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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba03fa8 | He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? | Sue Grafton | ||
| c6df2c3 | Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 93c0932 | The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take you right down with it. | Sue Grafton | ||
| c0c8000 | The past was so past it hurt. | Rick Moody | ||
| f36edb9 | Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it. | Piers Anthony | ||
| eac0afc | Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. | election | Sheri Holman | |
| 6b958ab | learn to take criticism seriously but not personally. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 640f8bc | she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night. | Karen Cushman | ||
| 7b0596a | My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it. | Richard Wright | ||
| abccc39 | Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of God. The naked will to power seemed always to walk in the wake of a hymn. | Richard Wright | ||
| 8a08790 | If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone. | community self-identity | Richard Wright | |
| 9a0b776 | Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no mor.. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 4d06b68 | He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 70ece38 | You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 940465b | She tried to keep her voice steady, but it was pretense, like pretending self-control when something you loved was dead in front of your eyes. They would have to separate here. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 74a8a65 | Time is a blind guide. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 72320d0 | Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time | truth-inspirational truth-of-life | Anne Michaels | |
| db24203 | I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 4f60694 | I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 728fe28 | The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| f2f5255 | The fairytale belongs to the poor. I know of no fairytale which upholds the tyrant or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairytale is an absurdity. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e0561d7 | O beautiful, to make escape And leave this world behind. Had I to stay another day I'd lose my fucking mind... | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 133a94e | Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them. | fairytales storytelling | Gregory Maguire | |
| 784bfb0 | And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever come out? Not yet. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| ff08c56 | Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| b073a38 | Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. | philosophy power public-service tyranny virtue wisdom | Iain Pears | |
| 67fe7a9 | The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place. | black-plague christians clement-vi dream-of-scipio gaul holocaust iain-pears jews late-antiquity-rome provence vichy-france wwii | Iain Pears | |
| fb1b582 | As expected life isn't that sweet at all. When I came to Tokyo I thought I could achieve anything with my own two hands. It's not like that. To get something in these hands, I have to fight a horrible fight. But... there's not much time to grab the things you want with your hands. Why is that? And more importantly what is that I want? | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 9356679 | With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight. | experience life-lessons maturity | Chris Bohjalian | |
| f01a500 | I don't know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn't want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 521aabd | Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive. | education farms food knowledge | Joel Salatin | |
| 08fcfeb | Washington departed the planet as admirably as he had inhabited it. He had long hated slavery, even though he had profited from it. Now, in his will, he stipulated that his slaves should be emancipated after Martha's death, and he set aside funds for slaves who would be either too young or too old to care for themselves. Of the nine American presidents who owned slaves--a list that includes his fellow Virginians Jefferson, Madison, and Monr.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| fdc398c | Of all the founders, Hamilton probably had the gravest doubts about the wisdom of the masses and wanted elected leaders who would guide them. This was the great paradox of his career: his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature. His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 73f9646 | I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that's the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| bc38acf | I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart. | grief hope loss | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| a4b0134 | When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 1f367be | As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet. Honesty matters so much less. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 34baaa9 | I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 18139c4 | She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6bf9822 | Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R." | red-queen the-red-queen | Philippa Gregory | |
| 3e17fde | Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous. | humor | Richard Preston | |
| 4ac9748 | There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| adffc20 | I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were Dopey, Toothless, and Joe, the brain surgeons in charge of building maintenance. At least they were getting paid. I was working forty feet above the ground, breathing in sulfur fumes from Satan's vomitorium, for free. , my father said. , the judge said. Court-ordered restitution for the Foul Deed. He nailed me w.. | community-service hard-labor wit | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 1a16ca3 | I won't take a real nap. I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to close my eyes, just stay safe under the covers and breathe. | relax restless sleep sleepless tired | Laurie Halse Anderson |