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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 86ec6d6 | One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. | poetry portmanteau | Lewis Carroll | |
| aac8a24 | I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimes it looked like me. At other times, I could see someone similar but different in the reflection. A few times, I caught the switch in mid-stare, my expression re-forming like melting rubber, the creases and features of my face softening or hardening until the mutation was complete. Jekyll to Hyde, or Hyde to Jekyll. I felt my.. | amnesia change child dissociated-state dissociation dissociative dissociative-identity-disorder dream-like dreaming emotion emotionals identity identity-alternation identity-confusion identity-crisis identity-switch impostor incest lookalike memory-loss mental-health mirror multiple-personality-disorder personality-switch sexual-abuse split-personality survivor trauma trigger triggered unreal unreality | Alice Jamieson | |
| 0ee5b06 | We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b74f227 | My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 2bc3658 | It's impossible, the not-knowing, but it's better than getting the wrong answer. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2af9a9c | Anna Oliphant Etienne St. Clair SAVING YOU I'm teleporting to Atlanta.I'm picking you up,and we'll go someplace where our families can't find us.We'll take Seany. And we'll let him rup laps until he tires,and then you and I will take a long walk. Like Thanksgiving. Remember? And we'll talk about everything BUT our parents...or perhaps we won't talk at all. We'll just walk.And we'll keep walking until the rest of the world ceases to exis.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5afdb93 | Still have your passport?" I feel my coat once more. "Got it." "Good." And then his hand is inside my pocket.My heart spazzes,but he doesn't notice.He pulls out my passport and flicks it open. WAIT.WHY DOES HE HAVE MY PASSPORT? His eyebrows shoot up.I try to snatch it back,but he holds it out of my reach. "Why are your eyes crossed?" He laughs. "Have you had some kind of ocular surgery I don't know about?" "Give it back?" Another grab and m.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| cff5687 | He was my light, my heart, my beautiful scalawag. And I was--I am--his GG. | love | James Patterson | |
| fc71304 | maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside | James Patterson and gabrielle charbonnet | ||
| 0af7cd3 | The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on. | James Patterson | ||
| 265d018 | People always talk about how great it is to get older. All I saw were more rules and more adults telling me what I could and couldn't do, in the name of what's " good for me." Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up." | james-patterson middle-school | James Patterson | |
| b2a212a | Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes. | humor | James Patterson | |
| 82d9127 | We all love each other, Ange," I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. "No, not like this," she went on relentlessly. "Fang loves you."......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? "Forget it! No one's getting married!" I hissed. "Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35" -- | max sarcasm | James Patterson | |
| fd70096 | On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality. | James Patterson | ||
| f6282f5 | Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures. | James Patterson | ||
| dc71882 | Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with -- especially someone you're related to -- gets shot before you work it out. | James Patterson | ||
| c02d353 | I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping. I love your hair streaming out behind you as we fly, with the sunlight making it shine, if it doesn't have too much mud or blood in it. I love seeing your wings spreading out, white and brown and tan and speckled, and the tiny, downy feathers right at the top of your shoulders. I love your eyes, whether they're cold or calculating or suspicious or laughing.. | James Patterson | ||
| 5d316c6 | I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 9cf61a6 | After Father had served the chicken and mashed potatoes and peas and Mother had passed the hot rolls, Beezus decidedthe time had come to tell Aunt Beatrice about being Sacajawea. "Do you know what I did last week?" she began. "I want some jelly," said Ramona "You mean, 'Please pass the jelly,' "corrected Mother while Beezus waited patiently. 'No, what did you do last week?" asked Aunt Beatrice. "Well, last week I-" Beezus began again. " lik.. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| f8587e5 | When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life? Did I learn to be kinder, To be more patient, And more generous, More loving, More ready to laugh, And more easy to accept honest tears? If I accept .. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 3a943bd | This is the role of the mother. And in that visit I really saw clearly, for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and also cuddles... but because in an interesting and and maybe an eerie and other worldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known. | mothers | Maya Angelou | |
| bd543ae | lqd dhqt lhwn Ht~ lm y`d lhwn ythyr Hnqy , 'hnk fwq sTlH l'rD mrw'un lm yudhalW ? | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 51a5e23 | The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed. | Maxim Gorky | ||
| b995831 | Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that's been to Kelso three times, and they've never been farther than Ford in their lives." Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. "Thoughtless creatures. They've forgotten the fish." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 5373370 | It was a piece of advice only, and aimed at myself as much, I suppose, as at you.--For those of easy tongues, she said. Remember, some live all their lives without discovering this truth; that the noblest and most terrible power we possess is the power we have, each of us, over the chance-met, the stranger, the passer-by outside your life and your kin. Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there .. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 26b87a9 | Depose him,' said Will Scott, astonished. 'The Grand Master's holy office terminates with his life.' 'And can nobody think of an answer to that?' said Will Scott. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 19f48a8 | My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1b254e2 | There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 16f855c | Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be. | dark light possibility sentient-beings | Charles de Lint | |
| dac15c0 | It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who I've been- so I never forget who I am and how I got here."There was humour in the smile she offered him. "And you know what the real beauty of it is?" Hank had shaken his head. "Nobody can take it away." | identity tattoos | Charles de Lint | |
| 7eb674a | Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others. | beauty inspirational | Charles de Lint | |
| 731b635 | So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say "discover," they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage .. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 2f3dbd7 | I realize that lust stands high in the list of deadly sins. And yet lust - the tightening of the throat, the flushed cheeks, the raging appetite - is the only word accurate to describe the sensation I felt that morning, as the painted door closed and I was left with the liberty of all those books. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| aac2e83 | To lose everything is not the worst that can happen." "It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 4626fdb | The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| beab802 | La escritura: la escritura llega como el viento, esta desnuda, es la tinta, es lo escrito, y pasa como nada pasa en la vida, nada, excepto eso, la vida. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| f2b841b | Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're .. | William Goldman | ||
| 9798699 | There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them. | william goldman | ||
| f79d889 | Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future. | omerta | Mario Puzo | |
| 58cb815 | You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 64d017d | Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 181683c | Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind. | life serious talk-is-cheap truth | Mario Puzo | |
| 69230b6 | In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 598b2e8 | It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy. | Yvon Chouinard |