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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb26305 | Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b5f3b88 | My favorite moment in Jeanne Moreau's latest movie--a comedy called --takes place in a kitchen, when she proclaims that every human has something to cry about. When mocked by the owner of the kitchen and pressed to say what it is that we have to cry about, she tosses back her head of flaming red hair and says, "The winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 91c3c53 | These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains. I cannot will myself into havi.. | forgiveness happy letting-go prayer surrender trust | Anne Lamott | |
| 46d30c9 | Here are the two best prayers I know: "Help me help me, help me," and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." -- | Anne Lamott | ||
| ad99880 | Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 84c17c1 | Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 75e8bcc | Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration. | travel | Mary Roach | |
| 3975755 | I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused.. | humor medium psychic science | Mary Roach | |
| ee143de | I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks. | science | Mary Roach | |
| 5b5f5bf | It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial." | Mary Roach | ||
| acc78b1 | there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation. | humor ink writing | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| cbac531 | There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 20624b9 | I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 8d3ca68 | What are the chances of a cobra biting Harold, Jeeves?" "Slight, I should imagine, sir. And in such an event, knowing the boy as intimately as I do, my anxiety would be entirely for the snake." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4c011c9 | What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... | mother mother-and-daughter motherhood words | Amy Tan | |
| 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 |