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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 045544c | All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper -- the weight of a human heart. | Joanne Harris | ||
| cd9210e | he said almost nothing, and ground his teeth against his desire to tell them the truth: God is helpless. We are at the mercy of our own radical freedom, and all God can do is take into God's self the grief, the violence, the sublime acts of kindness, the good sex. God comes to us from the future, and has only one godlike gift: the lure. We are lured toward truth, beauty, and goodness...the lure is pulling at our hearts like some lucid joy i.. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 16a0b68 | Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard... | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 1fbf2f2 | Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked. We are going to , dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists." | mad-scientists china | Barry Hughart | |
| 41e8916 | I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 3555623 | Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row. | Barry Hughart | ||
| d8e726a | there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 3e24e8f | Genuine forgiveness and reconciliation are two-person transactions that are enabled by apologies. Some, particularly within the Christian worldview, have taught forgiveness without an apology. They often quote the words of Jesus, "If you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Thus, they say to the wife whose husband has been unfaithful and continues in his adulterous affair, "You must forgive .. | Gary Chapman | ||
| aa40c45 | Third, one who is "in love" is not genuinely interested in fostering the personal growth of the other person. "If we have any purpose in mind when we fall in love it is to terminate our own loneliness and perhaps ensure this result through marriage." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 95d5fdb | If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b372acd | Grief is as contagious as a yawn. | v-is-for-vengeance sue-grafton | Sue Grafton | |
| 9dc0899 | Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again. | humour | Piers Anthony | |
| 16da3cc | Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside? | Piers Anthony | ||
| ebbfaf0 | Over the years, I've hired and promoted a lot of young women and young men. Much of the time, this is how it went: ME: I'd like you to take on a bigger role. YOUNG MAN: I'm thrilled. I'll do a great job. I won't let you down. YOUNG WOMAN: Are you sure I'm ready? I'm not sure. Maybe in a year? These reactions aren't innate. Men aren't naturally more confident than women. We tell them to believe in themselves, and we tell women to doubt thems.. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| c23f036 | I'm not sure how to solve all this. My gender is my gender. My voice is my voice. To quote Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, under FDR, "The accusation that I'm a woman is incontrovertible." Other women will run for President, and they will be women, and they will have women's voices. Maybe that will be less unusual by then." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| ad0e854 | It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own. | opinions think ideas | Karen Cushman | |
| 2715084 | You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man... | inquiry gratefulness repentance | Richard Wright | |
| 2153d0e | Every movement of his body is an unconscious protest. Every desire, every dream, no matter how intimate or personal, is a plot or a conspiracy. Every hope is a plan for insurrection. Every glance of the eye is a threat. His very existence is a crime against the state! | Richard Wright | ||
| 87c0667 | a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die. | life | Richard Wright | |
| 56ad52e | Authenticity and happiness are the best beauty products out there | Katrina Kittle | ||
| 9dbfbee | Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| f162cad | It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing. | happy freedom inspiration living happiness life love inspirational flying book fly falling | Tim O'Brien | |
| 31aa162 | Most of this I've told before, or at least hinted at, but what I have never told is the full truth. How I cracked. How at work one morning, standing on the pig line, I felt something break open in my chest. I don't know what it was. I'll never know. But it was real, I know that much, it was a physical rapture--a cracking-leaking-popping feeling. I remember dropping my water gun. Quickly, almost without thought, I took off my apron and walke.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 61fa9bf | Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 90d5c8e | Story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 1c53e68 | Still there was so much to say. How the rain never stopped. How the cold worked into your bones. Sometimes the bravest thing on earth was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones. Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave. In certain situations you could do incredible things, you could.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| f67772d | It occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but th.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| bb9a3aa | If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. | truth voting | Tim O'Brien | |
| 7770d75 | I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 52dd6e1 | A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 108111e | You ask if I miss you. I think of your voice, your hands, and your eyes when you look straight into mine. I remember your courage that I hadn't suspected, and it gives me courage. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 2bffb03 | The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 759588d | I believe in the floor. I put it in place and I walk on it. Faith is a floor. If you don't work at making it for yourself, you have nothing to walk on. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 965d8fa | When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation ... Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 26f0782 | So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 6d1be2f | To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward. | reading | Gregory Maguire | |
| d15eeb3 | Ambition without direction is like milk without a cup. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 8047e94 | SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| d6a14d7 | A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hund.. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0d56de7 | Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 1b00301 | Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?" | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 22249f1 | To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e6be2b3 | It's the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 6d8c5b9 | Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from the brink. And yet one women writes a letter, and my whole world falls to pieces. You see, she is an ordinary woman. A good one, even. That's the point ... Nothing [a recognizably bad person does] can surprise or shock me, or worry me. But she.. | war good denunciation ordinariness pettiness nazis wwii civilization resentment jews evil | Iain Pears |