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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9d9d003 | Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b9d802d | I am only what I remember. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1499c65 | You don't want to give God the credit because you don't think he exists. But if you're going to blame him for all the crap, kid, you got to give him credit for what grows from that fertilized soil. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b6307d4 | Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of the villages and become one of the little boys working and playing there, with nothing to kill and nothing to kill me, just living there. As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ac942e3 | Where ideas are real and reality is shadow. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 9621c7c | I could become a businessman and run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would I have? Nothing. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c2a1fa2 | Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of how his mother loved him when she thought that no one, not even he, could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him: a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d5e5fa4 | If the act is evil, the actor is evil. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| fc3387d | Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack." | Robin McKinley | ||
| e25a3dc | One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 8258e64 | She had had insomnia badly when she was fresh from Home.... She had had only occasional bad nights since then. Bad? she thought. Why bad? I rarely feel much the worse the next day, except for a sort of moral irritability that seems to go with the feeling that I ought to have spent all those silent hours asleep. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 3afc51d | There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had never truly loved or hated, for she had never seen the world she had been used to living in closely enough for it to evoke passion in her. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 551ad29 | There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 8639b8b | That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them | l-m-montgomery growing-up | L. M. Montgomery | |
| 3a511a2 | Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere. | inspiration muse | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0fa548e | Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. | tomorrow | L M Montgomery | |
| 88c73de | He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| f290b87 | I am here to posit that it's exactly in these moments of struggle and stress that we need books the most. There's something in the pause to read that's soothing in and of itself. A moment with a book is basic self-care, the kind of skill you pass along to your children as you would a security blanket or a churchgoing habit. | Erin Blakemore | ||
| da05b68 | Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 627881e | The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin. | Dick Francis | ||
| 74c10e2 | It hurts, though. It hurts like hell. Even in the knowledge that our punctuation has arrived at its present state by a series of accidents; even in the knowledge that there are at least seventeen rules for the comma, some of which are beyond explanation by top grammarians -- it is a matter for despair to see punctuation chucked out as worthless by people who don't know the difference between and and whose bloody automatic 'grammar check.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 176f75f | If we value the way we have been trained to think by centuries of absorbing the culture of the printed word, we must not allow the language to return to the chaotic swamp from which it so bravely crawled less than two thousand years ago. We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and allusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| af9481e | I cannot understand the principle at all,' said Stephen. 'I should very much like to show it to Captain Aubrey, who is so very well versed in the mathematics and dynamics of sailing. Landlord, pray ask him whether he is willing to part with the instrument.' Not on your fucking life,' said the Aboriginal, snatching the boomerang and clasping it to his bosom. He says he does not choose to dispose of it, your honour,' said the landlord. 'But n.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 044a0ff | What do you say to taking up our game where we left off? I was winning, you will recall.' Winning, for all love: how your ageing memory does betray you, my poor friend,' said Stephen, fetching his 'cello. They tuned, and at no great distance Killick said to his mate, 'There they are, at it again. Squeak, squeak; boom, boom. And when they do start a-playing, it's no better. You can't tell t'other from one. Never nothing a man could sing to, .. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 663b37c | Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 4bfc054 | Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?" [Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel." "Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?" | wounds horses | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 9184fc3 | The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and said magnificent things when it came to Ireland, India and America. One of them was in some ways a revolutionary conservative and the other was a conservative revolutionary. It's important to try and contain multitudes. One of my influences was Dr.. | india influence humanism politics contradiction charles-lindbergh collectivism edmund-burke israel-shahak radicalism spinozism ireland gore-vidal partisanship conservatism french-revolution free-thought united-states individualism thomas-paine revolution israel | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9fa01fa | Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will. | self-promotion | Gore Vidal | |
| c5c8300 | A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife. | history table-manners food | Ruth Reichl | |
| fe98940 | We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats. | Henning Mankell | ||
| c1fd9d9 | As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares. | travel life | Alex Garland | |
| 40e188a | That was longer than a heartbeat. | alex-garland | Alex Garland | |
| 4dc7b80 | IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD HANDLE ANYTHING THAT CAME YOUR WAY, WHAT WOULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TO FEAR? The answer is: NOTHING! | Susan Jeffers | ||
| f6f0359 | Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 8253404 | Oglum, oglum. Oglum olunca, yeterince buyuyunce ona butun bunlari aciklayacaktim. Ama sonra anlamayacagini veya hic anlamak istemeyecegini ve yapmis oldugum seyleri yapacagini, evet hatta miyavlayan tekirlerle ve sarmanlarla cevrili zavalli bir moruk sazani oldurecegini ve ona cidden engel olamayacagimi anladim. O da kendi ogluna engel olamayacakti kardeslerim. Dunyanin sonuna kadar filan da boyle gidecekti, durmadan durmadan durmadan, koca.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| c447fbb | like candy thunder. Oh, | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 875a59e | Ama kotulugun sebebini bulmaya calisarak tirnaklarin kemirmeleri kahkahadan kirilmama yol aciyor kardeslerim. Iyiligin sebebini aradiklari yok, oyleyse niye tersini merak ediyorlar ki? (syf. 35) | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 8e1ca21 | If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 299ec54 | Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 02daa1d | The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| ba5467d | Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as th.. | Ben Elton | ||
| be7ecbe | You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. | Ben Elton | ||
| 9a94964 | Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it. | Ben Elton | ||
| 93dbece | Les contes de fees c'est comme ca. Un matin on se reveille. On dit: "Ce n'etait qu'un conte de fees..." On sourit de soi. Mais au fond on ne sourit guere. On sait bien que les contes de fees c'est la seule verite de la vie. Fairy tales are like that. One morning, we wake up and say, "It was only a fairy tale..." We put a smile on our face but deep inside, this isn't what we feel like doing. It's because we know full well that fairy ta.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |