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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 6e2f4c9 | When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water. | details problems | John le Carré | |
| f260c01 | One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 7b4bad8 | The same philantropists who give millions for AIDS or education in tolerance have ruined the lives of thousands through financial speculation and thus created the conditions for the rise of the very intolerance that is being fought. In the 1960s and '70s it was possible to buy soft-porn postcards of a girl clad in a bikini or wearing an evening gown; however, when one moved the postcard a little bit or looked at it from a slightly different.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| f5149ed | A man who lives apart, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire. | John le Carré | ||
| 254de6f | What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries? | John le Carré | ||
| 7d6a7f4 | He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 2be7ee8 | In all honesty (and I know I'm complaining excessively now), I was still getting over Stalin, in Russia. The so-called second revolution--the murder of his own people. Then came Hitler. They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So .. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3c5a9bc | Words are life | Markus Zusak | ||
| cc9de7e | A statue of the book thief stood in the courtyard... it's very rare, don't you think, for a statue to appear before it's subject has become famous? | Markus Zusak | ||
| ddf3fa6 | As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning. | city dies evening fingers hope morning running sparks sunshine walk | Markus Zusak | |
| a80d9c9 | When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 075c74c | Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me. | mind thoughts truth words | Markus Zusak | |
| d08c4e4 | For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone. | okayness words writing | Markus Zusak | |
| 9a137cc | It's funny how when you watch people from a long distance, it all seems voiceless. It's like watching a silent movie. You guess what people say. You watch their mouths move and imagine the sounds of their feet hitting the ground. You wonder what they're talking about and, even more so, what they might be thinking | Markus Zusak | ||
| c051198 | Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about. | forgot holes shadows sun water | Markus Zusak | |
| 5a4c93c | His soul sat up. It met me.Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say, 'I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go of course, but I will come'. | soul the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| e637b50 | Once in while a man or a woman--no, they were not men and women; they were Jews--would find Liesel's face among the crowd. They would meet her with their defeat, and the book thief could do nothing but watch them back in a long, incurable moment before they were gone again. She could only hope they could read the depth of sorrow in her face, to recognize that it was true, and not fleeting. She understood she was utterly worthless to these p.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 6823699 | Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. | writing | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 55e848e | Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up t.. | lydia-davis madame-bovary sad simile soul translation waiting | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 8573b13 | The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of--I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters--I live and breathe them. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 7b181ce | No era feliz, no lo habia sido nunca. ?De donde venia, pues, aquella insuficiencia, de la vida, aquella instantanea podredumbre de las cosas en que se apoyaba?[...]. Cada sonrisa disimulaba un bostezo de aburrimiento, cada alegria una maldicion, cada placer su propio asco, y los mejores besos no dejaban sobre los labios mas que un delirio irrealizable de una voluptuosidad mas alta. | insatisfacción | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 7cc464a | By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 4924a07 | But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind's breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and turning and swirling through things, men living, doing good and evil, the sea rolling its waves and the sky with its expanse of lights, and who asks himself why these leaves are there, why the water flows, why life itself is such a terrible torrent plunging towards the boundless ocean of death in which it will .. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 1961433 | It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| caa7c3a | Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. | George Eliot | ||
| f3cabfe | No retrospect will take us to the true beginning | George Eliot | ||
| 33b3c1e | Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas - where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life .. | living-abroad travel | George Eliot | |
| 24067ff | The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. | marriage relationships | George Eliot |