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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0f6b6c1 | Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right? | Norton Juster | ||
| 8545d47 | But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely, "but you had the courage to try; and what you do is often simply a matter of what you do." | Norton Juster | ||
| 45498e5 | Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things." "How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots.. | names mathematics | Norton Juster | |
| cc36c87 | Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends. | friendship | Maureen Johnson | |
| fdeddeb | Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga? | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 8ba841b | One of them hung a pink bra from our lighting fixture. I left it there. It was a nice bra | drunken-behaviour | Maureen Johnson | |
| bc60054 | The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| e2a37dc | Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 30ab549 | It wasn't ass-screaming Beaker, though. It was fourteen girls in matching, form fitting sweats, all of which read RIDGE CHEERLEADING on the butt. (A form of ass-screaming, I suppose.) Each had her name on the back of her sleek warm-up fleece. They clustered around the snack bar, yelling at the top of their lungs. I really hoped and prayed that they wouldn't all say "Oh my God!" at once, but my prayers were not heard, maybe because God was b.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 1579e56 | Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| a52fc81 | Men - not just babies like you, but old men, too - they always need to have a woman tell them the truth. | women-s-strength women-and-men | James Baldwin | |
| a0346c6 | But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything--that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its choice to be there--are gone. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| beaca5f | Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 5c5ecac | What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?" "There is too bloody much romance in it," she said curtly. Ah, well, here was the crux of it, apparently. "Don't you like romance?" he ventured. She looked as though she were trying to decide if she should weep or, as he had earlier predicted, stick him with whatever blade she could lay her, hand on. "I don't know," she said briskly. "I see.. | female-fighter wooing | Lynn Kurland | |
| b9768fa | Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is no good. | James Gleick | ||
| f4fc315 | When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullive.. | James Gleick | ||
| d726179 | Dear Delphine, When you are older I want you to find Chinua Achebe. I want you to read Things Fall Apart. Don't be hardheaded and try to read this book now. Don't be hardheaded, Delphine. You are the smart one, but you are not ready. You can read all its words. Even the African words. But you will not know what Achebe is saying. It is a bad thing to bite into a hard fruit with little teeth. You will say bad things about the fruit when the .. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 6876fef | I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. | violence dignity race | James Baldwin | |
| c966b14 | A mob cannot afford to doubt: that the Jews killed Christ or that niggers want to rape their sisters or that anyone who fails to make it in the land of the free and the home of the brave deserves to be wretched. But these ideas do not come from the mob. They come from the state, which creates and manipulates the mob. The idea of a black persons as property, for example, does not come from the mob. It is not a spontaneous idea. It does not c.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 16f8294 | I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting. Or I thought, but I am happy. And he loves me. I am safe. Sometimes, when he was not near me, I thought, I will never let him touch me again. Then, when he touched me, I thought it doesn't matter, it is only the body, it will soon be over. When it was over I lay in the dark and listened to his breathing and dreamed of the touch of han.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 9aaf312 | Why am I going home? he asked himself. But he knew why. It was time. In order not to lose all that he had gained, he had to move forward and risk it all. | James Baldwin | ||
| cf5571d | The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process" | James Baldwin | ||
| e5f9c70 | It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. | James Baldwin | ||
| f00ab2d | One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to be free, something more than a bank account. One needed a handle, a lever, a means of inspiring fear. It was absolutely clear that the police would whip you and take you in as long as they could .. | racism poverty | James Baldwin | |
| 65dfc2b | Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.--James Baldwin | Lori Gottlieb | ||
| 889ce70 | Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. | James Baldwin | ||
| 87fc3bd | Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take comfort from this thought. Yet there knocked in his heart the suspicion that the bottom did not really exist. | James Baldwin | ||
| 990e9e9 | His mind was like the sea itself: troubled, and too deep for the bravest man's descent, throwing up now and again, for the naked eye to wonder at, treasure and debris long forgotten on the bottom--bones and jewels, fantastic shells, jelly that had once been flesh, pearls that had once been eyes. And he was at the mercy of this sea, hanging there with darkness all around him. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2d69785 | But it's not possible to forget anybody you were that hung up on, who was that hung up on you. You can't forget anything that hurt so badly, went so deep, and changed the world forever. It's not possible to forget anybody you've destroyed. | James Baldwin | ||
| c547286 | pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it. | Robert Cormier | ||
| bcea2ba | A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it. | Robert Cormier | ||
| f676a4c | What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 9fd23fd | Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the only word that really seemed beautiful to me was tenderness. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 24d83c4 | Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered. | Michael Dorris | ||
| 788b4ef | Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. his mind went on. | slavery freedom juneteenth liberty | Ralph Ellison | |
| 6c3d38a | I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge. | revenge ralph-ellison invisible-man | Ralph Ellison | |
| f7fb7be | I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied -- not even I. On the other hand, I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to "justify" and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friends the incorrect, absurd answers they wished to hear. In my presence they could talk and agree wit.. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 554e209 | As Ralph Ellison once posited, we're invisible to them. We're simply not on their radar. As long as the people who are in charge aren't us, things will never change. | Issa Rae | ||
| e9604d2 | I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable... | Ralph Ellison | ||
| b100b8e | That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| de9401c | the whole problem of discovering what was the matter, and figuring out what you have to do to fix it-that was interesting to me, like a puzzle | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| e9080da | I wouldn't stop until I figured the damn thing out-it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. But during the day, other guys would come to me with the same problem, and I'd do it for them in a flash. So for one guy, to do it took me twenty minutes, while there were five guys who thought I was a super-genius. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 73a4d85 | We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty--some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 7ff690a | I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more. | science physicscs | Richard P. Feynman |