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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ff3d0b5 | There was something very fishy about Riley Bay. | cthulhu h-p-lovecraft lovecraft paranormal-romance riley-bay serra-elinsen young-adult | Serra Elinsen | |
| 403bf18 | It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon. | sphinx | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| e9b85d5 | Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of meaning and purpose as the blind cosmos grinds aimlessly on from nothing to something and from something back to nothing again, neither heeding nor knowing the wishes or existence of the minds that flicker for a second now and then in the darkness. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 775aaf1 | In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 30b3726 | New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I know this is uncomfortable for the "faith over facts" crowd, but the greatness of a country can, to a large degree, be measured. Here are some numbers. Infant mortality rate: America ranks forty-eighth in the world. Overall health: seventy-second. Freedom of the press: forty-fourth. Literacy: fifty-fifth. Do you realize there are twelve-year.. | george-w-bush patriotism politics | Bill Maher | |
| 2f1e896 | You read a lot, don't you, Ponyboy?" I was startled. "Yeah, why?" "I could just tell. I'll bet you watch sunsets, too." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| af6a0ac | What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation against the other? | Audre Lorde | ||
| 0732d41 | Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful." | Carolyn Keene | ||
| f4ac34f | Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful .. | double-standards skipping-class | Maureen Johnson | |
| aff5f5b | Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 7a33760 | Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall | T.S. Eliot | ||
| ae92430 | Shall we ever meet again? And who will meet again? Meeting is for strangers. Meeting is for those who do not know each other. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 4a8a062 | At the still point, there the dance is. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| f00f340 | After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of ro.. | T. S. Eliot | ||
| 4f054a0 | Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. (I) What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My wo.. | T. S. Eliot | ||
| 35e400b | What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. | communication death longing unsaid-words | T.S. Eliot | |
| a7f7056 | But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover-- But the cat himself knows, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and ins.. | t-s-eliot the-naming-of-cats | T.S. Eliot | |
| ffa370b | He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 1ea9c8e | Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 73b4c8a | There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 5633192 | I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 26ad815 | To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. | Max Barry | ||
| 0a6bc99 | You might be an intelligent person, but once you let someone else filter the world for you, you have no way to critically analyze what you're hearing. At best, absolute best case scenario, if they blatantly contradict themselves, you can spot that. But if they take basic care to maintain an internal logical consistency, which they all do, you've got nothing. You've delegated the ability to make up your mind. | Max Barry | ||
| 2d7d217 | that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks | introspection self-reflection subsistence | Jim Fergus | |
| c44939e | Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn't at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life | Bram Stoker | ||
| 9301ab5 | Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same. | devil devils fight fighting-evil van-helsing | Bram Stoker | |
| c35c56d | To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious! | Bram Stoker | ||
| 5a8a8cc | You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat? | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 76b523d | have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to? just turn over everything you had? -Davy Dempsey- | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| cce0cb1 | Do not be seduced by those big-box come-ons, full of "complete sets" of extraneous cookware. A complete set is whatever you need, and maybe all you need is a wok and a hot place to grill your bacon. In a pinch, I can do it all with my good heavy nonstick frying pan. Besides the obvious braising, browning, and frying, I can make sauces and stir-fries in it, toast cheese sandwiches and slivered almonds, use the underside to pound cutlets, and.. | life-lessons | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 53675b8 | What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? | passion | Andre Dubus | |
| 0863a88 | It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I'm sorry, to say it's okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then... and then. Who knew? | Sara Zarr | ||
| b02742d | It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents. | high-school | Sara Zarr | |
| e37fb7d | don't mistake a new place for a new you. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 3cf6b6a | Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look. | Sara Zarr | ||
| fc26f9d | A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before. | Sara Zarr | ||
| fbef0cd | I would not choose to live in any age but my own; advances in medicine alone, and the consequent survival of children with access to these benefits, should preclude any temptation to trade for the past. But we cannot understand history if we saddle the past with pejorative categories based on our bad habits for dividing continua into compartments of increasing worth towards the present. These errors apply to the vast paleontological history.. | Stephen Jay Gould (Dinosaur in a Haystack) | ||
| f9095c8 | No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a d.. | outdoors science | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| c5b51c8 | Well, you're safe until you make another silly mistake,' the Spook added. 'And don't say you won't. He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 70c93fb | So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married. But that is a story for grown-ups. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 24880aa | O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 15d7516 | The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| ac1232f | If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| dc1e494 | In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience. | Oscar Wilde |