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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eaaad37 | There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 70994bd | Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable. | Agatha Christie | ||
| acfab02 | I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 81d301c | Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and the.. | god god-s-grace heretics infidels self-knowledge the-church | John Henry Newman | |
| a4e2ed2 | During the day, the library is a realm of order. | order | Alberto Manguel | |
| 73c4d61 | nHn m nqrw'h. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| f37c0e2 | I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face. | death fear-of-death living living-well | Alberto Manguel | |
| 12c31ba | No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder of everything one doesn't know, the surveillance--and some of that overwhelming feeling may cling on, even after the rituals and conventions are learned, the geography mapped, and the natives f.. | books libraries library | Alberto Manguel | |
| 6fa936f | 'm lGryb fy l'mr fhw 'nn l nnqT` 'bdan `n mmrs@ f`l lqr@ `l~ lrGm mn 'nn l nmlk tfsyran mrDyan lm nf`lh | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 0598558 | As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. | forgiveness morals readers repentance revenge romance | Alberto Manguel | |
| 571a431 | lys ldy 'y sh`wr bldhnb bsh'n lktb lty lm qr'h wrbm ln qr'h 'bdan, f'n '`rf b'n ktby ldyh Sbr l Hdwd lh | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 6a64484 | The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough." | Frank Beddor | ||
| 0c76201 | I'm stronger than you are, Redd. | Frank Beddor | ||
| ca530ae | When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so." | Frank Beddor | ||
| c5ab817 | What. Are. Thooooooose?" the walrus moaned. On the holo-screen airing the happenings in Genevieve Square, a swarm of scorpspitters released by the Glass Eyes was scuttling toward Alyss and the other. Never before had a Wonderlander seen these scorpion-like contraptions that could bullets of deadly poison from their "tails"--not even Bibwit, who assumed they were the latest in a long line of armaments invented by Redd. But before a single sc.. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 76f8e4d | Something stiffened, moved. Just as Alyss realized who it was, standing with bowed head at Sir Justice's grave-- . | Frank Beddor | ||
| c0e10f2 | Spend a long time alone, especially if you're someone who's never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude. | Ron Rash | ||
| 0b40c9f | A small profit it better than a big loss | choices life loss profit | Ron Rash | |
| a09a7ba | Not , but ! | fantasy twig | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | |
| 588d874 | We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position." | peer-pressure | Shelby Foote | |
| 3d53f9f | she loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 39cc0c8 | please don't carry my love for you with you forever. but don't let that be all. our capacity to love is vast - all of us. my daughters taught me that. there is room. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 03a30f0 | To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there was a bed, and in that bed there lay a little girl; | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 9ac65b6 | She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace. | love north-and-south poetic | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| d77d5a9 | She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 6814ce5 | Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| c64699d | I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there. | bessy margaret north-and-south | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| b161bb4 | Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, to obey the simple laws of "Come when you're called," and "Do as you're bid!" But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease." | parenting-teens | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 150478b | Nature felt no change, and was ever young. | helstone maragaret youth | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| b76e24e | With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red cam above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and a soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the earth; the low whispering wind left its hiding-place among the clefts and hollows of the hills, and wandered among the rustling herbs and trees, waking the flower-buds to the life of another day. | new-day sunrise | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| cc1d70c | But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f517c34 | People admire talent, and talk about their admiration. But they value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 7be99a6 | The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained before they passed away; the stroll down to the beach to breathe the sea-air, soft and warm on the sandy shore even at the end of November; the great long misty sea-line touching the tender-coloured sky; the white sail of a distant b.. | calm laziness lazy lazy-day meditation meditative north-and-south peace | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 7d418e6 | Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 2a32d9f | Should you have liked your sister to have been noticed by a grocer's assistant for doing so?" "In the first place, as it is not many years since I myself was a draper's assistant, the mere circumstance of a grocer's assistant noticing any act does not alter the character of the act to me." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 80d681d | It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime..." | Rob Bell | ||
| 046b5a0 | When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine. | Rob Bell | ||
| d97bdc2 | What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn't. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you've realised that no one else has a clue what they're doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into huma.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 839cfe1 | You can be whatever you want--so long as you're sure it's what you actually want, rather than one of two equally dodgy choices foisted onto you. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 58b5e88 | When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no choice at all." | future | Caitlin Moran | |
| efb4b2b | You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 39e5e78 | Three gods, two Druids, and a selkie walk into a bar ... | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 9fccf8e | The great experiment. In democracy. The equality of rabble. In not much more than a generation they have come back to CLASS. As the French have done. What a tragic thing, that Revolution. Bloody George was a bloody fool. But no matter. The experiment doesn't work. Give them fifty years, and all that equality rot is gone. Here they have the same love of the land and of tradition, of the right form, of breeding, in their horses, their women. .. | the-killer-angels | Michael Shaara | |
| c52edf4 | I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Frede.. | Michael Shaara |