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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 09adbe6 | The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them. | José Saramago | ||
| 29a17b9 | quero encontrar a ilha desconhecida, quero saber quem sou quando nela estiver, Nao o sabes, Se nao sais de ti, nao chegas a saber quem es. | José Saramago | ||
| d6cbd98 | Without a future, the present serves no purpose, | José Saramago | ||
| 5acaf79 | Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always .. | society | Isaac Asimov | |
| bfcc405 | The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 95364a3 | A horse having a wolf as a powerful and dangerous enemy lived in constant fear of his life. Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally. Whereupon he approached a man, and offered an alliance, pointing out that the wolf was likewise an enemy of the man. The man accepted the partnership at once and offered to kill the wolf immediately, if his new partner would only co-operate by placing his greater speed at the man'.. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 5743460 | If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count. | smoking | Isaac Asimov | |
| 42c446d | Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. | destructive government happiness new power | Cory Doctorow | |
| 8793840 | But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,... | Jules Verne | ||
| eedfd3e | With time and thought, one can do a good job. | Jules Verne | ||
| 1dc58c0 | You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a07c848 | Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20) | Don DeLillo | ||
| 66befac | Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 74cdc17 | Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 38d949b | It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. | reality self | Frank Kermode | |
| adbb635 | He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley. | John Bunyan | ||
| bc37776 | Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know. | inspirational life relationships | Bryan Lee O'Malley | |
| 7fb4259 | In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because it was intolerant of rain. Now, we are here in a place where there are no trees and there is only rain. And I intend to leave this place - because it is intolerant of light. Somewhere - there must be somewhere where darkness and light are reconciled. So I am starting a rumour, here and now, of yet another world. I don't .. | intolerance light | Timothy Findley | |
| 969a8cc | I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth. | being-young corporate-life feeling-middle-age | Mohsin Hamid | |
| a03dd4a | I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 9cd2779 | All their doors remained simple doors, on/off switches in the flow between two adjacent places, binarily either open or closed, but each of their doors, regarded thus with a twinge of irrational possibility, became partially animate as well, an object with a subtle power to mock, to mock the desires of those who desired to go far away, whispering silently from its door frame that such dreams were the dreams of fools. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 7519e1d | It is the first visit in many years for your son, finally a citizen of his new country and free to travel, and you try to suppress your undercurrent of resentment at his decision to absent himself from your presence in so devastatingly severe a manner. You feel a love you know you will never be able to adequately explain or express to him, a love that flows one way down the generations, not in reverse, and is understood and reciprocated onl.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 11f101d | Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that. | bromance friendship love | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 0fbd74b | We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, b.. | Richard Bach | ||
| 3f279a1 | Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall. | Richard Bach | ||
| dd4461c | How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently. | nature | Richard Bach | |
| 85d3b98 | Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 54fd462 | Anything over eight is strictly for show-and-tell | Linda Howard | ||
| dd5b2eb | I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did. | fashion humor vampires | MaryJanice Davidson | |
| a55f036 | I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 0e7d42b | Darling, I have a penis. Ergo I have no preferences. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| fb962bf | History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth. | Michelle Sagara West | ||
| 0d0bb94 | I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners. | Michelle Sagara | ||
| 1c4c8e2 | I could have had him, but I had monologued. Damn it, I was not going to do that again. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 8f15637 | So what have you guys been up to?" "Nothing, worshipping Satan." | Daniel Clowes | ||
| 93a9755 | God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!? | Daniel Clowes | ||
| 2480ebb | How did you find me?" he said, anger creasing his brow. I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. "How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake." From the corner, Al shifted his tune. "So be good, or I'll rip your fucking head off" | be-good nick rachel | Kim Harrison | |
| c5cd46c | Don't you listen to them, Rexy," I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. "Rachel is a smart girl. She's not going to go out with a ghost no matter how sexy he is. She knows better. Jenkskie wenskie can just get bent." I beamed at Jenks, and he made an ugly face. "Rache, put my cat down before you mess with her kitty brain." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 87dd9ca | I liked beginnings better than endings. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 953f6d4 | I'll always be here," he said softly. "You can never fill my need, never drive me away, no matter how much you give me. The good or the bad. I'll always be hungry for emotion, always and forever, and I can feel you hurting. I can turn it to joy. If you'll let me." | Kim Harrison | ||
| f5c3b21 | She was getting bitchy.That was a good sign. "What am I supposed to do till you get back?" I said, patting the smouldering leather. "Hide in my closet? I"d rather be with you." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3010442 | I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a45fb18 | Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 61e6c99 | I am black," she said, and a shudder rippled through me. "I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don't cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won't sully her to further your high ideas." | Kim Harrison |