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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 067ec58 | modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| eb3f462 | I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 14fcc7f | And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to br.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8b5acf3 | the thing i found offensive, the thing i hated about mohican-mountain-makers, gill-netters, poachers, whalehunters, strip-miners, herbicide-spewers, dam-erectors, nuclear-reactor-builders or anyone who lusted after flesh, meat, mineral, tree, pelt and dollar - including, first and foremost, myself - was the smug ingratitude, the attitude that assumed the world and its creatures owed us everything we could catch, shoot, tear out, alter, plun.. | David James Duncan | ||
| 96d2920 | There was an old Taoist who lived in a village in ancient China, named Master Hu. Hu loved God and God loved Hu, and whatever God did was fine with Hu, and whatever Hu did was fine with God. They were friends. They were such good friends that they kidded around. Hu would do stuff to God like call him "The Great Clod." That's how he kidded. That was fine with God. God would turn around and do stuff to Hu like give him warts on his face, wens.. | inspirational | David James Duncan | |
| 6e7e5f9 | The truth is I'm in a place without a bright side or a one best thing. I'm in a place where, honest to God, you feel you can kill your friends just by asking the names of stars. | David James Duncan | ||
| e93a95c | From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, am.. | writing genre horror | Peter Straub | |
| a768ef0 | The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 11ead9e | Mostly, however, he had books about love. He believed in studying his own heart this way. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8c17ed0 | It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 62bad39 | But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| e13e73f | My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone; she refused to occupy the features of her face. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| d537696 | What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let's be frank--fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have .. | life | Lorrie Moore | |
| 1db1bf5 | This kind of love can be thrilling and overwhelming and sometimes a hell of a lot of fun, but it is not the only "real" kind of love, nor is it always a good basis for an ongoing relationship. Yet as George Bernard Shaw famously remarked, "When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exh.. | Dossie Easton | ||
| 6cc9520 | Most people are preoccupied with survival in all its subtle forms, and so they reflect primarily fear, anger, and a desire for gain. They have not learned that the state of lovingness is the most powerful of all survival tools. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 0bd64e8 | Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 3e3c66e | The basic rule of the psychic universe is that "like attracts like." Similarly, "love promotes love," so that the person who has let go of a lot of inner negativity is surrounded by loving thoughts, loving events, loving people, and loving pets. This phenomenon explains many scriptural quotations and common sayings that have puzzled the intellect, such as, "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer," and "Those who have, get." As a genera.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| eeaf257 | Atticus adjusted his glasses as he peered down at the blanket. "Hey, is that the book Nellie told us about?" Jake's eyes flicked to Olivia's book. "You've got it outside in the ? Are you out of your minds?" Amy crossed her arms. "We're being careful." "It's not about careful, this is a five-hundred-year-old manuscript! You should be wearing gloves--Atticus brought some--and keeping it of the sunlight." "It didn't take you long to start b.. | jealousy jake-rosenbloom ian-kabra atticus-rosenbloom | Jude Watson | |
| 5a7cae4 | Ticket and passport. We're crossing the border." "Oh. Sorry." Dan handed the conductor his ticket. " ." " ," Dan said. "That's Spanish," Amy whispered. "No, it's ," Dan said. "I'm too tired to think." | Jude Watson | ||
| 89dda95 | That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow." "This...isn't...the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth. Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?" "Immeasurably." "Good. Give me ten." | Jude Watson | ||
| ef49dcb | The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. "You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton. "Just...be...careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth." | Jude Watson | ||
| 2cb28d2 | OMIGOSH JONAH WIZARD!" -Amy Cahill" | Jude Watson | ||
| 809af8e | The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'. | James C. Scott | ||
| a1a36f5 | Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 7a07ca6 | People don't fix each other, Joseph. And they never become anything but what they've always been. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| cb9c46e | Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. | Harold Bloom | ||
| a86427c | The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written. | reading western-canon | Harold Bloom | |
| ab26b28 | Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| bf49641 | You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a need satisfied, a pain relieved. The finest paintings are nothing more than the red head of a flower, nodding in the breeze, when you were two years old; the most exciting film is just the way everything was, back in the days when you stared goggle-eyed at the whirling chao.. | love art childhood | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| c51ec66 | We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And--?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them." | Sherwood Smith | ||
| e444f0b | So here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| d41429c | I've built something valuable here. But valuable things also have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old day back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f375163 | He wanted to go on for hours. He wanted someone to listen to him and to understand that speech wasn't just about communicating ideas or opinions. Sometimes, it was about trying to convey whole human lives. And while you knew even before you opened your mouth that you'd fail, somehow the trying was what mattered. The trying was all you had. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e2c7523 | He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The recollection of moments often proved richer than the moment themselves. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 73baedf | Chuck said, "Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Cawley looked over at him. "I'll bite. How many?" "Fish," Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| d960f6e | I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a2c1fb0 | He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| d4f42e4 | Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 41d0fe6 | Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 52eb60f | The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly and the true had got t.. | George Orwell | ||
| 089424b | Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren't necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn't make them so. | William Goldman | ||
| cf8c5e6 | I don't know that you'll understand this, but once upon a time, long ago, I was a scholar and a marathon man, but that fella's gone now, dead I suppose, but I remember something he thought, which was that if you don't learn the mistakes of the past, you'll be doomed to repeat them. Well we've been making a mistake with people like you, because public trials are bullshit and executions are games for winners - all this time we should have bee.. | William Goldman | ||
| 32beae1 | Your father is dying." "Drat!" said the Prince, "That means I shall have to get married." | William Goldman | ||
| 76606e6 | i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it. | William Goldman |