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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e6b00f6 | In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 86a0901 | You cannot explain, with the limitations of language and inexperience, why your body can cause such a sudden, fumbling response in someone else, nor can you put into exact words what you feel about your body, explain the thrum it feels in proximity to another warm-skinned form. What you feel is a tangle of contradictions: power, pleasure, fear, shame, exultation, some strange wish to make noise. You cannot say how those things knit themselv.. | marya-hornbacher sexuality touch wasted | Marya Hornbacher | |
| df36a08 | My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery-store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet aids, plastic surgery, a pop culture wherein the hyper-cool, blank-eyed supermodel was a hero. This is the intellectual and emotional equivalent of eating nothing but candy bars - you get malnourished and tired. We grew up in a world in which the surface of the thing is.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| d811a22 | Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 8281505 | It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings...Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late...to believe in them after the fact. | hope inspirational life | Natsuki Takaya | |
| ddd086e | Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this. | haru hatsuharu maid shigure shii | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 05893e8 | I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. I wish I could have lived in a kind world. Without anxiety. Without fear. Without hurting other people. Without being hurt myself. Only doing the right things. I wish I could have followed the shortest path to the kind world I wished for. "That's wrong." "That's stupid." When it comes to other people's lives you can say that kind of irresponsible dreck as much as you want. I .. | move-forward | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 7fd8d55 | If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you? | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 6d6ad9e | You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what fears. | Philip Roth | ||
| 2791d91 | As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing. | Philip Roth | ||
| e04ea33 | Who are they now? They are the simplest version possible of themselves... They are out from under everything ever piled on top of them. | Philip Roth | ||
| 72abd7a | Oh Mickey, it was wonderful, it was fun - the whole kitten and kaboozle. It was like living. And to be denied that whole part would be a great loss. You gave it to me. You gave me a double life. I couldn't have endured with just one." I'm proud of you and your double life." All I regret", she said, crying again, crying with him, the two of them in tears..."is that we couldn't sleep together too many nights. To commingle with you. Commingle?.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 298df70 | This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you. | hate | Philip Roth | |
| 2046d5c | Others consider us superior because of our cultured ways and intellectual tendencies; our technology lets us drive cars, use word processors and travel great distances by air. Some of us live in air-conditioned houses and we are entertained by the media. We think that we are more intelligent than stone-agers, yet how many modern humans could live successfully in caves, or would know how to light wood fires for cooking, or make clothes and s.. | James Lovelock | ||
| 57e74ea | Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 8d7395c | Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten! | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 3ac29f5 | our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| dadafd6 | And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| abcfe72 | It's funny. You love something and one day it's suddenly gone or changed or lost forever. But somehow that doesn't stop your loving. Maybe that's how you know it's the real thing. | Tony Parsons | ||
| bf9d70d | We all are prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| cf9c2f2 | Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b7d01e6 | All libraries, everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong space-time distortions found around any large collections of books. Only a very few librarians learn the secret, and there are inflexible rules about making use of the fact. Because it amounts to time travel, and time travel causes big problems. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1aef983 | When Mr. Aching had worked for the old Baron, they had, as men of the world, reached a sensible arrangement, which was that Mr. Aching would do whatever the Baron asked him to do. Provided the Baron asked Mr. Aching to do what Mr. Aching wanted to do and it needed to be done. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e20910b | Man just went past with a cat on his head, | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5e77f08 | The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side. | good morality | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9d9cff8 | He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9b5d182 | The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things. | discworl progress | Terry Pratchett | |
| ffa79e4 | Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random fluctuations-in-the-space-time-contiuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f68c997 | Koan ninety-seven: "Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you." Hmm. No real help there. Besides, he'd occasionally been unsure that he'd written that one down properly, although it certain had worked. He'd always left aquatic mammals well alone, and they had done the same to him." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5cc3e85 | Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly two, if you like parrots. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 50fc6b5 | Don't be ridiculous, man," said Ridcully, "there's no such thing as dwarf smuggling." "Yeah? Then what's that you've got there?" "I'm a giant," said Casanunda. "Giants are a lot bigger." "I've been ill." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5f89c34 | inn-sewer-ants-polly-sea. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 019a4e9 | You don't have to chase around after creatures, Pismire had said. You watch them for long enough, and then you'll find the place to wait and they'll come to you. There's nearly always a better way of doing something. | chasing-creatures wait watch | Terry Pratchett | |
| 77db48e | Their families cordially detested one another. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cc2b073 | It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. | life | Terry Pratchett | |
| 80ea4cb | Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4098e35 | The salamander flared, etching the room with searing white light and dark shadows. Otto screamed. He fell to the floor, clutching at his throat. He sprang to his feet, goggle-eyed and gasping, and staggered, knock-kneed and wobbly-legged, the length of the room and back again. He sank down behind a desk , scattering paperwork with a wildly flailing hand. "Aarghaarghaaaargh..." There was a shocked silence. Otto stood up, adjusted his cravat.. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 184dce9 | It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 005c10b | Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1533f61 | We thought the fireworks were marvelous," said Mort. "And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc20582 | It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase "people are people everywhere" had traditionally thought of as people." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| a7cc225 | A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was about where his next meal was coming from. In fact Lancre's position and climate bred a hard-headed and straightforward people who often excelled in the world down below. it had supplied the planins with many of their greatest wizards and witches and, once again, the philospher might have marveled that such a four-square people could give the world so many .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7a91343 | Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0997663 | or there will be a reckoning! | tiffany-aching | Terry Pratchett |