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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ac4b06 | If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood. | Yann Martel | ||
| c4f5f13 | God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," th.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4865d0f | I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal. | elevation-after-prayers salah life-of-pi praying | Yann Martel | |
| d26ba76 | I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. | Yann Martel | ||
| 51a7711 | Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy. | Yann Martel | ||
| d8bea70 | You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on! | Yann Martel | ||
| 52ca50d | The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness .. | life | Yann Martel | |
| d17c951 | 'tHd~ 'n yfhm 'y kn rwHnyt lslm , wl yHbh . nh dyn ry'` qy'm `l~ l'khw@ wltfny | religion life-lessons | Yann Martel | |
| a2af2fe | Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness, and, of course, there are the rooms for the new members of the household. | Yann Martel | ||
| bd891a6 | I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind .. | Yann Martel | ||
| f8b2faf | Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. | Yann Martel | ||
| 1bff863 | We are all born like Catholics, aren't we--in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? | Yann Martel | ||
| a209387 | Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. | Yann Martel | ||
| af13f8b | animals don't escape from somewhere but from something | Yann Martel | ||
| e2a421b | La Indiferencia y la Frialdad, a veces, causan mucho mas dano que la adversidad declarada | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2acebc6 | La grandeza inspira envidia, la envidia rencor y el rencor mentiras | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 61b31b7 | This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4c9795c | Tessa fought down an impulse to snap. Colin had a habit of making sweeping judgements based on first impressions, on single actions. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8026930 | I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow," Snape went on. "That tree did more damage to us than we --" Ron blurted out. "Silence!" snapped Snape" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fdf531a | But that's - I'm sorry, but that's completely ridiculous! How can I prove it doesn't exist? Do you expect me to get hold of - of all the pebbles in the world and test them? I mean, you could claim that real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's it doesn't exist! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d09809f | He was supposed to be turning a beetle into a button, but all he managed to do was give his beetle a lot of exercise as it scuttled over the desktop avoiding his wand. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9587212 | We want to fight." "And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely." | fiction fantasy humor fallen-legion laura-kreitzer potterverse timeless-series j-k-rowling paranormal | Laura Kreitzer | |
| d442a28 | But he's there! Potter's ! Someone grab him! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9514a60 | Yeah, it will,' said Ron fiercely. 'You won't have to do all the work alone this time, Hermione. I'll help.' 'Oh, Ron!' Hermione flung her arms around Ron's neck and broke down completely. Ron, looking quite terrified, patted her very awkwardly on the top of the head. Finally, Hermione drew away. 'Ron, I'm really, really sorry about Scabbers...,' she sobbed. 'Oh - well - he was old,' said Ron, looking thoroughly relieved that she had let go.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d88a622 | They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died, | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 60d5dce | Keep calm and go to the library | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7c6f6ff | Trained in combat?" repeated Harry incredulously. "What does he think we're doing here, forming some sort of wizard army?" "That's exactly what he thinks you're doing," said Sirius, "or rather, that's exactly what he's afraid of Dumbledore's doing -- forming his own private army, with which he will be able to take on the Ministry of Magic." There was a pause in this, then Ron said, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, including all .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c0ccd16 | Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3596b4c | Well?" said Professor McGonagall, rounding on him. "Is this true?" "Is what true?" Harry asked, rather more aggressively than he had intended. "Professor?" he added in an attempt to sound more polite. "Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes," said Harry. "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is back?" "Yes." Professor McGonagall sat down behind her desk, frowning at Harry. Then she said, "H.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8391a4e | Alors, Hermione, tu admires toujours autant Lockhart, maintenant? dit Ron a travers le rideau. Si Harry avait eu envie d'etre transforme en mollusque, il l'aurait demande. Tout le monde peut commettre des erreurs, repondit Hermione. D'ailleurs, ca ne te fait plus mal, n'est-ce-pas, Harry? Non, dit Harry. L'ennuie, c'est que ca ne me fait plus rien du tout. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 576b325 | Harry did not really listen. A warmth was spreading through him that had nothing to do with the sunlight; a tight obstruction in his chest seemed to be dissolving. He knew that Ron and Hermione were more shocked than they were letting on, but the mere fact that they were still there on either side of him, speaking bracing words of comfort, not shrinking from him as though he were contaminated or dangerous, was worth more than he could ever .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1999134 | SO WHAT" Harry shouted. "Don't you understand? If Snape gets hold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming back! Haven't you heard what it was like when he was trying to take over? There won't be any Hogwarts to get expelled from! He'll flatten it, or turn it into a school for the Dark Arts! Losing points doesn't matter anymore, can't you see? Do you think he'll leave you and your families alone if Gryffindor wins the house cup? If I get caught bef.. | harry-potter voldemort | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7168002 | He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville's snores, he thought that Neville deserved it more than he did. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6c13d79 | He raised his hand automatically and tried to make his hair lie flat. "You're fighting a losing battle there, dear," said his mirror in a wheezy voice." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3c7a9fc | Ron: [mimicking Hermione] "It's Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR." She's a nightmare, honestly. It's no wonder she hasn't got any friends!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c3f643c | HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore (Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards) Dear Mr. Potter, We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31. Your.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| aa66613 | How thick would Harry have to be, to go looking for a nutter who wants to kill him?" said Ron shakily." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8beb233 | Don't be stupid," Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again. "No,it's just. . . how did she know Viktor asked me to visit him over the summer?" Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this and determinedly avoided Ron's eyes. "What?" said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk. "He asked me right after he'd pulled me out of the lake," Hermione muttered. "After he'd got rid of his shark's head. Madam Pomfrey gave us both blan.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5e45344 | But the thing that was lowering Harry's spirits most of all was the prospect of returning to the Dursleys. For maybe half an hour, a glorious half hour, he had believed he would be living with Sirius from now on ... his parents' best friend. ... It would have been the next best thing to having his own father back. And while no news of Sirius was definitely good news, because it meant he had successfully gone into hiding, Harry couldn't help.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 51e9f20 | Harry - I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of strange rumors that have reached me here. If it hurts again, go straight to Dumbledore - they're saying he's got Mad-Eye out of retirement, which means he's reading the signs, even if no one else is. I'll be in touch soon. My best to Ron and Hermione. Keep your eyes open,Harry. Sirius Dear Sirius, I reckon I just imagined my scar hurting, I was half.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4cfa289 | When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 60c9a4a | The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e80d8e5 | This boy will be famous. There won't be a child in our world who doesn't know his name. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2743648 | DUMBLEDORE (sotto voce) Regret is my constant companion. Do not let it become yours. | J.K. Rowling |