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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 34b89ce | The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless. | azar nafisi | ||
| 883c849 | With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 07cdbc3 | A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| c717294 | Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. | William Shakespeare | ||
| e7ec064 | They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c93e0b2 | The fact that the biosphere responds unpredictably to our actions is not an argument for inaction. It is, however, a powerful argument for caution, and for adopting a tentative attitude toward all we believe, and all we do. Unfortunately, our species has demonstrated a striking lack of caution in the past. It is hard to imagine that we will behave differently in the future. We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We n.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| f83891e | At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe. | survival | Michael Crichton | |
| 5bdbb84 | The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older. | revolution | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 52bc246 | That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| c4312df | Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. | liberalism politics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 39eff6f | It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 6c820a4 | Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 9c1dd78 | A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 91e2946 | When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever. | Toni Morrison | ||
| eaec7a7 | Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 4934f98 | Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet. | Toni Morrison | ||
| cc77148 | Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 401e5bd | bums on the outside, libraries inside. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 194352b | If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a717e96 | As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| e926c5d | Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 8959e17 | The past is unclear. It's as if there is a film over those early years. I can't even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 5522f0f | I want to hide from it, that's what I want to do. I want to just close my eyes and let it pass by. Let it take the next man. | Raymond Carver | ||
| aa6e069 | We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore. | humor imitation | Tobias Wolff | |
| a47649f | Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----"The Gospel According to Shug" | Alice Walker | ||
| f9be340 | How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 0536b85 | Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 7039baa | Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!" Bag Lady, Swan Song" | Robert R. McCammon | ||
| 771bc15 | Do you realize the illicit sensuous delight I get from picking my nose? I always have, ever since I was a child. There are so many subtle variations of sensation. A delicate, pointed-nailed fifth finger can catch under dry scabs and flakes of mucous in the nostril and draw them out to be looked at, crumbled between fingers, and flicked to the floor in minute crusts. Or a heavier, determined forefinger can reach up and smear down-and-out the.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| dc01e73 | What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Yet I am not a cretin: lame, blind and .. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ad36eb0 | My bones hold a stillness, the far Fields melt my heart. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f29ec81 | Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.' --Sylvia Plath | Matt Haig | ||
| 2e195d4 | What's this?" "It's a napkin used by the saddest girl in the world to dry her tears." "Let me guess. Sylvia Plath?" "No, no one famous. But we knew about her. She gave off so much resonance, it turned our entire map black for one city block." "And she was no one special?" "You wouldn't recognise her name if I told it to you." | Iain S. Thomas | ||
| 03f6f60 | This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 8c8abe2 | For I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 1e323e4 | A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly. | marriage relationship | Sylvia Plath | |
| 61abf58 | But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many...? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 66bdfbc | With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be. | love plath | Sylvia Plath | |
| 2bc0148 | This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| cd2eb9e | They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great. Together, all together, they are the instruments of change. | Keri Hulme | ||
| d8cc36d | What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more. | thirty thirtysomething | John Updike | |
| 6691213 | Herkes bilsin, cok mutlu bir hayat yasadim. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 1368ade | There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar | Stormie Omartian | ||
| eb790f6 | What you put out into the world will always come back for you. | Dennis Lehane |