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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 78793b3 | She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 18369b7 | They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3fcdec1 | Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. Quit dancing. Get some self-respect and a day job. Right. And minimum wage, and varicose veins, just standing in one place for eight hours behind a glass counter bundled up to the neck, instead of naked as a meat sandwich. Selling gloves, or something. Instead of what I do sell. You have to have talent to peddle .. | burned counter dancing does helen house margaret morning of troy | Margaret Atwood | |
| 6a65fa3 | The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 33b6ee6 | In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me. | hermit | Margaret Atwood | |
| c3923c8 | The Loneliness of the Military Historian Confess: it's my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary. I wear dresses of sensible cut and unalarming shades of beige, I smell of lavender and go to the hairdresser's: no prophetess mane of mine, complete with snakes, will frighten the youngsters. If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in h.. | historian house loneliness military morning of the | Margaret Atwood | |
| 9f2fe9d | Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ab83652 | Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being. | women | Margaret Atwood | |
| d0297ea | On the whole she fares better with the men, if they can work their way past the awkward preliminaries; if they can avoid calling her "little lady," or saying they weren't expecting her to be so feminine, by which they mean short. Though only the most doddering ones do that any more. If she weren't so tiny, though, she'd never get away with it. If she were six feet tall and built like a blockhouse; if she had hips. Then she'd be threatening,.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e9061fe | I have never died all my life | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 1411517 | We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. | reading | Nick Hornby | |
| ec75085 | I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5cd6c03 | You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible. | Nick Hornby | ||
| d3bfc77 | For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own | Nick Hornby | ||
| 658fa3d | The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. | Dodie Smith | ||
| 3624974 | Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. | John O'Donohue | ||
| ab30c8c | Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world. An object or a person can be reflected in so many different ways. Yet the heart of an object or the essence of the heart can never be reflected. All faith and creativity is the hunger to cross over this frontier, it is the desire for pure and total encounter and belonging. Love is an affair between a reflection and its object. | reflection | John O'Donohue | |
| 663939d | Anam is the Irish word for "soul" and Cara is the word for "friend." In the Anam-Cara friendship, you were joined in an ancient way with the friend of your soul. This was a bond that neither space nor time could damage. The friendship awakened an eternal echo in the hearts of the friends; they entered into a circle of intimate belonging with each other. The Anam-Cara friendship afforded a spiritual space to all the other longings of the hum.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| c27d32d | Sometimes we don't choose the memories, but they choose us. | noah | Katie McGarry | |
| e714d4f | Is this all we are? Continual actions and reactions? No control over our future? [...] If that's true, then life is one pathetic and sick game. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 0f2beff | There's a ton you can learn about a person from how they deal with the absence of sound. | love thomas | Katie McGarry | |
| 35bdd8c | I stared into his eyes and waited his response. Neither one of us moved. Dear God, Lila and Natalie were right. He was hot. How could i have missed a body built like this? His unzipped jacket exposed hit t-shirt, so tight i could see the curve of his muscles. And those dark brown eyes... | Katie McGarry | ||
| 0f8bc2a | To be the mistress of a married man is to have the better role. Do you realize? His dirty shirt, his disgusting underwear, his daily ironing, his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his fuss, not to mention his bad moods, and his tantrums. Well all that is for his wife. When a married man comes to his mistress... he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume, he's in a good mood, he's full of conversation, .. | europe iran love lust married men mistress pros sex women | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 4f78c48 | He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death. | tragic | Matthew Pearl | |
| d9486bb | He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go. | Julie Garwood | ||
| c771601 | I love you. We're getting married, and that's the way it is. Get used to it. | romantic-suspense | Julie Garwood | |
| 74fb524 | I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool." | love treasure | Julie Garwood | |
| f42741c | Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots. | wisdom-quote | Robert Jordan | |
| 856f6f6 | A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair | Robert Jordan | ||
| bd903fd | Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 4485273 | Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me." | inspirational robert-jordan wheel-of-time | Robert Jordan | |
| 9cd04a4 | The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 5063d3a | Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can't change. | Robert Jordan | ||
| e61b9bc | The way back will come but once. Be steadfast. | lovely magical medieval | Robert Jordan | |
| fd44268 | Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 9b11e2b | I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it. | church women | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 38d6d5f | A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged | authors best-quote-ever book-clubs books bookstores encouragement face-book-quotes inspirational-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote perspectives quotes steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry | Kerry E. Wagner | |
| 1fe5243 | Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged | authors best-quote-ever book-clubs books bookstores encouragement face-book-quotes inspirational-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote perspectives quotes steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry | Kerry E. Wagner | |
| fc380fb | Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? | martyrdom | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| ad36d88 | The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart. | reflection | Barack Obama | |
| 172c1bd | It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs. | society | Barack Obama | |
| 3cdc8eb | Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. | affordable-care-act barack-obama bravery cowardice health-care health-care-reform politics power united-states united-states-elections-2008 | Tariq Ali | |
| ed2ceaf | the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us... | cruelty homosexuality politics religion respect tolerance understanding understanding-oneself-and-others understanding-others | Barack Obama | |
| 5ad8f53 | I myself found a fascinating example of this in Nietzsche's book Thus Spake Zarathustra, where the author reproduces almost word for word an incident reported in a ship's log for the year 1686. By sheer chance I had read this seaman's yarn in a book published about 1835 (half a century before Nietzsche wrote); and when I found the similar passage in Thus Spake Zarathustra, I was struck by its peculiar style, which was different from Nietzsc.. | nietzsche | C.G. Jung |