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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 27237aa | He never really existed at all, except in my imagination, she thought wearily. I loved something that I made up...I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes-and not him at all. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| f9e0942 | He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable. | perseverence | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 8a068eb | But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don't care what people say, they can't all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pulled weeds off our men's graves and brought flowers to them, even if they were enemies. If Charlie were dead in the North it would comfort me to know that someone - And I don't care what you ladies think of me," her voice broke again, "I will wi.. | humanity goodness gone-with-the-wind graves | Margaret Mitchell | |
| b435627 | I love you, your courage and your stubbornness and your fire and your utter ruthlessness. How much do I love you? So much that a moment ago I would have outraged the hospitality of the house which has sheltered me and my family, forgotten the best wife any man ever had -- enough to take you here in the mud like a --" She struggled with a chaos of thoughts and there was a cold pain in her heart as if an icicle had pierced it. She said haltin.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| e378660 | The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well. | optimism | Roméo Dallaire | |
| 210aa68 | Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't. | funny | Adam Rex | |
| ddf2f0a | Things are always less important once you're assured of having them. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| f97e1a1 | I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see. | hatred poetry love | Edmund Spenser | |
| 3fe6574 | Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield. | poetry human-nature | Edmund Spenser | |
| e2ff529 | What makes my bed seem hard seeing it is soft? Or why slips downe the Coverlet so oft? Although the nights be long, I sleepe not tho, My sides are sore with tumbling to and fro. Were Love the cause, it's like I shoulde descry him, Or lies he close, and shoots where none can spie him? T'was so, he stroke me with a slender dart, Tis cruell love turmoyles my captive hart. Yeelding or striving doe we give him might, Lets yeeld, a burden easly b.. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 8564f82 | the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making. | mankind man mind philosophical grand-plans imprisionment imprison when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart christopher-marlowe faustian faustus marlowe sad-but-true plans planning faust | E.A. Bucchianeri | |
| 0d43ba7 | You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know. | wisdom | Ann Rinaldi | |
| 80f8b24 | Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. -Chris McCandless | into-the-wild | Jon Krakauer | |
| dc0629d | It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period--days or weeks--without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next. | Bette Greene | ||
| bac63cb | Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. | growing-up | Lauren Bacall | |
| fc439b5 | People who travel are always fugitives. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8d47a7a | You have qualities that are just as important, far more so, in fact. It's perhaps cheeky of me to say so, I don't know you very well. I'm a bachelor, I don't know very much about women, I lead a quiet sort of life down here at Manderley, as you know, but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| e325c6b | A cloud, hitherto unseen, came upon the moon, and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face.The illusion went with it, and the lights in the windows were extinguished. I looked upon a desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls. The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. When I thought of Manderley in my waking hours.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| b340897 | Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| ee648a8 | And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper of the dreams that she had dreamt there, in midsummer, under the hot sun and the white sky. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 438a084 | You have blotted out the past for me, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| ee6dcf8 | There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8367e62 | What happened? Stan repeats. To us? To the country? What happened when childhood ends in Dealey Plaza, in Memphis, in the kitchen of the Ambassador, your belief your hope your trust lying in a pool of blood again? Fifty-five thousand of your brothers dead in Vietnam, a million Vietnamese, photos of naked napalmed children running down a dirt road, Kent State, Soviet tanks roll into Prague so you turn on drop out you know you can't reinve.. | Don Winslow | ||
| ee9a927 | Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find. Nedra: I haven't been looking for it. Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that. | love | James Salter | |
| ce87ead | I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that | James Salter | ||
| ae3ab65 | I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all. | wrong watson sherlock-holmes | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
| 1100f0e | His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming allegorical. He possessed what I call an eschatological imagination, one that could envision putting ideas into action and then following them out to their ultimate consequences. At the same time, his characters respond to such consequences according to the ordinary moral and social .. | Joseph Frank | ||
| 3602afe | When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness. ~Amy | Beth Revis | ||
| 54c059e | Science can make a heart beat," Jack says softly, each word falling on me like a caress. "But it can't make it race." | Beth Revis | ||
| b1a49d1 | Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives. | fear belgarion magician-s-gambit | David Eddings | |
| 6f053a9 | When he reached out with both huge hands to grasp me, I ducked under them and stepped forward, smoothly pulling my knife out of my sleeve. Then, with one quick swipe, I sliced him across the belly. I wasn't certain enough of his anatomy to try stabbing him in the heart. As big as he was, his ribs were probably as thick as my wrist. He stared at me in utter amazement. Then he looked down at the entrails that came boiling out of the gaping w.. | David Eddings | ||
| 2ab8dca | I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully.. | pg-57 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 524e307 | What I want you to know is that this is not your fault, even if it is ultimately your responsibility. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3552aef | They were utterly fearless. I did not understand it until I looked out on the street. That was where I saw white parents pushing double-wide strollers down gentrifying Harlem boulevards in T-shirts and jogging shorts. Or I saw them lost in conversation with each other, mother and father, while their sons commanded entire sidewalks with their tricycles. The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw master.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9e4e161 | I kept thinking about how southern Manhattan had always been Ground Zero for us. They auctioned our bodies down there, in that same devastated, and rightly named, financial district. And there was once a burial ground for the auctioned there. They built a department store over part of it and then tried to erect a government building over another part. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9b628d2 | If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government," wrote Du Bois, "it was good Negro government." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 2a28aaa | Considering segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, Richard Nixon concluded, "Strom is no racist." There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened "at the hands of persons unknown." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9a45016 | We could not get out. The ground we walked was trip-wired. The air we breathed was toxic. The water stunted our growth. We could not get out. A year after I watched the boy with the small eyes pull out a gun, my father beat me for letting another boy steal from me. Two years later, he beat me for threatening my ninth-grade teacher. Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 68c9ccf | One must be without error out here. Walk in single file. Work quietly. Pack an extra number 2 pencil. Make no mistakes. But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn't. Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson--not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e8379de | No powdery residue. But definitely suspicious. Smell." He slides a makeup catalog from beneath a microscope made out of a plate, a toilet paper roll, and an intricate arrangement of pipe cleaners. "Any ideas?" I take a scientific whiff. "Gardenia. Looks like those Mary Kay terrorists are at it again." | Sarah Ockler | ||
| 06bff49 | Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Repeat the same mistakes over and over, and you don't get any closer to Carnegie Hall. | Sarah Kay | ||
| c0f2708 | This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance." the intro from the author" | judgement bullying | Jodee Blanco | |
| 60cc6b0 | l ymkn 'n ythrb lmr mn dhth . ymknh tjhlh wlkn l ymkn lthrbW bdan | Jodee Blanco | ||
| aa7f102 | Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing | David Simon |