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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3f9baf5 | Cats talk to whomever they please. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 303458c | Starling tries to seduce Fitz. "Be with me" she said simply "Just for here. Just for now. With gentleness and friendship. To take...the other away. Give me that much of yourself." I wanted her. I wanted her with a desperation that had nothing to do with love, and even, I believe, little to do with lust. She was warm and alive and it would have been sweet and simple human comfort. If I could have been with her and arisen from it unchanged in.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| fe7984b | Surprise!-FitzChivalry | Robin Hobb | ||
| 10fcaea | A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 091444d | There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next ten breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a1c05b2 | Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7f5eb3c | You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you." "No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my task of checking on you less onerous. I'm glad you're awake. You snore abominably." I let this comment pass. "You've grown." I observed. "Yes. So have you. And you've been sick. And you slept quite a long time. And now you're awake and bathed a.. | humour robin-hobb the-fool | Robin Hobb | |
| 33d15a2 | I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of p.. | fitz fitzchivalry-farseer fool robin-hobb skill | Robin Hobb | |
| 2042563 | And a Fool is supposed to be wise? | Robin Hobb | ||
| c91340e | I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 95237b8 | Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 92849d1 | Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 69d663e | The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, per.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 17e9403 | A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2ecc47e | Starling lowered her voice, but it carried anyway. "He is FitzChivalry, son of Chivalry the Abdicated. And you are the Fool." "Once, perhaps, I was the Fool. It is common knowledge here in Jhaampe. But now I am the Toymaker. As I no longer use the other title, you may take it for yourself if you wish. As for Tom, I believe he takes the title Bed Bolster these days." "I will be seeing the Queen about this." "A wise decision. If you wish to b.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e3fc4bb | I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 80cc276 | Daddy dear, I'm only four And I'd rather not be more. Four's the nicest age to be, Two and two and one and three. What I love is two and two, Mother, Peter, Phil, and you. What you love is one and three, Mother, Peter, Phil, and me. Give your little girl a kiss Because she learned and told you this. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 0449462 | If you're lucky enough to be different, don't you ever changed" - Taylor Swift" | E. Nesbit | ||
| 1ff5892 | I didn't really know the answer to this myself, but saying that wasn't going to get me off the hook. I started talking without any clear idea of what was going to come out. 'Because sex causes more unhappiness than it gives pleasure,' I said. 'Because men and women want different things, and one of them always ends up being disappointed. Because I don't get asked much, and I hate asking. Because I'm not very good at it. Because I'm used to.. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| ba175f3 | There once was a man who went to see a psychiatrist, crippled by a fear of flying. His phobia was based on the belief that there would be a bomb on any plane he boarded. The psychiatrist tried to shift the phobia but couldn't, so he sent his patient to a statistician. The statistician prodded a calculator and informed the man that the odds against there being a bomb on board the next flight he took were half a million to one. The man still .. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 1683be5 | This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place. | internet-humor politics | Peter F. Hamilton | |
| 1efc780 | Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility. | inspirational | Will Schwalbe | |
| 238e308 | Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| f21454f | For this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| dbab768 | The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps one or two good friends gathered after dinner over a jug of fierce red wine... While the children are falling asleep and complaining about the noise you're making as you rummage through the closets for your old poems, afraid your wife might've thrown them out with last spring's cleaning. It's.. | the-world-doesn-t-end | Charles Simic | |
| 7a6779a | To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. | Charles Simic | ||
| 2617725 | There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes. | marijuana pot weed | Cornell Woolrich | |
| 597b4d3 | Para mi, los libros son verdaderos talismanes. Me parece que, si tengo algo a mano para leer, puedo ser capaz de aguantar casi todo. Son un antidoto para el dolor, un calmante para la desesperacion, un excitante contra el aburrimiento. Nunca me siento sola ni existen horas perdidas cuando puedo sumergirme en un texto. | Rosa Montero | ||
| a396652 | We must eat to live, and not live to eat. | Molière | ||
| faf4797 | Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine." Allowed. Now let us reverse it. Theresa May has allowed her husband to shine. Does it make sense? If Philip May were prime minister, perhaps we might hear that his wife had "supported" him from the background, or that she was "behind" him, or that she'd "stood by his side," but we would never hear that she had "allowed" him to shin.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4ff8b4e | Eugene has to stop doing God's job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5b99a36 | How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like that. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 48bc4d0 | He turned to her and said, "About time," when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service." | strangers | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2a5df0f | She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave Americans time to worry that their child might have a rare disease that they had just read about, made them think that they had the right to protect their child from disappointment and want and failure. A sated belly gave Americans the luxury of praising themselves for being good parents, as if carin.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e9e3a31 | The white missionaries brought us their god," Amaka was saying. "Which was the same color as them, worshiped in their language and packaged in the boxes they made. Now that we take their god back to them, shouldn't we at least repackage it?" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e5b16cc | The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 64220a8 | We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5188a69 | Never, ever link Chizalum's appearance with morality. Never tell her that a short skirt is "immoral." Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality. If you clash over what she wants to wear, never say things like "You look like a prostitute," as I know your mother once told you. Instead, say, "That dress doesn't flatter you like this other one." Or doesn't fit as well. Or doesn't look as attractive. .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5ba4762 | Understanding America for the Non-American Black: American Tribalism In America, tribalism is alive and well. There are four kinds--class, ideology, region, and race. First, class. Pretty easy. Rich folk and poor folk. Second, ideology. Liberals and conservatives. They don't merely disagree on political issues, each side believes the other is evil. Intermarriage is discouraged and on the rare occasion that it happens, is considered remarkab.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| acf3ce1 | As we drove back to Enugu, I laughed loudly,above Fela's stringent singing. I laughed because Nsukka's untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Because the tarred roads spring potholes like surprise presents and the air smells of hills and history and the sunlight scatters the sand and turns it into gold dust. Because Nsukka could free something deep inside your belly that would rise up to.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 75141c3 | Just give her one, Ifemelu thought. To overwhelm a child of four with choices, to lay on her the burden of making a decision, was to deprive her of the bliss of childhood. Adulthood, after all, already loomed, where she would have to make grimmer and grimmer decisions. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2df3c1b | The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they merely wanted the gesture of her presence. They had not read her blog but they had heard that she was a "leading blogger" about race." | reassurance workshops | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| ebd3973 | The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words. | Amos Oz | ||
| ce15ca6 | There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose. | Amos Oz |