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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e39f286 | Elizabeth, if you want to be kissed, all you have to do is put your lips on mine. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 83bf9f8 | This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a7e9de8 | Dreaming was only nice while it lasted. | Roddy Doyle | ||
| 6d2320c | from a contradiction you may deduce everything | Janna Levin | ||
| b9d60ba | The secret of blending in, is don't try to. Everyone is so fucking self-obsessed. | Robert Bryndza | ||
| 308ecfd | The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them. | tradition | Pat Conroy | |
| 8c5497a | Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all. | Pat Conroy | ||
| d944289 | There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. | detail excellence | Pat Conroy | |
| dbbd813 | If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood. The best you can hope for is to make the sucker float. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 1fa40d9 | The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. | Pat Conroy | ||
| f625289 | Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| bf36e28 | For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. | giving language | Barry Lopez | |
| f005654 | This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? | solitutde space | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 10086af | What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. | mindfulness | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 88b7ac6 | Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3dd17ae | You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. | Thoreau Henry David | ||
| 51f5f2d | The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a0647eb | God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9e48b50 | My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen,.. | stillness time | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 0986fc6 | I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. | life suffering wisdom wit | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 9f62f18 | Your church is a baby-house made of blocks. | freethought humor | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 8672d84 | So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f17ba88 | They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar | class poverty society | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ea38497 | Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. | marxism politics revolution | Terry Eagleton | |
| 18c02b9 | The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive. | individualism rationalism tradition | Terry Eagleton | |
| 9550fc7 | You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons. | Norton Juster | ||
| ac5f4e8 | Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. | Norton Juster | ||
| ac7dd71 | The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 0fb409c | And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 6aa5ba3 | She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again." "He's got a new girlfriend?" she said quietly. "Thank god. You must be happy." "Yeah. He does. It's a relief. She's a lot nicer. But then, your average angry snake is nicer than Fiona. I'm sure she's happier wherever she is now, burning orphans or whatever she does with her time." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| d0d6bda | Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?' Pete looked like he wanted to walk toward her, but then he fell back against the car. The staring contest between them for almost a minute, and finally Pete exhaled loudly. It's okay,' he said. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 1faf3af | You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved. | ya-fantasy ya-paranormal young-adult-dark-comedy young-adult-fantasy young-adult-paranormal | Maureen Johnson | |
| 66efe0c | The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way. | knowledge | Daniel Quinn | |
| 1be8f25 | We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| fed1235 | He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days.. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 3b4683b | What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| a2a93c8 | In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 40c8506 | It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare. | heroes innocence madness memory strength | James Baldwin | |
| b0bf82d | They murdered him. | first-sentence opening-lines opening-sentences robert-cormier | Robert Cormier | |
| 0f1549b | God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. | god identity love | Ralph Ellison | |
| 82b6079 | The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| bf580c1 | Will father be there?" she asked. John turned to her in astonishment. Your father is dead," he replied somberly. "Why should he go to Hades? You have it confused with another place that was abolished long ago." After supper they folded up the table-cloth and spread their blankets for the night. What a dream it was," Kismine sighed, gazing up at the stars. "How strange it seems to be here with one dress and a penniless fianc_! Under the star.. | big diamond ritz | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| e68d942 | Same here, Cap'n," Amos said. "I got a lot of past in my past." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 96ea15c | Alien superweapons were used," Alex said, walking into the room, sleep-sweaty hair standing out from his skull in every direction. "The laws of physics were altered, mistakes were made." | James S.A. Corey |