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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 347ca21 | There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 23c5d7f | are you happy?" "I am content." "What is the difference?" "Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive--coming perhaps once in a life-time--and approaching ecstasy." "Not a continuous thing, like cont.. | happiness | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 5fc0b53 | Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch. Even when the bulbs of the hourglass shatter, when darkness withholds the shadow from the sundial, when the mainspring winds down so far that the clock hands hold still as death, time its.. | Dava Sobel | ||
| 4c07938 | You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87). | Monica Ali | ||
| 2903654 | I asked her if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't get everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality." | Ariel Levy | ||
| cd08e68 | It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into place for which you have yearned. It's more like, 'Oh, right.' The man who has been staying over your whole life long is your mother's lover. The reason Lucy seems off sometimes is that she's still drinking. You have always known this. The only th.. | Ariel Levy | ||
| a78b02b | Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that.. | James Salter | ||
| 7eda08b | One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish. | life love relationships | James Salter | |
| 45dd508 | Is almost a good enough reason for fear ? | Beth Revis | ||
| a354ec1 | I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here's the simple truth--if I hadn't taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can't tell me their side. [p.88] | Beth Revis | ||
| 088bfe6 | The dark sky. A hundred million stars. More stars than I've ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don't show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again. Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound. The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky. And then we see the end. Godspeed's engin.. | atu-series aurora burst dead death elder galaxy gone lost nebula shades-of-earth sky stars universe | Beth Revis | |
| 14ddb34 | A great blow it was,' he said in expensive tones, 'worthy of the mightiest warrior and truly struck upon the nose of the foe. The bright blood flew, and the enemy was dismayed and overcame. Like a hero, Garion stood over the vanquished, and, like a true hero, did not boast nor taunt his fallen opponent, but offered instead advice for quelling that crimson blood. with simple dignity then, he quit the field, but the bright-eyed maid would not.. | mocking | David Eddings | |
| 53e8ac2 | Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion." | David Eddings | ||
| 91a2025 | Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without sham.. | David Eddings | ||
| 9073bc4 | If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly. | David Eddings | ||
| 261d68a | I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half children take themselves far too seriously. Moreover, appearance is everything for the adolescent. I suppose it's a form of play-acting. The adolescent | life | David & Leigh Eddings | |
| f4fecf1 | The streets transform every ordinary day into a series of trick questions, and every incorrect answer risks a beat-down, a shooting, or a pregnancy. No one survives unscathed. And yet the heat that springs from the constant danger, from a lifestyle of near-death experience, is thrilling. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d586b9d | We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because we recognize our links to the past--at least when they flatter us. But black history does not flatter American democracy; it chastens it. The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter. Black n.. | america democracy history race racism reparations white-supremacy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 7188875 | Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were. | success | R.L. Stine | |
| cb7ddc2 | She realized she'd never felt this happy.even at her old school, she had been an outsider, always the lonely girl,the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates. | first-date lonely-girl outsider | R.L. Stine | |
| 843b63a | Did you know that Halloween started because long ago people believed that one day a year at the end of the fall harvest, the spirits would return to walk the earth? On that day, people wore masks so the spirits wouldn't recognize them. | R.L. Stine | ||
| 194dde1 | The proper way for the woman to test the man's love is thus to "betray" him at a crucial moment in his career" | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 23f60ad | What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian ' ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the two levels from the same neutral standpoint, although--or, rather, --these two levels are inextricably intertwined. | lacan marxism politics sex | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 25b12da | When I meet you, in that moment, I am no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past. But in that instant, I get to share a part of your present. And you get to share a part of mine. And that is the greatest present of all. | Sarah Kay | ||
| a0015b7 | But I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar: it can crumble so easily, but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 4a99e29 | Her dress is the colour of marmalade, she chirps songs that have no words | Sarah Kay | ||
| 8dba5cf | If the case isn't plea bargained, dismissed or placed on the inactive docket for an indefinite period of time, if by some perverse twist of fate it becomes a trial by jury, you will then have the opportunity of sitting on the witness stand and reciting under oath the facts of the case-a brief moment in the sun that clouds over with the appearance of the aforementioned defense attorney who, at worst, will accuse you of perjuring yourself in .. | insight | David Simon | |
| be6e0d3 | Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 676d54c | As a general rule, the less one's sense of life fulfillment, the greater one's death anxiety. | fulfillment general life sense | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| a01da16 | Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 3d70d3e | It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three. | John le Carré | ||
| 9c661be | It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened when we grew up: no blinding light on the road to Damascus, no sudden feeling of maturity. | John le Carré | ||
| bdd5e5e | God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow. | John le Carré | ||
| 378876b | In a civilized country you can never tell. | John le Carré | ||
| eb7114c | On the other hand, you're a human--you should understand self-obsession. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c52ba96 | If I'm ever going to be okay, I'll have to earn it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 25518fd | It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 9c25a75 | Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing. | marriage | Markus Zusak | |
| f2bb339 | Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 22bf84a | I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e1bd253 | They're the ones I can't stand to look at, although on occasion I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 059052d | When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 78cfe44 | It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e34763c | Entonces, ?se es cobarde por sentir miedo? ?Se es cobarde por alegrarse de seguir vivo? | Markus Zusak |