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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd5fb44 | War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. | feeling gone-with-the-wind marriage scarlett-o-hara war | Margaret Mitchell | |
| a75781a | She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself... | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| bd5c73e | Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it. | gone-with-the-wind hardship loss scarlett-o-hara | Margaret Mitchell | |
| ed32682 | One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. | writing | Edmund Spenser | |
| 7cdc76d | Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. | death mother-goose-s-garland vertigo | Archibald MacLeish | |
| 4efecb2 | Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight? | christopher-marlowe faust faust-legend faustian faustus icarus marlowe pride | E.A. Bucchianeri | |
| a08611d | It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 5682129 | Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile. 'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| e17be15 | FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente,172 lente currite, noctis equi! The stars move still, time .. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 0b49c6f | Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down | heaven love stars whisper | Marlowe Christopher | |
| ba3c639 | When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex." | inspirational religious | Jon Krakauer | |
| 7339014 | Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul. | into-the-wild supertramp travel travel-writer | Jon Krakauer | |
| 395c8a1 | I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all. | Polly Horvath | ||
| c9d78c6 | You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life. | Polly Horvath | ||
| fefc223 | Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude. | Bette Greene | ||
| 9599d3b | A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh. | Bette Greene | ||
| cb04fd0 | It was the kind of love you have for someone because you'll die inside if you don't love something. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 727fe90 | So you see, when war comes to one's village, one's doorstep, it isn't tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot. | Daphne duMaurier | ||
| 80b07fd | Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 6c0cb5e | They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days. Not anymore, though. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 085f216 | If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 96496e0 | Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive -- coming perhaps once in a life-time -- and approaching ectasy. | philosophy | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 4898f13 | Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains. | catherine-marshall christy christy-huddleston | Catherine Marshall | |
| f8f3a5c | There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. | inspirational | William J. Bennett | |
| d0ae3de | It's a success story," said Chanu, exercising his shoulders. "But behind every story of immigration success there lies a deeper tragedy." Kindly explain this tragedy." I'm talking about the clash between Western values and our own. I'm talking about the struggle to assimilate and the need to preserve one's identity and heritage. I'm talking about children who don't know what their identity is. I'm talking about the feelings of alienation en.. | Monica Ali | ||
| 85f155c | Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy. | love parental-love | James Salter | |
| 1e17be5 | Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth. | James Salter | ||
| 0b96950 | It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity--like yours--the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you .. | savagery | Joseph Conrad | |
| 9527c9a | A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. | Beth Revis | ||
| 9a5f8c9 | The first cause of discord is difference. There is no religion on Godspeed. We all speak the same language. We're all monoethnic. And because we are not different, we don't fight. Remember the Crusades I taught you? The genocides? We will never have to worry about those types of horrific events on Godspeed. | Beth Revis | ||
| 88bc418 | She grips my elbow tighter, somehow finding the thinnest skin to dig her fingernails into. I want to pry her fingers from my arm, but when I look down at her, I can tell she's using me as a lifeline, and I'm not going to be the one to let her drown. | Beth Revis | ||
| ef42d32 | I have the whole world now, but I don't have him. | Beth Revis | ||
| 8a211b5 | For the past three months, the walls of Goodspeed forced us close together. Now I'm wondering if they were the only things that kept Amy near me. | Beth Revis | ||
| eafe20f | Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. | David Eddings | ||
| 0ed9b00 | I thought about this for days, just as I thought of the special-ed teacher I met in Pittsburgh. "You know," I said, "I hear those words and automatically think Handicapped, or, Learning disabled. But aren't a lot of your students just assholes?" "You got it," she said. Then she told me about a kid - last day of class - who wrote on the blackboard, "Mrs. J____ is a cock master." I was impressed because I'd never heard that term before. She w.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 092324a | You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin. | war | David Eddings | |
| 09ee377 | Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He wasn't really hard to follow, since he'd conjured up a dim, greenish light to see by --and to hold off the boogiemen. Did I ever tell you that Zedar's afraid of the dark? That adds another dimension to his present situation, doesn't it? He was bundled to the ears in furs, and he was muttering to himself as he floundered along t.. | David Eddings | ||
| 0cfb932 | ln 'smH lnfsy bn 'kwn rhyn@ dhkryty lmw'lm@ | Jodee Blanco | ||
| e2b6592 | Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body--it is heritage. Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor--it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest. And so enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. It must be rape so reg.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c26daf5 | Whatever appeals to the white working class is ennobled. What appeals to black workers, and all others outside the tribe, is dastardly identitarianism. All politics are identity politics - except the politics of white people, the politics of the blood heirloom. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 743dd15 | We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1e7e436 | The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now--my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 87b40f7 | The meek shall inherit the earth" meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail. My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| eb43fb0 | White America" is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Sometimes this power is direct (lynching), and sometimes it is insidious (redlining). But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, "white people" would cease to exist for want of reasons. There will surely always be people with straight hair and blue eyes, as there.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates |