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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d89a6cc | nh yrtjf mn lkhwf mn mjrd lnZr l~ hdh lmtshrd lny'm: lqd tmlkh khwf `Zym fj'h mn 'n yDTr ywman m 'n ySbH mthl hdh lrjl lmnHT lmtmdd `l~ lmq`d. m hy lsr`@ lty yHtjh Hdwth shy khdh? 'n yufqr lmr w ysqT l~ lHDyD! km mn lwqt tHtj ld`y'm lty knt tbdw Slbh fy Hy@ shkhS m lttftt w thwy?? | Patrick Süskind | ||
| bbec00b | Um kleine, aber reizende Garten, in denen Oleander und Palmen gediehen und zierliche, von Rabatten umfasste Springbrunnen gurgelten, dehnten sich, meist U-formig nach Suden gebaut, die eigentlichen Flugel der Anwesen aus: sonnendurchflutete, seidentapetenbespannte Schlafgemacher in den Obergeschossen, prachtige mit exotischem Holz getafelte Salons zu ebener Erde und Speisesale, bisweilen terrassenhaft ins Freie vorgebaut, in denen tatsachli.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 1ceb5e8 | In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| a937de8 | ljhl lys `ran, bl nh s`d@ l'Glb lns bynn. wlHq nh ls`d@ lwHyd@ lmmkn@ fy hdh l`lm. l ttkhl `nh Ty'shan. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 383891a | At the door, she made him promise to go without goodbyes. She closed the door on him. Laila leaned her back against it, shaking against his pounding fists, one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth, as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her. She stood there until he tired, until he gave u , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded, until all was quiet, save for the gunfir.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 34816fe | Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1400598 | You are lucky." "How so?" "To know where you came from." I guess I never gave it much thought.: "Bah, of course not. But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 908878b | Laila remembered how Mammy had dropped to the ground, how she'd screamed, torn at her hair. But Laila couldn't even manage that. She could hardly move. She could hardly move a muscle. She sat on the chair instead, hands limp in her lap, eyes staring at nothing, and let her mind fly on. She let it fly on until it found the place, the good and safe place, where the barley fields were green, where the water ran clear and the cottonwood seeds d.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1d6ab7c | She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fed0aa6 | How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his head? | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 29038e5 | Who rebels with mathematics? | rebel | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 4df1ca8 | She heard a chirp and a twitter, and when she looked at the bare flower-bed at her left side there he was hopping about and pretending to peck things out of the earth to persuade her that he had not followed her. But she knew he had followed her and the surprise so filled her with delight that she almost trembled a little. "You do remember me!" she cried out. "You do! You are prettier than anything else in the world!" She chirped, and talke.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2fb068f | There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 151d907 | Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things." -- | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 59e93e9 | What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds. | government | Thomas Sowell | |
| 2baf84c | Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| aff5886 | I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions. | emotions | Andrew Weil | |
| 929fe2f | Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! " | E.M. Forster | ||
| cc5e711 | Madness is not for everyone, but Maurice's proved the thunderbolt that dispels the clouds. The storm had been working up not for three days as he supposed, but for six years. It had brewed in the insecurities of being where no eye pierces, his surroundings had thickened it. It had burst and he had not died. The brilliancy of day was around him, he stood upon the mountain range that overshadows youth, he saw. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8003586 | Because of the "city upon a hill" sound bite, " " is one of the formative documents outlining the idea of America. But dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada." | america canada city-on-the-hill communitarianism john-winthrop | Sarah Vowell | |
| 858c16c | Considering Independence Hall was also where the founders calculated that a slave equals three-fifths of a person and cooked up an electoral college that lets Florida and Ohio pick our presidents, making an adolescent who barely spoke English a major general at the age I got hired to run the cash register at a Portland pizza joint was not the worst decision ever made there. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 44d5a1c | Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| fdff631 | No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 7f94e2c | Fiske spoke sharply to the four walls. "We need medical attention immediately. We have a gunshot wound that requires treatment." "You're not going to get through to them by talking like an English professor," scoffed Reagan. " " she bawled. " " | Gordon Korman | ||
| 68c915a | They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills--a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?" asked Hamilton. "It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian." | Gordon Korman | ||
| d0d904a | l`Zm ymwtwn mrtyn : mr@ Hyn ybrHwn hdhh l'rD, w'khr~ Hyn yzwl m shdwh mn bn. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 92220c9 | Zivot nam vraca samo ono sto mi drugima dajemo. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 586a7c7 | Tebe boli moja patnja i daljina, a mene tvoja neizvjesnost, dok sjedis kraj male svjetiljke; veze nas krv i bol i svaki me udarac boli dvostruko, jer pada i po tvom srcu. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| b6796ca | Ali nocu, tek nocu, kad ozive i planu nebesa, otvara se, beskrajnost i silna snaga toga sveta u kom se ziv covek gubi i ne moze da se priseti ni sama sebe ni kuda je posao ni sta hoce ni sta treba da radi. Tu se samo zivi, istinski, vedro i dugo; tu nema reci koje tesko obavezuju za ceo zivot, ni smrtonosnih obecanja ni bezizlaznih polozaja, sa kratkim rokom koji neumoljivo tece i istice, a sa smrcu ili sramotom kao jedinim izlazom na kraju.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 78cc9f1 | But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches. | misfortune passage-of-time | Ivo Andrić | |
| 32c3050 | Los budistas dicen que la vida es un rio, que navegamos en una balsa hacia el destino final. El rio tiene su corriente, velocidad, escollos, remolinos y otros obstaculos que no podemos controlar, pero contamos con un remo para dirigir la embarcacion sobre el agua. De nuestra destreza depende la calidad del viaje. | idk-really inspirational | Isabel Allende | |
| 8112fec | nZnW 'n hdhh l'shy l tq` l llakhryn . Ht~ lywm ldhy tq` fyh `l~ rw'wsn | do-something | Isabel Allende | |
| b4eb166 | The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. | death | Isabel Allende | |
| 54c1454 | lns lqwyt y`rWDn llkhTr twzn l`lm ldhy yufDWlu lrjl , lhdh ys`wn l~ mDyqthn wtdmyrhn | strong women | Isabel Allende | |
| e617328 | Nadie sabe para quien escribe. Cada libro es un mensaje lanzado en una botella al mar con la esperanza de que arribe a otra orilla. | isabel-allende literatura | Isabel Allende | |
| ab2689f | Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves. | community greed honesty | Isabel Allende | |
| fa5948a | Tenia la idea de que al poner nombre a los problemas, estos se materializan y ya no es posible ignorarlos; en cambio, si se mantienen en el limbo de las palabras no dichas, pueden desaparecer solos, con el transcurso del tiempo | Isabel Allende | ||
| ee99e4b | Tal ves temia que ese grandioso amor, que habia resistido tantas pruebas, no pudiera sobrevivir a la mas terrible de todas: la convivencia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f23e7f8 | A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 747ea03 | La vida no es una foto, en que uno ordena las cosas para que se vean bien y luego fija la imagen para la posteridad; es un proceso sucio, desordenado, rapido, lleno de imprevistos. Lo unico seguro es que todo cambia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a8e99c0 | l`nd shrW qwy jdan: ymsk ldmG wymzWq lqlb. hnk 'nw` kthyr@ mn l`nd, lkn 'sw'h hw `nd lHb. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 503fb57 | Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness | Isabel Allende | ||
| 7f634ca | I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. | world | Yann Martel | |
| 6483877 | Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. | nationalism religion | Ursula K. Le Guin |