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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f9f2157 | The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e9ce20d | Infinite are the arguments of mages, | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7d1de52 | Grain grows best in shit... | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 615ecd8 | An enemy, in Karhide, is not a stranger, an invader. The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cb56aa4 | The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrodinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future - indeed Schrodinger most famous thought experiment goes to show that the "future," on the quantum level, cannot be predicted - but to describe reality, the present world. Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fe.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 373363f | I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me. | restlessness wanderlust | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8380d09 | Her Second, her cousin, her friend, smiled, eyes bright as stars. "Live, Manon." Manon blinked. Asterin smiled wider, kissed Manon's brow, and whispered again, " | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5463a00 | We hit the sweeping marble stairs to the front doors of the manor. And so Tamlin unwittingly led the High Lady of the Night Court into the heart of his territory. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0f1eabc | Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2c929c5 | You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." --Jim Rohn" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b5f58c5 | Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to Be Succeeded | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 439dd88 | guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 53286fa | sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas | e.e. cummings | ||
| 6854e69 | let's start a magazine to hell with literature we want something redblooded lousy with pure reeking with stark and fearlessly obscene but really clean get what I mean let's not spoil it let's make it serious something authentic and delirious you know something genuine like a mark in a toilet graced with guts and gutted with grace | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 9fa8c4c | if i or anybody don't know where it her his my next meal's coming from i say to hell with that that doesn't matter (and if he she it or everybody gets a bellyful without lifting my finger i say to hell with that i say that doesn't matter) but if somebody or you are beautiful or deep or generous what i say is whistle that sing that yell that spell that out big (bigger than cosmic rays w ar earthquakes famine or the ex prin.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| ecbc15a | i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) | E.E. Cummings | ||
| bd91108 | Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. | Beth Moore | ||
| 7ee983c | God's specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don't have the need that exceeds His power. | Beth Moore | ||
| d8482c0 | We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences. | Beth Moore | ||
| 096f1af | Preacher: "This is the word of God!" Constantine: "The edited word of God" | Garth Ennis | ||
| 3688522 | Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text." | philosophy-of-religion religion theology truth | Umberto Eco | |
| bec07a3 | I stood back up and looked down at my feces. A lovely snail-shell architecture, still steaming. Borromini. My bowels must be in good shape, because everyone knows you have nothing to worry about unless your feces are to soft or downright liquid. I was seeing my shit for the first time (in the city you sit on the bowl, then flush right away, without looking). I was now calling it shit, which I think is what people call it. Shit is the most p.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 88ad9be | we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place. | Umberto Eco | ||
| cea0f51 | Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 1568467 | You're innocent, Casaubon. You ran away instead of throwing stones, you got your degree, you didn't shoot anybody. Yet a few years ago I felt you, too, were blackmailing me. Nothing personal, just generational cycles. And then last year, when I saw the Pendulum, I understood everything." "Everything?" "Almost everything. You see, Casaubon, even the Pendulum is a false prophet. You look at it, you think it's the only fixed point in the cosmo.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 45d33e0 | Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase. | science | Nella Larsen | |
| 0b9e4af | To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession. | Nella Larsen | ||
| e19342f | He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more. | Miranda July | ||
| 752ef3b | When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human. | Miranda July | ||
| 7697149 | If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would. | murder | Miranda July | |
| 8cc6e83 | Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. | nothingness unfeeling | Miranda July | |
| 7ae8f9a | and Lucy." She looked like she might cry. 'What about her?' "Lucy smells like food." She nearly gagged saying it. 'Sol, all that's normal. Lucy smelled good before I turned, and now she smells even better. But I haven't tried to eat her face and neither will you.' "She's not safe in this house." 'Safer than out there,' I argued, even though I agreed with her. 'Look, you used to eat hamburgers.' She blinked, confused. "So?" 'So, did you ever.. | drake-chronicals humor lucy-hamilton nicholas-drake solange-drake vampire | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 983365a | I was going to have to use my teeth to pull the curtains aside. I was leaning over, barng my teeth, when the thick curtain was yanked aside. "What on earth are you doing?" Peter drawled. "You look positively feral." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| d79818b | He shrugged one shouler, looked away. "It's not so bad,not really." "Why do you stay?" I asked quietly. "Is it because your mother mentioned me?" "I knew I shouldn't have told you that," he muttered. "What did she say, Colin?" He didn't answer right away. "Colin?" He sighed, raked a hand through his hair. "She spoke of a girl with violet eyes.That's all." "Do you still miss her?" "Aye." He came closer. "Is that why you stay? To honor her m.. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 90aa5d6 | Finally, my mother's training will be put to good use. Never mind finding an eligible bachelor, I mean to find a murderer. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| e5ddc69 | We'd been waltzing and eating tea cakes with a murderer. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| e2411c2 | I can't breathe. I'm joing the Rational Dress Society the very moment we are back in London,and I fully intend to leave their pamphlets under Mother's pillow and tucked into her corsets. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 563ea29 | I knew how he felt, how it was like being swallowed by winter, so that even your insides were too stark and too cold. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| dab3255 | could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl. | William Golding | ||
| c297220 | and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable. | Graham Greene | ||
| fd80c2f | In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones | marriage mating sex sexuality | Esther Perel | |
| cc0e90e | We expect one person to give us what once an entire village used to provide, and we live twice as long. | Esther Perel | ||
| 1556907 | We no longer plow the land together; today we talk. We have come to glorify verbal communication. I speak; therefore I am. We naively believe that the essence of who we are is most accurately conveyed through words. | Esther Perel | ||
| a851e5e | Secularism in the Christian world was an attempt to resolve the long and destructive struggle of church and state. Separation, adopted in the American and French Revolutions and elsewhere after that, was designed to prevent two things: the use of religion by the state to reinforce and extend its authority; and the use of the state power by the clergy to impose their doctrines and rules on others. This is a problem long seen as purely Christ.. | Bernard Lewis |