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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7648c08 | Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| c4b61a3 | Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| ef63a16 | This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him." "I meant it the other way." "Oh." | murder | Gary Paulsen | |
| 37c89b6 | But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b44fee8 | In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 45b8478 | Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b68e09b | What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go do.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1af0b99 | Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers? | James Hilton | ||
| 4447a33 | But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a0884cc | Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of "greed" is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned--never to those wanting to take other people's money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as "greed" on the part of government or the clientele of government." | greed taxes | Thomas Sowell | |
| ace1f3f | Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 78d948d | I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard the.. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| c674aa6 | You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 23c1035 | And the goblins--they had not really been there at all? They were only the phantoms of cowardice and unbelief? One healthy human impulse would dispel them? Men like the Wilcoxes, or ex-President Roosevelt, would say yes. Beethoven knew better. The goblins really had been there. They might return--and they did. It was as if the splendour of life might boil over and waste to steam and froth. In its dissolution one heard the terrible, ominous .. | goblins | E.M. Forster | |
| d92edb4 | for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil. | E.M. Forster | ||
| f0d1ae6 | At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world. | maurice-novel | E.M. Forster | |
| 396ab2c | One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs. | live nothing ordinary | E.M. Forster | |
| 2b36df4 | There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 22390e0 | Art theft gave a guy an appetite. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 1cfc792 | n lsh`b l ytdhkr wl yrwy l mystTy` 'n yfhmh w'n yHylh l~ 'sTwr@. | philosophy politics | Ivo Andrić | |
| 5d005e8 | They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| ab792ae | Sospecho que todo lo ocurrido no es fortuito, sino que corresponde a un destino dibujado antes de mi nacimiento y Esteban Garcia es parte de ese dibujo. Es un trazo tosco y torcido, pero ninguna pincelada es inutil. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 85a5001 | la edad, por si sola, no hace a nadie mejor ni mas sabio, solo acentua lo que cada uno ha sido siempre. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 931d9db | La mente es mucho mas interesante que el cuerpo. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 25692b0 | lhw l`lyl wl`ml lqsy `lj Sy'b lHmq@ lHb | Isabel Allende | ||
| 49bebe1 | Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions. | relationships | Isabel Allende | |
| caebcc3 | But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the .. | hinduism krishna religion | Yann Martel | |
| 441800d | I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. | Yann Martel | ||
| c56e6d6 | The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God | Yann Martel | ||
| 8c73979 | So, Swami Jesus, will you go on the hajj this year?" Ravi said, bringing the palms of his hands together in front of his face in a reverent namaskar. "Does Mecca beckon?" He crossed himself. "Or will it be to Rome for your coronation as the next Pope Pius?" He drew in the air a Greek letter, making clear the spelling of his Mockery. "Have you found time yet to get the end of your pecker cut off and become a Jew? At the rate you're going, if.. | Yann Martel | ||
| c750eb3 | I felt I was beating a rainbow to death | Yann Martel | ||
| e150b74 | Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? | old-age rudeness study-in-character | Yann Martel | |
| c8f0d60 | But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? -- Love. That was his answer. | Yann Martel | ||
| dd6d975 | Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8505b8e | Don't you bully me with your politeness! | Yann Martel | ||
| 5ba052f | When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it creates a certain bond between them. And I'm much mistaken if Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of Harry Potter." "I don't want a connection with Pettigrew!" said Harry. "He betrayed my parents!" "This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, Harry. But trust me, the time may come when you will be very glad you saved Pettigrew's life." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 689fb63 | It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.. | life | J.K. Rowling | |
| afa5dc6 | Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 68740a5 | I haven't got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself. "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you've got strengths if I say you've got them." | education encouragement exhortation prophecy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 37f49fc | There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d02cc45 | She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2a6ea27 | Merlin's beard, Harry, you made me jump," said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. "How did you get out of the castle?" "I think Filch must've forgotten to lock the doors," said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 63c8e91 | I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late. . . . What is it about my presence in your home that displeases you, Lucius?" "Nothing -- nothing, my Lord!" "Such , Lucius . . ." | voldemort | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5191f94 | So young," he said finally, "to be fighting so many." | J.K. Rowling |