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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fdc8dc3 | The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened | Richard Dawkins | ||
| f97b85f | I didn't feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| e8d5a81 | You also," he said, lowering his voice, "haven't yet thanked me for saving you from sitting in the flower bed." She didn't even look up. "It was entirely your fault that I nearly did. If you hadn't sneaked up on me, I wouldn't have been in any danger of landing in the weeds." She glanced briefly at him, a touch of color in her cheeks. "A gentleman would have coughed or something." Vane trapped her gaze, and smiled--a slow, Cynster smile. "A.. | love | Stephanie Laurens | |
| ae1196f | But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it. | Betty Smith | ||
| 452dfae | It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt. | Betty Smith | ||
| 29ce6ab | Everything struggles to live. | Betty Smith | ||
| 3f16b25 | Filth, filth, filth, from morning to night. I know they're poor but they could wash. Water is free and soap is cheap. Just look at that arm, nurse.' The nurse looked and clucked in horror. Francie stood there with the hot flamepoints of shame burning her face. The doctor was a Harvard man, interning at the neighborhood hospital. Once a week, he was obliged to put in a few hours at one of the free clinics. He was going into a smart practice .. | Betty Smith | ||
| 9e895be | There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, .. | Betty Smith | ||
| 622864f | First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him. | Edward Albee | ||
| 5eb7ac4 | There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 9717fac | Je suis plutot King Kong que Kate Moss, comme fille. Je suis ce genre de femme qu'on n'epouse pas, avec qui on ne fait pas d'enfant, je parle de ma place de femme toujours trop tout ce qu'elle est, trop agressive, trop bruyante, trop grosse, trop brutale, trop hirsute, toujours trop virile, me dit-on. | féminisme littérature-française nonfiction | Virginie Despentes | |
| c8b94c5 | Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to "get somewhere," but having no idea of where they're going." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 5fc9ed4 | First, make sure you get into a relationship for the right reasons. (I'm using the word "right" here as a relative term. I mean "right" relative to the larger purpose you hold in your life.) As I have indicated before, most people still enter relationships for the "wrong" reasons--to end loneliness, fill a gap, bring themselves love, or someone to love--and those are some of the better reasons. Others do so to salve their ego, end their dep.. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| c4e7696 | Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. Y.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a428dd7 | If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloa.. | life | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 6b1f7bd | In the secret places of her thymus gland Louise is making too much of herself. Her faithful biology depends on regulation but the white T-cells have turned bandit. They don't obey the rules. They are swarming into the bloodstream, overturning the quiet order of spleen and intestine. In the lymph nodes they are swelling with pride. It used to be their job to keep her body safe from enemies on the outside. They were her immunity, her certaint.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 9167f45 | When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. | self | Jeanette Winterson | |
| ae8fbee | I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it. And here is the shock - when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of common sense and cross into unknown territory, leaving behind you all the familiar smells and lights, then you do not experience great joy and huge energy. You are unhappy. Things get worse. .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 54c0300 | To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run... | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 61fc931 | I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5fccbd2 | There's no story that's the start of itself. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c75d3fd | In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f1ccf1d | I don't know how to answer. I know what to think, but words in the head are like voices under water. They are distorted. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 1d48ded | I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| ed64e3d | The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one's own chaos was also brought under control. 'Whenever I am troubled,' said the librarian, 'I think about the Dewey decimal system.' 'Then what happens?' asked the junior, rather overawed. 'Then I u.. | dewey-decimal filing jung librarians libraries life logic order | Jeanette Winterson | |
| aae3625 | What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing? | life love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 5b7bf4a | You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. | reckoning reconciliation return revenge wounds | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 06d3d9a | I'm sorry. You went too far.' Lovely. What an epitaph. | loki thor | Joanne Harris | |
| f9cd816 | For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes. | moving travel | Joanne Harris | |
| 72a9eed | There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps. | forgiveness love loyalty patience | Joanne Harris | |
| 76df442 | Garden work clears the mind. | Joanne Harris | ||
| b1484d4 | Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight. | Joanne Harris | ||
| fa390b1 | Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro, Arkansas; now imagine they were black girls from poor families who lived instead in Chicago, New Haven, Newark, Philadelphia, or Providence. Can you picture the national debate, the headlines, the hand-wringing? There is no doubt we'd be having a national debate about in.. | angry-white-males angry-young-man class class-struggle guns media media-bias media-distortion privilege school-shooting school-shootings white-privilege | Michael S. Kimmel | |
| 5d01313 | Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. | sanity | Barry Hughart | |
| 3d6eb3b | there is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness. | Günter Grass | ||
| be05215 | So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed. | perception | Sue Grafton | |
| 7d6c363 | Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone. | v-is-for-vengeance | Sue Grafton | |
| 33e9c24 | We all do things we regret. It's part of growing up. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 6116c71 | Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a5728de | She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie." | Piers Anthony | ||
| 4e60ee3 | They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 7eb3c66 | Along the way, I've tried not to make the same mistake twice, to learn, to adapt, and to pray for the wisdom to make better choices in the future. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| ffa044d | I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can. | determination | Karen Cushman | |
| 2f58350 | Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of life, made it impossible for them to learn a language which could have taught them to speak of what was in their or others' hearts. The words of their souls were the syllables of popular songs. | american-culture materialism superficiality | Richard Wright |