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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 080630c | May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons." | sophie-a vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| 12fbd58 | Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7a458a0 | I was so sleepy (and sore) that another bout of sex was out of the question, unless Eric had suddenly developed an interest in necrophilia. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b889956 | In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could. | relationships deeds debts society | Charlaine Harris | |
| 56954a5 | You, on the other hand, are a sweet little eclair on the outside and a pit bull on the inside. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1ce5e49 | I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on. | life-and-living | Charlaine Harris | |
| 4e79968 | My mother says often enough that a young lady with my improper attitude can only come to ruin. I hope she's right. | Ronda Thompson | ||
| 70da809 | Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6fe5a16 | I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height. | reflective | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| c1225ef | Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b001c44 | In a lifetime of hearing people celebrate weekends, she finally saw what all the fuss was about. By no means did her workload cease on Saturday, but it did shift gears. If her kids wanted to pull everything out of the laundry basket to make a bird's nest and sit in it, fine. Dellarobia could even sit in there with them and incubate, if she so desired. Household chores no longer called her name exclusively. She had an income. She'd never bef.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 51ac81c | High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5d5fc4e | Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5d75a3b | If it crosses your mind that water running through hundreds of miles of open ditch in a desert will evaporate and end up full of concentrated salts and muck, then let me just tell you, that kind of negative thinking will never get you elected to public office in the state of Arizona. When this giant new tap turned on, developers drew up plans to roll pink stucco subdivisions across the desert in all directions. The rest of us were supposed .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5de9e03 | Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0f69018 | An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that changes and then disappears. It drops like a stone to the bottom of the cave. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8548dde | Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0ae371c | Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 386355c | Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bfef6d0 | Most people of my grandparents' generation had an intuitive sense of agricultural basics ... This knowledge has vanished from our culture. We also have largely convinced ourselves it wasn't too important. Consider how many Americans might respond to a proposal that agriculture was to become a mandatory subject in all schools ... A fair number of parents would get hot under the collar to see their kids' attention being pulled away from the .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 16d2fe3 | We're a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating are taking a dire toll on our health--most tragically for our kids, who are predicted to be this country's first generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. That alone is a stunning enough fact to give us pause. So is a government policy that advises us to eat more fruits and vegetables, while doling out subsidies not to f.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1ea4853 | Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re: global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role." He replies: "The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewe.. | climate-crisis monarch-butterflies | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| b190cdb | Whether we choose to focus on the guilt in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to us. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 512a3a1 | There's a myth that some people are more faithful than others. A truer statement is that in some areas, some of us are more surrendered than others. We surrender to God first, of course, the things we don't really care that much about anyway. Some of us don't mind giving up our attachment to career goals, but there's no way we're going to surrender our romantic relationships, or vice versa. Everything we don't care that much about--fine--Go.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 9089908 | How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light. | enlightenment suffering light depression self-awareness psychoanalysis darkness-and-light darkness-within light-of-love light-of-the-spirit painful-memories self-analysis treatment healing-the-past spiritual-healing spiritual-wisdom grief-and-loss therapy ego self-help | Marianne Williamson | |
| fd230c2 | We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a9c6b72 | God has given you your identity, and that cannot be taken away. God has imbued you with infinite potential, and that cannot be taken away. God has provided you with the opportunity to change your thinking in an instant, and that cannot be taken away. God has given you the capacity to love, and that cannot be taken away. God has entrusted you with the power to live in the light of His abundance in any moment, and that cannot be taken away. | motivational | Marianne Williamson | |
| 68a92f6 | As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do. | work unemployment service | Marianne Williamson | |
| 8ebf9a0 | Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable. A beautiful heroine is a contradiction in terms, since heroism is about individuality, interesting and ever changing, while "beauty" is generic, boring, and inert. While culture works out moral dilemmas, "beauty" is amoral: If a woman is born resembling an art object, it is a.. | beauty images self-esteem | Naomi Wolf | |
| a1473a6 | The real issue has nothing to do with whether women wear makeup or don't, gain weight or lose it, have surgery or shun it, dress up or down, make our clothing and faces and bodies into works of art or ignore adornment altogether. The real problem is our lack of choice. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 4c516a4 | When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 645fb30 | So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any fool could say no. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 7cbebd9 | Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that the job of the author is to show, not tell. Needless to say, many great novelists combine "dramatic" showing with long sections of the flat-out authorial narration that is, I guess, what is meant by telling. And the warning against telling leads to a confusion that causes novice writers to think that everythin.. | fiction writing show-don-t-tell language | Francine Prose | |
| 8f89ed8 | I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. | Richard Peck | ||
| d75d8d7 | It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 4065aac | I TRUST THAT GOD WILL HELP ME, BECAUSE WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO LOOKS VERY HARD. | god | John Irving | |
| f6f0bd0 | The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see themselves as justified to operate above the law-they disgrace democracy by claiming that what they do they do for democracy! They should be in jail. They should be in Hollywood! | John Irving | ||
| a1dc8f4 | Love was certainly not safe - not ever. | John Irving | ||
| 1811c9e | I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.' (David Copperfield) "But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible holes in the prophylactics, the phantoms of those days were not easy to detect--and their meaning was unknown--but they were there." | John Irving | ||
| 31de552 | Buster was queer as a cat fart. | John Irving | ||
| 1cb3510 | The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen. | John Irving | ||
| ff1ab57 | Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit, when her feet were not upon the ground? | John Irving | ||
| 84b5a1d | Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat. | John Irving | ||
| 2c26ca1 | It was not the cold that made you want to rush out as soon as you'd jumped in; it was the unmeasured depth - our fear of what was on the bottom, and how far below us the bottom was. | John Irving |