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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ad631ab | People get careless when they're feeling safe. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 182bb1d | What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried? | romance | Piers Anthony | |
| 6d2e080 | Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph | Piers Anthony | ||
| 2b46449 | But her emails! --the internet, 2017 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| f0b893f | In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that bl.. | pathfinder | Richard Wright | |
| bfef453 | Imagination is a killer. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| ede646e | A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made a victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rec.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| e00a6a7 | When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. --Alton Richard | Louis Sachar | ||
| d75ff38 | Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. --Alton Richard | Louis Sachar | ||
| c2408ae | At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything? | fluid-sexuality happy labels lesbian lgbt patricia-highsmith sexuality the-price-of-salt | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 6b947e0 | In every childhood there is a door that closes. Only real love waits while we journey through our grief. That is the real trustworthiness between people. In all the epics, in all the stories that have lasted through many lifetimes, it is always the same truth: love must wait for wounds to heal. It is this waiting we must do for each other, not with a sense of mercy, or in judgment, but as if forgiveness were a rendezvous. How many are willi.. | Anne Michaels | ||
| c651f71 | How shallow the words are, really - . One might as well say, , thinks Iris; that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 2030796 | Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 45a920e | The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. | mind-thoughts mood moody think thinkers thinking | Gregory Maguire | |
| e0fe033 | I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. | doubts monsters | Gregory Maguire | |
| f5fce47 | The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)" | corruption devil religion | Iain Pears | |
| c6d54e6 | The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse. | goodness | Iain Pears | |
| 57a16f5 | Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you. | george romance yukari | Ai Yazawa | |
| baefadd | Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... | Ai Yazawa | ||
| a4ad73c | We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us. | the-white-queen | Philippa Gregory | |
| 89cf7c9 | He had learned a lesson about propaganda in politics and mused wearily that "no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false." If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end "that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent."34" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 5f3525a | Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum. | hamburg sailor slums | Kathy Acker | |
| dd6cf8e | If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die. | fucking pain | Kathy Acker | |
| 62196e9 | When I returned, not to Berlin, but to Hamburg in the midst of the fog of the beginning of winter, to the road that runs right above it's river and docks, a castle which never existed and a fountain which is really a sewer, a gust of wind far sweeter and more fragrant than any red rose carried the smell of shit and floating soil like a tongue into my nostril. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 203201b | If you are stuck sweating on a sandbar in the river of your life you've got to find a way back into those swift effervescent currents of joy that are your birthright. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| d6cd1bd | It's a fool who is afraid of nothing," I say. "And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f63db7b | I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 679a51b | She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| bc406e4 | Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me | loyalty motto | Philippa Gregory | |
| 65cc0c5 | I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever. | depression | Philippa Gregory | |
| c086631 | Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d3e2242 | To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads. | reading | Philippa Gregory | |
| 7a22f58 | Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight | poetry | Philippa Gregory | |
| ff5efa6 | I was taught to be queen by Margaret of Anjou, and perhaps I have taught you how to be queen in turn. This is fortune's wheel indeed.' With my forefinger I draw a circle in the air, the sign of fortune's wheel. 'You can go very high and you can sink very low, but you can rarely turn the wheel at your own bidding. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 9c530e9 | Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a4dbd72 | It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 70eeab8 | The bruises are vivid, but they will fade. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 80d9c3b | There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke th.. | christmas innocence santa | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 2fa7e39 | I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy or maybe a girl with gentle lips and strong hands. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e8796d1 | Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 257f3c0 | Kittens were in continual abundance on the farm, there was a kind of kitten currency in the neighborhood, they were bartered for all kinds of emotional regret or fulfillment by parents - a doll lost, an exam passed. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 96d2ff4 | The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 919ba26 | Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real. | time | John Fowles | |
| 29798de | But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. | creativity personality | John Fowles |