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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5b2a8b4 | It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 7c89b99 | From now on, I promise I wil consult with you before I do anything you don't expect. Is that acceptable? Only if it involves weapons, magic, kings, or family members, she said. Or flowers. Or flowers, she agreed. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 42cf477 | The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| d5f2c3b | She said interruptions were simply God's appointments. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 3c64d13 | Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves. | wants wishes | Debbie Macomber | |
| f050f4d | But I am not sure what this self is. For the moment I seem to be busy tearing down what I was. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6436251 | All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| ad9d346 | The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b5be30b | I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chastity, because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodisiac--poetry. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b584dca | Talk--half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman--like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally,.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| acd5377 | Perhaps I should not tell him the dream. It puts me in his hands, it is giving him too much, | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 670f19e | The inner hatreds of men are now projected outside. There are fights in the streets. Revolutions in France, they say. Men did not seek to resolve their own personal revolutions, so now they act them out collectively. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| e184a09 | The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3168fd7 | I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count all the places I would not rather be. I've always wanted to see New Zealand, but I'd rather be here. The majestic ruins of Machu Picchu? I'd rather be here. A hillside in Cuenca, Spain, sipping coffee and watching leaves fall? Not even close. There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besides here in this car, with this girl, on this ro.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 4630a9b | Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 00c06e3 | I pushed his sword arm down, and stood next to Valek. Out eyes met. I understood that Valek's loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| b1e6d44 | Dark shadows of grief haunted his expression. More than any one person should be asked to bear. But that was the problem with grief. No one ever asked for it. It arrived with its bags packed for an extended stay. It settled into your best guest room and demanded to be waited on all day long, and which it finally shuffled out the door, it left behind permanent scratches on your furniture. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ace0c91 | Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right? | depression life read | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 6712e49 | If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught? | darwinism evolution infidelity macro-evolution macroevolution morality natural-selection social-darwinism stealing survival-of-the-fittest theft | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| 060569d | Unleashing a passion can transform a life... | Susan Cain | ||
| 1d04a13 | introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. | Susan Cain | ||
| 9840d9d | Sometimes speakers need to talk about subjects that don't interest them much, especially at work. I believe this is harder for introverts, who have trouble projecting artificial enthusiasm. But there's a hidden advantage to this inflexibility: it can motivate us to make tough but worthwhile career changes if we find ourselves compelled to speak too often about topics that leave us cold. There is no one more courageous than the person who sp.. | Susan Cain | ||
| b39cf16 | But as the word satyagraha implies, Gandhi's passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way. Restraint, Gandhi believed, was one of his greatest assets. And it was born of his shyness: I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is par.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 1c58ad0 | The conference is geared to people who enjoy meaningful discussions and sometimes "move a conversation to a deeper level, only to find out we are the only ones there." . . . When it's my turn, I talk about how I've never been in a group environment in which I didn't feel obliged to present an unnaturally rah-rah version of myself. . . . Scientists can easily report on the behavior of extroverts, who can often be found laughing, talking, or .. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5fb8584 | In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts--but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked wit.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7bd8dfb | Let's offer flowers, pour a cup of libation, split open the skies and start anew on creation. If the forces of grief invade our lovers' veins, cupbearer and I will wash away this temptation. With rose water we'll mellow crimson wine's bitter cup; we'll sugar the fire to sweeten smoke's emanation. Take this fine lyre, musician, strike up a love song; let's dance, sing all night, go wild in celebration. As dust, 0 West Wind, let us rise to th.. | Hafiz | ||
| 4940194 | But love truly becomes love only when, no longer an embryo developing painfully in the darkness of the body, it ventures to confess itself with lips and breath. However hard it tries to remain a chrysalis, a time comes when the intricate tissue of the cocoon tears, and out it falls, dropping from the heights to the farthest depths, falling with redoubled force into the startled heart. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| cd80393 | There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 753e635 | Plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs a l'infini. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| d28123f | Y hay mas. Tan pronto no van a cortar tu planta de naranja-lima. Cuando la corten estaras lejos y no sentiras nada. Sollozando me abrace a sus rodillas. --Ya no me interesa, papa. No me interesa... Y mirando su rostro, que tambien se encontraba lleno de lagrimas, murmure como un muerto: --Ya la cortaron, papa, hace mas de una semana que cortaron mi planta de naranja-lima. Los anos pasaron, mi querido Manuel Valadares. Hoy tengo cuarenta .. | sad spanish | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | |
| 3f62b75 | Then James took Parker's hands, and without waiting, gave her a long, hot kiss that made her nearly forget there were a hundred people watching. Then he pulled back and smiled that full, wonderful grin, his dark eyes so happy. "Parker," he said, "always lovely to see you." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| d66c495 | Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good. | love the-best-man | Kristan Higgins | |
| c0cd19a | The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 6b60de7 | Nicole's door opened, and she stomped down the hall. "I have something to say," she said, giving him the Slitty Eyes of Death. "You're totally unfair, and if I run away, you shouldn't be surprised." "Don't make me put a computer chip in your ear," Liam answered. "It's not funny! I hate you." "Well, I love you, even if you did ruin my life by turning into a teenager," he said, rubbing his eyes. "Did you study for your test?" "Yes." "Good." H.. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 36cd83c | Marriage is a promise. You can't keep a promise only when it suits you. You have to keep it against your inclination. That's what it means. | Ken Follett | ||
| cb4471f | Ethel said: "Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember-" Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into his arms. She hugged him. She looked into his green eyes, then kissed his brown cheeks and his broken nose and then his mouth. "I love you, Lloyd," she sad madly. "I love you, I love you, I love you." "I love you, too, Daisy," he said. Behind her, Daisy heard Ethel's wry voice. "You do remember, I see." | Ken Follett | ||
| 4e96aa9 | When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose. | Ken Follett | ||
| 9ce5499 | You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 920ddf9 | Okay," I said to Karrin. "Let's move." "Uh," she asked, without turning her head. "move where?" "The island," I said. "Harry, this is a motorcycle." "It'll work," I said. "Look at it." Karrin jerked as she noted the appearance of the Harley. "You want me to drive into the lake." "You have to admit," I said, "it isn't the craziest thing I've ever asked you to do. It isn't even the craziest thing I've asked you to do ." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0f7435b | It isn't complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d648673 | They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce. - Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher | harry-dresden magic paranormal wizards | Jim Butcher | |
| 700c5ba | The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory," he said quietly. "But the Savior was more than merely cells and tissue and chemical compounds--and Fidelacchius is more than wood and steel." | Jim Butcher | ||
| bc51997 | So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e79ec8e | Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets with titles like: Magic and You, and Why Witches Don't Sink Any Faster Than Anyone Else - a Wizard's Perspective. I wrote most of them. I think it's important for we practitioners of the Art to keep up a good public image. Anything to avoid anot.. | Jim Butcher |