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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5570834 | He has a heart, somewhere, underneath everything else. I know, I saw it once. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 3f1633d | She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn't received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once and for all. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 0fee67f | This is the culmination of all my hopes, Gabriel. Julia reached out to him and he strained to catch her pinky finger with his own. This is my happy ending. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| f71dcb1 | A tall and shirtless Gabriel looked down at her. He was clad only in his underwear, which made him look slightly sexy and slightly ridiculous. His fists were clenched, and Julia saw the tendons standing out in his magnificent arms. | sylvain-reynard | Sylvain Reynard | |
| bc80815 | Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| e2154d0 | I shall die soon ... Here at this Dros. And what will I have achieved in my life? I have no sons nor daughters. No living kin... Few friends. They will say, 'Here lies Druss. He killed many and birthed none'." "They will say more than that," said Virae suddenly. "They'll say, 'Here lies Druss the Legend, who was never mean, petty nor needlessly cruel. Here was a man who never gave in, never compromised his ideals, never betrayed a friend, n.. | David Gemmell | ||
| 640baa3 | There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats. | David Gemmell | ||
| c44f7b6 | Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 86b291c | Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 4f7f36b | But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 68e5524 | Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 13a27f2 | I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear, | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f93a044 | Books lay on the floor in literary dunes. | Chris Columbus Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2dd31d4 | I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who stood on each other's shoulders to peek over the temple at you and call out "Hello, Mrs. Lady!" as you walked by. There were novices who snuck cigarettes at night outside the temple walls, the embers of their smokes glowing as orange as their robes. I saw a buff teenage monk doing push-u.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d8ea939 | fy lHb lyy's , nkhtr` shkhSyt lshrky'n fy lHy@ wnTlb mnhm 'n ykwnw km nrydhm 'n ykwnw , thm nnhr Hyn yrfDwn l`b ldwr ldhy khtr`nh fy l'ss | love novel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 77c2112 | nSf fy'd@ lsjwd ttmthl fy lTlb bHdW dhth , fy lny@ lslym@ lwDH@ . | prostration novel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e3b5b08 | the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 081d7e3 | I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b0da071 | Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e5428d1 | Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4147265 | Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. | enlightenment writing success life wisdom elizabeth-gilbert | Brandi L. Bates | |
| ea7babf | tkhylt myn `qly ,,, fhw `l~ l'rjH myn mthlk, mzqth l`wSf, wlknW mwq`h jyd w`mqh mnsb. myn `qly hw khlyj mftwH, nh lmdkhl lwHyd ljzyr@ dhty (why jzyr@ shb@ wbrkny@, 'jl, wlknh khSb@ ww`d@). wqd khDt hdhh ljzyr@ b`D lHrwb, wlknWh ltzmt lan blslm, bqyd@ z`ym jdyd ('n) wD` syst jdyd@ lHmy@ lmkn. wlan, thm@ qwnyn 'kthr Srm@ bkthyr bkhSwS mn ydkhl hdh lmyn. ....... fn mknk y fkry l`zyz@ lltzm bhdhh lqwnyn ljdyd@, hl wshl, wl, fltrj`y l~ lbHr, mn .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9d6213e | I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3c71379 | In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history." | marriage humor corinthians st-paul | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4616811 | Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow--for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b062b13 | In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. | life wisdom gratefulness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 581d0f7 | He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c8b6c0f | Again, Nietzsche thumbed through his notes, and then read, " 'One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star." | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| d5901f7 | The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-seemed inconceivable. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| e3b367a | Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| bcf031f | reading these books. Oh, the endless labor of the intellectual--pouring all this knowledge into the brain through a three-millimeter aperture in the iris. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 7c2b05f | Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he'd spend several of these hours sharpening his ax. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| bd86eaf | I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one ask.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| ad45209 | The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; so to say it is ambiguous is to assert that it's meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through fai.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 732ecdc | I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead. | David James Duncan | ||
| 4bf23c3 | In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")" | yearning | Peter Straub | |
| 8bb43e1 | nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side. | life vileness determination | Peter Straub | |
| df9a275 | I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all! | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 2a3ea0e | This danish is too sweetish to finish. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| de171bc | Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8b1f34f | No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots. | surprise | Lorrie Moore | |
| fca860d | She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off. | joy quote living life joys small-joys like-life lorrie-moore complicated pressure short-story realization quotes | Lorrie Moore | |
| 8d62f04 | My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then, "Why not, don't you like kids?" "I like kids," I will explain. "I like kids very much." And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things." | kids | Lorrie Moore | |
| a61a029 | This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again. | Lorrie Moore |