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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b65b3f | Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years. | John Berendt | ||
| 663c82b | Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with seven mystic drawers, a chair covered in material as velvety blue-black as Batman's cape, an aquarium holding tiny fish so pale you could see their hearts beat, the aforementioned dresser covered with decals from Revell model airplane kits, a bed with a quilt sewn by a relative of Jefferson Davis's, a closet, and the shelve.. | Robert R. McCammon | ||
| 4bdaba1 | IT IS SO EASY TO GIVE IN I have been thinking about the man who gives in. Have you heard about him? In this story A twenty-eight-foot pine meets a small wind And the pine bends all the way over to the ground. I was persuaded," the pine says. "It was convincing." A mouse visits a cat, and the cat agrees To drown all her children. "What could I do?" The cat said. "The mouse needed that." It's strange. I've heard that some people conspire In t.. | Robert Bly | ||
| 124b1c3 | I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost. | grief loss love photo-album photograph think noir remember sad memory nostalgia | Rebecca McNutt | |
| d116095 | photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself... | photography grief loss romance joy meaning past love fujifilm nikon kodak kodachrome super-8 canon photo capture film knowledge nostalgia | Rebecca McNutt | |
| de1c914 | You're innocent until proven guilty," Mandy exclaimed, unable to hide her gleeful smile. She missed the way people used to have normal conversations, used to be more caring for each other than themselves, back in the Seventies and Eighties. These days, she realized, neighbors kept to themselves, their kids kept to themselves, nobody talked to each other anymore. They went to work, went shopping and shut themselves up at home in front of glo.. | earth grief loss death convenient old-school reporter taxi retro cape-breton nova-scotia stuck moving digital medications leaving-home environment canada cars stop crying gone misery trapped lonely sad crazy insane dying mental-illness nostalgia | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 2cb476e | History doesn't start with a tall building | sex shakespeare magic rain poems romance sacrifice death dreams music songs life carrack cityisle cityspire desolate fedora haunts horace-walpole mannequins phillip-k-dick puddles specters spectre amnesia androids haunting greek-mythology waking damnation count emily-dickinson magick tempest apocalypse reflections storms masquerade empty science-fiction gothic jazz ships ghosts water piano | Nathan Reese Maher | |
| 29437c2 | What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? | Henry James | ||
| 70c2289 | No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave." | punctuation | Lynne Truss | |
| f340a18 | Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do! | reality work-ethic | Henry James | |
| 91085ce | The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza, or wandered about the garden in the starlight. | tea | Henry James | |
| 3532ac4 | She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a boon; but she listened to him as she had never listened before; his words dropped deep into her soul. | spellbound listening | Henry James | |
| 8f064a3 | We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall. | strength emotional-needs needs growth fall | Henry Cloud | |
| bcfb847 | Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can discern no sail of hope along my own particular ambition. I tell you what it is: I'm quite in accord with the people who enquire 'What is the matter with the man?' because I don't seem to be producing anything as the years pass but rank self indulgence. You know that my sole ambition, officially at any rate, was to write poems.. | Philip Larkin | ||
| f40814e | Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. | virtues | Mark Helprin | |
| 6d5f407 | It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 1e4b8ff | What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 15b5edc | I think about , who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer I believe it is our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity. Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path .. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 69e3e33 | Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see. | myth unseen | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| dadf7f3 | l ymknny l`wd@ ll'ms l'nny knt Hynh shkhS akhr.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 1cd30b3 | If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 9f022eb | It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?" | through-the-looking-glass | Lewis Carroll | |
| 9f197d4 | Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!" Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked. "That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two t.. | laughter distraction wonderland crying | Lewis Carroll | |
| 7a6af1c | flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock together." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| c860013 | He's dreaming now,' said Tweedledee: 'and what do you think he's dreaming about?' Alice said 'Nobody can guess that.' 'Why, about YOU!' Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. 'And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?' 'Where I am now, of course,' said Alice. 'Not you!' Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. 'You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!' 'If that there King was to.. | through-the-looking-glass lewis-carroll | Lewis Carroll | |
| 1e35a84 | I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 7e141d2 | You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret all the best people are. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 1cd5fe5 | Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. 'Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 958d55b | Well that's it: if you don't think, you shouldn't talk! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| c5b7e6b | In these days Melissa's absorbed and provoking gentleness had all the qualities of a rediscovered youth. Her long uncertain fingers - I used to feel them moving over my face when she thought I slept, as if to memorize the happiness we had shared. In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental - a passion to serve. My shabby clothes - the way she picked up a dirty shirt seemed to engulf it with an overflowing solicitude; in the .. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 69a7fc6 | The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion." | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 8ee7563 | We feel pain as an outrage; Jesus did too, which is why he performed miracles of healing. In Gethsemane, he did not pray, "Thank you for this opportunity to suffer," but rather pled desperately for an escape. And yet he was willing to undergo suffering in service of a higher goal. In the end he left the hard questions ("if there be any other way . . .") to the will of the Father, and trusted that God could use even the outrage of his death .. | Philip Yancey | ||
| c1a31df | When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren. | Philip Yancey | ||
| fb15f72 | Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6b0e655 | Bear one another's burdens, the Bible says. It is a lesson about pain that we all can agree on. Some of us will not see pain as a gift; some will always accuse God of being unfair for allowing it. But, the fact is, pain and suffering are here among us, and we need to respond in some way. The response Jesus gave was to bear the burdens of those he touched. To live in the world as his body, his emotional incarnation, we must follow his exampl.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e4afa55 | It's a relief to know it won't happen. It makes things easier. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1fe2b2c | Do I need to check up on you guys later? You know the rules.No sleeping in opposite-sex rooms." My face flames,and St. Clair's cheeks grow blotchy. It's true.It's a rule. One that my brain-my rule-loving, rule-abiding brain-conveniently blocked last night. It's also one notoriously ignored by the staff. "No,Nate," we say. He shakes his shaved head and goes back in his apartment. But the door opens quickly again,and a handful of something is.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1f6f87c | I didn't mean to mess things up, I don't know what got into me-" He rubs his temples. "Please don't apologize.It's not your fault." "But if I hadn't dragged you out to dance-" "Anna." Etienne speaks slowly. "You didn't make me do anything I didn't want to do." My face grows hot as the knowledge explodes inside of me like dynamite. He likes me.Etienne really does like me." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 131a4fb | The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we're going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We're living life in a more deliberate way. We don't want to mis.. | eternity judgement | James Redfield | |
| c7f4902 | Prayer of Application to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit who solves all promblems, who lights all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who give me the divine giftto forgive and forget all evil against meand that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things and to confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you, even and in spite of all matrial illusion. I want to be with y.. | James Redfield | ||
| dc98119 | Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution. | James Redfield | ||
| 7a6fd9b | Yeah," said Iggy. "But what now? Let's do something fun." I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane | James Patterson | ||
| 3afe3e4 | Dear God," said Nudge under her breath, "I want real parents. But I want them to want me too. I want them to love me. I already love them. Please see what you can do. Thanks very much. Love, Nudge." Okay, so I'm not saying we were pros at this or anything. (Max thoughts)" | funny learning god humor love praying parents desire | James Patterson | |
| 0494300 | Kami matamu, Iggy. Kau tak perlu melihat selama kau memiliki kami. | James Patterson |