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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| af577b3 | You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk." iAm ~ Lover At Last" -- | J.R. Ward | ||
| 5502870 | Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I'll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude will shine through | J.R. Ward | ||
| 5402c8c | Oh. Good. The idea that you might only cripple the guy makes me feel a fuck of a lot better about leaving you here. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 1139dc8 | Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it, he had detached the precious object from his mind, leaving, as he thought, everything else in the same state as when it was there. But the absence of one part from a whole is not only that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a derangement of all the other parts, a new state which it was impossible to foresee in the .. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 33ecb8d | I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky. | swann-s-way | Marcel Proust | |
| 1c8000d | For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one spends one's time, not in getting to know what one's love really is, but in making it possible to meet next day. When one abandons love one seeks not to know one's grief but to offer to her who is causing it that expression of it which seems to one the most moving. One says the things which one feels the need of saying, and which the other wi.. | regret spite | Marcel Proust | |
| 545b1e9 | ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 1febdce | In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction | sci-fi | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 96963bb | Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 23b31f2 | He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong. | plausibility wrong | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 61a78f0 | When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned. | love | Emma Forrest | |
| e20061a | The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still. | Anita Desai | ||
| d0db0cf | I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can't cross a street, light a cigarette, drop saccharine in your coffee without really doing it. Yet the possible alternatives that life allows us are very few, often there must be none. I've never thought there was any choice for me about writing poetry. No doubt if I used my head better, ordered my life better, worked harder etc., the poetry would be improved, and there must be many .. | Robert Lowell | ||
| 67a8aa6 | When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters--first and foremost--how they behave. This is called the "principle of legitimacy," and legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going t.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c964985 | When people are overwhelmed with information and develop immunity to traditional forms of communication, they turn instead for advice and information to the people in their lives whom they respect, admire, and trust. The cure for immunity is finding Mavens, Connectors, and Salesmen. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d481281 | You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 31e26d4 | I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too. | writing | Susan Hill | |
| ac41b71 | Our personal hallucination now developed as boundlessly as perhaps the total nightmare of human society, for instance, with earth, sky, and atmosphere. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 4ee1ef7 | Le monde sent la mort | Georges Bataille | ||
| 568ee6e | Assim, a via de criacao de um elemento soberano (ou sagrado) -- de um personagem institucional ou de uma vitima oferecida a consumacao -- e uma negacao de um desses interditos cuja observacao geral faz de nos seres humanos em vez de animais. Isso quer dizer que a soberania, na medida em que a humanidade se esforca em direcao a ela, exige que nos situemos "acima da essencia" que a constitui. Isso quer dizer tambem que a comunicacao so pode o.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| f4ae469 | We have in fact only two certainties in this world--that we are not everything and that we will die. To be conscious of not being everything, as one is of being mortal, is nothing. But if we are without a narcotic, an unbreathable void reveals itself. I wanted to be everything, so that falling into this void, I might summon my courage and say to myself: "I am ashamed of having wanted to be everything, for I see now that it was to sleep." Fr.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| ad3bf5d | The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 0b68da3 | Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance. We want to feel as remote from the world as we can. As remote as we can: that is hardly strong enough; we want a world turned upside down and inside out. The truth of eroticism is treason. De Sade's system is the ruinous form of eroticism. Mo.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 057ba61 | The certainty of incoherence in reading, the inevitable crumbling of the soundest constructions, is the deep truth of books. Since appearance constitutes a limit, what truly exists is a dissolution into common opacity rather than a development of lucid thinking. The apparent unchangingness of books is deceptive: each book is also the sum of the misunderstandings it occasions. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 53735ad | Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself. | differentiation man mankind | Georges Bataille | |
| e022b66 | je saisis en sombrant que la seule verite de l'homme, enfin entrevue, est d'etre une supplication sans reponse. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 88fc135 | Well," Ben went on,"someone should just tell her to come on home, because she can find the world's largest balls right here in Orlando, Florida. They're located in a special display case known as 'my scrotum.'" Radar laughed, and Ben continued. "I mean seriously. My balls are so big that when you order french fries from McDonald's, you can choose one of four sizes: small, medium,large, and my balls." | John Green | ||
| 807be3c | I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment. | invisibility-cloak | John Green | |
| ff41e29 | He kept thinking about one word--forever--and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. | John Green | ||
| c8a57b1 | We have to forgive to survive the labyrinth. | John Green | ||
| d9460b3 | Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. | John Green | ||
| d019f79 | I just want to stay away from people and read books. | john-green | John Green | |
| e4986ba | I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. | romantic young-adult young-adult-romance | John Green | |
| 2a32b0b | We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken | John Green | ||
| ea95129 | It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting. | John Green | ||
| 9cca392 | he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that's a sign. | romance | John Green | |
| fccbcf8 | I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee. | humor leaving paper-towns pee young-adult | John Green | |
| ac9ed7f | Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard. | John Green | ||
| 1590cc8 | You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us | kids teen turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| 7399729 | Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me." I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back. "Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you." | humor love | John Green | |
| 637a7e4 | God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will." -The Colonel" | John Green | ||
| aab5edd | You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of .. | John Green | ||
| 49cf5ef | So maybe we won't ever win the lottery, or marry royalty, or make that last second shot. That doesn't mean we won't have amazing adventures, meet exceptional people, and make indelible memories. The trick is to notice before it's too late. | paper-towns paper-towns-movie | John Green | |
| f9f4c72 | Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. | John Green |