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| a42d22e | WHAT WAS LOST IN THE COLLAPSE: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. Twilight in the altered world, a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a parking lot in the mysteriously named town of St. Deborah by the Water, Lake Michigan shining a half mile away. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 0793b34 | They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony. | Marian Keyes | ||
| bb9318f | she doesn't really have a sense of humor. I think she'd like to have one--it's just that she doesn't quite understand what jokes are for. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 299cd22 | And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| b96d926 | You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| e3bd02c | I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| ac696f8 | Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 740894f | Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. | violence war | Elie Wiesel | |
| 846c663 | He drowned his sorrows, though like other drowned things they had a habit of floating to the surface when least expected. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 099112c | Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous. | melancholy sadness strangers the-blind-assassin | Margaret Atwood | |
| 0cc3a55 | Lose your temper and you lose the fight. | fight temper | Margaret Atwood | |
| 6be4646 | I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 1539673 | I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches. | life-and-living life-lessons writing-life | Margaret Atwood | |
| c5b55a6 | So many crucial events take place behind people's backs, when they aren't in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. And the temporary oblivion of sex. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| dacd734 | Arboreal, a fine word. Our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say. Used to shit on their enemies from above while perched in trees. All planes and rockets and bombs are simply elaborations on that primate instinct. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| dd84bb4 | I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| cb78119 | I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| c09318c | If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time. | youth | Margaret Atwood | |
| 564ace6 | He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway? | Nick Hornby | ||
| b5e8cc6 | time has more power to undo and change things than the human will. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 18e0627 | Have I not already told you', replied Don Quixote, 'that I intend to imitate Amadis, and to act the desperate, foolish, furious lover so as also to imitate the valiant Orlando, when he found signs by a spring that the fair Angelica had disgraced herself with Medoro, and the grief turned him mad, and he uprooted trees, sullied the waters of clear springs, slew shepherds, destroyed flocks, burned cottages, tore down houses, dragged away mares.. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 4e42606 | Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself | Dodie Smith | ||
| db6a5c7 | I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money. | Dodie Smith | ||
| c39b69f | Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other | Dodie Smith | ||
| 2ed0466 | For Longing Blessed be the longing that brought you here And quickens your soul with wonder. May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe. May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take. May the forms of your belonging--in love, creativity, and friendship-- Be equal to the grandeur and the ca.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| eb11d6a | Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 772cbaa | FOR THE DYING May death come gently toward you, Leaving you time to make your way Through the cold embrace of fear To the place of inner tranquillity. May death arrive only after a long life To find you at home among your own With every comfort and care you require. May your leave-taking be gracious, Enabling you to hold dignity Through awkwardness and illness. May you see the reflection Of your life's kindness and beauty In all the tears t.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 2f60b0c | Her laughter warmed me in ways a jacket couldn't. | Katie McGarry | ||
| c7d7788 | The best way to get over your fears is to face them. | overcoming-fears | Katie McGarry | |
| b6c1c44 | We walked toward the arcade and Noah shifted his hand to allow his fingers to rest beside mine. My heart galloped like a horse. This was Noah Hutchins. The Noah Hutchins that refused steady relationships or even dating. The Noah Hutchins that only wanted one-night stands. A stoner. My opposite. And right now, everything I wanted. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 07d7cbe | Beth asked for time. How long does she need? A day? A week? Hours? Any amount is too long when the girl I'm falling for had tears in her eyes. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 1b94cd3 | For once in my life, I'd love to be myself around everyone else and be accepted for who I am instead of staying silent for fear of people mocking me. | Katie McGarry | ||
| f7f518c | Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter." | Julie Garwood | ||
| aa9c019 | Isabelle, it's all right for you to be a little afraid, but you should also be very excited and joyful, too. You're about to bring a new life into this world." "I would rather Winslow do it." | Julie Garwood | ||
| a05f327 | Gabrielle turned to Colm. "These men will be of interest to you." Colm looked them over. "Why is that?" he asked. With her back to the infidels, she whispered, "They like to dig holes." | Julie Garwood | ||
| eeff2d6 | Do you think my husband and his soldiers will be overly upset with me?" The priest broke into a wide grin. "I'll stand by your side when we find out," he said. "I would be honored to escort you to your husband." The priest took hold of Johanna's arm. She didn't notice. "I expect them to be a little upset at first," she explained. "But only just a little." "Yes," he agreed. "Tell me, lass. When was your last confession?" "Why do you ask?" "I.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 3e3630a | Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 7fe576d | What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren't dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret." "Ila was giving me advice on being a woman," Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see. "Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That," Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it." | egwene men perrin the-eye-of-the-world wheel-of-time women wot | Robert Jordan | |
| ab271d1 | Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 1bef066 | Most men get their deepest conviction of self-worth from a woman, wife, mother, or if they are highly conscious, from their own anima. The woman sees and shows the man his value by lighting the lamp. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 80a283d | The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 6acf703 | Don't Stop Believing | inspirational | Journey | |
| 6642477 | The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| dd06d14 | I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois's learning and Baldwin's love and Langston's humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art's redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of the.. | Barack Obama |