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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba57fc0 | Your songs are still out there on the clifftop, hanging in the air for you when you want them. Wish to speak and you will speak, girl. Wish to die and you can do it. Wish to live and here you are. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 3d14bf5 | No point my telling you he's not worth it, I suppose. . . I've seen enough men in my time. Whoever he is, he's not worth what you'll pay. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| c679078 | I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?" | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 57f364c | I wanted to know how ugly I could get, how ruined and ugly and spoiled, before they stopped trying to fuck me. I didn't think they'd ever notice. Nobody had so far. Because I was still in the shape of a beautiful girl. Although I behaved like an ugly one. | Emma Forrest | ||
| 2e1ac69 | My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean. | Emma Forrest | ||
| 8cf4713 | Very soon she'll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed eyes, aimless gestures, high-pitched laughter. The way they walk and talk and scream or try to kill (themselves or you) if you laugh back at them. Yes, they've got to be watched. For the time comes when they try to kill, then disappear. But others are waiting to.. | lies memories | Jean Rhys | |
| f70e64a | I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering. | cry crying enough hostile people remembering sleep slime streets sweat thinking | Jean Rhys | |
| 5308fd4 | morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 0aaa06c | After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow... | Jean Rhys | ||
| fbb9c69 | But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful and kind,' or, subtly, 'Because you look as if you'll understand....' He says: 'Because I think you won't betray me.' I had meant to get this mean to talk to me and tell me all about it, and then be so devastatingly English that perhaps I should manage to hurt him a little in return for all the many times I've been hurt.... | Jean Rhys | ||
| e5eac4b | Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss.... | solitude | Jean Rhys | |
| f984fb3 | Your courage in the grove surprised me. Surprise is a reaction I had all but forgotten. I have seen enough that I alway know what to expect. I assess the odds of various outcomes, and me predictions are never thwarted. before you were finished confronting the revenant, the potion failed. I saw the artificial bravado leave you. Your demise was certain. Yet, despite my certainty, you removed the nail. Had you been full-grown, a seasoned hero .. | Brandon Mull | ||
| b22364d | but you don't need to understand everything about a world to live in it. | Brandon Mull | ||
| a53165e | When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how? | Robert Bringhurst | ||
| 0a0ee33 | Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly. | freedom | Robert Bringhurst | |
| bf370f7 | The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, stro.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 6e54a9b | You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven't gotten around to yet. | live-bait p-j-tracy | P.J. Tracy | |
| c9b646e | Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology. | computer-science programming technology | Charles Petzold | |
| 2f986ed | When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing." (p.90)" | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| b909ab0 | Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours--your own wild mind. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| e67ff96 | Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must .. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| ab720e3 | Usually I try to suppress any emotions that savor of regret, because they are invariably aperitifs to a main course of depression, and for the long-lived, that's a recipe for suicide. But that doesn't mean they can't sneak up on me sometimes. And, like, gang-tackle me. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 21ac482 | Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia it and then we'll talk. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1a35034 | Falling in love is like that: you always feel like a dumbass at some point, even if you know it's coming -- it's unavoidable. | love | Kevin Hearne | |
| eb1bacd | Oh, I know. They're dwarfs pretending to be elves. No, they're not dwarfs either. Okay, okay, they're "little people," I'm sorry! Can't believe I have to be politically correct when you're the only one who can hear me." | dog humor oberon | Kevin Hearne | |
| 08718b9 | Bring it,muthafuckas.Bring it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 3f7cba8 | That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is. | gender robin-hobb the-fool | Robin Hobb | |
| 9ebd2d6 | Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that. | Robin Hobb | ||
| fc3043b | She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent. | humor | Gordon Dahlquist | |
| 51ebc8c | Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive? | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 793ce06 | I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are. | Robin Hobb | ||
| dc03f8b | Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the kindest thing I can say for it. Other are required, other perspectives, but even so our most important ceremonies - birth, love, and death - are secured by whomever and whatever is available. What chance, what caprice! | Carol Shields | ||
| 4cce743 | The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If 'little than nothing' will disturb it, than 'little less than all things' will suffice to break it. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 6f13a56 | how shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man -- my greatest enemy -- for none could injure me as he has done? Oh! when I think how fondly, how foolishly I have loved him, how madly I have trusted him, how constantly I have laboured, and studied, and prayed, and struggled for his advantage, and how cruelly he has trampled on my love, betrayed my trust, scorned my prayers and tears, and efforts for h.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| fcdbd61 | I do wish he would sometimes be serious. I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself? | Anne Brontë | ||
| 2b068d8 | You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle, but I should never be tempted to do it; for I could not like him, if he were ever so handsome, and ever so charming, in other respects; I should hate him--despise him--pity him--anything but love him. My affections not only ought to be founded on approbation, but they will and must be so: for, without approving, I cannot l.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 99ff0c7 | It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced. | confidence misplace | Anne Brontë | |
| 3da275b | This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 41bd184 | You prefer her faults to other people's perfection. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 117f9ee | My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 1b8c7f4 | All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity,.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 4fe9887 | The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I seldom could look upon an hour as entirely my own; since, when everything was left to the caprices of Miss Matilda and her sister, there could be no order or regularity. Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, .. | time waiting | Anne Brontë | |
| d18e7ae | One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c4fb77c | He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place. | cold depression devastation disappointment emotion empty numb pain peace sadness ship sorrow storm tragedy way woman | Robin Hobb |