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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b719a9 | He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him. Galloran had been in this same situation and had made the right choice. Jason felt less alone. Malodor had claimed that his opponents had no heroes among them. But Galloran was proof to the contrary. And Jason would be evidence as well. p. 420 | Brandon Mull | ||
| 69bb476 | Accept loss forever Be submissive to everything, open, listening No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge Be in love with your life | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| a088551 | I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 045d443 | There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| c26ccb5 | Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 11d2b79 | Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 14d3acf | Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. | limits mind | Louis L'Amour | |
| fd55837 | The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 5d7261d | Amo a liberdade, por isso as coisas que amo deixo-as livres. Se voltarem e porque as conquistei, se nao voltarem e porque nunca as tive | Bob Marley | ||
| e8365b7 | One glance he gave, one little smile at parting--it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read, a meaning that kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet arisen. | true-love | Anne Brontë | |
| 18dfc35 | and I imagine that, though cold and haughty in her general demeanor, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them . . . | aloofness coldness haughtiness requirements | Anne Brontë | |
| 3acdc5e | I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day. | putting-off | Anne Brontë | |
| 20c5fe3 | I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b0a0bcb | Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume that we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as times goes by. Even when we are faced with wounds that heal more slowly, with pain that lessens by day only to return in full force at nightfall, even when sleep does not leave us rested, we .. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7b7dccb | You never miss the water until the well runs dry. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 50293e5 | King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now. | humor meeting | Robin Hobb | |
| 2d69f6d | How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 13681a3 | It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0b843b0 | Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time." | chance conceit human improve opportunity promise strive time | Robin Hobb | |
| bc9acb0 | One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4e80fcc | My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying. | upbringing | Robin Hobb | |
| 40a33e8 | How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 288cda2 | If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us. | mom | Will Schwalbe | |
| 5de45c3 | There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous. ("New York Blues")" | innocuous ominous | Cornell Woolrich | |
| cd5b3c8 | Cuando el dolor cae sobre ti sin paliativos, lo primero que te arranca es la palabra. | Rosa Montero | ||
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Todos necesitamos la belleza para que la vida nos sea soportable. Lo expreso muy bien Fernando Pessoa: < |
Rosa Montero | ||
| 5f92183 | escribir lo que no se habia vivido, lo que solo se habia querido vivir, era tambien una manera --cobarde y timida-- de vivirlo... | writing | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 45ee18e | Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remedes, et non pas de leurs maladies. | illness medicine remedies | Molière | |
| da57528 | Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a75bbbc | Are you kidding me?' Shan asked, slightly drunk, slightly dramatic, and now sitting yoga style on the floor. 'You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of them, not the ten thousand who write those bullshit ghetto books with the bright covers, have two choices: they can do precio.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 968104c | Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don't think like that. I don't even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender. That many men say, like my friend Louis did, that things might have been bad in the past but everything is fine now. And that many men do nothing to change it. If you are a man and you walk into a restaurant a.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2725e54 | Culture does not make people. People make culture. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| df7e5d8 | Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say." He said something similar now: "Excuses don't win a game. You should try strategy." | strategy win | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 7f1c192 | We all understand that genius doesn't guarantee success, but it's seductive to assume that success must come from genius. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| cd57b50 | Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 495c357 | In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home. | circle dream iris magic meditation mind palmetto perception self water | Barbara Hurd | |
| 6bf79cb | As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition. | philosophy thought | Christopher Paolini | |
| 908a061 | He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women. | bearing cats confidence demeanor ladyship | Christopher Paolini | |
| 59662df | Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative. | wilderness | Christopher Paolini | |
| 2264233 | He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| efe7f63 | He had reached his goal. He had climbed the unclimbable mountain | inspirational philosophy | Christopher Paolini | |
| 8483615 | But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| d798e02 | I said, "If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 752c717 | We're journeying constantly, but there is always a machine and books, and your body is always close to me and the look in your eyes never changes. People are saying we will be miserable, we will regret, but we are happy, we are laughing always, we are singing. We are talking Spanish and French and | Anaïs Nin |