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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a6eb32 | Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1e71989 | I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7ba8684 | The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8d852f8 | All I want is somebody to ask me what happened. Then, I'll get on with my life. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 41e539c | The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs -- isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different ab.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f7e84b8 | Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5511fee | You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. | comfort living death life relax | Ian Fleming | |
| 5420b45 | For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with. | sex emotion sentiment neutrality desire | Ian Fleming | |
| 3dbfc4c | I don't drink tea. I hate it. It's mud. Moreover it's one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 2eefdf2 | We have all sinned, Mr. Darcy, and we cannot look for mercy without showing it in our lives. | P.D. James | ||
| d88c5cd | I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic. | memory | P.D. James | |
| 7146045 | People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? | violence sex | P.D. James | |
| de40ca5 | He couldn't concentrate on anything while her incredible bottom led him up those stairs like the Pied Piper of tempting asses. | Nina Bangs | ||
| fcaa29d | India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| aa64b4d | So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon'tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglassI'veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme.... | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 67f37c2 | I continued to sit there hour after hour watching the unrelenting rain slosh against the glass, thinking of our life together, Lotte's and mine, how everything in it was designed to give a sense of permanence, the chair against the wall that was there when we went to sleep and there again when we awoke, the little habits that quoted from the day before and predicted the day to come, though in truth it was all just an illusion, just as solid.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 123561a | After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8 | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 482f205 | Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 32be266 | But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. | Dan Simmons | ||
| be2ba9a | On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for? | Bill Bryson | ||
| 271248c | We have a universe. It is a place of most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich. | Bill Bryson | ||
| d1fb2f9 | In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1ea1ca6 | I wanted a little of that swagger that comes with being able to gaze at a far horizon through eyes of chipped granite and say with a slow, manly sniff, "Yeah, I've shit in the woods." | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1f11b25 | It was known as the Sick Man of Europe. It was in every way poorer than now. Yet there were flowerbeds on roundabouts, libraries and post offices in every village, cottage hospitals in abundance, council housing for all who needed it. It was a country so comfortable and enlightened that hospitals maintained cricket pitches for their staff and mental patients lived in Victorian palaces. If we could afford it then, why not now? Someone needs .. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 9b8eaf5 | It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig. | history humor wig hair | Bill Bryson | |
| 60dcb4c | And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still in use today, and old words were employed in ways not tried before. Nouns became verbs and adverbs; adverbs became adjectives. Expressions that could not have grammatically e.. | words | Bill Bryson | |
| 791a692 | Is it raining out?' the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. 'No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 8281c4d | What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods? | reality | Dan Simmons | |
| 9d51051 | Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 4962f2b | If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged role. | mythology novel | Karen Armstrong | |
| e0c9e04 | There is a moment in every relationship when you see the whole thing. The question is when does the moment come? Is it the first time you see the person and instinctively know that things between you are going to work out, or fail? Or is it a moment toward the end, however you get there, when you realize that there is something behind this persons eyes that you were never able to touch, no matter how hard you tried? | Laura Dave | ||
| 7f14db9 | I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for. | Laura Dave | ||
| 9bc8fb1 | The sunset was that long, achingly beautiful balance of stillness in which the sun seemed to hover like a red balloon above the western horizon, the entire sky catching fire from the death of day; a sunset unique to the American Midwest and ignored by most of its inhabitants. The twilight brought the promise of coolness and the certain threat of night. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7b3bd72 | His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life. | reality | Dan Simmons | |
| bc92c5b | The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 0951adc | He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back to life so that the faithful could devour Him and become of Him, the smell of incense and the mystical chanting. | magic christianity jesus religion language mysticism ritual | Dan Simmons | |
| 1f3e358 | The words sounded like a mournful incantation. | words magic melancholy language | Dan Simmons | |
| f61755d | Long life wore away everything that was not essential. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 0533d4a | There's something nice and safe about having money. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| efb9dc7 | I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| b96d3b0 | The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled." | Michael Chabon | ||
| 92585ee | Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 1ae6141 | Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world. | writing | Michael Chabon | |
| 1245f19 | God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him. | Max Lucado |