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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0a4dace | The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life. | Laurie R. King | ||
| b184c8b | I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 69d4380 | If you were advising your great-granddaughter about the man you have a crush on at this moment-what would you tell her? Would you be protective, and tell her to kick this man to the curb because he's treating her so badly, or would you tell her to hold on to this man for dear life? Now, why aren't you taking your own advice? | Kim Gruenenfelder | ||
| 9f8bf63 | His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache! | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 575e91a | Life is very tenacious in these lawyers. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ca1cf9e | I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2b0b2d8 | I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange -- | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| fb2eefa | Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them. | Frank Portman | ||
| 054ac4e | On the other hand, the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| d9b8a86 | we have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 3d9899d | Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a party, for youth, for the good times, for dear good drinking and fighting comrades, for football-game girls in the fall with faces like flowers? Comes the longing and it has to do with being fifteen and fifty and with the winter sun striking down into a brick-yard and on clapboard walls rounded off with old hard blistered paint and acro.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 509d549 | What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a cast away do? Why he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn't miss a trick. To become aware of the.. | walker-percy | Walker Percy | |
| dd22318 | For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos. | Walker Percy | ||
| 6f8a018 | I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. | talk | Walker Percy | |
| a40ba8d | Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? | disaster real | Walker Percy | |
| 7ecb424 | Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 95cba31 | The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whis.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8a5e383 | There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. | fear forest jungle phantom terror | Tahir Shah | |
| bd990e3 | Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it. | arrogance exploration | Tahir Shah | |
| 572ca3c | During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide. | jail prison | Tahir Shah | |
| 7f7fd19 | teaching is, after all, a form of show business. | comedy teacher teachers teaching | Steve Martin | |
| c69209e | When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some[...] But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 95bfaae | What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 25c27ee | May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1ce5daa | Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3e84f90 | All thoughts about myself now begin with perhaps .. because I'm having to think about myself in ways I never did before and I'm not sure if I'm right in my thinking about these things. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d7b98a8 | I feel now like I'm living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a7d4569 | It was the most perfect moment in my life. It was the last perfect moment in my life. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| db6d0e9 | Am I OK? I'm lots of things. I'm lonely, I'm tired, I'm sad, I'm happy, I'm lucky, I'm unlucky; I'm a million different things every day of the week. But I suppose OK is one of them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| dc2d55a | The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to see it, | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e1ac00a | Fear drives us to do many things in our lives. For me, the fear of losing a loved one, and all those terrifying thoughts of what it's like to be left behind and feel alone, drove me to conceive | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c9b92a2 | Freedom of speech isn't something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they'll shout even louder. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 6a7c2d7 | If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 449a383 | Listen," she said. "I may not be what you want right now, but I'm all you've got." -- | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1d71dba | if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7e284ea | Kindle, isn't it?" the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books." "Oh, probably not all of them," Wesley said. "Huh? Why not?" "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant." "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning!" she said, and went off chortling." | Stephen King | ||
| 6c0c8cd | Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6804eb6 | This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1f32782 | I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fa73008 | believe me, you're all I've thought about --" At this, I grin." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 83d0db7 | He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2c7cdb7 | As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a55e256 | never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7ce67a3 | we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law. | Jodi Picoult |