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| ca6ccae | All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace--not in the infantile Ameri.. | James Baldwin | ||
| fd4dce5 | For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. | James Baldwin | ||
| 25fe605 | America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same jokes. One has done (or been) the show so long that one can do it in one's own sleep. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5272d3c | You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent. | Robert Cormier | ||
| bf4d4d2 | I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company. | Robert Cormier | ||
| b94a3aa | And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 4a1d4d1 | But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| e2edb77 | And the moral high ground is a lovely place," Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. "It won't stop a missile, though." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| aef3cc6 | GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 7a72ca7 | She'd stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 6a2a5d8 | What happened?" she asked. "The landing pad blew up." "Oh," she said. And then, "do they do that?" "No. No, they really don't." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| bd95861 | Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| a708096 | Alex's experience of real family--of blood relations--was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 89ffb22 | It's a simple complex system. That's the technical name for it. Because it's simple, it's prone to cascades, and because it's complex, you can't predict what's going to fail. Or how. It's computationally impossible. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 1509ed3 | Point of clarification," Alex said, raising his hand. "We have an apocalypse comin'? Was that a thing we knew about?" "Venus," Avasarala said. "Oh. That apocalypse," Alex said, lowering his hand. "Right." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 72b6381 | And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer? | civilisation | James S.A. Corey | |
| 42adff5 | The pleasantries were just ritual, but ritual was important. In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. They wanted to stay out of a fight. The quiet ones were figuring out how to win it. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 5a8d8b3 | The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn't know which one. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 7651ee5 | I don't believe war ever does. It's a madness that's in our nature. Sometimes it recurs; sometimes it subsides." "Sounds like a disease." "The herpes simplex of the species?" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 3c96dc9 | I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| ea4c47e | On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred." | David Weber John Ringo | ||
| 0528a0f | Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?" "Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal." | spat | David Weber | |
| 0ab405c | It never rains but it pours | misfortune | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 39e5c47 | We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| bdcc53f | The boys like me as a pal but I don't believe anyone will ever really fall in love with me." "Nonsense," said Emily reassuringly. "Nine out of ten men will fall in love with you." "But it will be the tenth I'll want," persisted Ilse gloomily." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a458087 | If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7ad5cbf | He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last ni.. | loss memories tranquility dreamy touching | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 06e91ad | Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| f3d2cfe | Oh, Charlotta dear, I'd have told you all about it if it were my secret...but it's Miss Lavendar's, you see. However, I'll tell you this much...and if nothing comes of it you must never breathe a word about it to a living soul. You see, Prince Charming is coming tonight. He came long ago, but in a foolish moment went away and wandered afar and forgot the secret of the magic pathway to the enchanted castle, where the princess was weeping her.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c57b1ab | One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man. | the-blue-castle | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 5aa4ece | I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 24e7b46 | There's always a piece of unfinished work left,' said Mrs. Lynde, with tears in her eyes. 'But I supposed there's always some one to finish it. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ed952cc | It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them. | writing proper-child | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a1629cc | I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 6d33aa6 | But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| d51a673 | Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own. | self-consciousness opinions objectivity subjectivity | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ab15e77 | I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones. | reputation | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 4633f8c | I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them." | change | L.M. Montgomery | |
| dd8941e | When will the others come? "And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!" | patriotic | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 5671e7d | The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on .. | nature secret enchanting haze willows island june mysterious | Enid Blyton | |
| e1cfd55 | Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it...Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves. | visibility masculinity | bell hooks | |
| f0b362d | When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too.. | simple-living priorities | bell hooks | |
| b288b96 | Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. Exciting, pleasurable sex can take place between two people who do not even know each other. Yet the vast majority of males in our society are convinced that their erotic longing indicates who they should, and can, love. Led by their penis, seduced by erotic desire, they often end up in relationships with partners with.. | love-quotes sex men love erotica-romance eroticism penis sexual-attraction erotica sexuality sexy | bell hooks | |
| 4aa321d | Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white supremacy, the de-centering of the West, redressing of biases, and commitment to affirming black self-determination. Yet we add to the critique of white Western imperialism a repudiation of patriarchy, a critique of capitalism, and a concern for interracial coalition building. | bell hooks |