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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 73a633c | Finally, in a low whisper, he said, 'I think I might be a terrible person.' For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing. | Miranda July | ||
| 25d3b33 | Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't. | Miranda July | ||
| a1ec38f | Two plus three is five, check the email, one plus seven is, check the email, eight, check the email, which comes to a total of, who the hell am I anyway, eighty five. This is how he dismembers his day, in the most painful way, moment by moment. A bigger man would just shoot it, put it out of its misery. | Miranda July | ||
| a91489a | Could one write a strongly worded letter to the deceased requiring their full cooperation? | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| aaa7d21 | You get into trouble the way debutantes get into ball gowns. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| e7d5c01 | They were untamed, like thunder and lightning in a glass jar. You just knew, sooner or later, the jar would shatter into pieces. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 7369cf9 | The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question? | John Hersey | ||
| 6156ef1 | Monogamy, it follows, is the sacred cow of the romantic ideal, for it is the marker of our specialness: I have been chosen and others renounced. When you turn your back on other loves, you confirm my uniqueness; when your hand or mind wanders, my importance is shattered. Conversely, if I no longer feel special, my own hands and mind tingle with curiosity. The disillusioned are prone to roam. Might someone else restore my significance | Esther Perel | ||
| 2be65b5 | There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course. | Julia Glass | ||
| a8842b8 | You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 68fa0c6 | I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport. We reached Paris just as the light was fading. It had been a soft, gray March day, with the smell of spring in the air. The wet tarmac glistened underfoot; over the airfield the sky looked very high, rinsed by the afternoon's rain to a pale clear blue. Little trails of soft cloud drifted in the wet wind, and a late sunbeam touched them with a fleeting underglow. Away beyond th.. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 1dce720 | Screw that, the questionn at hand is what's your major?" Oded said. "Because let me tell you right now, any answer other than World of Warcraft or Advanced Ninja Studies will not be accepted." | major ninja oded world-of-warcraft | Rachel Caine | |
| 6033fef | And then it was between Shane and Claire on who retreated first. "Uou go," he said. "Why?" Shane and Pete exchangedblooks. "Seriously?" Pete asked. "Yeah, she's like that," Shane said, and turned to her. "Because you're my girlfriend, and I'm not going unti; I know you're safe. How's that?" | girlfriend shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 6a79bb3 | Morley laughed. "You're trying to make me Amelie." "Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 018a0fb | I'm going to have to give him shit for all this,' Shane said, as he wandered around. 'He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?' 'People who like things neat?' 'Its not natural. | humor humorous shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| ae13f21 | I'm avampire. I havesecret powers ," he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, "Actually, your mom let me in." | Rachel Caine | ||
| f475d22 | Give the girl some credit. At least she told you, instead of letting you figure it out on your own." "Yeah, and she told me last!" Eve glared at the two boys, hands on her hips. "Boyfriend," Shane said, holding up his hand. "Landlord," Michael chimed in. "Crap," Eve sighed. "I guess that does leave me in last place." | Rachel Caine | ||
| a18f653 | It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events." | control destiny | Rachel Caine | |
| 9d527f0 | He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked." | shane slippers | Rachel Caine | |
| 5310e8e | There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. | Rachel Caine | ||
| b34a3d0 | We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that" | funny morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 60bce0f | But if these past years in Morganville have taught me anything, it's that sometimes you have to just . . . jump. It's not safe. It's never safe. But sometimes you have to live dangerously. | Rachel Caine | ||
| d8b1fa9 | The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 8261aed | Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 2c90311 | Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 3e972a2 | I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me, on the contrary, that it was abnormal for people NOT to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all t.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 6a9d7e5 | Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore. | good-friday sin | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| c8db339 | It's easier to accumulate wealth if you don't live in a high-status neighborhood. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| eb71482 | In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale. | page-258 walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 778b12f | The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 7675972 | I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands. | nature page-49 | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 90c62aa | Some people love their story that much even if it's of their own misery, even if it ties them to unhappiness, or they don't know how to stop telling it. Maybe it's about loving coherence more than comfort, but it might also be about fear--you have to die a little to be reborn, and death comes first, the death of a story, a familiar version of yourself | comfort fear story unknown | Rebecca Solnit | |
| d11f3a4 | Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time. | landscape nature page-66 | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 649d8a9 | The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d038739 | Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lies,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations." Thoreau is playing with the biblical question about what it profits a man i.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| ed5dd08 | To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere. | writing | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 3fa2424 | Love is a constant negotiation, a constant conversation; to love someone is to lay yourself open to rejection and abandonment; love is something you can earn but not extort. It is an arena in which you are not in control, because someone else also has rights and decisions; it is a collaborative process; making love is at its best a process in which those negotiations become joy and play. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a3bac41 | If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own. | god grace luck | Sarah Dunant | |
| df0fa3f | Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man" | introverts stupidity-of-man | Michael Finkel | |
| 81aa68c | Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 56a2242 | I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 1a895ee | An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy. | observer silence | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 086133b | I can't help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset. The sunset isn't fucking married. | marriage poetry | A.J. Jacobs | |
| 5b3ae93 | I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world. | A.J. Jacobs |