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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a5be1c | I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen. | vampire | Charlaine Harris | |
| 75f5ff1 | you have to play it out sometimes. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6237972 | Eric, what are you doing?" "Snuggling." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 75e327e | There was nothing civilized about sex with Eric. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c4f8331 | all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5070870 | There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| cd27ed9 | You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog. | garrison keillor | ||
| 26c4a6d | I never learn anything from listening to myself. | learning listening-skills | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 1bc73e5 | There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everyt.. | science journalists scientists questions knowledge | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| ab2901c | Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are is the only possibility | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 10a1551 | Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work? | socialism work | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 89e3645 | At some point in the evening Dellarobia had stopped being amazed that Ovid had turned into someone new, and understood he had become himself, in the presence of his wife. With the sense of a great weight settling, she recognized marriage. Not the precarious risk she's balanced for years against forbidden fruits, something easily lost in a brittle moment by flying away or jumping a train to ride off on someone else's steam. She was not about.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a3c53b5 | Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e1e7a8c | The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e807254 | Beene-beene. The truest truth. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c2d6e81 | Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work--that goes on, and it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1d5c760 | Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ff2ad50 | It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ecf6e80 | Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f633137 | The only path I am asked to monitor is my own. I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone's heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them. I pray that when I am tempted to speak or act without charity, that God's spirit will correct my thoughts. I pray to be an instrument of love by which people are reminded of their .. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 6d2b3fb | If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or an old maid. What is it about an unmarried woman that poses such a threat to the patriarchal order? Mainly, it is that women are no one's property when we're unmarried. We're under no one's control, and neither are our children. There is no telling what we might do or say. | women marianne-williamson | Marianne Williamson | |
| 4b2b90c | Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so. | spiritual | Marianne Williamson | |
| 062116b | if the train doesn't stop at your station, it's not your train. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 2929ed1 | That's the greatest miracle, and ultimately the only one: that you awaken from the dream of separation and become a different kind of person. People are constantly concerning themselves with what they do: have I achieved enough, written the greatest screenplay, formed the most powerful company? But the world will not be saved by another great novel, great movie, or great business venture. It will only be saved by the appearance of great peo.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| aa1cb36 | Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 0c92618 | The moment that our real "issues" are exposed is simply when two people have the opportunity to go deeper, to explore further, to heal faster, to communicate more sincerely, to be more honest, and to love more truly." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 286cbfc | To whatever extent your mind is aligned with love, you will receive divine compensation for any lack in your material existence. From spiritual substance will come material manifestation. This is not just a theory; it is a fact. It is a law by which the universe operates. I call it the Law of Divine Compensation. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 82cc777 | The miracle of love is expressed through other people. When a beloved is sent from God--and no one can tell you if they are, but the spirit within you--then they do hold the key to your soul's liberation. God has given it to them. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| db560ef | To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 9eb5eb7 | It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 01a95b7 | If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say." | dessert pea dinner | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | |
| 51910d7 | You can't sit next to me doing nothing while I'm trying desperately to save myself by doing something. | David B. | ||
| 5fa727b | Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. | reading sports | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 1b0a6e2 | All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down. | homesexual les-folles tolerance | John Irving | |
| f59db8f | Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy. | psychology | John Irving | |
| 845ee38 | Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them. | John Irving | ||
| 07a34b7 | So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone's older brother and someone's older sister - they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother - and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. | John Irving | ||
| 30f1649 | No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move. | women choice abortionists adoption | John Irving | |
| b429ad3 | but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace. My cousins were both small-towners and outsiders; they had not grown up with Own Meany, who was so strange to them that he inspired awe - yet they were no more likely to fall upon him, or to devise ways to torture him, than it was likel.. | John Irving | ||
| a1bad82 | Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news--the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this ch.. | politics junk-food newspapers | John Irving | |
| 25fdc34 | It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. | John Irving | ||
| 7bdc8ae | Bonkie bit Garp!" Garp bit Bonkie" | John Irving | ||
| a94c8c1 | The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he'd not yet seen. | John Irving | ||
| 0ed095a | YOU LET ME DROWN!" Owen said. "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I'M ALREADY DEAD!" he told us. "REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE." | John Irving |