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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0539d43 | To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. | Peter Abrahams | ||
| 89609d2 | I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs. | Miranda July | ||
| cd33b16 | I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else. | Miranda July | ||
| 5ae54c8 | My eyes fell on the gray linoleum floor and I wondered how many other women had sat on this toilet and stared at this floor. Each of them the center of their own world, all of them yearning for someone to put their love into so they could see their love, see that they had it. | Miranda July | ||
| c8432ab | That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea, I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest. Or if I'm in a hot tub with some other people and we're all looking up at the stars, I'll be the first to say, It's so beautiful here. The sooner you say, It's so beautiful here, the quicker .. | Miranda July | ||
| 1d06c3b | Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order--and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy. | Miranda July | ||
| f391bef | Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them. | friendship | Miranda July | |
| c2535fe | Elizabeth breathed. "For what? Rheumatism? Retinue? Richard the Third?" The planchette continued to move, torward the . "Romantic? It's going to tell us our husband's name! Or else...rotund." She paused. "Is it calling us fat?" "Someone's going to have a row?" | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 4e0ac2e | The sky was as blue and delicate as a porcelain teacup, and the hills rolled gently in all directions, intersected occasionally with the silver ribbon of a river. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 8592643 | I pulled open my window and leaned out. "Are you daft?" I whispered loudly. He bowed extravagantly, deeply, his dark tousled hair falling over his brow. "Such poetry, my lady." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 4bf258b | Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man. | sex man woman love | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| 2349821 | their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks. | war | John Hersey | |
| 45bd8a2 | With the best of intentions, the generation before mine worked diligently to prepare their children to make an intelligent case for Christianity. We were constantly reminded of the superiority of our own worldview and the shortcomings of all others. We learned that as Christians, we alone had access to absolute truth and could win any argument. The appropriate Bible verses were picked out for us, the opposing positions summarized for us, an.. | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| f6d137c | I spit upon your God! | pincher-martin | William Golding | |
| a197b7c | We bring Kingsley comfort, by being here, but only one visitor has brought him any pleasure: Jaime. He enjoyed, he exulted in Jaime - because the dew is yet on him, the glamour is yet on him. Jaime brought his youth, in all its Conradian force (youth, that 'mighty power'). I haven't got any youth to offer my father. This year has closed my youth. I'm sorry, Dad: I haven't got any . . . Sometimes I imagine that the dead are allowed to watch .. | Martin Amis | ||
| a687392 | Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult." -- | wealth good rich | Jonathan Harr | |
| 7b131dd | Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after. | Hesiod | ||
| 0cace76 | we who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift your analyst is in on it plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband and we have pledged to disappoint you as long as you need us in announcing our association we realize we hav.. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| b6002e1 | Furthermore, unlike many other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilled in anger. He never set foot in the Congo. There is something very modern about that, too, as there is about the bomber pilot in the stratosphere, above the clouds, who never hears screams or sees shattered homes or torn flesh. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 465f4f9 | Despite a 50 percent divorce rate for first marriages and 65 percent the second time around; despite the staggering frequency of affairs; despite the fact that monogamy is a ship sinking faster than anyone can bail it out, we continue to cling to the wreckage with absolute faith in its structural soundness. | Esther Perel | ||
| 6d45599 | The more we trust, the farther we are able to venture. | Esther Perel | ||
| 3edfe0d | Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek. | Esther Perel | ||
| c1fbcf7 | Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conservatism pretends that there is only one possible equilibrium--a nostalgic version of the status quo--that society could play. Libertarianism ignores the possibility of equilibrium selection at th.. | politics | Geoffrey Miller | |
| aaf9493 | It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering. | Norman Rush | ||
| 6deb5bd | Press on, regardless. | Mary Stewart | ||
| e548254 | I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there are times when one even enjoys it - but there are also times when a desperate self-sufficiency doesn't quite suffice, and then the search for the anodyne begins... the radio, the dog, the shampoo, the stockings-to-wash, the tin soldier... | Mary Stewart | ||
| 4c501b1 | Je prefere la vie a la mort, exister a ne pas exister, car je ne suis pas sur d'etre une fois que je n'existerai plus | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 3e7323b | Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth. | words truth | Eugène Ionesco | |
| 5d9ba59 | Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| bef627c | Be tough ... life is. In other words, there is no promise of a rose garden. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| ba92bfe | Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a863d08 | For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric.. | color travel distance long desire wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 09ae48e | My friend Chip Ward speaks of "the tyranny of the quantifiable," of the way what can be measured almost always takes precedence over what cannot: private profit over public good; speed and efficiency over enjoyment and quality; the utilitarian over the mysteries and meanings that are of greater use to our survival and to more than our survival, to lives that have some purpose and value that survive beyond us to make a civilization worth hav.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 7d40395 | Movies are made out of darkness as well as light; it is the surpassingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that make it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without that darkness, there would only be a blur. Which is to say that a full-length movie consists of half an hour or an hour of pure darkness that goes unseen. If you could add up all the darkness, you would find the audience in th.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 6457d26 | Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| f287f6d | That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet." | Michael Finkel | ||
| 7d9add8 | Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time. | Michael Robotham | ||
| 010cda5 | Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things make each of us who we are." Using the blanket, he rubbed his hair. "You lose that in captivity, lose yourself, and that loss saps your capacity for joy. I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope. You know what I mean?" He looked at each of them, but no one answered. "Live with it long enough and th.. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 08f1bd3 | Oh, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Slaying a villain in the service of your king is the stuff of legends and what heroes are made of." [Fanen told Myron] "It didn't feel very heroic. It made me sick. I don't even know why I... no, that's a lie. I really have to stop doing that." [Myron said] "Doing what?" "Lying. (...) It's evidence of self loathing. You see, when you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie to hide .. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| ca1c1a6 | Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| ccb1266 | I'm Tekchin," he said, exchanging an empty gourd for a full one. "The handsomest and most skilled of the Galantians." This brought an immediate and loud moan from the other Fhrey. "That scar suggests otherwise," Moya replied. "On both counts." More laughter, louder this time. "Pretty and smart," Tekchin said to the others in Fhrey. Persephone was thankful Moya couldn't understand their language. A comment like that would have been tanta.. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 5067b51 | Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up. "Don't bother," Esrahaddon told them. "She's dead, and there's nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It--" The two were out the door." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 291eaf5 | I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person. | loneliness love | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 069f8c5 | Life is only precious if you wish it to be.' I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal--do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience? | Michael J. Sullivan |