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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d80816b | looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 2a864fc | I dabble in causes and effects. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 057bc01 | How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| eafd93c | perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 37f217a | It's hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| a4f2661 | The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. | mind mind-games memory | Gregory Maguire | |
| 36d72d0 | The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. | nature world life peace evil | Gregory Maguire | |
| d7f4d02 | Think of egg and spoon. If there is an egg, well, fine. You eat. Unless you use your spoon to hold the egg out of my reach. Does being in possession of a spoon give you more right to the egg? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 421c020 | This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you." He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at th.. | individuality independence paintings daughters fulfillment skills duty gift expectation perception creativity obedience | Iain Pears | |
| 2c702f6 | He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it. | villainy profit wrongdoing vice | Iain Pears | |
| 8d6442e | Whatever Yasu loves, I love too. That's the secret of love. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 56f7374 | Don't do stuff that freaks him out, like what you're doing now. Do something that makes him happy. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 8fa9930 | The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)... | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 71d8957 | When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance. | hatred meetings mood | Anthony Powell | |
| 97fe362 | That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality. | responsibility food-security | Joel Salatin | |
| 5891b51 | I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit. | laughter laugh-at-yourself | Jill Conner Browne | |
| 6b43317 | Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| a54f211 | And that's where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between two teams on intravenous fluids. Which makes absolutely no sense at all; I know that. But that's why it cheered me up, because it was so absolutely stupid. It cheered me up more than I'd ever thought I'd be cheered up again. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| ebe62ec | I'd promised myself that I'd really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 5353c6c | Luca saw her bloodstained hands as the clerk bound them with a rope, and Luca realized that she was a thing of horror, a beautiful thing of horror, the worst thing between heaven and hell: a fallen angel. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3456eed | And I am much attached to my cock, brother. Make sure your sister can put another prince in the cradle, he says baldly. Save my balls for her, Anthony! | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0c0c2c8 | Some of us are born to a solitary life. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| bed56f1 | There are women that men marry and there are women that men don't," Anne pronouned. "And you are the sort of mistress a man doesn't bother to marry. Sons or no sons." "Yes," Mary said. "I expect your right. But there clearly is a third sort and that is the woman that men neither marry or take as their mistress. Woman that go home ...alone for Xmas. And thats seems to be you my dear sister. Good day." | tudor mary-boleyn | Philippa Gregory | |
| 659f422 | Men die in battle; women die in childbirth. | war men history women religion gender-roles purpose | Philippa Gregory | |
| 9ff2424 | Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6b9a631 | Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining. | Mark Dunn | ||
| a76d054 | Why don't you want to see your mom? Did she burn your dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?" "She wants to run my life," I explain. "What a bitch. It's like she thinks she's your mother or something." "She's a psychopath," I said. "It's complicated." "Psychopaths can't afford fur coats." "This one can." | teens-on-parents mothers-and-daughters | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 305c856 | The time has come to arm-wrestle some demons. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e878a11 | The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e9a26bc | Maybe I'll be an artist if I grow up. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b37ffe8 | It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8ca0e7c | I sent a simple smiley face, because my phone did not have a smiley face that was wrapping her hands around her own throat and beating her head against a wall. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 946b5d7 | here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle." | Mary downing hahn | ||
| 1d572d8 | I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life? | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| aafb196 | I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 17178fe | Never choose something because it's easier. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| c5301c6 | The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel, | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 9aba4de | He was a baby once, she thought. New and perfect, cradled in his mother's arms. The mysterious Sylvie. Now he was a feathery husk, ready to blow away. His eyes were half open, milky, like an old dog, and his mouth had grown beaky with the extremity of age, opening and closing, a fish out of water. Bertie could feel a continual tremor running through him, an electrical current, the faint buzz of life. Or death, perhaps. Energy was gathering .. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a73c04c | All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's. | imagination heartwrenching teddy-todd alternate-universe twist-ending tearjerker kate-atkinson last-lines heartbreaking what-if ending sad | Kate Atkinson | |
| 63ee5c4 | I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 8796172 | I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 6e5ccd0 | She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time | gay-literature michael-tolliver | Armistead Maupin | |
| 3f042e2 | Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| e936d69 | Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments. | Armistead Maupin |