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| a5e9df5 | The world,' he revealed, 'is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.' Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every colour. Some peoples flames are so still they don't even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can't look .. | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| f02e977 | The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations. | fossils language living outdated | Antonio Gramsci | |
| b601592 | The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with the same rhythm. The traditional ruling class, which has numerous trained cadres, changes men and programmes and, with greater speed than is achieved by the subordinate classes, reabsorbs the control that was slipping from its grasp. Perhaps it may.. | hegemony organizing revolution | Antonio Gramsci | |
| 60117c7 | So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9ee811c | today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| c93cb26 | The important thing is that another medium--stage, film, music--doesn't obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costumes and a score. But the book hasn't gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger, and begun to glisten in a new way. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 32c40e4 | Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f5f3b3d | But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 721f2dc | She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health-" For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, "- and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9b4e063 | The man corrected him. "Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9b0fafd | These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere. | John Banville | ||
| cdcc1f8 | I was thinking of Anna. I make myself think of her, I do it as an exercise. She is lodged in me like a knife and yet I am beginning to forget her. Already the image of her that I hold in my head is fraying, bits of pigments, flakes of gold leaf, are chipping off. Will the entire canvas be empty one day? I have come to realise how little I knew her, I mean how shallowly I knew her, how ineptly. I do not blame myself for this. Perhaps I shoul.. | John Banville | ||
| 9fb4c4b | I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win? * | Zadie Smith | ||
| 26cca0b | Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 0967815 | I am from the Kilburn branch of the Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation," said Hifan proudly. Irie inhaled. Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation," repeated Millat, impressed. "That's a wicked name. It's got a wicked kung-fu arse sound to it." Irie frowned. "KEVIN?" We are aware," said Hifan solemnly, pointing to the spot underneath the cupped flame where the initials were minutely embroidered, "that we ha.. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 802b105 | And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships--all relations--involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? | Zadie Smith | ||
| 41dd703 | One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally. | Zadie Smith | ||
| dc8966c | It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6158bd0 | He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?" | Libba Bray | ||
| fbbd15e | Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. So she lived in the moment, as if her life were one long party that never had to stop as long as she kept the good times going. | Libba Bray | ||
| cd28965 | Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over. | Libba Bray | ||
| 716f03d | There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger. | Libba Bray | ||
| 715a9b6 | There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no. | sexuality whore | Libba Bray | |
| dec6299 | J.T Woodland, known as "the cute one" in The Corporation's seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, "Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl," Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz." | Libba Bray | ||
| 3995987 | Taylor clapped for attention. "Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for." | Libba Bray | ||
| fb3312e | The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake. | Libba Bray | ||
| 751230d | When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks. | Libba Bray | ||
| a33b6f1 | She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips. | Libba Bray | ||
| 407fc51 | A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie's knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the "disgrace of the young." She would not miss this place." -- | Libba Bray | ||
| f3ff7c3 | You're not a man. You're their . I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridiculous organization. From now on, I shall do exactly as I wish and you cannot stop me. Do not follow. Do not watch. Do not even attempt to contact me or you'll be sorry indeed. Do understand? | gemma-doyle libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 9ba02b7 | Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed." "Potted and splificated?" "Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night." | Libba Bray | ||
| 9f1d1f6 | I'll be counting the cats when I come over. There better be the same number each time. | Libba Bray | ||
| 298bc96 | Before the Devil breaks you, first he will make you love him. Beware, little sister. Beware the King of Crows! | Libba Bray | ||
| a78b33c | But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence. | Libba Bray | ||
| abeea60 | And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss. | reading-books | Libba Bray | |
| 1985e6c | Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these? | Ann Patchett | ||
| ae07d08 | It would be incorrect in every sense to say that so near the end of his life he had lost his faith, when in fact God seemed more abundant to him in the Regina Cleri home than any place he had been before. God was in the folds of his bathrobe, the ache of his knees. God saturated the hallways in the form of a pale electrical light. But now that his heart had become so shiftless and unreliable, now that he should be sensing the afterlife lik.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 3b57ad8 | To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.] | Ann Patchett | ||
| 5986c28 | I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 0b59a40 | But together they moved through the world quite easily, two small halves of courage making a brave whole. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6cd76ea | received a gift--it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my twenty-five years of life. "Does your husband make you a better person?" Edra asked. There I was in that sky-blue pool beneath a bright blue sky, my fingers breaking apart the light on the water, and I had no idea what she was talking about. "Are you smarter, kinder, more generous, more compassionate, a better writer?" she said, running .. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 9d04535 | The love between humans is the thing that nails us to this earth. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 290ce95 | A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9b89e76 | When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself. | Chuck Palahniuk |