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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 21e4388 | The worst type of letting go isn't thekicking or the screaming ,because at least then there's enough emotion left to fight.No,the worst type is the silent acceptance.The quietness of the release.That's when the person realizes they no longer give a damn. | noah | Katie McGarry | |
| d2c6c57 | Girls don't go for guys who do magic. If a guy relies on sad shit like that it means he's got no game. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 430d878 | Most people avoid me, easily leaving two feet between us, and here is this little warrior trudging into battle without armor. Terrified I'll break her, I weave my arms around her and hug her back. My eyes shut when she settles furthering into me. I rest my cheek on her head and simply breathe. | Katie McGarry | ||
| ce9b7de | A warm, tickling touch crashed me back to earth. Maybe it sent me straight to heaven. Either way, it dragged me out of hell. Echo's pink fingernails caressed the back of my hand. "Who did you lose?" "My parents." No pathetic sympathy crossed her face, only plain understanding." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 332fb56 | Iain didn't know what to say to her. They had all asked an incredible amount from her. She was such an innocent, too. Hell, she wasn't even married, and yet they'd demanded she deliver a baby. He wasn't even certain if she knew how Isabelle had conceived the babe. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 54141c7 | Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You." | weakness | Julie Garwood | |
| 8d93ca6 | Douglas: You really got to stop doing that. Isabel: Doing what? Douglas: Getting prettier everyday. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 74a90ec | She sat down at the table and spent a good hour talking about her husband. She told Judith how they'd met, how he relentlessly pursued her, and finished by mentioning just a hundred or two of his special qualities. The only thing the man wasn't capable of was walking on water... yet. Judith made that comment when her friend paused for breath. | Julie Garwood | ||
| e1d1bbe | He wanted to laugh. Only, the sound wouldn't come out. He couldn't summon even a wry humor, not anymore. That wasn't a thought to cause laughter; it was one to cause despair. But Rand did not weep, for tears could not come from steel. For the moment, Lews Therin's cries seemed enough for both of them. | Robert Jordan | ||
| f01c103 | Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build. | Robert Jordan | ||
| a220ccd | There can be no health in us, nor any good thing grow, for the land is one with the Dragon Reborn and he one with the land. Soul of fire, heart of stone, in pride he conquers, forcing the proud to yield. He calls upon the mountains to kneel, and the seas to give way, and the very skies to bow. Pray that the heart of stone remebers tears, and the soul of fire, love. -From a much-disputed translation of The Prophecies of the Dragon by the po.. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 74a1d98 | He let them be heroes. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 7dda02d | I am Rand al'Thor!" he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. "I am the Dragon Reborn!" -- | Robert Jordan | ||
| ebbf167 | The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go. | Robert Jordan | ||
| a19768a | Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't--if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes--then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 9c4fdd4 | There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. | Robert Jordan | ||
| d2fa16c | Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 1dba065 | Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself. | silence michelle-sagara-west | Michelle Sagara West | |
| 388b596 | P'tuvai samo s chovek, kogoto obichash. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 74682db | So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7e98484 | Faith is a decision.It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn't always look as though He does.Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lion's den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice, based on the .. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 6a7f866 | Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 00c3f7e | The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of caring for squalling babies, is demeaning. To offer it up to the Lord of Glory transforms it into a holy task. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| f0f5d92 | Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot" | shadow-of-the-almighty jim-elliot eternity | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 66caacf | And it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm's way. | war | Barack Obama | |
| 54e38bc | That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each.. | Barack Obama | ||
| fb59b42 | The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths. | Barack Obama | ||
| 3fc6f04 | We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development. | C.G. Jung | ||
| eaf41d9 | The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. | understanding individuality politics relationship mutuality statism state | C.G. Jung | |
| e73633e | the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions... | C.G. Jung | ||
| c680718 | It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| c17b3cb | I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a quantity of things that men hated. Or had no use for, as they said. And that was exactly right. They had no use for it, so they hated it. Maybe it was the same way I felt about algebra- I doubted very much that I would ever find any use for it. But I didn't go so far as to want it wiped off the face of the earth for that reason. | usefulness | Alice Munro | |
| dc7398c | Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason? | Alice Munro | ||
| 89ccc40 | Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. | strength-of-mind seppuku samurai rebirth | James Clavell | |
| fa1d628 | To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The former adds to society. The latter typically subtracts from it, for in the process of taking it away, wealth gets destroyed. A monopolist who overcharges for his product takes money from those whom he is overcharging and at the same time destroys value. To get his monopoly price, he has to restrict production. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| cb7bcb2 | Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 5871a83 | I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate. | relationships | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| ccb77b1 | But maybe this is what Hannah has always wanted: a man who will deny her. A man of her own who isn't hers. Isn't it the real reason she broke up with Mike--not because he moved to North Carolina for law school (he wanted her to go with him, and she said no) but because he adored her? If she asked him to get out of bed and bring her a glass of water, he did. If she was in a bad mood, he tried to soothe her. It didn't bother him if she cried,.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 7086b96 | I had no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b9615dc | Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day long, or types nothing at all, just to see what I'll do in response, she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9098c06 | Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b73eb36 | If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e0a0583 | When I was old enough to take baths in the bathtub, and to know I had a penis and a scrotum and everything, I asked her not to sit in the room with me. "Why not?" "Privacy." "Privacy from what? From me?" I didn't want to hurt her feelings, because not hurting her feelings is another of my raisons d'etre. "Just privacy," I said...She agreed to wait outside, but only if I held a ball of yarn, which went under the bathroom door and was connect.. | jonathan safran foer | ||
| 2e3e05b | It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself. | food-safety non-fiction vegetarianism food | Jonathan Safran Foer |