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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1d7f8f | Swelter's eyes meet those of his enemy, and never has there held between four globes of gristle so sinister a hell of hatred. Had the flesh, the fibres, and the bones of the chef and those of Mr Flay been conjured away and away down that dark corridor leaving only their four eyes suspended in mid-air outside the Earl's door, then, surely, they must have reddened to the hue of Mars, reddened and smouldered, and at last broken into flame, so .. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 409fc9a | There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 54f93f6 | Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 092093c | The first rule for happiness is to avoid lengthy thinking on the past. | John Mason | ||
| 4d7e797 | Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you. | oklahoma sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| e20942b | But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam. | pam sookie-stackhouse urban-fantasy vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| 43188af | As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6978434 | He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. "You are beautiful". No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4827550 | I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra." | jars orgasm-orgasms sex wish | Charlaine Harris | |
| 4dab521 | I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0f26b66 | War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5406c61 | Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting for the dollies. | poisonwood | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 27678ee | Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| dd94025 | Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0affeb3 | There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief. | grief loss love | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 254050e | Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2569b7a | Where there is lack, God's abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It's coming. | faith unemployment | Marianne Williamson | |
| 74b5260 | Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f421ad7 | The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that th.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| dfe1456 | God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace. | inner-peace | Marianne Williamson | |
| a8b4800 | Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind. I surrender to God any emotional habits that lead me down the path of unhappiness, and pray for guidance in shifting my thoughts. In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choi.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| b002129 | It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm. | journey-of-life trains | David Baldacci | |
| aba1792 | Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I h.. | animal-rights ethics morals | David Foster Wallace | |
| f1632f7 | At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition-- women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic show on her body, and how much of a female life show on her face?" | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 7e28895 | Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 7e4d9cc | Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration. | rape | Naomi Wolf | |
| 5a21c49 | To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own--a differen.. | Francine Prose | ||
| fbeba4b | If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one. | Richard Peck | ||
| 825cf52 | That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart. | Richard Peck | ||
| 3b2945c | Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change. | Caleb Carr | ||
| b6d1985 | My brain is sending poison to my heart. | John Irving | ||
| 2fcdf46 | There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned. | John Irving | ||
| c25941a | You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends. | John Irving | ||
| 198049c | It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules. | morality | John Irving | |
| 1c1ca0e | Don't get your balls crossed about it. | fretting relax worrying | John Irving | |
| b38c2a1 | THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED--JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE! | John Irving | ||
| 48f4726 | Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either. | novelists psychiatrists science sigmund-freud | John Irving | |
| 96f42fb | After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had. | Susan Minot | ||
| 74ee1bd | Did you send Attolia to me at the farewell?" Eddis asked. "Not I," said Gen quietly. "The magus. I thought you knew that you loved him - the two of you have been like magnets drawing ever nearer to each other since you met - but the magus was concerned. He thought the grief of leave-taking might surprise you." "I feel very stupid." She leaned back into his embrace. "'I look forward to hearing of your adventures.'" She shook her head in disg.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| cffaaf6 | The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there. | costis | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 47e22a2 | That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 799e6cd | Perhaps you can bring out better in them?" Eugenides shook his head. "I pulled the carpet out from under them very thoroughly. They will not cross me, but they won't love me, either. I am not Eddis. People do not hand me their hearts." Sounis wondered. He would have given Eugenides his heart on a toothpick, if asked. He remembered Ion's obvious wince at being rated somewhat less significant to Gen than his boots." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| e7978c6 | Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death. | scars | Michel Faber | |
| 74450d0 | Her always is mine | Jacqueline Carey |