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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1c5672b | I've had a splendid time and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| 7c27768 | Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2da4531 | Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her felicity. Such moments come rarely in any life, but when they do come they are inexpressibly wonderful - as if the finite were for a second infinity - as if humanity were for a space uplifted into divinity - as if all ugliness had vanished, lea.. | introversion quiet solitude | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 406df9e | Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2fa3d88 | We'll never say good-bye to each other. We'll just smile and go. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a3c0b3b | All the romantic lore of our culture has told us when we find true love with a partner it will continue. Yet this partnership lasts only if both parties remain committed to being loving. Not everyone can bear the weight of true love. Wounded hearts turn away from love because they do not want to do the work of healing necessary to sustain and nurture love. Many men, especially, often turn away from true love and choose relationships in whic.. | love-quotes partnership power romantic romantic-partner true-love vulnerability wounded-heart | bell hooks | |
| 578b4ce | Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static. | bell hooks | ||
| 5af6f79 | Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and findin.. | love | bell hooks | |
| 10c2bce | Cultures of domination attack self-esteem, replacing it with a notion that we derive our sense of being from dominion over another. Patriarchal masculinity teaches men that their sense of self and identity, their reason for being, resides in their capacity to dominate others. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 5040118 | Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom of will, it is difficult for any man of any class to rebel against patriarchy, to be disloyal to the patriarchal parent, be that parent female or male. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 3d18734 | Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka and other black male leaders have righteously supported patriarchy. They have all argued that it is absolutely necessary for black men to relegate black women to a subordinate position both in the political sphere and in home life. | Bell Hooks | ||
| f842eb9 | Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one way to begin again on love's journey. In relationships, whether heterosexual or homosexual, the partner who is hurting often finds that their mate is unwilling to 'hear' the pain. Women often tell me that they feel emotionally beaten down when their partners refuse to listen or talk. When women communicate from a place of pain, it is often char.. | communication emotional-abuse listening listening-skills listening-to-others love love-quotes pain relationships vulnerability vulnerability-quotes vulnerable | bell hooks | |
| 37665f2 | To be loving we willingly hear each other's truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 3cd1c73 | The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy. | justice liberalism love lovelessness politics | Naomi Klein | |
| 5db77e1 | To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. | Cornel West | ||
| fcf24ea | Most people are idiots. There's nothing worse than idiots who tell you their opinions. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 7227c5e | Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1fe96ef | When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls' pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent. | funny | Richard Kadrey | |
| c46e1e0 | Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We'll cure your cowboy ways yet. (Vidocq) | thief-humor | Richard Kadrey | |
| 45729d9 | You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily. 'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.' ~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan. | perfect-hero romantic swoony | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 3479178 | When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, "Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 790282c | Dirty?" I supply. "Yes. It was. And I am. And so are you or you wouldn't know what a hard limit is." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| a8d2c9b | It's our scars that define us. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 0f36e60 | I love...being with you. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 55e06f8 | Publicity is effective precisely because it feeds upon the real. Clothes, food, cars, cosmetics, baths, sunshine are real things to be enjoyed in themselves. Publicity begins by working on a natural appetite for pleasure. But it cannot offer the real object of pleasure and there is no convincing substitute for a pleasure in that pleasure's own terms. The more convincingly publicity conveys the pleasure of bathing in a warm, distant sea, the.. | John Berger | ||
| dc728cc | All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream. | John Berger | ||
| e47b48c | We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination. | invisible visible | John Berger | |
| ec2f95f | Not the first time Doc had run into girl-of-his-dreams unavailability. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 66b3954 | It went on for a month. Those who had taken it for a cosmic sign cringed beneath the sky each nightfall, imagining ever more extravagant disasters. Others, for whom orange did not seem an appropriately apocalyptic shade, sat outdoors on public benches, reading calmly, growing used to the curious pallor. As nights went on and nothing happened and the phenomenon slowly faded to the accustomed deeper violets again, most had difficulty remember.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 90d149f | We live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time, now positive, now negative. Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 1231dd7 | Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even greater mystery. ... The God I cry out to in anguish or joy can neither be proved nor disapproved. The hope I have that death is not the end of all our questions can neither be proved nor disproved. | faith god mystery-of-life | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7ca1f92 | Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a92c959 | Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death? | blue-eyes breath death eyes fireflies light night sight spirit stars world | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| ba31fa5 | She felt that she was being measured and found wanting. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 317016f | The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8cc1de6 | Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good." | happiness pleasure | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 22bc4a5 | Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.... | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| daf4a03 | You're good in school. Everybody likes you." "For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 07ff444 | Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. "The obligations of normal human kindness - chesed, as the Hebrew has it - that we all owe. But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness." I could hardly believe my ears. "But aren't we supposed to be good?" "I'm not sure." Grandfather's voice was heavy. "I do know that we're not .. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| fe92a59 | An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I Q does not measure a capacity for love...How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh: to love. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 10c077b | What is man--and of course the writer means all of us puny little insignificant creatures--what is a mere human being that God who made the immense universe should ever notice?' She chuckled. 'The sky does take you down to size.' Not even big as bugs. Not even a speck of dust to the nearest star,' Angel agreed. But the psalmist answers his own question. "Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and .. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 40f6cfa | If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?" "Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?" | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 4da981f | But then, oh, my blessed, he smiled. I guess from that moment I knew I was going to marry Joseph Wojtkiewicz--God, pope, three motherless children, unspellable name and all. For when he smiled, he looked like the kind of man who would sing to the oysters. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| c3fb582 | We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me. | Katherine Paterson |