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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 624b8fe | If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 025a29b | n m yfsWr lbTwl@ khyr tfsyr lyst ldwf` lsmy@ dy'man. hnk ltHml , Dyq l`ql w 'shd m ymkn tSwrh mn l'fkr Gban. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| bdae5f0 | It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 583114c | I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. | dying memories time | Will Schwalbe | |
| ba70268 | Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together. | reading | Will Schwalbe | |
| 75e2708 | mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| d984380 | books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation. | mankind | Will Schwalbe | |
| 9b5c2e4 | Solo siendo absolutamente libre se puede bailar bien, se puede hacer bien el amor y se puede escribir bien. Actividades todas ellas importantisimas. | Rosa Montero | ||
| d31a0e9 | The world will not alter for all your meddling. | Molière | ||
| 40d9a0c | But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it's about how you look. Not about the blood you have. It's about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. | racism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 29db1de | There are slightly more women than men in the world--52 percent of the world's population is female--but most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a8d0137 | To call him humble was to make rudeness normal. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued; he had always wished himself to be truly honest, and always feared that he was not | rudeness | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 51010b1 | Is it a good life, Daddy?" Nkiru has taken to asking lately on the phone, with that faint, vaguely troubling American accent. It is not good or bad, I tell her, it is simply mine. And that is what matters." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7dd35aa | You wanted to feel disdain, to show it as you brought his order, because white people who liked Africa too much and those who liked Africa too little were the same--condescending. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 579fb99 | There was a feeling I wanted to feel that I did not feel. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 180bc8a | Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0f88ba7 | Viajar, perder ciudades, perderlos todos. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| b9f28db | Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis | Christopher Paolini | ||
| f1198f0 | These books are my friends, my companions. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 4fe0e3f | From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 37c718f | A pox on all meads! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| dce992a | The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence. Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and color in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes, dreams, and experiences. All the past emotions converge to tint the skin and flavor the lips, to regulate the pulse and produce crys.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6149d13 | The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded cafe when we are looking for her, the one that we must hunt for, and seek out through the disguises of her stories. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b8ff768 | I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| ccbf235 | People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. --Mrs. Miracle | mrs-miracle people | Debbie Macomber | |
| 0d7d529 | Slowly what she composed with the new day was her own focus, to bring together body and mind. This was made with an effort, as if all the dissolutions and dispersions of her self the night before were difficult to reassemble. She was like an actress who must compose a face, an attitude to meet the day. The eyebrow pencil was no mere charcoal emphasis on blond eyebrows, but a design necessary to balance a chaotic asymmetry. Make up and powde.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 690bfc5 | She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried a lot about whether she was good enough. It was surprising to see how relieved she seemed whenever I told her how amazing she was. I wanted her to feel strong and free. She was beautiful when she was free. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 17f9f83 | Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. | Susan Cain | ||
| 6e2d84d | I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c9ba2c8 | Mais je t'attendais, je t'attendais, je t'attendais comme mon destin... | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 039c564 | Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality." -- | Stefan Zweig | ||
| e1141e1 | Insan sabahtan aksama kadar bir sey olmasini bekler ve hicbir sey olmaz. Bekleyip durur insan. Hicbir sey olmaz. Insan bekler, bekler, bekler, sakaklari zonklayana dek dusunur, dusunur, dusunur. Hicbir sey olmaz. Insan yalniz kalir. Yalniz. Yalniz. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 940c257 | Maybe everything's not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you'll discover your hidden resources. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 3721ac6 | Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way. | Marilyn French | ||
| 0c38d0f | Matar no quiere decir que uno tome el revolver de Buck Jones y haga !bum! No es eso. Uno lo mata en el corazon. Va dejando de querer. Y un buen dia la persona muere. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 4c8d23d | My days are as long as despair can make them. | despair | Kathryn Harrison | |
| ace441d | But if someone calls me 'poor thing' one more time, I may go postal and kill everyone around me. Except children and dogs. And old people. And you. And Connor. Fine, I won't kill anyone. But it's driving me crazy. | pity | Kristan Higgins | |
| 139f198 | It's just that sometimes you love a kid just because they need it. Not because they deserve it, not because you really like them...just because they need love. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 4b45ed8 | He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offence; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus. | Ken Follett | ||
| d7f5300 | Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts. | Ken Follett | ||
| 2bf2a3b | Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere. | redemption | Ken Follett | |
| 6a4eb63 | Jen shakes her head sadly and I can see her lower lip trembling, the tear that's starting to form in the corner of her eye. I can't touch her, kiss her, love her, or even, as it turns out, have a conversation that doesn't degenerate into angry reincriminations in the first three minutes. But I can still make her sad, and for now, I'll have to be satisfied with that. And it would be easier, so much easier, if she didn't insist on being so go.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 3f2df11 | and if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 538104a | There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen. | Jonathan Tropper |