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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7cef8ef | Eshe, I want to spend my life with you." "Good," she whispered back. "That was the plan." | eshe | Lynsay Sands | |
| 9b219a8 | Nature compensates for its mistakes. | Francine Pascal | ||
| a74a4c4 | Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me. I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm...Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days." | Mari Mancusi | ||
| 1986824 | Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn't penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart. | hopelessness depression sadness despair | J.E.B. Spredemann | |
| 8dc5b1c | I don't expect you to take me back, but I needed to come here and tell you how sorry I am. I needed to tell you how much I love you, Gavin. How much I need you in my life. | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| f9df9ef | There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 3fe5917 | I should probably start with the blood. | first-sentence | Robin Wasserman | |
| 21079a8 | I'm afraid I don't suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr. Kelly, that humiliation and blackmail, when used judiciously, can be marvelously effective | Douglas Preston Lincoln Child | ||
| 016dc86 | Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? | Allison Pearson | ||
| b36dbdd | Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 035ab96 | You become what you think about most of the time | Brian Tracy | ||
| a99ce6f | The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. | satisfaction success goal value task | Brian Tracy | |
| f4cec19 | In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 28f920a | What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire. | destiny | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| beb8de4 | To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn. | hope hope-for-the-future watching | David Hewson | |
| 46af823 | If this were the fifties, she'd be checking Sam's collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.) | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 18db5b8 | Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 573ee56 | Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly. "Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them." | club-dead eric-northman sookie-stackhouse vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| 1cfa05d | Eric] 'So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?' [Sookie] 'Yes,' I said, almost squeaking in my anxiety. In for a penny, in for a pound. 'And... do you think you could pretend to be gay? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 21af22c | No matter what happens in public--no matter what--don't doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0dfb92a | I will ask you again. Are you mad? Well, that is the rumor, isn't it? | Ronda Thompson | ||
| e40e91f | Computers can never completely replace humans. They may become capable of artificial intelligence, but they will never master real stupidity. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| de9fb5b | Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9b07466 | Silence has many advantages...I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| deed43f | Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2a8feae | To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. | live story | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| e9c4e38 | She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1085af1 | Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand. | eternity | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| b4b535b | Loose lips sink ships. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2123f75 | We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. It was our life, the only one we were going to have. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3f74054 | But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 26f3749 | Fear comes, but fear passes. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 99af1d0 | Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 506bda7 | We think we're powerful because of what we've achieved rather than because of what we are. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 54474e5 | There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased. | spirituality | Marianne Williamson | |
| c67e8f3 | As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance--an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love--then external lack is bound to be temporary. | faith inner-work unemployment | Marianne Williamson | |
| 05b4811 | Roma Lingk Roma * * * . . . Eh? What I'm saying, what is our life? It's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's Where is the ? And what is it that we're afraid of? Loss. What else? The closes. We get , my wife died on a plane, the stock market collapsed . . . the house burnt down . . . what of these happen . . . ? None of 'em. We worry anyway. What does this mean? I'm not How can I be secure? Thr.. | David Mamet | ||
| 707f108 | Table 3-1. Definitions of Cognitive Distortions 1. ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. 2. OVERGENERALIZATION: You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat. 3. MENTAL FILTER: You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the dro.. | David D. Burns | ||
| 630e6cd | That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1795576 | Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman is being asked to feel like a monster now though she is whole and fully physically functional. The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for.. | equality feminism beauty body-image sexual-violence cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| dc1b87d | Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus. | literature reading chekhov | Francine Prose | |
| f5e9b1f | It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something. | writing | John Irving | |
| d586bd2 | The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences. | relationships | John Irving | |
| c941859 | No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. | John Irving |