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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 37419b5 | I learned two important things about the sound I was searching for: that it had to be indirect, refracted or muffled in some way; and that the sound had to give the impression that it would continue forever- the sound of someone practicing piano heard faintly from an unknown direction, or the sound of gentle rain outside a window, punctuated by drops falling on the casement. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 5ff364d | But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that. | loneliness | Ryū Murakami | |
| 9ac736b | Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. | parents-and-children | Ryū Murakami | |
| 01a5aa8 | I thought if I were beautiful enough, all my dreams would come true. But you don't steady beautiful forever; one day you wake up and it's gone, and then where are you? Dreams are made with blood and sweat and tears. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 2f6d1ab | Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease. | hate love | Ryū Murakami | |
| 87c3b5e | That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world. | fear help helpless obsession psychosis | Ryū Murakami | |
| b1b456b | If/when I die, do not want Pam lonely. Want her to remarry, have full life. As long as new husband is nice guy. Gentle guy. Religious guy. Very caring + good to kids. But kids not fooled. Kids prefer dead dad (i.e., me) to religious guy. Pale, boring, religious guy, with no oomph, who wears weird sweaters and is always a little sad, due to, cannot get boner, due to physical ailment. Ha ha. Death very much on my mind tonight, future read.. | death life | George Saunders | |
| b6b7c72 | She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture. | George Saunders | ||
| ef3d394 | Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away. | Michael Chabon | ||
| ce294e2 | The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through bar.. | india modern-times | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 8c4caf1 | Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it? | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 486d84c | Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e2cd0b5 | Nix: I'm actively involved in steering the lives of thousands of beings. Which directly affects hundreds of thousands, which indirectly affects millions, with a ripple effect reaching billions. If someone said, 'It ain't easy being Nixie,' I wouldn't cal him a liar. | life nix nix-the-ever-knowing soothsaying | Kresley Cole | |
| 518f152 | You promised to make me pay!' 'I intend to, Empress, but not in the way you're thinking.' His accented words were loaded with innuendo. | evie | Kresley Cole | |
| bbf9a6d | Mel exhaled. "Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us." | evie funny kresley-cole mel melissa poison-princess reason | Kresley Cole | |
| ff9b0c9 | When Sabine parted her lips to argue, Lanthe said, "This baby bird's gotta fly, sis." "Great," Sabine drawled. "She's already speaking in avian metaphors." | Kresley Cole | ||
| c4ffc1c | He clenched his jaw and forced himself to even his tone. "No' necessarily. It's just that you'll be doing it three or four times a day." "With a man of your advanced years?" " | Kresley Cole | ||
| fd73f32 | Lachlain said, "Before you go, I wanted to pass on some advice. Emma told me that to win your mate, you have to accept Regin. The two are thick as thieves. Always have been. Since they were children." "So calling Regin a glowing bluidy freak dinna help my cause? On top of the lie? Christ, I've bollixed this up." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 340e7c1 | She could read the phone book and make it sound erotic. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 272ef29 | Doona worry, I'll take care of you." He grasped her hand in his. "You're going to be all right." Chloe's gaze drifted to Loa. "That a snake?" Loa said, "She keeps death away." Chloe blinked those big eyes up at him and whispered, "Wish that was the weirdest thing . . . I've heard tonight." -- | Kresley Cole | ||
| 81e32ef | Voodoo Beer?" "In honor of Loa and Boa for chasing away death." "That was a big snake, wasn't it?""It was a seriously large snake. . . ." | kresley cole | ||
| 5b4ebde | I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life." Oliver Sacks" | Bill Hayes | ||
| 0305985 | And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: 'A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.' Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| dd8a066 | I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one's life as well, when one can feel that one's work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest. | rest sabbath | Oliver Sacks | |
| 5764acb | At the end of our visit, Fleisher agreed to play something on my piano, a beautiful old 1894 Bechstein concert grand that I had grown up with, my father's piano. Fleisher sat at the piano and carefully, tenderly, stretched each finger in turn, and then, with arms and hands almost flat, he started to play. He played a piano transcription of Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze," as arranged for piano by Egon Petri. Never in its 112 years, I though.. | music piano | Oliver Sacks | |
| 548f669 | One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| eea84bc | To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 5ae38e6 | Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 1c16727 | A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 5a54106 | Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist. | Colin Wilson | ||
| d0ea02a | Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there'.. | death ground-zero manhattan modernity sadism thanatos-instinct united-states | Herman Wouk | |
| 757acc1 | I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 00be866 | Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| d94aa96 | My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone" | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 06e5261 | love is the only thing we have to save us | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5099e00 | She felt their envy and this broke her. The story ended, she couldn't tell the rest, they'd hate her, she had to stop, she wasn't any good, shut up you bad, bad, bad ugly girl and you don't deserve any of this and so the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a2f654e | There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent. | religion science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 3a951f7 | As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers. The alternative, one so transparent that it should need no urging, is to abandon the principle of automatic respect for religious faith. This is one reason why I do everything in my power to warn people against faith itself, not just against .. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| bf7b4da | For more than three thousand million years, DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world. But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time. Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| d31af47 | Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 75c552e | I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy's universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 3d84479 | Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f07aeec | You like my kisses - and I like kissing you. Why deny ourselves such innocent pleasure? | love | Stephanie Laurens | |
| 2a760ee | Two people can care for each other but not want the same things. | David Baldacci |