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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a0459f | How many mistakes can one life survive? | Kim Harrison | ||
| 89b9923 | Good God," I whispered, sitting on the van's cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy--not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn't-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that's just...nasty." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6487b3d | Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 07db208 | He darted a guilty look toward his dad. "Will you--get me a bottle of spicy?" My eyes jerked to his. "Maybe some barbecue sauce?" I closed my mouth before a bug flew into it. "Sure." I did not believe this. I was pimping ketchup to the son of the FIB's captain." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 109a0d1 | Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a2eb8a1 | Was using "dead-man's-toe" morally okay if the man's relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 63c61b4 | Tell me where you want it," I said. Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. "You're asking me?" "Well, unless you want a big R on your forehead." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 76c8927 | Demon summoning wasn't illegal, but my foot in their gut a couple of times might convince them it was a really bad idea. | Kim Harrison | ||
| b396752 | Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3097ceb | The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 947540c | Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence? | Kim Harrison | ||
| fd727fa | Rachel," came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket as if it was a death shroud, the black-haired intern at his side, supporting him. His hair was plastered to his skull with sweat, and I could see him wavering as he stood there. "Don't touch Trenton," he said, his gravelly voice clear in the hush, "or I'm going to have to come down there...and smack you around." | Kim Harrison | ||
| d8ae2ff | because children should have the chance to be loved by those who love them--always and no matter what. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3c9e884 | Soon the cold would force them inside, so they clutched at lost summer. | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 15e985f | Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 7e56f19 | Anhamirak, abandon and freedom. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 96d7cdd | People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say. | silence-speaks | Sandra Brown | |
| 1a89ac3 | He also knew that whenever he recalled her kissing his cheek with such unqualified trust and acceptance, it was going to ache just a little in the vicinity of his heart. It ached now. | lee-coburn | Sandra Brown | |
| 3353064 | September 29 I will fear no evil: for thou art with me . . . -- Psalm 23:4 No matter what is happening in your relationships, fear nothing and no one. When you walk with the consciousness of the Creator, there is nothing to fear. Do not fear that people will harm you or leave you. Do not fear people who threaten you. Do not fear obstacles that confront you. Have no fear of harm to your body or possessions, you are walking with the strong ar.. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| d57a564 | Very often we claim to know something. We get an idea about what to do or not do, yet, for some reason our behavior doesn't change. At times, we just can't seem to do what we know. This is known as mental healing. Something has shifted in your thinking, but it has not reach the other levels of your being--the heart and the spirit. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| e6a1a7e | What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance. | poetry inspirational obama | Elizabeth Alexander | |
| ac27dd6 | Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other's lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand.. | Elizabeth Alexander | ||
| ca24bff | He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities. | multiple-personalities personalities edward-said | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 438e578 | Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has.. | politics political-radicalism social-structure-of-the-uk united-kingdom margaret-thatcher ronald-reagan oscar-wilde the-importance-of-being-earnest social-class united-states england | Christopher Hitchens | |
| c437587 | Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn't quite recognize", Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the | television politics friendship diana-princess-of-wales martin-walker-reporter marty-peretz nightline presidency-of-bill-clinton sidney-blumenthal the-guardian the-new-republic university-of-oxford pettiness oxford argumentation mother-teresa bill-clinton journalism united-states england betrayal london new-york | Christopher Hitchens | |
| ea51db2 | All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of .. | religion mediterranean-basin moses ottoman-empire settlements oil israeli-palestinian-conflict israel jerusalem jews palestine palestinians | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 6dcbd8a | The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. | rebellion religion strength wisdom freethought piety | Christopher Hitchens | |
| ba6dd2e | Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted]. | doubt wisdom contrarian routine | Christopher Hitchens | |
| a98f7b1 | As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the mo.. | humanism algeria central-intelligence-agency daniel-lapin federal-bureau-of-investigation national-security saudi-arabia al-qaeda working-class pat-robertson jerry-falwell taliban september-11-attacks jihad george-w-bush pakistan terrorism islam islamism democracy leftism secularism egypt | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 645c8cf | Joseph Heller knew how the need to belong, and the need for security, can make people accept lethal and stupid conditions, and then act as if they had imposed them on themselves. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 43b4e5f | There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hop.. | friends friendship leukemia self-pity edward-said pessimism insecurity | Christopher Hitchens | |
| b3c9b0e | Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you--free. --Kingsley Amis | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 84549a9 | ' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question--as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it--may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as .. | irish-question solutions jewish-question gertrude-stein problems holocaust questions jews | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0d2ece0 | Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty--or indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, .. | enlightenment progress irony lies socialism literature humanism politics faith religion science truth apoliticism berlin bought-priesthood cape-coloureds eurocentricism george-hw-bush german-people groupthink left-wing-politics margaret-thatcher munich personality-politics polytheism potus radical-politics tribalism xhosa-people zulu-people ronald-reagan sectarianism monotheism solipsism argument critical-thinking self-pity self-love south-africa totalitarianism journalism right-wing-politics george-orwell soviet-union united-states conviction orthodoxy los-angeles film individualism atheism hedonism thomas-mann populism russia communism postmodernism cold-war germany literary-criticism euphemism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 7a97bb3 | I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots--written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements--and found that they called themselves or--it sounded just as bad in English--'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they .. | god gush-emunim hebron squatters yeshivas zionists belarus poland israeli-palestinian-conflict guns colonialism israel jews palestine palestinians religious-extremism students | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 7a21507 | There are all sorts of families," Tom's grandmother had remarked, and over the following few weeks Tom became part of the Casson family, as Micheal and Sarah and Derek-from-the-camp had done before him. He immediately discovered that being a member of the family was very different from being a welcome friend. If you were a Casson family member, for example, and Eve drifted in from the shed asking, "Food? Any ideas? Or shall we not bother?" .. | kids love | Hilary McKay | |
| 8bdd665 | The cause of the Party's defectiveness must be found. All our principles were right, but our results were wrong. This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife anew sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people. But they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 76ac805 | What had he said to them? "I bow my knees before the country, before the masses, before the whole people...." And what then? What happened to these masses, to this people? For forty years it had been driven through the desert, with threats and promises, with imaginary terrors and imaginary rewards. But where was the Promised Land? Did there really exist any such goal for this wandering mankind? That was a question to which he would have lik.. | darkness-at-noon | Arthur Koestler | |
| 6884b0e | Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale... | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 2d9edd6 | But who will be proved right? It will only be known later. Meanwhile he is bound to act on credit and sell his soul to the devil, in the hope of history's absolution. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 7c60126 | I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks. | artists | Walter Kirn | |
| 36224a8 | It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| d674ef6 | Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 18162b0 | We walked to dinner, ate together, and talked nearly the whole time. I was amazed that I had as much in common with her as I did. I'd been raised mostly in a completely different country, yet we were so similar. | girltalk jill jill-and-anna tall-dark-streak-of-lighting friendship-true-and-loyal tdsol best-friends | J.M. Richards |