | motherhood parenting-children | Julia Quinn | |
| 5c8b548 | I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life. | gareth-st-clair hyacinth-bridgerton it-s-in-his-kiss julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 89f3dea | Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool. | foolish men | Julia Quinn | |
| f6fcff6 | But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar. | humor | Julia Quinn | |
| c80cde4 | I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier. | parental-love | Julia Quinn | |
| 95ff514 | Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said. She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect." "Are all governesses so sarcastic?" | Julia Quinn | ||
| f8d2f74 | The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. | humor science | Michael Lewis |