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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6e0b13 | None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3c3b460 | Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5a04b91 | I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6800d0d | I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a35e5f0 | Leave that. Leave all that and join us here. There is no loneliness, no separation at all. No aching bones, no worn-out bodies. It's not what they told us, Fitz! All those warnings and dire predictions . . . faugh! The world will go on without us just as well as it did with us. Just let go. I'm holding you tight. Keeping you part of me. It's like learning to swim. You can't find out how until you're all the way into the water. Stop clinging.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c8b1ca9 | Now, where did I leave my time-machine? Oh I know, next Wednesday. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| cf9254f | She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 8c65ee1 | There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some of my books should be awarded their own frequent-flier miles, they've traveled so much. I take these volumes on flight after flight with the best of intentions and then end up reading anything and everything else. (Sky Mall! Golf Digest!) | Will Schwalbe | ||
| c2ab938 | Porque la caracteristica esencial de lo que llamamos locura es la soledad, pero una soledad monumental. Una soledad tan grande que no cabe dentro de la palabra soledad y que uno no puede ni llegar a imaginar si no ha estado ahi. Es sentir que te has desconectado del mundo, que no te van a poder entender, que no tienes #Palabras para expresarte. Es como hablar un lenguaje que nadie mas conoce. Es ser un astronauta flotando a la deriva en la .. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 56b7888 | Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined | reason | Molière | |
| 0a89885 | she always chose peace over truth, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b8c0bf8 | She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not expect or ask for certainty, made a certain kind of sureness become possible. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dc6b89c | It was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f4d0d0f | I cannot control even the dreams that I have made. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0339d96 | Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 51daf75 | Periods are normal and natural, and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2b42c0e | The biggest problem in this country is not corruption. The problem is that there are many qualified people who are not where they are supposed to be because they won't lick anybody's ass, or they don't know which ass to lick or they don't even know how to lick an ass. I'm lucky to be licking the right ass." She smiled." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d3307f2 | Because this is America. You're supposed to pretend that you don't notice certain things. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 417902c | Not long ago, I wrote an article about being young and female in Lagos. And an acquaintance told me that it was an angry article, and I should not have made it so angry. But I was unapologetic. Of course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the abilit.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1dc15ea | The wind blowing across the British Isles was odorous with fear of asylum seekers, infecting everybody with the panic of impending doom, and so articles were written and read, simply and stridently, as though the writers lived in a world in which the present was unconnected to the past, and they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and brown people from countries created by Britain. .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d887edd | ndm knt SGyran rwdny 'ml 'n 'kbr w 'n 'kwn ktban l ktban. dh 'n lnsn ymkn 'n yuqtl mthl lnml, kdhlk lkutWb lys mn lS`b qtlhm. 'm lktb wHt~ w n 'bdwh bTryq@ mnhjy@, hnk Html l'n tnjw nskh@ mnh wtbq~ HyW@ Hy@ 'bdy@ Smt@ `l~ 'Hd lrfwf lmnsy@ fy mktb@ m ny'y@ . | Amos Oz | ||
| a2c53e3 | Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politician.. | good-and-evil morality religion political-philosophy political-science | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 86bf81a | England is never in a hurry because she is eternal. | eternity eternity-and-attitude | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 1698ae6 | Asa-i de cand lumea, ca cine se introspecteaza prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine insusi, in cele din urma, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine insusi, acela nu-i capabil sa ia o hotarare. | world decision capability introspection | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 119da2f | In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176) | Robert Whitaker | ||
| fd1dd45 | Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to loose. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| ed0ef22 | I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed becau.. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 1b59daf | Islanzadi sighed, and suddenly appeared tired. "Ormomis may have been your proper teacher, but you have proved yourself to be Brom's heir, not Oromis's. Brom is the only person who managed to entangle himself in as many predicaments as you. Like him, you seem compelled to find the deepest patch of quicksand and then dive into it." Eragon hid a smile, pleased by the comparison." | brom eragon-three islanzadi oromis queen-islanzadi quicksand | Christopher Paolini | |
| 62b6967 | No... I'll stay," said Eragon shakily, wiping his mouth. He avoided looking at the gruesome sight before them. "Who could have done..." He could not force out the words. Brom bowed his head. "Those who love the pain and suffering of others. They wear many faces and go by many disguises, but there is only one name for them : evil. There is no understanding it. All we can do is pity and honor the victims." | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 19c36ae | I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift. | loss gift | Debbie Macomber | |
| ea28e87 | Our talks are wonderful, interplays, not duels but swift illuminations of one another. I can make his tentative thoughts click. He enlarges mine. I fire him. He makes me flow. There is always movement between us. And he is grasping. He takes hold of me like a prey. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 44baef5 | I know that I go through life like a drunkard. I'm drunk on illusion. But no matter how drunk I am, there are things I can't help seeing, ferociously real things. I close my eyes, and I reel, I reel. I reel, I believe, I live in a fever and turmoil, I rise into ecstasy, but all the time there is the face of reality staring at me with ugly eyes. I know that if I open my eyes I will be intolerably hurt by the ugliness. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 2b198ba | She was now afraid to yield to passion, and because she could not yield to the larger impulses it became essential also to not yield to the small ones, even if her adversary were in the right. She was living on a plane of war. The bigger resistance to the flow of life became one with the smaller resistance to the will of others, and the smallest issue became equal to the ultimate one. The pleasure of yielding on a level of passion being unk.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 2a0e785 | A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He asked if she sold luminous flowers that he had heard about, flowers which shone in the dark. He wanted them, he said, for a woman who shone in the dark. He could swear that when he took her to the theatre and she sat back in the dark loges in her evening dress, her skin was as luminous as the finest of sea shells, with a pale pink glow to .. | delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| caac154 | I am caught. And he? What does he feel? I am invaded, I lose everything, my mind vacillates, I am only aware of sensation. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| c7c77e4 | I always run away from the simplest phrases because they never contain all of the truth. To me the truth is something which cannot be told in a few words, and those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. | writing truth | Anaïs Nin | |
| f977d54 | As June walked toward me from the darkness of the garden into the light of the door, I saw for the first time the most beautiful woman on earth. Astartling white face, burning dark eyes, a face so alive I felt it would consume itself before my eyes. Years ago I tried to imagine a true beauty; I created in my mind an image of just such a woman. I had never seen her until last night. Yet I knew long ago the phosphorescent color of her skin, h.. | love | Anaïs Nin | |
| 71da8d8 | It was this that frightened me--the sense that behind the lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love. | love sexuality | Anaïs Nin | |
| 7026ce6 | The physical as a symbol of the spiritual world. The people who keep old rags, old useless objects, who hoard, accumulate: are they also keepers and hoarders of old ideas, useless information, lovers of the past only, even in its form of detritus?...I have the opposite obsession. In order to change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same obje.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 99059f9 | I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me. | music | Rob Sheffield | |
| be7bd7a | Did I learn anything? No way. But all the things you want to learn from grief turn out to be the total opposite of what you actually learn. There are no revelations, no wisdoms as a trade-off for the things you have lost. You just get stupider, more selfish. Colder and grimmer. You forget your keys. You leave the house and panic that you won't remember where you live. You know less than you ever did. You keep crossing thresholds of grief an.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 190a474 | I stared at Irys. My Story Weaver had to be laughing his blue ass off right now. My future appeared to be a long twisted road fraught with knots, tangles and traps. Just the way I liked it. | funny | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 98731e9 | The Queen Seeker was back! | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 42f2321 | Mr. Kerrick wants your hair one color so you don't stand out so much." Mr. Kerrick could kiss my ass." | touch-of-power kerrick mom | Maria V. Snyder |