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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2430676 | When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 710063a | Inside the room it was dark now, the florescent light behind my father flickering so slightly it lit only the most obvious masses in the room. My sister was in a chair pulled up alongside the bed, her head resting on the side of it with her hand extended out to touch my father. My father, deep under, was lying on his back. My mother could not know that I was there with them, that here were the four of us, so changed now from the days when s.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 88a8068 | Just that winter she had found herself saying to a young woman who worked with her at the tasting bar on Saturdays that between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. 'That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger,' she'd pleaded. The girl looked at her blankly. But for my mother what mattered was that as she spoke, she had suddenly identified herself as the weaker one. This revelatio.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 47d9c74 | My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316 | Alice Sebold | ||
| 479c62f | It was then that I slipped in the darkness, unable to know if I could be seen. I made myself small in the darkness, unable to know if I could be seen. I had left for hours every day for eight and a half years as I had left my mother or Ruth and Ray, my brother and sister, and certainly Mr. Harvey, but he, I now saw had never left me. His devotion to me had made me know again and again that I had been beloved. In the warm light of my father'.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| e4a25d8 | When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to strone, heart to stone. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 0dfe7a9 | It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes. | Sharyn McCrumb | ||
| 9cf1ac6 | Thank God for you, Caro. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| d9c377f | Why didn't you come back?" he sobbed. "I waited and waited for you, like I said I would, but you never came back! Why? Why didn't you come back? I love you I love you I love you." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| c1ebc29 | It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began and ended with me. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 2a36d55 | Dad?" "What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. "What should I be when I grow up?" The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say." | honesty | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| da62742 | To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 86d5357 | He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 166a6a2 | But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach. | possibility | Ayn Rand | |
| 022cf73 | They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling." "But it's true...I am, in the sense they mean--only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?" "What did they mean about you?" "Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .'to feel' is to go against reaso.. | reason unemotional dagny-taggart feel emotions cold | Ayn Rand | |
| dce172d | The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 32c0646 | There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). | Ayn Rand | ||
| ba15769 | He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0293777 | Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding i.. | living follower mob-rule masses slave master leader society democracy | Ayn Rand | |
| 1602e7b | Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn't and can't be a right." | Ayn Rand | ||
| bd3ac5a | I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable. | passion love engineering profession building | Ayn Rand | |
| c0c1a0d | The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority. | racism psychological | Ayn Rand | |
| 787aca2 | You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached. | love dagny-taggart | Ayn Rand | |
| 4ab6f3f | You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon-- | love unattainable idea memory | Ayn Rand | |
| 9973f1d | She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted! | inspirational | Ayn Rand | |
| 1296961 | The basic trouble with the modern world ... is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic problems crushing the world today, we must clarify our mental confusion. We must acquire a philosophical perspective. In essence, freedom and compulsion are one. Let me give you a simple illustration. Traffic lights restrain your freedom to cross a street whenever you wish. But this restraint gives you the.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b550802 | It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." | S1C5" | Ayn Rand | ||
| de436fc | But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer. | Ayn Rand | ||
| cf2d7b7 | Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. | racism reason | Ayn Rand | |
| e5e4bcd | Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b74a63d | It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it"." | Anne Tyler | ||
| 3c05889 | And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 8286308 | No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 09928be | Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' | Anne Tyler | ||
| a941da6 | Regardless of what we think we're teaching, we teach what we are. | Nathaniel Branden | ||
| 5fcad17 | Colin, I hate to fulfill the Theorem, but I don't think we should be involved romantically. The problem is that I secretly in love with Hassan. I can't help myself. I hold your bony shoulder blades in my hands and think of his fleshy back. I kiss your stomach and I think of his awe-inspiring gut. I like you, Colin, I really do. But-I'm sorry. It's just not going to work. I hope we can still be friends. Sincerely, Lindsey Lee Wells P.. | John Green | ||
| ef1454f | The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off. | love divorce | Anne Tyler | |
| 34bf7d3 | I am the sound of rain on the roof. I also happen to be the shooting star, the evening paper blowing down an alley, and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table. I am also the moon in the trees and the blind woman's tea cup. But don't worry, I am not the bread and the knife. You are still the bread and the knife. You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and--somehow--the wine. | Billy Collins | ||
| b2ff47c | But earlier this week on a wooded path, I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir were the true geniuses, the ones who had figured out how to fly, how to be both beautiful and brutal, and how to mate for life. | Billy Collins | ||
| 54f616a | But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. | Billy Collins | ||
| 2164fb3 | I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found. | poetry | Billy Collins | |
| 0042cd9 | As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our p.. | politics humor supreme-court voting democracy | Jon Stewart | |
| d75c926 | If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance. | Jon Stewart | ||
| 4dd0245 | The Humbug whistled gaily at his work, for he was never as happy as when he had a job which required no thinking at all. After what seemed like days, he had dug a hole scarcely large enough for his thumb. Tock shuffled steadily back and forth with the dropper in his teeth, but the full well was still almost as full as when he began, and Milo's new pile of sand was hardly a pile at all. "How very strange," said Milo, without stopping for a m.. | Norton Juster |