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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6ec21c3 | I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 31fa8c3 | Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! | murder | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 0f781ab | The dusky and faintly sweet smell of her perfume came to Therese again, a smell suggestive of dark green silk, that was hers alone, like the smell of a special flower. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| daff5e6 | No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued. | hope love suicide value woman | Sheri Holman | |
| 0280b1c | The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. | Anne Michaels | ||
| b67341e | Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 1bf1b69 | Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. | immortality | Gregory Maguire | |
| 7b3b720 | And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3320b5d | Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 00ae21b | Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you're ready to see it anew? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3d78491 | In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn. | insufficiency knowledge learning life-lessons wonder | Iain Pears | |
| f46f483 | The truth is I always loved him. From the first time I saw him he was so great. But that time I was hurt. I might have been selfish but I was so hurt. I was afraid I would feel more pain. Now I remember every time I was with Shouji I felt better. You hugged me secretly with your heart, didn't you? Now I want you to embrace me with all that warmth, with all your strength. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| d33ad76 | For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 19be23e | The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 68cab13 | In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2f4a330 | Americans often wonder how this moment could have spawned such extraordinary men as Hamilton and Madison. Part of the answer is that the Revolution produced an insatiable need for thinkers who could generate ideas and wordsmiths who could lucidly expound them. The immediate utility of ideas was an incalculable tonic for the founding generation. The fate of the democratic experiment depended upon political intellectuals who might have been m.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 628810c | A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.) | Ron Chernow | ||
| 182e4c9 | Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 96f3306 | Education,' one of R's teachers taught, 'teaches you not to be yourself.' But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn't blood, it wasn't anything. | Kathy Acker | ||
| a159b46 | Some folks like trains, some folks like ships, I like the way you move you hips All I want is a taste of your lips, boy, All I want is a taste of your lips. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 297d198 | Every angel is terrifying. Through the darkness, they move silently... I will go down into death with you. I must go where I must go To see what I must see In that place where no one knows... ... This is where love is taking me. You have been leading Me, angels, in and out of death. I have no idea who you are. Eurydice. Is she nothing Or is she your mirror? I don't know anymore. I am at war. Perhaps that which is given - Being human - Is .. | death eurydice love lovers self | Kathy Acker | |
| 1487a7d | Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case. | mississippi | Jill Conner Browne | |
| 10d8eed | Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 6da3096 | Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12) | Richard Preston | ||
| 6d7f5ca | Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6006a15 | i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 68727ff | It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage. | library read reading religious | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 98fb2e9 | After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back. | selflessness | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| e37db69 | Her heart swelled with the high holiness of it all. Imminence was all around. She was both warrior and shining spear. She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 3e63805 | Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| b926fba | One's own life seemed puny against the background of so much history. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| bd52155 | Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| f712cad | Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 832b2e2 | It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence. | Beverly Daniel Tatum | ||
| b8c76f6 | For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most. | darwin homo-sapiens tragedy | John Fowles | |
| bc97e9a | It's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind. | John Fowles | ||
| 3396609 | Missing you? I could cheerfully murder you. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 40581e1 | To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. | Roddy Doyle | ||
| e2b3cce | If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 34326e1 | I will take you down my own avenue of remembrance, which winds among the hazards and shadows of my single year as a plebe. I cannot come to this story in full voice. I want to speak for the boys who were violated by this school, the ones who left ashamed and broken and dishonored, who departed from the Institute with wounds and bitter grievances. I want also to speak for the triumphant boys who took everything the system could throw at them.. | Pat Conroy | ||
| d3837ac | A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It's as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that ev.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 7c6b993 | Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent. | intelligence | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 1a28c07 | We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then you are ready for a walk.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5b5b4a7 | The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opport.. | friendship love possessiveness | Henry David Thoreau |