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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b0c5be8 | Wow. So you didn't expect it?" "No. Not at all." "Were you like, 'Fuck!" | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| e1543b4 | You shouldn't go into a marriage feeling inferior in any way. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 0dcaecf | I don't believe this. How can he not want to go to the Savoy? God, it's all right for top businessmen, isn't it? Free champagne, yawn, yawn. Goody bags, yet another party, yawn, how tedious and dull. | humor | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 3b834b0 | And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 5c1b368 | Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 73b7dd7 | What's the point of you? Try this, for starters. And underneath there's a long list. He's written a long, long list, that fills the page. I'm so flustered, I can't even read it properly, but as I scan down I catch beautiful smile and great taste in music (I sneaked a look at your iPod) and awesome Starbucks name. I give a sudden snort of laughter that almost turns to a sob and then turns to a smile, and then suddenly I'm wiping my eyes. I'm.. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 0985f39 | Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating. And so... not an achievement, my dear. Rather, a privilege. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 3262a21 | Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| dde8c64 | Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 5d98915 | You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her!" | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 4af5927 | Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, changing shape, the colours running together My walls absorb you, breathe you forth again, you resume yourself, I do not recognize you You rest on the bed watching me watching you, we will never know each other any better than we do now | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 84ed79d | The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b9ed520 | The Adams and the Eves used to say, We are what we eat, but I prefer to say, we are what we wish. Because if you can't wish, why bother? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 5fea1a2 | What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 2ed1236 | If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 20d24c9 | In pictures like these there are always empty shoes. It's the shoes that get to me. Sad, that innocent daily task - putting your shoes on your feet, in the firm belief that you'll be going somewhere. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 715d481 | But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 57cddf9 | It's better to hope than mope! | Margaret Atwood | ||
| f1b991e | How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - | fellowship maddaddam-trilogy margaret-atwood ren the-year-of-the-flood toby when-adam-first | Margaret Atwood | |
| c7c4d57 | Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. | religion religious | Margaret Atwood | |
| 7277ce1 | I'm losing the appetite for strangers. Once I would have focused on the excitement, the hazard; now it's the mess, the bother. Getting your clothes off gracefully, always such an impossibility; thinking up what to say afterwards, without setting the echoes going in your head. Worse, the encounter with another set of particularities: the toenails, the ear-holes, the nosehairs. Perhaps at this age we return to the prudishness we had as childr.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3d626f6 | Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract. | marriage | Margaret Atwood | |
| c360697 | So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 2999901 | In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 442bbe9 | Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or deserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 89316d5 | Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b907fca | For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be -- or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 687a8ed | We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| eff0cca | the praise of the wise few is more important than the mockery of the foolish many, | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| c111f63 | Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease." | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 07c2249 | He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively." | Dodie Smith | ||
| 4b59ac7 | Art could state very little - it's whole business is to evoke responses. | Dodie Smith | ||
| 79fff4c | Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows. | i-capture-the-castle | Dodie Smith | |
| 2c68efc | I love her. More than I thought I was capable of, and I would sacrifice my life for her happiness. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 971e05e | Come on, my little siren. Come to me. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 3d095db | Echo was becoming essential, like air. | Katie McGarry | ||
| b8adf68 | I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else. | love | Katie McGarry | |
| cbd3b76 | And when the work of grieving is done, The wound of loss will heal And you will have learned To wean your eyes From that gap in the air And be able to enter the hearth In your soul where your loved one Has awaited your return All the time. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 5608450 | There is great beauty in the notion of desire. Each of us is a child of the desire of our parents for each other. We are creatures of desire because we are creations of desire. The human heart discovers its most touching music when desire and love inform each other. When we love, we leave our separate solitudes and come toward union, where we complement each other. It is this ancient desire in every heart to discover and come home to its lo.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| aea1821 | Echo's my solid, my base, my foundation. She has no idea that the single fear that keeps me up at night is knowing one day she'll discover she doesn't need me like I need her. | Katie McGarry | ||
| a7849bc | I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible to have been surrounded by people and never feel complete? | Katie McGarry | ||
| be80508 | He ignores me. Our fears are what stifle us and we're only scared of what we don't understand. | fears | Katie McGarry | |
| 1387b75 | Sometimes what we need the most is what we fight the hardest: change. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 7eafd89 | What people project to the world never shows what's lurking on the inside | Katie McGarry |