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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a77e1e | He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 388866a | No, no - I think about thinking | thinking | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| 2f5228c | When I was a child, I often used to lie awake at night, in fearful anticipation of some unpleasant event the following day, such as a visit to the dentist, and wish I could press some sort of button that would have the effect of instantly transporting me twenty-four hours into the future. The following night, I would wonder whether that magic button was in fact real, and that the trick had indeed worked. After all, it was twenty-four hours .. | Paul Davies | ||
| c789886 | Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, "I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think?" "Prevail on Dale," I repeated to Swede. "To make a sale," she added. "And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale--" "Till he needs braille!" "Will you guys des.. | kids gas rhyme | Leif Enger | |
| 3182966 | What I do know is that I can't hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I wish I could wed her and bed her and have children with her. I wish I could fill that huge house with little spirit children who would live forever and never die. | Jude Deveraux | ||
| 6e65ff9 | She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance. | Anne Stuart | ||
| 0e5eb53 | Hamish Alexander-Harrington knew his wife as only two humans who had both been adopted by a pair of mated treecats ever could. He'd seen her deal with joy and with sorrow, with happiness and with fury, with fear, and even with despair. Yet in all the years since their very first meeting at Yeltsin's Star, he suddenly realized, he had never actually met the woman the newsies called "the Salamander." It wasn't his fault, a corner of his brain.. | David Weber | ||
| cfe0a96 | Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. | David Almond | ||
| 8334b4b | We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails. We let the stars shine into us. | David Almond | ||
| 3ff4640 | Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do. | David Almond | ||
| f3d9fca | Do you know what it means to be emphatic? I will tell you: It means that when you are being forcibly taken to a dungeon, when you have a large knife at your back, when you are trying to be brave, you are able, still, to think for a moment of the person who is holding the knife. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| a2146e4 | If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| b14162b | What matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down, but who picks us up. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| ab931a2 | Farewell" is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are "Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place." There is a great deal of comfort in those words." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 505e776 | That squid is a villain," said Flora out loud. "He needs to be vanquished. He's eating a boat. And he's going to eat all of the people on the boat." "Yes, well, loneliness makes us do terrible things," said Dr. Meescham. "And that is why the picture is there, to remind me of this. Also, because the other Dr. Meescham painted it when he was young and joyful." Good grief, thought Flora. What did he paint when he was old and depressed?" | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 47ea635 | Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| b2c2290 | Nous ne faisions rien de mal cet apres-midi-la. Et c'est cela a mon avis le seul sens a donner a sa vie: trouver son bonheur sans augmenter la douleur du monde. | Dany Laferrière | ||
| 95b6863 | There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see. | Avi | ||
| 7876e02 | I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands and get along with people -- and have a fine time doing it and enjoy life. Then I realize, bang, that I'm tired and I don't want to wait on my family for a while and I wish I could go away somewhere and have people wait on me hand and foot, and dress up and go to restaurants.. | motherhood marriage identity housewifery | Joan Reardon | |
| a69ff6e | Love shouldn't be dictated | love ella-enchanted force | Gail Carson Levine | |
| b5a6a86 | ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell." "It sounds evil." "It is," I answered, and we parted." | words love goodbye language | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 9cfad39 | Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? | Bill Watterson | ||
| 05280e0 | My book is called, "Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About Yourself." | Bill Watterson | ||
| e8c018e | Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot! | humor | Bill Watterson | |
| 2581e77 | Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| c2669da | It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 91b7463 | Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3582e11 | Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die. | Stephen King | ||
| bc98675 | Rest is good, but laziness is not. Labour is good, but slavery is not. Wine is good, but drunkenness is not. Food is good, but gluttony is not. Money is good, but greed is not. Wealth is good, but selfishness is not. Beauty is good, but vanity is not. Sex is good, but lust is not. Pleasure is good, but sin is not. Amusement is good, but decadence is not. Fame is good, but self importance is not. Confidence is good, but ego is not. Eloquenc.. | philosopher-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes wise-sayings-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wisdom-quotations wise-quotations wise-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| d9e4339 | Greed has no mouth, but swallows many. Love has no hands, but touches many. Hope has no feet, but carries many. Despair has no teeth, but devours many. Envy has no mouth, but swallows many. Compassion has no hands, but touches many. Joy has no feet, but carries many. Ego has no teeth, but devours many. Anger has no mouth, but swallows many. Peace has no hands, but touches many. Patience has no feet, but carries many. Evil .. | african-philosopher-quotes philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wise-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| d55d21a | If you care about peace, then you should care about justice. If you care about justice, then you should care about truth. If you care about truth, then you should care about integrity. If you care about integrity, then you should care about virtue. If you care about joy, then you should care about happiness. If you care about happiness, then you should care about fufilment. If you care about fufilment,then you should care about needs conten.. | knowledge-quotes philosopher-quotations philosophy-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wise-quotations wise-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| dbc4db6 | For me to heal, I need you to heal. For me to trust, I need you to trust. For me to be strong, I need you to be strong. For me to gain, I need you to gain. For me to win, I need you to win. | philosophy-quotations sage-quotes african-philosopher-quotes philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 7ec5375 | Washington had several surrogate sons during the Revolution, most notably the marquis de Lafayette, and he often referred to Hamilton as "my boy." -- | Ron Chernow | ||
| b759f91 | If you don't fit into the system, the system makes life hell. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6bb9a21 | Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality | David Mitchell | ||
| e948aa7 | Life is a terminal illness. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8d3d5bf | Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in , and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not? | dark-humour different | David Mitchell | |
| 0b8efe2 | Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It's simply part of being human. | David Mitchell | ||
| c7ef268 | Books'll be back," Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past." | future | David Mitchell | |
| 325dd55 | We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3c0f245 | First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing. | relationship | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 55558ff | You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir," Newkirk said. "Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d29dbfc | Okay... That's still blind-making. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| db2a6c7 | Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything. | Scott Westerfeld |