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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8cee67d | We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear. | loss love flow | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4000b12 | Never really loved by anyone, never seeming really to love anyone either | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 357ac1c | I'll bet they think they can leave you alone because you've really got it together. But maybe sometimes you don't really have it together. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 09497d5 | I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7a927b8 | We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her. | parallel | Haruki Murakami | |
| 0b0f727 | Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass. Thus time is by no means on her side | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 85fa686 | Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching what goes on around them, trying not to make waves, and looking for the easy compromise are not going to be able to do creative work, whatever their field. To build something where there was nothing requires deep individual concentration, and in most cases that kind of concentration occurs in a plac.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ba1bdc2 | Aunque logres ocultar los recuerdos, o enterrarlos muy hondo, no puedes borrar la Historia. Mas vale que se te quede grabado, la Historia no puede borrarse ni alterarse. Porque significaria matarte a ti mismo. | superacion historia recuerdos | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7d7e542 | You can't hurry love, as the song goes. You can't hurry grief either. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 42161d2 | Lavender's blue, Rosemary's green, When you are king, I shall be queen | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 06435f7 | Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell." | Laurie R. King | ||
| fbd02ef | WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0547344 | Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c66b3dc | Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though." Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice night's sleep. "I never seen no line, Gus," he said. "I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| dd21462 | Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong. | life philosophy judgement | Amartya Sen | |
| 348667e | If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside. | strength life-lessons inspirational chaos | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| d9ee442 | Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect. | writing-craft | Kim Edwards | |
| 3a34fec | What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by the book. But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try? | down-s-syndrome intellectual-disability disability | Kim Edwards | |
| a7f481c | Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained. | Kim Edwards | ||
| d9ec513 | y llh m 'Grb 'slyb lqlb, wm '`jb l'`dhr lt~ yltmsh llwSwl l~ rGbth. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 8df28e4 | It is a bad habit to shout it from the rooftops when one challenges a person. Not everyone benefits from attracting attention. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 38e08e0 | Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. | pain suffering persistence strength life endurance challenges | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 3938d1a | Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? -- do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2e56f74 | The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants. | spirit warren-buffett specialization | Roger Lowenstein | |
| 8e02f98 | Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. | Walker Percy | ||
| 09888e3 | Not to be onto something is to be in despair. | Walker Percy | ||
| d7c02f2 | I don't quite know what we're doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fibre of my being. A man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best as he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do an.. | Walker Percy | ||
| fc5d68e | Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life? | Walker Percy | ||
| 25a1bb7 | If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 2c63938 | I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist. | politics louisiana | James Lee Burke | |
| 6cbb395 | Allan: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it? Museum Girl: Yes, it is. Allan: What does it say to you? Museum Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absu.. | Woody Allen | ||
| 48380c3 | What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage. | Woody Allen | ||
| f4a1acf | Raining. Oh, brother, a scratch on the fender. Damn rabbi on his unicycle. | Woody Allen | ||
| 612a620 | The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 2a78636 | It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored. | Steve Martin | ||
| 670eacd | So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background. | Steve Martin | ||
| e8cf170 | I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. | Steve Martin | ||
| ebd1178 | What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. This.. | Steve Martin | ||
| 929b744 | If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c2d462c | You're right, i don't have common sense. I don't want to believe what every one else believes. I have my own thoughts, things that weren't taught to me or things that I didn't read in a book. I learn from experience - you, you are afraid to experience anything and so you will always have your common sense and only your common sense. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a4aff76 | From Alex To Rosie Subject Dreams Again, Rosie, you're just not stretching far enough. I'm right here. Always have been, always will be. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d6918ef | Good girls always come second. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 99105b4 | Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c39601a | Ruby: How nice for you all. How is the wonderfully helpful Ursula? Rosie: Wonderfully helpful. Yesterday she told me I had problems discussing my feelings. Ruby: And? Rosie: And I told her that made me feel angry and that she could go fuck herself. Ruby: Well expressed. Rosie: Thank you. I don't see where there was a problem, I successfully explained how I felt and she clearly understood what I meant. No problems . . . | Cecelia Ahern |