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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f955ae4 | The mind was capable of unimaginable feats if one were strong enough to believe them possible. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 806f5e1 | But you doona plan to deprive Bowen and me of a fight?" Garreth had answered, "So as to no' piss off a vampire queen and the most powerful witch ever to live? Oh, aye." "What are you planning?" "Steal the arrow from Lousha, sneak off, shoot the god. Then I'll come back with a present and an apology, promising she can shoot the next god." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3f28646 | You'd think after two thousand years, I'd be accustomed to looks of fear. | death | Kresley Cole | |
| df5ea93 | This game is a hell we've all been damned into. It's designed to madden us. The most intelligent Arcana ever to play is called the Fool. The one who least wanted to kill was named Death. And you, Empress, rule over nothing! | Kresley Cole | ||
| 057a5ff | This food is one hundred percent not drugged because I couldn't find any drugs. | Kresley Cole | ||
| b57916b | I didn't shop. I committed retaliatory consumerism. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 5a7d25b | Is it so bad being directed if you like where you're headed? | Kresley Cole | ||
| 7bfa1cc | Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past;(...).We all have detailed memories of how things have previously looked and sounded, and these memories are recalled and admixed with every new perception. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 91949f8 | Astounded--and indifferent--for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 82004a3 | It doesn't bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?" "My canine brethren?" I said. "I don'thave any canine brethren." "How can you say that! You're a werewolf." "That's right. I'm a werewolf, not a poodle. What makes you think I have any kinship with dogs?" | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 59be7a4 | The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of 'Insiders'. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 9d774c9 | Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony. | Jon Ronson | ||
| c74af10 | As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles." | Jon Ronson | ||
| a7fee01 | A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It's like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you're permanently concerned about what other people think of you. | Jon Ronson | ||
| d8a8d0d | W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position. | default vengeance | Jon Ronson | |
| 81ce687 | We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are . And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 4316a1e | I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? | Jon Ronson | ||
| 57a827d | Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal," said Allen Frances. "That boundary is very populous. The most crowded boundary is the boundary with normal." "Why?" I asked. "There's a societal push for conformity in all ways," he said. "There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction. 'Previously I was laughed at, I was p.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 6d471a8 | Not now.It's too late.It was always too late. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| d8c2c34 | The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 897e41f | But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 23174eb | Maybe one night I'll be asleep and I'll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don't try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don't be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| b8453f8 | She wasn't crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he'd seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn't that big a girl to hold all of it--to hold her brother's life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that. | loss withdrawal morning mourn | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 6b97616 | I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 96834cb | God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very possibility of explanation, scientific or otherwise. It is important to stress this because influential authors such as Richard Dawkins will insist on conceiving of God as an explanatory alternative to science - an idea that is nowhere to be foun.. | evolution existence science god god-of-gaps lennox scientific intellectual explanation dawkins | John Lennox | |
| a211985 | Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance" | science random ignorance | Richard Dawkins | |
| 8decb34 | The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 723bebe | Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact...That didn't have to be true. It is not self-evidently, tautologically, obviously true, and there was a time when most people, even educated people, thought it wasn't. It didn't have to be true, but it is....Evolution is the only game in town, the greatest show on earth. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 291ec73 | It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 2198fba | Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a mouse, and both are quite different from an oak tree. Yet in their fundamental chemistry they are rather uniform, and, in particular, the replicators that they bear, the genes, are basically the same kind of molecule in all of us--from bacteria to elephants. We are all survival machines for the same kind of replic.. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 10fcf0a | We lose ourselves," she repeated, forming each word with care, "but we find our way back." Wasn't that the story of her life? Wasn't that the story of Bethie's? You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best .. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| e1aee2b | Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty. | myth sex love procreation | Jennifer Weiner | |
| 25f881a | We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can't seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9a00d93 | It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| be8fdc8 | She drew a swift breath, and let it out on the words: "I love you--more than I've ever loved anyone. I love you so profoundly it goes beyond all reason. And I could never let you go--let you be taken from me--that would be the same as letting life itself go, because you are life to me." | let-go | Stephanie Laurens | |
| 104aadc | He was a baby once. He must have been sweet and clean and his mother kissed his little pink toes. Maybe when it thundered at night she came to his crib and fixed his blanket better and whispered that he mustn't be afraid, that mother was here. Then she picked him up and put her cheek on his head and said that he was her own sweet baby. He might have been a boy like my brother, running in and out of the house and slamming the door. And while.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 7cc6207 | Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. | opening-lines | Betty Smith | |
| 90e9c29 | A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot-strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion in his heart for those has left behind him in the cruel up climb. The nurse had chosen the forgetting way. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2557131 | If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always. | Betty Smith | ||
| 9281a77 | Truth and God are found in the same place: in the silence. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| cf101ae | Evil? What is that? ...You said you were death itself. Are you evil, then, or are you simply stronger and more awake than others? Who gives more shape to sentient history: the good, who adhere to the tried and true, or those who seek to rouse beings from their stupor and lead them to glory? A storm you are, but a much needed one, to wash away the old and complacent and prune the galaxy of deadweight." -Plagueis" | James Luceno | ||
| 534c18b | All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by one of two emotions--fear or love. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| cd29102 | Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is. | light trust strength love truth growth peace | Neale Donald Walsch | |
| a714c4c | Mine is always your Highest Thought, your Clearest Word, your Grandest Feeling. Anything less is from another source. | Neale Donald Walsch |