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| 98159dd | Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance. | life | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| a6cdd93 | I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 1725a72 | And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin" | world | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 5834207 | When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our arguments are in defiance of its painful truths. It is not a mistake that is one of the most read works of American literature or that is the most revered touchstone of all American film. Both emerge from a need for palliatives and painkillers, an escape from the truth of those five short years in which .. | civil-war history myths race racism slavery | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 6719665 | A critical analysis of the present global constellation-one which offers no clear solution, no "practical" advice on what to do, and provides no light at the end of the tunnel, since one is well aware that this light might belong to a train crashing towards us-usually meets with reproach: "Do you mean we should do nothing? Just sit and wait?" One should gather the courage to answer: "YES, precisely that!" There are situations when the only .. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| f53334b | ymyl lns l~ `tbr sr`@lt'thr b'nh 'mr syy'. wlkn hdh Gyr SHyH . tdhkrn lHssy@ bnsnytn | Jodee Blanco | ||
| a689055 | I didn't tell him that even after a crash, a key still fits the ignition. There just isn't anything left to drive. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 8180494 | The future is the result of actions, and actions are the result of behavior, and behavior is the result of prediction. | David McRaney | ||
| 26d2fbf | Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history. | John le Carré | ||
| 8d98f4b | You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause. | John le Carré | ||
| fce45f0 | Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London. | John le Carré | ||
| 57fac3e | Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| d4e8b6f | She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25) | Markus Zusak | ||
| 77298a4 | On June 23, 1942, there was a group of French Jews in a German prison, on Polish soil. The first person I took was close to the door, his mind racing, then reduced to pacing, then slowing down, slowing down.... Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each would that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions.. | french jews the-book-thief world-war-ii | Markus Zusak | |
| c40159e | See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy. The rest of the world means nothing to me. The rest of the world can rot.' Am I like that too?' You? No way.' There's a slight gap in his words. 'And that's your problem. You care about everything.' He's right. I do. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a8a4f50 | It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side - just like I want the words. I want my words to build bridges strong enough to walk on. I want them to tower over the world so I can stand up on them and walk to the other side. | other-side words world | Markus Zusak | |
| 1c700b6 | In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| b17a328 | Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 926c4cd | I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon fray.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 6e17746 | In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring to beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them--until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet... | Markus Zusak | ||
| ee4fdfd | I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 62b3456 | As it turned out, Ilsa Hermann not only gave Liesel Meminger a book that day. She also gave her a reason to spend time in the basement, her favorite place, first with Papa, then Max. She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life. "Don't punish yourself", she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing." | Markus Zusak | ||
| e8e6ec1 | I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner. The truth, however, is painful. It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness. | brutality footprints mind natural scavenge truth winning | Markus Zusak | |
| aaadb67 | A murderer should probably do many things, but he should never, under any circumstances, come home. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f07596b | For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0e9731e | The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. | love madame-bovary quotes | Gustave Flaubert | |
| e2f83c2 | Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex... | men | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 10ff4e7 | In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for its power to stir the passions and she rebelled before the mysteries of faith just as she grew ever more restive under discipline, which was antipathetic to her nature. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 41afb79 | the value of education is among the greatest of all human values... | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 602e5c2 | According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 69c6f51 | I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| d87f1e6 | Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. | distraction | George Eliot | |
| 41cee7d | Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin? | George Eliot | ||
| 2d9314d | Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. | prophecy | George Eliot | |
| 42eed31 | What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose. | George Eliot | ||
| a10e04f | Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions! | George Eliot | ||
| beb9b42 | There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. | George Eliot | ||
| 5affb9f | It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| a0cfe00 | June was white. I see the fields white with daisies, and white with dresses; and tennis courts marked with white. Then there was wind and violent thunder. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, "Consume me". That was at midsummer." | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0e80d28 | They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines | Virginia Woolf | ||
| c19ac46 | It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b0c8053 | They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.] | travel | Virginia Woolf | |
| c845141 | She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one. | literature reading words | Virginia Woolf | |
| da63b76 | Life and a lover | love | Virginia Woolf |