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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fd35eff | The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. | David Mitchell | ||
| 22ce313 | If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up. | David Mitchell | ||
| aa70fa5 | The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. | David Mitchell | ||
| 32ebae6 | All rising suns set. | David Mitchell | ||
| e80da51 | The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our sole weapon is public outrage. Outrage blocked the Yuccan Dam, ousted Nixon, and in part, terminated the monstrosities in Vietnam. But outrage is unwieldy to manufacture and handle. First, you need scrutiny; second, widespread awareness; only when this reaches a critical mass does public outrage ex.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 72945d9 | You know,' I called, 'you're the one that's going to have to explain to Max how you got your blender back.' I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head. | scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 8c52df1 | The best way to know a city is to eat it. | food friends home travel | Scott Westerfeld | |
| cb87284 | Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8dd4757 | You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?" "Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 80fed03 | Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 567857d | Stale water is a poor drink,' said Annlaw. 'Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 46d5311 | She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 1cf24f2 | What you may seek and what you may find are not always one. | find intentions seek seeker wisdom | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 67c861c | I miss you. I love you. There's no second I've lived you can't call your own. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 0b8cf64 | To repeat: her voice has life. It possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| cad3c47 | Our newness lies only in parts rearranged. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| a2cd1fc | Sang: "Miss you." Silas: "7." | C. L. Stone | ||
| 92287c1 | When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| e176a48 | It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances. | fairy values | Connie Willis | |
| 012e5e0 | I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have conversation after conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era. | humor victorian-era | Connie Willis | |
| 01ca56b | The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. | beauty grace living-life-to-the-fullest | Colum McCann | |
| dc31a23 | The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mobius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves. | Colum McCann | ||
| 1959644 | The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. | Colum McCann | ||
| 12dc2e6 | Chase." He cleared his throat and shook his head once. "That girl means everything to me. Which means her baby does, too. I will never do to you what you did to Harper and me. But know this. If you do not take care of them, and cherish them . . . I will not hesitate again to beat the living shit out of you. You get me?" "I got you. I love them, I'll always take care of them." | promise true-love | Molly McAdams | |
| b270ea6 | People say that being in love is amazing. They lie. It's freaking terrifying. | romance | Molly McAdams | |
| 3acbba3 | Finally life becomes a very specific thing--and that's what we are. Ultimately, looking back, I'm beginning to believe that we need to always be fucked up. We need to always have some reason to hate ourselves, something to make us feel eternally incomplete. | Arthur Nersesian | ||
| 6a23b45 | I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle. | Craig Thompson | ||
| c5cad4c | Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 21beab3 | Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 30d3b73 | I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman. | gentleman identitites impersonation | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 0d12c86 | And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 76d9a91 | For seven years I went about, day and night, with only one thing on my mind - her. Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christs today. | Henry Miller | ||
| bbee3b1 | Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since books have claimed me. For a long time now I have practically ceased to read. But the taint is still there. Now people are books to me. I read them from cover to cover and toss them aside. I devour them, one after the other. And the more I read, the more insatiable I become. There is no limit to it. There could be no end, and there w.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 11d8b97 | Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes, what one did, and the innumerable daily things that seem to be important. Since one cannot talk about oneself all the time without being thought a bore, one must exchange the privilege by a readiness to listen to others talking about themselves. Private social meetings between individuals (and often.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b2388f6 | To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring--and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b91c95b | If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4817cd6 | Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed--he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy b.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 98c3249 | She's saying that's ok, Hey baby, do what you want I'll be your night lovin' thing I'll be the freak you can taunt And I don't care what you say I want to go too far I'll be your everything | Michael Jackson | ||
| 79389b5 | Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6cc69f2 | It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter--nothing can justify that sacrifice. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 33db5ad | but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not. | disease prison sin | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 71fa970 | A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs. | chesterton dragons hippogriffs | G.K. Chesterton | |
| eb5da3c | Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. | contention contradictions | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 140317b | The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. --G. K. CHESTERTON | Marcus Luttrell |