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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 wasted touch | 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 life inspirational | 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. | maid shii haru hatsuharu shigure | 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 | ||
| 92ff4fc | Flowers said, "I got two bottles of water in the car." "Get them. And get your gun," Lucas said. "The gun? You think?" "No. I just like to see you wearing the fuckin' gun for a change," Lucas said. "C'mon, let's get moving." | John Sandford | ||
| 73fd1c1 | Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed. | John Sandford | ||
| ee86298 | The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions. | humor | John Sandford | |
| 5b79365 | You really loved her?' 'I would have given my life.' 'Would you have taken it?' 'No, child,' he said. 'That is not ours to do. | time love | Mitch Albom | |
| be8eae0 | But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0cbaa49 | We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials." | mitch-albom | Mitch Albom | |
| b509973 | Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b9ef744 | Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 798ee34 | This time was different. The tools of this era--phones, computers--enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8aa9396 | Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, " All right, that was my moment of loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them all." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5413509 | What in life can love not penetrate? Mabel Hubbard, deaf since childhood, gave Alexander Bell a piano as a wedding gift and asked that he play it for her every day, as if his music could pierce her silence. Decades later, at Bell's deathbed, it was his wife who made the sounds, saying the words, "Don't leave me," while he, no longer able to talk, used sign language to answer, No." | Mitch Albom | ||
| afa524f | Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie's | Mitch Albom | ||
| e1d6631 | heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8a247cf | Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 45b8b0d | I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 6892f26 | Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 231b896 | What is false about hope? | faith hope | Mitch Albom | |
| 59d6f41 | But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it? "That is not faith. That is hate." He sighed. "And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 21c03b9 | Man invents nothing God did not create first. | man | Mitch Albom | |
| d80b19f | How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7c50a7d | fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacr.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 68522d3 | Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was. | new-years-eve | Mitch Albom | |
| cda81a3 | What's time between a mother and her daughter?Never too much, never enough. | Mitch Albom | ||
| cc76dce | Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 88db5c3 | You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. | Mitch Albom |