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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fcaecb8 | It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. | very-true | Irvine Welsh | |
| 7e3f2b5 | The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 279c896 | Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on. | counselling moving-on moving-on-and-letting-go | Irvine Welsh | |
| 304c67d | Everything is muffled and car-crash-like and I want to speak but she's looking through me and I'm looking through alcohol. We're nowhere near each other even as we stumble in tandem through our disintegrating lives. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ee0a11d | Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? | politics scotland | Irvine Welsh | |
| aadae0e | Thing is, as ye git aulder, this character-deficiency gig becomes mair sapping. Thir wis a time ah used tae say tae aw the teachers, bosses, dole punters, poll-tax guys, magistrates, when they telt me ah was deficient:'Hi, cool it, gadge, ah'm jist me, jist intae a different sort ay gig fae youse but, ken?' Now though, ah've goat tae concede thit mibee they cats had it sussed. Ye take a healthier slapping the aulder ye git. The blows hit ha.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 02f4d14 | But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 8bcf806 | A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxury for the rich and a social ball and chain for the rest of us. Even if I wanted one, which I certainly do not, I wouldn't have the faintest idea as how to go about getting one. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 571572d | High cunts are a big fuckin drag when yir feeling like this, because thir too busy enjoying their high tae notice or gie a fuck about your suffering. Whereas the piss-held in the pub wants every cunt tae git as ootay it as he is, the real junky (as opposed tae the casual user who wants a partner-in-crime) doesnae gie a fuck aboot anybody else. | junkie observations | Irvine Welsh | |
| 4dfecaa | This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab. | humanity humor jobs | Irvine Welsh | |
| aac02fd | I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them | sex trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | |
| 42cd13a | Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history." | science time | Doris Lessing | |
| 0621da9 | When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth. | Leif Enger | ||
| ca7b7d8 | There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart. | memories moments reminiscence | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| bd9fd5a | She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.... | Michael Connelly | ||
| 4bc0b24 | He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company | mystery vietnam war | Michael Connelly | |
| 652f20f | Look at all the life in this," she said. "Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear another hundred fruits and every fruit could bear another hundred trees. And so on to infinity." I picked the picks from my tongue with my fingers. "Just imagine," she said. "If every seed grew, there'd be no room in the world for anything but pomegranate trees." -- | fruit infinite life nature pomegranate possibility | David Almond | |
| 0da5fc9 | Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that? | looking-closer | David Almond | |
| 06f207f | Can love help a person to get better?' I asked. | David Almond | ||
| 4a642ab | A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something .. | open openness window | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 788d262 | Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| ecefe30 | I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. | kate-dicamillo | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 5132b8a | I bet you didn't think I'd come back. But here I am. I come to save you." Too late, thought Edward as Bryce climbed the pole and worked at the wires that were tied around his wrists. I am nothing but a hollow rabbit. Too late, thought Edward as Bryce pulled the nails out of his ears. I am only a doll made of china. But when the last nail was out and he fell forward into Bryce's arms, the rabbit felt a rush of relief, and the feeling of reli.. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 167b678 | Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always be sweetness and light. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 8e7d9b9 | To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child) | destiny fate friendship | Joan Reardon | |
| 7e80bcb | I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn't glow. The sun didn't rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 03f7f74 | Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other... | Bill Watterson | ||
| aab15dc | Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan. | Bill Watterson | ||
| e2f2ed2 | I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin | calvin calvin-and-hobbes funny song | Bill Watterson | |
| ad50bfd | You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| d8beb2e | The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but enlightened learn from all. The arrogant learn from none, the gracious learn from some, the patient learn from many, but the humble learn from all. The disinterested learn from none, the curious learn from some, | african-philosophy-quotes african-quotes education-quotations guru-quotes learning-quotations matshona-dhliwayo-quotes solomonology-quotes wisdom-quotes wise-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| c1c985b | At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds. | nature sun water waves | David Mitchell | |
| 54843c0 | What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars." | David Mitchell | ||
| 6564985 | Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows. | pacifism peace provocative-inspirational | David Mitchell | |
| cb1de23 | Bitch' is a stingless insult these days--it hurts like, I don't know, a celery-stabbing. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7eba224 | And for What, For What. No matter what you do it will never amount to anything but a single drop in a limitless ocean. What is an ocean but a multitude of drops. | David Mitchell | ||
| ff08512 | But it's the feeling of love that we love, not the person. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8530915 | Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend," Da.. | david rusties uglies | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 550280e | She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. "Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry." "Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?" Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed.. | funny time world | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 17d7ebe | Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 4a99f5d | Rex lost his specs. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3706f74 | Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 47741aa | That was the trick- to keep punching, no matter what. | success | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 0711df5 | King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath. | Lloyd Alexander |