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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a948ad | The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. | intellectual mythology norse | A.S. Byatt | |
| 860c956 | He hesitated. "They were what stayed alive, when I'd been taught and examined everything else." Maud smiled then. "Exactly. That's it. What could survive our education." | A.S. Byatt | ||
| d6a57ed | It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| aa568a6 | You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 2fa056c | failure with clay was more complete and more spectacular than with other forms of art. You are subject to the elements... Any one of the old four - earth, air, fire, water - can betray you and melt, or burst, or shatter - months of work into dust and ashes and spitting steam. You need to be a precise scientist, and you need to know how to play with what chance will do to your lovingly constructed surfaces in the heat of the kiln. | pottery | A.S. Byatt | |
| 0aafb47 | It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking, or looking on, or sex. Novels have their obligatory tour-de-force, the green-flecked gold omelette , melting into buttery formlessness and tasting of summer, or the creamy human haunch, firm and warm, curved back to reveal a hot hollow, a crisping hair or two, the glimpsed sex. They do not habitually elaborate on the equally.. | pleasures reading | A.S. Byatt | |
| c1d6825 | A horse blanket, Mel? I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.' Bran laughed a little unsteadly. 'Mel. A . | brother-and-sister funny horse | Sherwood Smith | |
| 4a8ebd2 | Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 9a90564 | The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| a7c95c1 | Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. | enemy husband prayer praying relationships shield wife | Stormie Omartian | |
| d35141a | rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)." | Stormie Omartian | ||
| cd2859f | The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves. | Ben Bova | ||
| 4768679 | Grief, he said, is carnivorous. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 19353d2 | I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 24712e6 | I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years. I knew you in the womb. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a4e5270 | A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 4ab75d7 | It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order. | life logic loss math numbers | Aimee Bender | |
| 703e0ac | Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 0228dde | If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen! | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 1714bdd | The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 74ffcc9 | Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power. | responsibility | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8a8575c | For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events. | history | Orson Scott Card | |
| f8dc682 | it's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| dc8da5f | He lay in bed staring upward into the darkness. On the bunk above him, he could hear Peter turning and tossing restlessly. Then Peter slid off the bunk and walked out of the room. Ender heard the hushing sound of the toilet clearing; then Peter stood silhouetted in the doorway. He thinks I'm asleep. He's going to kill me. Peter walked to the bed, and sure enough, he did not lift himself up to his bed. Instead he came and stood by Ender's he.. | family | Orson Scott Card | |
| 2a70c34 | The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a8ff646 | Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 33aa559 | So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.' 'If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3822bef | In my experience, influence is power. | power | Orson Scott Card | |
| ac69d08 | I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it! | killer tricked | Orson Scott Card | |
| 25b67cd | It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 605c60d | Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1798373 | Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf." | deaf justice | Orson Scott Card | |
| 5652bcf | He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far. | anguish bean burden ender hiding isolation | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6ef1d62 | Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings. | genius humans killing | Orson Scott Card | |
| 4cc0e3a | No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b6f4d38 | If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1fcafdc | We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7d02a8b | I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 000f6dd | I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we were, each individual one of us. He tried to discover our need and then supply it. He took responsibility for other people and it didn't seem to matter to him how much it cost him. And in the end, while he could never make the Ribeira family normal, he gave us peace and pride and identity. Stability. He married Mother and was kind to he.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bf651cc | A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured. | reputation science-fiction young-adult | Orson Scott Card | |
| aad77d8 | It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. It's the bind we were in. We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them. So much compassion that he could win the love of his underlings and work with them like a perfect machine, as perfect as the buggers. But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed. Could never go into battle willing.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 38fb8f1 | Food to eat and games to play. Tell me why, tell me why. | fun games | Brian Jacques | |
| 7411972 | Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful. | future useful what-if whatif | Brian Jacques | |
| 265dcf7 | Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others. You are brave, Matthias. Already you have done great things for one so young. I am only a simple country-bred fieldmouse, but even I can see the courage and leadership in you. A burning brand shows the way, and each day your flame grows brighter. There is none like you, Matthias. You have the sign of greatness upon .. | Brian Jacques |