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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1415dec | Everything in everybody's life is ... significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| a44b36e | There isn't one kind of happiness, there's all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| bc759f2 | But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are perfectly. And they don't do this in words or images, necessarily; the connection is a lot less direct and more complicated than that. When I was first beginning to write seriously, I read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and suddenly knew what I was, and what I wanted to be, for better or worse. It's a process something like falling .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 275aa83 | Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| d243c5d | Ohhhhh." A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette-crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She's standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blond head is thrown rapturously back as an updraft lifts her full, flaring skirt, exposing white cotton panties. White cotton! The ivory-crepe sundress is floating and filmy as magic. T.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 3c63b4c | I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 4821b7e | I got to thinking--when it was too late--you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 0ba5734 | At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts | depressed depression facts reading vacuum | William Styron | |
| a999994 | You do know I am my father's son, right? People don't talk to me that way and live. (Syn) Oh, like I fear you. Never. Besides, a fight might dislodge whatever has crawled up your sphincter and bring back the much nicer version of you. (Shahara) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c937602 | If I said I wouldn't toss him out of my bed for eating crackers, would you leave me alone? (Grace) Maybe. What else wouldn't you toss him out of bed for? (Selena) Eating greasy grimy gopher guts? (Grace) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4a6417b | It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you.' I could see that Rosie could not place the line from The Bridges of Madison County that had produced such a powerful emotional reaction on the plane. She looked confused. 'Don, what are you...what have you done to yourself?' 'I've made some changes.' 'Big changes.' 'Whatever behavioural modifications you require from me are a trivial price to pay for having.. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| a49a474 | I diagnosed brain overload and set up a spreadsheet to analyze the situation. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 6317628 | He bent, lips coming to mine and -- 'Derek? Chloe?' It was Kit, opening the back door. Derek let out a low growl. 'Never fails.' I turned to Kit. 'How is she?' 'We're going to take her back to the house now. She's unconscious again.' 'Then we'll walk back,' Derek said. 'Give you room in the van to lay her down.' His dad agreed and went back inside. As we walked toward the steps, I looked down at Derek's hand, holding mine. 'No one's around,.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 3f953af | After the woman left, I set my coffee down and opened the bag. Two muffins-double-chocolate and blueberry bran. I texted Adam a thank-you. I'd just started eating the chocolate muffin when he texted backPut that one down and eat the bran. It's better foryou. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| b18b94a | Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 50ea28f | On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. "Welcome to winter," one said. "When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended." | traffic winter | Kelley Armstrong | |
| f31f945 | I'm sick of this. It's like being twelve again, dealing with all this damned drama. | corey drama kelley-armstrong relationships the-rising | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 978e6c8 | Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants?" (Ash) "Hell no," Corey said. "I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| c23b566 | Haven't you ever been in a fairy tale before? | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 2c6db83 | She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on." | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 85ca301 | This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside.. | life rabbits wild-life | Richard Adams | |
| 0101c85 | You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 399bad8 | What happened to your face?" Blue asked. Adam shrugged ruefully. Either he or Ronan smelled like a parking garage. His voice was self-deprecating. "Do you think it makes me look tougher?" What it did was make him look more fragile and dirty, somehow, like a teacup unearthed from the soil, but Blue didn't say that. Ronan said, "It makes you look like a loser." "Ronan," said Gansey. shouted Maura." | blue-sargent richard-gansey-iii ronan-lynch the-raven-boys the-raven-cycle | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| e3cfed9 | Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| c463e27 | Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| e6a1c0b | She's just a little faint," I reassured Mrs. Hammond. "They're blood typing in biology." | midnight-sun stephenie-meyer twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 1650513 | I can hear them on the floor below. They will find me in miuntes, or seconds. I scrawl the words on a dirty shred of newsprint. They are nearly illegible, but if he finds them, he will understand: 'Not fast enough. Love you love Jamie. Don't go home' Not only do I break their hearts, I steal their refuge, too. I picture our little canyon abandoned, as it must be forever now. Or if not abandoned, a tomb. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5ffddf4 | Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black | jacob-black twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| fa18b11 | I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Culllen. And that was very, very stupid. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c27fc62 | How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 3a549f4 | I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house--condemned--for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all--just the one small piece. He deserved better than that--better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 4ac6101 | You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 86eb260 | Why does Ian think I have to kiss you? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f7db721 | But now you're unhappy," he pointed out. "And?" I challenged. "That doesn't seem fair." He shrugged, but his eyes were still intense. I laughed without humour. "Hasn't anyone told you? Life isn't fair." "I believe I have heard that somewhere before," he agreed dryly." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 93a945e | Hate is a passionate emotion. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ddc5c65 | Why am I covered in feathers?" "I bit a pillow, or two." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 34dfd68 | In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| 8d196a1 | For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate him or her in a skill. To train them to debate stoic, existential, theological, and humanist ways of grappling with reality is to educate them in values and morals. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that .. | information intellectual teaching | Chris Hedges | |
| 029c27d | Into every life a little rain must fall. | Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor | ||
| 008c7fc | I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 88f2dc3 | There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| ca013d2 | How easily the mind can be turned to hate from a place of fear. | Christie Golden | ||
| 460b2b7 | Remember...you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to...to pick the right path." She smiled sadly. "Even if that choice comes a little late." | Christie Golden | ||
| 376e4ac | the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense-- | Vladimir Nabokov |