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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c75bbbe | It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings. | nature peace simplicity | John Steinbeck | |
| 37fc9cc | I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon. | east-of-eden john-steinbeck | John Steinbeck | |
| d74a855 | They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 40a55ee | As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr.Tanaka hadn't torn me away from my tipsy house. But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 3535387 | The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves of the roof dripped rain like beads of weighted glass. Even the mats themselves seemed to press down upon the floor. I remember thinking that I was dacing to express not the pain of a young woman who has lost her supernatural lover, but the pain I myself would feel when my life was finally robbed of the one th.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 196d4b9 | What's an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them? | Nora Roberts | ||
| 46f2279 | You changed what was between us. You took the step, and I didn't see it coming. I can't be sorry for that when I'm so damn grateful for it. I don't know if you were always the one," he said again. "But I know you're the one now, and I know you're going to be the one tomorrow, and next month, next year. And you're going to be the one for the rest of my life." | Nora Roberts | ||
| aef4d05 | Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb." "Aplomb" "It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination." "That also sounded polite." "I was raised well." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4286bf8 | You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath." | Nora Roberts | ||
| a7ad4e2 | Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities. | Nora Roberts | ||
| bb71fe6 | After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforg.. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 5726806 | We don't anticipate accidents, nor do we expect to die young. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| a833815 | Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough? | V.C. Andrews | ||
| c8713f6 | Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols--and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon. | inspirational-love | V.C. Andrews | |
| 445445b | Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone care.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9723d4b | French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 579112f | Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God. | god surrender trust | Rick Warren | |
| 6e88bd0 | Love should be your top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition. Love is not a good part of your life; it's the most important part. The Bible says, "Let love be your greatest aim." | Rick Warren | ||
| 0bcac6f | In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. | forgiveness genocide rwanda | Rick Warren | |
| 75e9d5c | Wonderland is here now. Don't know what we might see. Yesterday's gone forever. But my future's up to me. What a future it will be.... | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 46a0e61 | Absence makes the heart grow desperate. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 15899af | anticipation is the best alarm there is | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 9433f18 | Poverty is a great equalizer | John Grisham | ||
| 2da9ce1 | It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood | Julia Quinn | ||
| 3e19217 | Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me an.. | comedy humor | Julia Quinn | |
| c330a98 | Why do you joke about such things?" she snapped. He let his gaze land rather intently on hers. "When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor. Even if it is of the gallows variety." | humor sarah-pleinsworth | Julia Quinn | |
| cfd6d4a | Then Elizabeth came, bearing a tray of cakes and sweets, and finally Harriet, who carried with her a small sheaf of paper--her current opus, Henry VIII and the Unicorn of Doom . "I'm not certain Frances is going to be appeased by an evil unicorn," Anne told her. Harriet looked up with one arched brow. "She did not specify that it must be a good unicorn." Anne grimaced. "You're going to have a battle on your hands, that's all I'm going to sa.. | dont-even-ask julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 231e7d8 | It's very bad form to spy on one's host," he said, planting his hands on his hips and somehow managing to look both authoritative and relaxed at the same time. "It was an accident," she grumbled. "Oh, I believe you there," he said. "But even if you didn't intend to spy on me, the fact remains that when the opportunity arose, you took it." "Do you blame me?" He grinned. "Not at all. I would have done precisely the same thing." Her mouth fell.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| c5d0aa6 | And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. | humor skills | Julia Quinn | |
| 335ac91 | That was very rude of me." "Think nothing of it. You've done worse." | Julia Quinn | ||
| ca11ebe | There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell. | Julia Quinn | ||
| de78a5e | She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 27f6bbb | She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 630a8df | Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases. | disease history | Jared Diamond | |
| 84dff39 | Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. .. | dispossession environment equality extermination morality native-americans subjugation suppression values | Jared Diamond | |
| 7200006 | Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Island and the Greenland Norse in the past. Any society in turmoil today, no matter how remote ... can cause trouble for prosperous societies on other continents and is also subject to their influence (whether helpful or destabilizing). For the first time in history, we face the risk of a global decline. But we also are the first to enjoy the oppo.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 108ee15 | I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something. | James Frey | ||
| 8491bb7 | This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving. | James Frey | ||
| 115a9a5 | I think about her. I think about the first time I saw her.. I had a book in my hand and I was reading and for some reason I looked up...She didn't see me. She didn't see me, but I saw her. | James Frey | ||
| ec09cdd | The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do? | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 75d9ac1 | You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or his brother officers, but circulate daylong among his men. Let them see you and see you unafraid. Where there is work to do, turn your hand to it first; the men will follow. Some of you, I see, have erected tents. Strike them at once. We will all sleep as I do, in the open. Keep your men busy. If there is no work, make it up, for when sold.. | officership warrior warrior-ethos | Steven Pressfield | |
| 1bcb0da | Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| f91dd6b | To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| d07aa24 | You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of sma.. | Margaret Weis |