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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 422364c | Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. | Libba Bray | ||
| 3228d08 | Welcome to finishing school, Gemma. Learn to embroider, serve tea, curtsy. Oh, and by the way, you might be demolished in the night by a hideous winged creature from the roof. | Libba Bray | ||
| ba178fe | Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are doing right and just in their actions. | Libba Bray | ||
| ad6c792 | What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too." | Libba Bray | ||
| 8b151c0 | The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693 | Libba Bray | ||
| 1261b03 | dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference. | Libba Bray | ||
| a94bbd4 | Hot off the presses, today's headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways," Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. "Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider--he is a bit of a killjoy." | Libba Bray | ||
| 0d4c2b8 | On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes. | the-diviners libba-bray new-york | Libba Bray | |
| 80674a2 | That's it," Mabel said, getting up. She tossed her napkin on the table. "No. That is not right. I don't know what you just said, but whatever it was, I'm pretty certain it was pure hokum. I don't want to dance. I don't want to hear about your plans for a summer house. I am not your sister. And if I your sister, I'd have to tell people you'd been adopted as an act of charity. Please, don't get up." | Libba Bray | ||
| 1d88d78 | Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8abb633 | But isn't that strange and wonderful unpredictability part of humanity? Aren't all of our differences what already make us a great nation? | Libba Bray | ||
| b789e92 | She dances a little jig. "This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?" "Yeah. But no one would believe it." I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. "Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real?" She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. "Who's to say what's real or not?" "Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy. "Yeah, well, who but the.. | people life crazy | Libba Bray | |
| 0c14ef9 | Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it." | revenge humor gemma-doyle libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 0bfe5a7 | Because I'm not enough, she thought. That was the terrible echo shouting up at her: Fraud, fraud, fraud. She got drunk and talked too much and danced on tables. She had a temper and a sharp tongue, and she often blurted out things she instantly regretted. Worst of all, she suspected that was who she truly was--not so much a bright young thing as a messy young thing. | Libba Bray | ||
| 2669772 | Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls? | humor bedtime-stories governesses miss-moore libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| c6ec285 | I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. | humor felicity-worthington gemma-doyle libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 8e24f0c | Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 556ce51 | One must not be shy where language is concerned. | lad language | Ann Patchett | |
| 2d51690 | Birds ate my face. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 32809f0 | Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7f21226 | How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a1fe58a | People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4a5b23f | The same as real life, there is no happily ever after. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 56b3393 | Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 90cdb5e | Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a45586c | So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars-- or--a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe." Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. "It's just that people want something to show for their effort," Seth says. "Like the pharaohs and their pyramids." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| be513e0 | Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fa1481c | Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and ene.. | religion | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 90fcd5f | Then you're trapped on your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f25f68a | Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bb0f8a1 | Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5bdf965 | We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a2fa3ad | You had a near life experience. | life | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 5679906 | Right now, me getting killed would be redundant. ... You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late. ... Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 213786c | Sex reincarnated that good, pure girl, but as something else. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c92504a | I irritate; therefore I am. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 594787d | they should let some people into the library by prescription only | library reading | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 389651c | Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 81de88b | Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 87f816d | A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6a0af71 | I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cdab7f3 | Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password | password palahniuk cleverness programming | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 9d3ebef | Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 610d892 | The left half of your brain deals with logic, language, calculation, and reason. This is the half people perceive as their personal identity. This is the conscious, rational, everyday basis of reality. The right side of your brain, is the center of your intuition, emotion, insight, and pattern recognition skills. Your subconscious. Your left brain is a scientist,. Your right brain is an artist. People live their lives out of the left half .. | Chuck Palahniuk |