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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8bc2f0 | The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 9e11c16 | If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos. | jesus | Richard Kadrey | |
| df0ad18 | Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 620099b | I don't want to run for anything. I want to shove this miserable cheap-ass check so far up Wells's ass he can read the routing number out the back of his eyes. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 92ab914 | I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar. | sex-appeal | Richard Kadrey | |
| b5f4f57 | My head is full of monsters and I'm one of them. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 38862da | A gun is like love. The universal language. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 3db4170 | Do you know what happens when you push a dragon? They burn you alive, baby. You're playing with fire. I've played with fire tonight with Chris, pushed him to be that dragon, and the way he's looking at me now, the way he sees what I do not want him to see, is burning me alive. I know in that moment that I cannot keep asking Chris to show me who he is and not be willing to show him all that I am. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 8c5e1ff | We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he's found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He's still lost. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 41d9432 | For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 75490eb | locking myself in a shell of an existence isn't healing. It's hiding. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 84894fa | San Narciso was a name; an incident among our climatic records of dreams and what dreams became among our accumulated daylight, a moment's squall-line or tornado's touchdown among the higher, more continental solemnities--storm-systems of group suffering and need, prevailing winds of affluence. There was the true continuity, San Narciso had no boundaries. No one knew yet how to draw them. She had dedicated herself, weeks ago, to making sens.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 679ab93 | Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said. "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either." -- | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 32e96ee | We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 962ad12 | Meg's eyes were too bright. "I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt." | hurt | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 651ec5f | Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 06968f5 | She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9e97653 | To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. | poetry | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| f559535 | We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| eefee64 | If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be--we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7cadf0c | IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d466274 | The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations. | vocation teaching creativity | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 24057eb | One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is--how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact--when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just as valued and treasured as are those who more nearly agree with me. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a36de01 | A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3f42747 | We have to make decisions, and we can't make them if they're based on fear. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4938eeb | The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 67d4706 | And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom to direct their impotent rage. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 26f46db | What do they do for a village idiot when you're here? | village | Tanya Huff | |
| 960f9f6 | Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God." Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?" "What?" "Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like 'it' or 'the' wouldn't be worth hearing again but its always fun listening to Him try and say aluminum." | Tanya Huff | ||
| df5dd67 | A quick check on the platoon showed everyone more or less enjoying the flight. "Whatever it is you're eating, Ressk, swallow it before we land," [said Staff Sergeant Kerr]. "No problem, Staff." "More like whoever he's eating," Binti muttered beside him. "You ought to count your fingers," he suggested. "You're too serley stupid to notice one missing." "Maybe you ought to gren sa talamec to." "That's enough, people." When the Confederation fi.. | soldiers multiculturalism | Tanya Huff | |
| 6aaf518 | Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is. | leadership taking-charge | Tanya Huff | |
| a3ba605 | Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form? | humor toronto | Tanya Huff | |
| 1e7c7c7 | I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 79f49f5 | There was something different about her, though I could not say exactly what it was. It was as if she were more certain. If someone were sketching her they would use clear, strong lines, whereas before they might have used faint marks and more shading. She was like a fossil that's been cleaned and set so everyone can see what it is. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 767136d | There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 8681571 | You know I don't listen to market gossip," she began, "but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter's name is mentioned." | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 86898eb | He had decided to trust me. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| d9d64f7 | I did not mind the cold so much when he was there. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 9fc2fbe | con un gesto apacible, un movimiento de la cabellera, un solo y lento destello de la mirada dominaba el espacio y permanecen tranquilas como en el centro de un ciclon, al parecer ignorantes de la propia fuerza de atraccion, que arrastra hacia ellas de modo irresistible los anhelos y las almas tanto de hombre como mujeres. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 80e1e49 | For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day in total darkness and in total silence and in total immobility, he sat on his horse blanket at the end of the stony corridor, his back resting on the rock slide, his shoulders wedged between the rocks and enjoyed himself. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 8e085f2 | Este presentimiento resultaria cierto, aunque se basaba en premisas totalmente falsas. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 24f5bc5 | Quiza faltan unas gotas de limon penso, pero esto ya era casi frivola glotoneria, porque cuando bebia despues de cada bocado un pequeno sorbo de vino tinto de la botella y se lo paseaba por la lengua y entre los dientes, el regusto algo metalico del pescado se mezclaba con el fuerte y acido perfume del vino de un modo tan convincente, que Jonathan estaba seguro de no haber comido en toda su vida mejor que ahora, en este momento. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| da838ac | and Grenouille's mother, who was still a young woman, barely in her mid-twenties, and who still was quite pretty and had almost all her teeth in her mouth and some hair on her head and - except for gout and syphilis and a touch of consumption - suffered from no serious disease, who still hoped to live a while yet, perhaps a good five or ten years, and perhaps even to marry one day and as the honorable wife of a widower with a trade or some .. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| f656e64 | constantly before his eyes now was a river flowing from him; and it was as if he himself and his house and the wealth he had accumulated over many decades were flowing away like the river, while he was too old and too weak to oppose the powerful current. | Patrick Süskind |