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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | love bromance friendship | 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 | ||
| 63b2009 | Let my office know when you change your mind," he said, then headed for the door, jerking to a stop when Ivy didn't get out of his way. "Let us know when cherry lollypops come out your ass," Jenks said," -- | Kim Harrison | ||
| 5386ca0 | I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're perfect for each other! You irritate people, and he smooths things out. You have good mojo, and he only thinks he does. You're broke, and he's rich. You've got those weird feet of yours, and he's got them cute ears. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 4d79b26 | what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met." | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 68b7fc4 | I'm not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine. | hawksong kiesha-ra | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
| 761fcf4 | I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross) | sandra-brown the-alibi women | Sandra Brown | |
| b862961 | And the longer she holds out, the more you want it, and the more you want it, the blinder you get. There is a direct correlation, you know, between a stiff dick and blind stupidity. | stiff-dick | Sandra Brown | |
| 5bb6eb0 | George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. What the president should have done, in the unlikely event that he wanted the support of America's peace-mongers, was to describe a confrontation with Saddam as the 'lesser evil.' This is a term the Left can appreciate. Indeed, 'lesser evil' is part of the essential tacti.. | al-shifa-pharmaceutical-factory anti-war ba-ath-party bill-clinton democratic-party-united-states evil george-w-bush iraq iraq-war leftism liberalism madeleine-albright moral-absolutism moral-relativism morality opposition-to-the-iraq-war peace-movement presidency-of-bill-clinton presidency-of-george-w-bush rwanda rwandan-genocide saddam-hussein sudan united-nations united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 35b437f | Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared. | hopes luck | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 58c70b9 | In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, "no child's behind left." | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 0e50e5c | It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of s.. | 1960s countryside cruelty earl-of-bessborough england europe gassing hampshire hiroshima jane-austen literary-criticism literature mansions massacre meadow myxomatosis napoleon napoleonic-wars new-forest persuasion-novel quiet rabbits richard-adams silence sussex theatre-of-ancient-greece townships war-memorials watership-down wind-in-the-willows women world-war-ii | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 40e35f8 | People spoke to foreigners with an averted gaze, and everybody seemed to know somebody who had just vanished. The rumors of what had happened to them were fantastic and bizarre though, as it turned out, they were only an understatement of the real thing. Before going to see General Videla [...], I went to [...] check in with : the black-draped mothers who paraded, every week, with pictures of their missing loved ones in the Plaza Mayo. ( .. | christianity death-squads einstein freud jacobo-timerman jorge-rafael-videla marx | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 793d0ac | In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. | dogs humour korean-cuisine north-korea pyongyang | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 712d6c4 | What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. | beauty hazel john-green quote | John Green | |
| 84cd4ba | I want to work at a library someday," I said. "I want to spend every waking day of my adult life surrounded by books." | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 3f2b4c8 | What are you saying? That you're a thief who steals from other thieves?" He wrinkled his nose, and it was adorable. "It sounds so distasteful when you say it like that. I prefer master appropriator of ill-gotten funds. You can call me master for short." | Tracey Garvis-Graves |