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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 249a28c | I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ceaec67 | There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too. | language precision vocabulary | Chris Gardner | |
| 5ace587 | Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 07ce6f6 | There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 23048db | Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2264ad3 | Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 853f724 | It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3b7b8e7 | Does fate ever play by the rules? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 06dc288 | the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together. | salem-falls | Jodi Picoult | |
| 62e0ca8 | it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoul.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 764a6ac | It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 77eeabc | What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b92d905 | There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones. | dark story | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7ff3e4f | one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 91cb314 | The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect - attributes t.. | civilization incompatibility nature wolf | Jodi Picoult | |
| 573f979 | The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter. | light love self | Jodi Picoult | |
| 88a02d3 | Regret hung from the hem of everyone's lives, a rip cord reminder that what you want is not always what you get. Look at himself, outliving Aimee. Or Az, trying to find his daughter, only to have her wind up dead. Look at Shelby, with a child who was dying by degrees. Ethan, born into a body nobody deserves. At some point or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thin humans had in common. Taken this way, Ros.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d579378 | I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you. " | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8ea2ddd | But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f5d28ab | Go fuck yourself Judge." "Motion denied." answers the judge dryly." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f268f78 | I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white. | grey-areas zoos | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7379b08 | I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 98944be | Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor of anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 92fca85 | We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his fa.. | humor | Diana Gabaldon | |
| a28b43f | I have loved ye since I saw you, Sassenach," he said very quietly, holding my eyes with his own, bloodshot and lined with tiredness but very blue. "I will love ye forever. It doesna matter if ye sleep with the whole English army--well, no," he corrected himself, "it would matter, but it wouldna stop me loving you." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ae7e087 | I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 37b4e5e | Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0e8294a | Sorcha," he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had been surprised. It was her name in the Gaelic, but he never called her by it. He liked the strangeness of her, the Englishness. She was his Claire, his Sassenach." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 18efcbc | As yet too hungry and too clumsy for tenderness, still he made love with a sort of unflagging joy that made me think that male virginity might be a highly underrated commodity. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d88ae9c | Roger, listening intently, couldn't keep from asking a question at this point. Is it true Colonel Stark said 'Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes?' Lee coughed discreetly. Well sir. I couldn't say for sure as no one said that, but I didn't hear it myself. Mind, I DID hear one colonel call out, 'Any whoreson fool wastes his powder afore the bastards are close enough to kill is gonna get his musket shoved up his arse butt-first! | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 707bde8 | Eres sangre de mi sangre y huesos de mis huesos.Te doy mi cuerpo para que los dos seamos uno.Te doy mi espiritu para que los dos seamos uno. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4ed248b | It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside. | enabling | William Faulkner | |
| 5fc268f | They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men - some in their brushed Confederate uniforms - on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perh.. | William Faulkner | ||
| 9f6cc72 | Idleness breeds our better virtues. | William Faulkner | ||
| 37252bd | And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless. | William Faulkner | ||
| 32a9f4e | When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever. | William Faulkner | ||
| 88cd14a | The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 39a1f3c | I would not be concerned with the secrets, the lies, the mysteries, the facts. I would be concerned with what makes them necessary. What fear. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| cab848b | Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| e43e3fd | What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. T.. | intersection life-lines love marriage married-life matrimony parallels perspective pride resignation separation | Wallace Stegner | |
| 4e385d7 | War is like night, she said. It covers everything. | night war | Elie Wiesel | |
| c05d46b | Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. | Jason Fried | ||
| 63482b4 | We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl! | Roald Dahl | ||
| 1643b05 | For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship. | Elie Wiesel |