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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aea1232 | You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. | Amy Tan | ||
| d3b892d | My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her sa.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 580afff | The thought of her hands | Richard Brautigan | ||
| d8774bf | For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love. | Eudora Welty | ||
| a53d503 | Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. | pen pens writers writing | Anne Fadiman | |
| da09e1f | A Roman came to Rabbi Gimzo the Water Carrier, and asked, "What is this study of the law that you Jews engage in?" and Gimzo replied, "I shall explain. There were two men on a roof, and they climbed down the chimney. One's face became sooty. The other's not. Which one washed his face?" The Roman said, "That's easy, the sooty one, of course." Gimzo said, "No. The man without the soot looked at his friend, saw that the man's face was dirty, a.. | judaism | James A. Michener | |
| 3971edc | a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor. | black-swan chance michener poland soldier | James A. Michener | |
| da9d559 | I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma", he said, "if it was the law they was workin' with, why we could take it. But it ain't the law. They're a-working away at our spirits. They're a-tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They're tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way.. | law police | John Steinbeck | |
| 80945f4 | Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| fa9c662 | The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys. | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 1450bdb | I, _______________________, certify that by signing below I agree to abide by the rules outlined in the REACH Handbook. I understand the rules, which have been properly explained to me by a REACH staff member. I further acknowledge that if I disregard the rules for any reason I will be subject to disciplinary action which may include in-house detention, additional counseling, and/or expulsion from the REACH program. What it really means: I,.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9c1cd8d | Quiero descubrir como puedo hacerla reir. Quiero saber como hacerla llorar. Quiero saber lo que se siente si me mira como si fuese su caballero de la brillante armadura. -Alex | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7e56ddf | What are you boys doing?" she asks, as if we're still little kids messing around. "Arguin'," Carlos says matter-of-factly." | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| aef5a01 | Just FYI," Lenny says, his face still red from the nasty sunburn. "I've got a shitload of condoms in my duffle. Front pocket." "For what?" "Listen if you don't know what condoms are for I'm not gonna teach you." "I know what they're for, shithead. I just highly doubt you're getting any ass on this trip." "Watch me," Lenny says. "My boy gets action all the time." "Yeah, I bet your right hand is tired from all that action" I mumble as I walk .. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 277f3d4 | It would be cool if god gave every a do over day and you could yell, "do over!" and the day would start new. This would definitely qualify for a DOD." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| e0ff2e2 | A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. | warrior | Carlos Castaneda | |
| 2060877 | Don't try to hurry," he said. "You'll know in due time and then you will be on your own, by yourself." "Do you mean that I won't see you any more, don Juan?" "Not ever again," he said. "Genaro and I will be then what we always have been, dust on the road." I had a jolt in the pit of my stomach. "What are you saying, don Juan?" "I'm saying that we all are unfathomable beings, luminous and boundless. You, Genaro and I are stuck together by a .. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| c68d196 | I can forget injuries, but never benefits. | Horace Walpole | ||
| 79c87dc | Moriarty smiled his adder's smile. And I relaxed. I . My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I'd never got before upon meeting a man. When I'd had it from women, the upshot ranged from disappointment to attempted murder. Understand me, Professor James Moriarty was a hateful man, the most hateful, , creature I have ever known, not excluding Sir Augustus and Kali's Kitten and the Abominable Bloody Snow-Bastard and the Reveren.. | moriarty sidekick villains | Kim Newman | |
| 90a2383 | I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed. "Please make me," says some wistful tome, "A wee bit of yourself." And so I take my treasure home, And tuck it in a shelf. And now my very shelves complain; They jam and over-spill. They say: "Why don't you ease our strain?" "Some day," I say, "I will." So book by book they plead and sigh; I pick and dip and scan; Then .. | Robert W. Service | ||
| 58b7306 | It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools. | Henry James | ||
| 1f69358 | Everything had something behind it: life was like a long corridor with rows of closed doors. | Henry James | ||
| e019054 | You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age. | knowledge numinous seek-and-you-shall-find solace spiritual wisdom | Mark Helprin | |
| d8fc037 | When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti. | humor spaghetti | Mark Helprin | |
| c366996 | Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even .. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 762d54e | As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 46abcb8 | you're entirly bonkers but I'll tell you a secret all the best people are | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 71aec41 | I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. | success | Lawrence Durrell | |
| 0cc15e3 | It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul. | heart soul | Lawrence Durrell | |
| bbab1bc | Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ff6bf69 | As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?) | belief-in-god christian-living church | Philip Yancey | |
| 26d1f97 | I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort. | Philip Yancey | ||
| cb1e1f1 | Anna?" "Yeah?" He pauses. "Never mind." "What?" "Nothing." But his tone is definitely not I turn to him, and his eyes are closed. His skin is pale and tired. "What?" I ask again,sitting up. St. Clair opens his eyes, noticing I've moved. He struggles,trying to sit up, too, and I help him. When I pull away, he clutches my hand to stop me. "I like you," he says. My body is rigid. "And I don't mean as a friend." It feels like I'm swallowing m.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 29f51af | That was pants. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 430583c | I'm beginning to think that maybe it's okay to be a blank canvas. maybe it's okay that my future is unknown. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5bfbe48 | Is Etienene okay?" "Haven't seen him.He went to Ellie's last night." Just when I thought I couldn't feel any worse.I twist the corners of my pillow. "Did I,uh,say anything weird to him last night?" "Apart from acting like a jealous girlfriend and saying you never wanted to speak to him again? No. Nothing weird at all." I moan as she recounts the night for me blow by blow. "Listen," she says when she finishes, "what's the deal with you two?".. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| dc4b6bd | Nope, you stick out like a fart in a church. | invisibility nudge quote to | James Patterson | |
| 3743ccb | He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 3af7fca | You said to lean on your arm And I am leaning You said to trust in your love And I am trusting You said to call on your name And I am calling I'm stepping out on your word | Maya Angelou | ||
| 011d301 | Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses, I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called "great books." That, for instance, Mann's asinine "Death in Venice," or Pasternak's melodramatic, vilely written "Dr. Zhivago," or Faulkner's corn-cobby chronicles can be considered "masterpieces" or at least w.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 4a17883 | The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment. | poverty | Maxim Gorky | |
| 621175c | Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major." | Garth Nix | ||
| f35b232 | It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic." | longing real-world reality | Garth Nix | |
| 8e10953 | But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. | fantasy fear | Garth Nix |