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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a2f549d | Ahora yo no se si vas a poder leer esta carta, pero igual siento como una necesidad de decirte que yo contigo he sido mas feliz de lo que los libros dicen que se puede. Perdoname si tantas veces me anduve quejando por bobadas. Un dia me dijiste que yo tenia cara de mujer a la que siempre se vuelve y yo te espero ahora o cuando sea y donde sea y como sea. Quiero que sepas. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 902451d | Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints." | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 19150af | The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3094df5 | Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| cf791a2 | In one of the earlier Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle (not yet a Sir) made an observation on logical deduction. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. There is, however, a specific flaw in that maxim. It assumes people can recognize the difference between what is impossible and what they believe is impossible. | Peter Clines | ||
| 971b736 | As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson. | sir-arthur-conan-doyle sherlock-holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| ead58d3 | Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen. | the-giver | Lois Lowry | |
| 1cdfd17 | It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 7491fd2 | and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. | Lois Lowry | ||
| cd52b64 | But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed. | sewing | Lois Lowry | |
| fa0123f | He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9b1368f | a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes. | Lois Lowry | ||
| ddd93fe | How angry am I? You don't want to know. Nobody wants to know about that. I'm a good girl, I'm a nice girl, I'm a straight-A, strait-laced, good daughter, good career girl, and I never stole anybody's boyfriend and I never ran out on a girlfriend, and I put up with my parents' shit and my brother's shit, and I'm not a girl anyhow, I'm over forty fucking years old, and I'm good at my job and I'm great with kids and I held my mother's hand whe.. | Claire Messud | ||
| 6b32e62 | And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference. | John Banville | ||
| e07b7cc | This is the way it is with me, always looking in or looking out, a chilly pane of glass between me and a remote and longed-for world. | John Banville | ||
| d60b7eb | This love, this mortal love, is of their own making," Hermes muses, "the thing we did not intend, foresee or sanction. How then should it not fascinate us? . . . It is as if a fractious child had been handed a few timber shavings and a bucket of mud to keep him quiet only for him promptly to erect a cathedral. . . . Within the precincts of this consecrated house they afford each other sanctuary, excuse each other their failings, their sweat.. | John Banville | ||
| f302906 | As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 3210ad3 | Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 622746a | Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home, and finding they don't fit. | Zadie Smith | ||
| ef60273 | Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business? | asian-hair asians uk black-people business hair race england inequality london | Zadie Smith | |
| 62b544c | Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 419ffc9 | You are never stronger, thought Samad as approached the doctor, than when you land on the other side of despair. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 637c9a6 | We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect. | Libba Bray | ||
| 65781b6 | He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love." | humor rebel-angels libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 1d8c927 | New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period. Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants. | humour libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 6d1bb48 | She's right. I don't trust her farther than I can run full-steam in a corset, but she's right. The truth is hard and unfair, but there it is. | Libba Bray | ||
| 759a4c5 | You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir. | Libba Bray | ||
| f70c9f3 | And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head. | Libba Bray | ||
| e6cb0e4 | For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams. | Libba Bray | ||
| d5b76a9 | I'm from the health department. You've heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella's got enough typhoid to start his own colony. | Libba Bray | ||
| f947d64 | It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling. | Libba Bray | ||
| 122954c | But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5de7d50 | Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti." -- | truth | Libba Bray | |
| 90ce7e4 | And if I talk too loud, its just that I'm trying to be heard. | Libba Bray | ||
| 2b5f701 | This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not. | ling-chan libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| 987881c | The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 066d399 | Being a childless woman of childbearing age, I am a walking target for people's concerned analysis. No one looks at a single man with a Labrador retriever and says, "Will you look at the way he throws the tennis ball to that dog? Now there's a guy who wants to have a son." A dog, after all, is man's best friend, a comrade, a pal. But give a dog to a woman and people will say she is sublimating. If she says that she, in fact, doesn't want ch.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| b9b9743 | If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins. | nebraska | Ann Patchett | |
| 1202648 | She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, " That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt." So we have sex. If you could call it that." | sex credit-card-debt stds std sterility debt | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 41dc5c7 | Now is the autumn of our ennui. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 79570fd | Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e883fcd | Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out. | chuck palahniuk | ||
| 288768e | Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fd6d17f | Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself. | Chuck Palahniuk |