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| 90fb6ec | Remember last fall, when you needed to be reckless, and I told you to use me? Well, now, it's time to be fearless. I can't promise that you won't be hurt again, because life can suck. And, sometimes it hurts like hell. I'm asking you now to have faith in one thing, for now: the fact that when we're alone, I'm just Reid, and you're just Dori, and we're going to love each other for the rest of our lives. | Tammara Webber | ||
| f297dca | You know those afternoons," he asks, drawing a shaking breath, "where you're just going along, doing fine, and then afternoon comes and it feels like you've just got the wind knocked out of you and everything is wrong?" He sighs and slowly pushes himself so he's sitting upright. His shoulders are slumped. "That's all," he says. "It's just one of those afternoons." We are silent for a minute. Then he lies back down on the couch. I should say.. | madness hornbacher | Marya Hornbacher | |
| f5a7a50 | He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!! | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 1356129 | That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration | Philip Roth | ||
| 702bcfc | Religion is the opiate of the people! | Philip Roth | ||
| 79ddd38 | I can lie about my name, I can lie about my school, but how am I going to lie about this fucking nose? "You seem like a very nice person Mr. Porte-Noir, but why do you go around covering the middle of your face like that?" Because suddenly it has taken off, the middle of my face! Because gone is the button of my childhood years, that pretty little thing that people used to look at in my carriage, and lo and behold, the middle of my face has.. | jew | Philip Roth | |
| ee8f15f | Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over. | Philip Roth | ||
| d9561bb | Now, I'm very vulnerable to female beauty, as you know. Everybody's defenseless against something, and that's it for me. I see it and it blinds me to everything else. | Philip Roth | ||
| b2a21f6 | It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house-like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared to see death but not the clothes in the tree. | Philip Roth | ||
| d369727 | And how long will the American people stand for this treachery perpetrated by their elected president? How long will Americans remain asleep while their cherished Constitution is torn to shreds | Philip Roth | ||
| 408fa18 | Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed." | Philip Roth | ||
| 0aa0f51 | Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| fe1b286 | Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8.. | discoveries progress tragedy libraries poets shakespeare india light writer fiction books inspiration bible science songs intelligence alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes euclid experiments franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation trevethick volta watt Æschylus johann-wolfgang-von-goethe goethe egypt william-shakespeare | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| a3e1905 | A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. "What bird are you calling?" I asked finally, when I couldn't stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. "You." | Karen Russell | ||
| beea0ec | She doesn't know how to answer the man's question about why she snuck into the conch. She just feels like there's something she needs to protect. Some larval understanding, something cocooned inside her, that seems to get unspun and exploded with each passing year... | Karen Russell | ||
| 44b0831 | There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction. | karen-russell | Karen Russell | |
| e24f0e1 | I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 79382d8 | Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. | Tony Parsons | ||
| b3707ab | Nuts don't come in bunches. Only grapes do. | John Sandford | ||
| 336e3db | They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident." | murder shotgun sarcasm | John Sandford | |
| 61462f8 | happiness is realized only in the face of unhappiness | Jean Sasson | ||
| 8914d5b | I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me. | friend | Mitch Albom | |
| 42aaccf | He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9899a85 | Perdonare "Forgive Yourself)" | Mitch Albom | ||
| e1b144c | When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, "Poor truant, passionate fool! Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school?" A poem by Charles Hanson Towne" | Mitch Albom | ||
| 407c545 | I believe in being fully present." "That means you should be with the person you're with." ... "I am talking to you. I am thinking about you." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 20c7224 | Lines formed at Ruby Pier- just as a line formed someplace else; five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl named Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to finally have her questions answered- why she lived and what she lived for. And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4914247 | What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No other talent gives your | Mitch Albom | ||
| 6d5f4f2 | People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden under a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. | love | Mitch Albom | |
| 61f32e1 | It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves." | forgiveness | Mitch Albom | |
| 9b2e605 | As my visits with Morrie go on, I begin to read about death, how different cultures view the final passage. There is a tribe in the North American Arctic, for example, who believe that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that hold it -so that a deer has a tiny deer inside it, and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the large being dies, that tiny form lives on. It can slide into something being born.. | death inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| d854a6b | I have come to teach you that there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. ... Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel that they ? It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between tak.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 865833d | We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1642241 | Ah, y le sugiero que para la proxima vez que se enamore, !no sea tan cobarde! | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 2b1f49d | los olores tienen la caracteristica de reproducir tiempos pasados junto con sonidos y olores nunca igualados en el presente. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 387c539 | el secreto de la existencia humana no consiste solo en poseer la vida, sino tambien en tener un motivo para vivir. El hombre que no tenga una idea clara de la finalidad de la vida, preferira renunciar a ella aunque este rodeado de montones de pan y se destruira a si mismo antes que permanecer en este mundo. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 048b0a5 | Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?" asked a gray female pup. "Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he's scared of the raghnaid?" | motherhood funny wolves | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 926e517 | To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| d4f3a46 | And if you can't imagine, nothing will ever happen. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 6ca673d | Far away if first black, But it shall be back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| a23d26b | The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has placed us. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 2bf82ed | We can't afford to be without God," Feliks continued. "Even if he doesn't exist, we have to hold on to him. Because if we don't, then how are we to convince ourselves that we have to go on with this fight? If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things, too." | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| b091d58 | We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the outer person's defences: the intimacy of a love affair is a different matter altogether. And who might not feel just the slightest bit insecure under the gaze of a lover--a gaze which falls on birthmarks, on blemishes physical and psychological, on our imperfections and impatience, on our human vulnerability? | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 285376b | We were the Bechuanaland Protectorate then, and the British ran our country, to protect us from the Boers (or that is what they said). There was a Commissioner down in Mafikeng, over the border into South Africa, and he would come up the road and speak to the chiefs. He would say: "You do this thing; you do that thing." And the chiefs all obeyed him because they knew that if they did not he would have them deposed. But some of them were cle.. | Alexander McCall Smith |