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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f4b79af | Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" (205)" | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 70ef7f1 | Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy .. | philosophy questions | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f390603 | The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It still is, and I know of no pain that art cannot assuage. For some, music, for some, pictures, for me, primarily, poetry, whether found in poems or in prose, cuts through noise and hurt, opens the wound to clean it, and then gradually teaches it to heal itself. Wounds need to be taught to heal themselves. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6622c1c | There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 1dce3bb | People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you. | Joanne Harris | ||
| b3afb09 | Knowledge is currency here.... | village small-town knowledge | Joanne Harris | |
| 73f3daa | This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her. | love cooking | Joanne Harris | |
| 5e732ab | Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter. | Joanne Harris | ||
| f4b5d9a | My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 935cfbc | My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even goi.. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 95645bf | Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. | Gary Chapman | ||
| e5096e2 | We speak and understand best our native language. We feel most comfortable speaking that language. The more we use a secondary language, the more comfortable we become conversing in it. If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different from ours, our communication will be limited. We must rely on pointing, grunting, drawing pictures, or acting out our ideas. We c.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 8c616fe | Verbal compliments, or words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| d010836 | There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun. | Sue Grafton | ||
| d2538f6 | Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words have been here for tens of thousands of years longer than film, moving pictures, video, and digital video, and words will likely be here after those media too. When the electromagnetic pulse comes in the wake of the nuclear blast? Those computers and digital video cameras and videotape recorders that .. | Rick Moody | ||
| 50cd0b1 | Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 79db7f7 | Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk? Then, leave me to my foolishness. | literature feelings writing empathy | Piers Anthony | |
| f379a41 | Joan of Arc said a lot of interesting things before they burned her at the stake. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| f31c86b | All of us face hard choices in our lives. Some face more than their share. We have to decide how to balance the demands of work and family. Caring for a sick child or an aging parent. Figuring out how to pay for college. Finding a good job, and what to do if you lose it. Whether to get married--or stay married. How to give our kids the opportunities they dream about and deserve. Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we hand.. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 3e13774 | She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for the best. She was not what I needed." "Because I failed," whispered Alyce in the shadows. "Because she gave up," continued the midwife. "I need an apprentice who can do what I tell her, take what I give her, who can try and risk and fail and try again and not give up..." | trusting-youself | Karen Cushman | |
| 9804205 | Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing. | Karen Cushman | ||
| a8a1e71 | You can't make me do nothing but die! | freedom death | Richard Wright | |
| 7e432b2 | Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality. | Richard Wright | ||
| 5f3383f | How could one find out about life when one was about to die? | Richard Wright | ||
| 8cd6259 | It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books... | Richard Wright | ||
| b70926f | I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer in a petticoat A little bit of everyone you adore... And if your baby let you down at night, Well Baby June would make it up alright And I was never happier Than in the arms and charms of her | katchoo | Terry Moore | |
| aa9f988 | Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever. | humor orchids history-of-mankind | Eric Hansen | |
| 3c6b862 | The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| fc9c5bd | And now it is time for a final act of courage. I urge you: March proudly into your own dream. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| f4fd363 | What happened, and what might have happened? | Tim O'Brien | ||
| dd5f194 | A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 9ddd76d | My heart tells me to stop right here, to offer quiet benediction and call it the end. But the truth won't allow it. Because there is no end, happy or otherwise. Nothing is fixed, nothing solved. the facts, such as they are, finally spin off into the void of things missing, the inconclusiveness of us. Who are we? Where do we go? The ambiguity may be dissatisfying, even irritating, but this is a love story. There is no tidiness. Blame it on t.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| e8bf125 | With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 2356da4 | Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 6946e7c | How'd you like to take a ride on my new boat this Saturday?" he asked her one evening after class. "No, thank you," said Miss Katherine. "We've got a brand-new boat," he said. "You don't even have to row it." "Yes, I know," said Miss Katherine. Everyone in town had seen--and heard--the Walkers' new boat. It made a horrible loud noise and spewed ugly black smoke over the beautiful lake. Trout had always gotten everything he ever wanted. He f.. | Louis Sachar | ||
| b89b085 | You're not completely worthless. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 171138f | I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me. | fate poets relationships friendship patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt red-string-of-fate | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 3a65f8a | But Carol had not betrayed her. Carol loved her more than she loved her child. That was part of the reason why she had not promised. She was gambling now as she had gambled on getting everything from the detective that day on the road, and she lost then, too. And now she saw Carol's face changing, saw the little signs of astonishment and shock so subtle that perhaps only she in the world could have noticed them, and Therese could not think .. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 348e3ac | They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time. | romantic die-together to-die-by-your-side patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt wild crazy | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 7fa6414 | Nothing erases the immoral act. Not forgiveness. Not confession. And even if the act could be forgiven, no one could bear the responsibility of forgiveness on behalf of the dead. Not act of violence is ever resolved when the one who can forgive can no longer speak; there is only silence. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 20d8225 | But now? Now? Children in the twentieth and this early twenty-first century hated the Alice books, couldn't read them, and why should they? Their world had strayed into madness long ago. Look at the planet. Rain is acid, poisonous. Sun causes cancer. Sex=death. Children murder other children. Parents lie, leaders lie, the churches have less moral credibility than Benetton ads. And the faces of missing children staring out from milk cartons-.. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3e3ab35 | Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 1c9a779 | Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away. | time | Gregory Maguire | |
| 56f313c | I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read. | understanding words reading wicked | Gregory Maguire |