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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46b0146 | When they reached the stairs, he didn't make her climb them herself. He picked her up in his arms and carried her to the big bathroom off their bedroom. He didn't speak, his expression didn't soften. But he was hard. His cock was like a poker, steely and hot against her hip. His eyes blazed with lust. | sex poker lust | Lora Leigh | |
| 149ea2a | If our thoughts are going to affect what we become, then it should certainly be a priority that we think right thoughts. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| b23ebf1 | Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 581bb8c | Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 83b7cb5 | Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at the same time communicating, 'Hello there, acne-ridden dwarf. Promise me we'll meet again. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 10c4439 | I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 79f5c34 | What does a victorious or defeated black woman's body in a historically white space look like? Serena and her big sister Venus Williams brought to mind Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background." This appropriated line, stenciled on canvas by Glenn Ligon, who used plastic letter stencils, smudging oil sticks, and graphite to transform the words into abstractions, seemed to be ad copy for som.. | Claudia Rankine | ||
| 3c88943 | She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was all there. She took careful stock of herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up again. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 9d032c7 | She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| d0ce7ed | you can't beat me and my prayers! | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 2416413 | We aren't a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 76efa8b | I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2430bea | Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 7f4d1eb | Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. | lies freedom fear beauty safe safety | Anne Lamott | |
| f703063 | Wonder takes our breath away, and makes room for new breath. That's why they call it breathtaking. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a9fd798 | Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. | tragedy parents insanity | Anne Lamott | |
| 3b9a5e0 | Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3cb2993 | I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c6ed4ee | We're Easter people, living in a Good Friday world. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a1b86ab | The best way to get quiet, other than the combination of extensive therapy, Prozac, and a lobotomy, is first to notice that the station is on. KFKD [K-Fucked] is on every single morning when I sit down at my desk. So I sit for a moment and then say a small prayer--please help me get out of the way so I can write what wants to be written. Sometimes ritual quiets the racket. Try it. Any number of things may work for you--an altar, for instanc.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3d42bb5 | Addicts and alcoholics will tell you that their recovery began when they woke up in pitiful and degraded enough shape to take Step Zero, which is: "This shit has got to stop." | Anne Lamott | ||
| f2e042c | Getting found almost always means being lost for a while. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 788e191 | Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 32f44ba | I love Wendell Berry's lines that "it may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 7c33081 | If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy. | Craig Ferguson | ||
| 019617a | Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at recovery. Although perhaps I was just running away again. I returned to Glasgow, planning to say a final goodbye to Anne and get out of her life, but ended up drinking with buddies in the Chip Bar and never seeing her. I called her instead to say.. | divorce goodbye | Craig Ferguson | |
| 4719736 | America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then.. | inspirational patriotism | Craig Ferguson | |
| eb28b10 | It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that the medical profession cannot do and that is save people from being idiots. | illness pain god medical-establishment doctors | Craig Ferguson | |
| ad608b0 | I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the Eurocentric view of itself, and the White-centered view of African Americans, and even this is slim to nonexistent. What I find is that most people don't know the fact they don't know, because of the complete lack of information. | education-system eurocentric-education race-inequality ronald-takaki white-privilege knowledge | Ronald Takaki | |
| 60af252 | Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 4046dbe | Because memory...is everything. Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together--a symphony of neural activity. But in actuality, it's the filter between us and reality. You think you're tasting this wine, hearing the words I'm saying, in the present, but there's no such thing. The neural impulses from your taste buds and your ears get transmitted to your brain, which processes them and dumps t.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| e9e3c7e | A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the cling.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| b5817cf | When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 1736906 | He clearly wasn't dissuaded, and stroked my jawline with his thumb. "You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won't be far behind you." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 42b74fb | Look. I know why you gave me that speech earlier today. I know you have an obligation to protect your vampires. But irrespective of the way that I was made, I have done everything that you've asked of me. I've taken training, I gave up my dissertation, I moved into the House, I got you in to see my father, I got you into the Breckenridge house, and I've dated the man you asked me to." I pointed at the house behind us. "And even though I was.. | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 2212666 | Whew," she said. "I was afraid you were going to ruin that dress with those shoes. If we're calling them that. Plastic mud clompers, more like." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 5354a56 | Magic is overrated. Courage is what matters. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 64f5120 | I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die? | young-adult love | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 67debc8 | The task of all Christian scholarship--not just biblical studies--is to study reality as a manifestation of God's glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his man.. | glory-of-god | John Piper | |
| b4f4888 | A brief hush fell over the table when the guy from the bar approached. After he finished depositing their drinks in the center of the table, Lynn jumped on the opportunity to flirt, winking and smiling prettily at him. "Thanks, cowboy." "Cowboy?" Reaching for her appletini, Piper laughed. Lynn shrugged. "When I picture him in my bed, I see a Stetson and a saddle." Something well-known among their group, ever since she watched John Travol.. | humor series | J. C. Valentine | |
| 41b69c4 | Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish. | god obedience | John Piper | |
| 264c0d2 | Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao | Dai Sijie | ||
| 71497f7 | There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning. | loss meaning | Charles Taylor | |
| 1e6279c | People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn't have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don't judge people until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead. | Guy Kawasaki |