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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b28a44f | I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play. | depression mental-health self-harm surrealism | Sylvia Plath | |
| d62c70d | Is it not the singularity of life that terrifies us? Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? Shakespeare over and over demonstrates life's singularity -- the irrevocability of our decisions, hasty and even mad though they be. How solemn and huge and deeply pathetic our life does loom in its once-and doneness, how inexorably linear, even though our rotating, revolving planet offers us .. | life singularity | John Updike | |
| 34553b1 | It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man. | politics republicans woodrow-wilson | John Updike | |
| 512e4ef | We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 6da9792 | Hayatimin en mutlu aniymis, bilmiyordum. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 339d768 | With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole. | death life meaning mementos ordinariness | Orhan Pamuk | |
| a70f156 | En realidad nadie sabe que esta viviendo el momento mas feliz de su vida mientras lo vive. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 4658d90 | in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.' 'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs. | dying-for-your-beliefs ideals martyrdom orhan-pamuk snow | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 2c9e629 | when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 84ef3eb | We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.... | A.S. Byatt | ||
| ce4c03e | Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers. | growing-older nostalgia | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| 55c8d26 | A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning. | kate-elliott kiss | Kate Elliott | |
| a2e0495 | you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello." | prayer | Stormie Omartian | |
| d8e804b | A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause. | Ben Bova | ||
| 673e518 | This is crap," Shaun said, withdrawing his arm. "Right," I agreed. "Absolutely fucking crap." "No argument." "I want to punch somebody right about now." "Not it," Rick said. "I punch back," Steve said." | punching | Mira Grant | |
| bda99a0 | I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone. | Rick Steves | ||
| 5cd5fb8 | The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e755310 | someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. | human-experience medication prescription-drugs psychiatry shutter-island | Dennis Lehane | |
| 496ded9 | Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87) | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b32476e | But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a984475 | Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 6a08026 | There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 001e01c | You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| c71ec65 | When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 103bb4b | a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. | danger human-nature | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8b2de77 | Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody, you think, This is a god. This is perfection. But I can promise you that there's somebody else somewhere else who'll make your god look like a maggot by comparison. And somebody smarter or stronger or better in some way. So let me tell you what .. | god oppression | Orson Scott Card | |
| f973a75 | Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades." | personality | Orson Scott Card | |
| 372e733 | Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| fa5cf66 | In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on. | philosophy | Orson Scott Card | |
| cb0eb95 | it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't | Orson Scott Card | ||
| da90836 | In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. | people-skills self-interest | Orson Scott Card | |
| 7616e45 | Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, | Brian Jacques | ||
| b07a9c2 | You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. --Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace | Brian Jacques | ||
| fb59b15 | Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline. | Brian Jacques | ||
| c277ead | Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole. | Robin McKinley | ||
| ea01ab7 | My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night." | Robin McKinley | ||
| 96e44e7 | The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once." | Robin McKinley | ||
| 733f72c | Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not." | Robin McKinley | ||
| 8d4af26 | But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it. | Robin McKinley | ||
| e78cab2 | What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true. | Robin McKinley | ||
| b279b29 | Because she was a princess she had a pegasus. | Robin McKinley | ||
| d96edea | Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." -- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ba9824d | I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them all the time. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| deebc64 | Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish... | Barbara Taylor Bradford |