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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f0635b | I've found, as a general rule of life, that the things you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out not so bad after all. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| e232d08 | She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused. | jeeves laughter wodehouse | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| bfb4d3e | The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good. | humour letters writing writing-life | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| e41b9e7 | I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have.. | jeeves wodehouse wooster | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| c3ab5d1 | These dreamer types do live, don't they? | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4aff53a | She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape. | humorous wodehouse | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 15f7f5c | When Cynthia smiles," said young Bingo, "the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles." He coughed, changing gears. "When Cynthia frowns - " "What the devil are you talking about?" "I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I?" "No!" "No?" "No. I haven't had my tea." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 41f1649 | You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. | desperation light | Amy Tan | |
| 24cd571 | When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside. | Amy Tan | ||
| 9e91ac1 | What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. In those early months we clung to each other with a rather silly desperation, because, in spite of everything my mother or Mrs Jordan could say, there was nothing that really prevented us from seeing each other. With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang. I was victim to his hero. I w.. | hero love relationship victim | Amy Tan | |
| 1e7bd79 | In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I will tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. | richard-brautigan | Richard Brautigan | |
| 4c50b80 | For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out. | short-stories writing | Eudora Welty | |
| ced6738 | In fact, the belief that neurophysiology is even relevant to the functioning of the mind is just hypothesis. Who knows if we're looking at the right aspects of the brain at all. Maybe there are other aspects of the brain that nobody has even dreamt of looking at yet. That's often happened in the history of science. When people say that the mental is the neurophysiological at a higher level, they're being radically unscientific. We know a lo.. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 56f69a9 | Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you're still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says. | John Grogan | ||
| b96e96c | I have trust issues." "I know. I'm on a mission to cure you of that." -- | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| e3acc5f | Carlos, are we in complete understanding with each other?" "Yeah," I say. "As long as it's not in your house and you don't know about it, you're okay with us messin' around." "I know you're joking with me. You are joking with me, aren't you?" "Maybe." | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 9b781f5 | Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 0cd865f | I flip open my phone to text Jessica: Me: Guess who's pregnant? Jess: u? Me: Get real. Jess: ur mom? Me: yep Jess: Mazel tov!? Me: Don't congratulate me, plz Jess: Could b worse Me: How? Jess: Could be u? Me: I'm a virgin. Jess: Nobody's perfect. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 518fb4d | Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you. | John Berendt | ||
| 762ee73 | You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat. | Ha Jin | ||
| 217b16b | A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death . . .. He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 4131837 | Would you ever sleep with me?" he questioned once. "Never," she'd replied, her large eyes shining in the bluish glow from his TV set, "but I love you... in a different way. I'll always be loyal to you, I'll never betray you, that's how I love people." | asexuality betrayal glow love loyal sleep television | Rebecca McNutt | |
| ce48a80 | Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9d581fe | It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . . | Lois Lowry | ||
| c3264bf | Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation... | Henry James | ||
| 198800a | It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games | Henry James | ||
| 2ce1020 | You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground. | Henry James | ||
| 8d10ad0 | Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures. | horror story writing | Henry James | |
| 0541855 | I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will. | ghost horror work | Henry James | |
| 5f50a96 | Under certain circumstances there are few hours more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. | Henry James | ||
| 0e19c19 | You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution, which postulates that the history of life has been just the opposite. People like you credit both theories. It's . Is that reason rational? I say, f*ck off. | Mark Helprin | ||
| f60d923 | Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye. | Mark Helprin | ||
| ddaccff | I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living. | soul | Mark Helprin | |
| 9fc5fe6 | No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. | Mark Helprin | ||
| eebbaa4 | Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend." Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard." Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard." | Troy Denning | ||
| f8260c1 | Han?" "Yeah, sweetie." "How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?" "I don't know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them." "I'll consider that." | Troy Denning | ||
| b2d8777 | My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 1745fa7 | I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed." She moved her turquoise bracelet back and forth on her wrist. "So I had two sons, John and Richard, because I wanted to, not because I thought they would rescue me in old age. I got out of all social organizations and clubs in my fifties so I c.. | life-decisions | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| ef19eef | I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today." | crying drowning ironic-death irony tears water wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| f6ed1c1 | I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't---till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" "But glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean---neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make .. | carroll dumpty humpty in lewis wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| dca77c0 | She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and | Lewis Carroll | ||
| d645493 | Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 6a966b6 | Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand. | Reynolds Price | ||
| 4da3a30 | God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth. | faith god hero | Philip Yancey |