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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a01a5b8 | I'M SCARED I'LL SHOOT MY NEIGHBOR BY ACCIDENT IF I SEE HIM TROTTING DOWN THE ROAD, SAID A FARMER IN KANSAS, WHAT IF HE GETS AFTER MY CHICKENS? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 06c7eba | You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?" | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| c9bf838 | The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I'll never be an average woman. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b290c13 | What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire. | charlaine-harris club-dead sookie-stackhouse-series the-southern-vampire-mysteries true-blood | Charlaine Harris | |
| 8675eab | You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead." | inspirational | Charlaine Harris | |
| 6758664 | Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar." -- | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4cb9d9d | Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color. Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend. | living-dead-in-dallas sookie-stackhouse the-southern-vampire-mysteries | Charlaine Harris | |
| 466f4a5 | The problem with chasing young women is that they refuse to run. | Ronda Thompson | ||
| eae868e | I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 30ddb16 | One day we came home from some errands to find a grocery sack of [zucchini] hanging on our mailbox. The perpetrator, of course, was nowhere in sight ... Garrison Keillor says July is the only time of year when country people lock our cars in the church parking lot, so people won't put squash on the front seat. I used to think that was a joke ... It's a relaxed atmosphere in our little town, plus our neighbors keep an eye out and will, if as.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c7268ea | Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4e88c67 | A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 80f273a | God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3eb3580 | This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. | food | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 1a15db7 | If our prayer is "Dear God, please use me to be of service," then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God's love." | service | Marianne Williamson | |
| 015100c | When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, 'Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen. | looking-for-direction prayer unemployment | Marianne Williamson | |
| 1b362aa | No matter what I go through today, I need not fear. For God is all-powerful and God is here. I am never separate from the One who created me. There is nothing I can do to make Him turn his face away from me. I am loved, I am cared for, and I am totally safe in the arms of God. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 56ee1f0 | No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 7764254 | New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand. | johnny-depp jp-donleavy new-york-city | David B. Lentz | |
| 26cb3f4 | The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size. | John Irving | ||
| 9b20e84 | Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory." | memory | John Irving | |
| 4ee6e14 | Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. | craft novels victims writing | John Irving | |
| 4329d38 | A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases. | John Irving | ||
| 6ffbe39 | MADE FOR TELEVISION. | John Irving | ||
| 0e4b0d8 | Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair h.. | Susan Minot | ||
| 058c687 | There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see. | reading | Rachel Simon | |
| 11dbcd4 | Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 14a8b61 | You know-- Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen. -Go on. Attolia inclined her head. -I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 190ec60 | Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"?" | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 4ca791e | The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 9eb8911 | The clear light of the library was slanting in through the glass-paneled doorway to my right, falling on the table between my tutor and me and on dust motes hung in the air. The tiny flecks drew my eye, and I watched as they dipped and swirled in invisible currents. "They are beautiful in the light, are they not?" my tutor asked. They were, catching the sun and shining like tiny stars themselves. "You know, there are just as many outside t.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 822ee5e | But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach. | faith marriage miracles religion | Michel Faber | |
| d10c073 | Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks." "You might not think so if you were a duck." | human-beings suffer | Michel Faber | |
| d4f6fc9 | Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christmas was all about, and Mrs Castaway replied (once only, after which the subject was forever forbidden): 'It's the day Jesus Christ died for our sins. Evidently unsuccessfully, since we're still paying for them. | Michel Faber | ||
| 28f927a | Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cro, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake. | joscelin | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 5c7d9ea | If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 316d46b | There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| e766baf | We are only the trustees for those who come after us. | William Morris | ||
| 4b07554 | We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren't perhaps we should be less wise at fifty. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| d61df6b | I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. | sacrifice | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 2c22b6d | Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 68aa840 | With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 125f37e | He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of reality. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were vi.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 602c727 | The answer was obvious. Life had no meaning. On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the.. | W. Somerset Maugham |