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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bca02fe | The stuff I own will no longer own me. | Frank Warren | ||
| a060970 | Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would supp.. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 1559e27 | Thought it has certainly taken you long enough to realize what should have truly been precious to you. Not your own self-importance, nor how clever you thought you were, but the affections of those who cared for you, and that you should have cared for in return. e become truly great only when we work for others as well as ourselves. By your own light, you can only illuminate a small part of the world, but when your light is reflected and sh.. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 682f830 | From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only moral fiction of the modern world--because in a mystery, you were guaranteed to see that the bad got punished, the good got rewarded and in the end all was made right. I'd like to think that fantasy does the same thing. It reminds us that , and maybe if we all put our minds to it a little more, . The good will be rewarded. .. | fiction morality mystery | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 94dafd5 | Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity. | laughter sanity | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 6ca43af | I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 8fc4e34 | When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing. | friendship imagination naivety sisters | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 03b1a1d | As I stand in the elevator, dazed, I realise that a massive winning lottery ticket chunk of my future has somehow found me here in the present, and I start to laugh. I cross the lobby, and as I run down the stairs to the street I see Clare running across Washington Square, jumping and whooping, and I am near tears and I don't know why. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 5cd70f5 | Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet, dignified, it typifies the will of a gentleman. --Painted and written with light heart, Wu Chen.'" --Sunday, May 31, 1992" | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 01beaa8 | There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ffe2069 | That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand. | madness mental-illness | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 92be70d | Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused us...It seems as if power were something to be wielded, always at someone's expense, usually our own. | abuse-of-authority abuse-of-power abuse-of-trust abuse-survivors abusive-parenting child-abuse child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-survivor healing misuse-of-power parental-authority power powerless powerlessness survivor survivor-of-abuse | Maureen Brady | |
| 2ecca59 | You had sex with the guy I'm dating for my own good. That's really sweet. Thanks. But just to be clear, I don't need any more favors from you. | Susan Mallery | ||
| ca9b7d5 | you're Shane, right?' He inched away from her and managed a quick nod as he twisted the rag he held in his fingers. 'Heidi sad you were willing to teach me how to ride.' Her expression shifted from entertained to confused, as if she was wondering why no one had mentioned he was a can or two shy of a six-pack. 'A horse,' he clarified, then wanted to kick himself. What else but a horse? Did he think she was here to learn to ride his mother'.. | awkward-encounters chemistry shane stupidity | Susan Mallery | |
| ee7ab8b | Knowing what to do is the easy part. Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder. - Josh Golden | Susan Mallery | ||
| 60faae2 | dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ffede09 | I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back. But I wouldn't say that. It was rosepetals I wanted to throw, not a poison dart. | unrequited-love | Donna Tartt | |
| cad9e69 | Well if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner." "Aspargus is in season," said Francis helpfully." | Donna Tartt | ||
| eab41ab | Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors? | Tartt Donna | ||
| 0641017 | Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 0cc1101 | He turned away from the bar as if he could leave the question there. But questions had no location; they could follow him around. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 0321649 | The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him. | Richard Matheson | ||
| a8a08c4 | I couldn't tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you this however. As long as you are separated from your own, that long are you troubled. No matter what the circumstances, no matter how exquisite the environment in which you find yourself. To be half | Richard Matheson | ||
| 8ff10c8 | And then finally the magic flowed, but not the same way as when the Dragon's spell-lessons dragged it in a rush out of me. Instead it seemed to me the sound of the chanting became a stream made to carry magic along, and I was standing by the water's edge with a pitcher that never ran dry, pouring a thin silver line into the rushing current. | Naomi Novik | ||
| ac07f57 | For his part, Temeraire had been following this exchange with cocked head and increasing confusion; now he said, "I do not understand in the least, why ought it make any difference at all? Lily is female, and she can fight just as well as I can, or almost," he amended, with a touch of superiority. Riley, still dissatisfied even after Laurence's reassurance looked after this remark very much as though he had been asked to justify the tide, o.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 64d7e12 | We are not going to be herded anywhere we do not like," [Temeraire] said, dangerously, "by Napoleon or by your admirals; and if you like to ask the other dragons of the Corps to try it, I expect they will see at once how very foolish it is, and if not, I will explain it to them, and I daresay they will join us instead." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 9dbe065 | So the next morning, I had the deeply wretched experience of seeing Prince Marek stop outside the tower doors to look up to my window and blow me a cheerful and indiscreet kiss. I'd been watching only to be sure he actually left; it took nearly all the caution left in me not to throw something down at his head, and I don't mean a token of my regard. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 0ce5f9b | But none of that matters at all." His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, "It's just--a way to go. There isn't only one way to go." I waved at his notes. "You're trying to find a road where there isn't one. It's like--it's gleaning in the woods," I said abruptly. "You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time." | finding-your-path finding-your-way life | Naomi Novik | |
| c48f11e | If you will pardon my saying so," Tharkay said, "you will never satisfy them on that point: the last thing you or Temeraire will ever give anyone is quiet obedience. Have you considered it might be better not to try?" | Naomi Novik | ||
| a0941aa | She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 58fc8e5 | A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of c.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 239a06c | We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 2f414b9 | By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 599d076 | The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. You're in it. You're already in it. What is the purpose of all this living if it's only to get some place else and then when you're there you're not happy anyway, you want to be some place else. It's always for 'when I retire,' 'when I graduate college,' 'when I make enough money,' 'when I get married,' 'when I get divorce.. | mindfulness moments the-future | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 73a07b1 | As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to make everyone in the English-speaking world look like an idiot - it's the Bill Maher of punctuation. | language | June Casagrande | |
| 64e0ede | They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey. | Charles Stross | ||
| 27e6746 | I argued for a Kindle but they pointed out that if it could be associated with me, then the information bleed--Amazon logging every page turn and annotation--was a potential security hazard. Not to mention the darker esoteric potential of spending too much time staring at a device controlled by a secretive billionaire in Seattle. The void stares also, and so on. | Charles Stross | ||
| 1f1f38b | Like the hero of a fairy-tale Mr Norrell had discovered that the power to do what he wished had been his own all along. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 7a9bf6b | He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had never actually been introduced to one or shaken its hand. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 343366e | May I ask you something?" Dr Greysteel nodded."Are you not afraid that it will go out?" "What will go out?" asked Dr Greysteel. "The candle," Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. "The candle inside your head." -- | Susanna Clarke | ||
| ca71f0e | With characteristic exuberance Tom named this curiously constructed house Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre, which means the Castle of Innumerable Towers. David Montefiore had counted the innumerable towers in 1764. There were fourteen of them. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 5172aa8 | He did not feel as if he were inside a Pillar of Darkness in the middle of Yorkshire; he felt more as if the rest of the world had fallen away and he and Strange were left alone upon a solitary island or promontory. The idea distressed him a great deal less than one might have supposed. He had never much cared for the world and he bore its loss philosophically. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 7bb98fd | Even the Raven King - who was not a fairy, but an Englishman - had a somewhat regrettable habit of abducting men and women and taking them to live with him in his castle in the Other Lands. Now, had you and I the power to seize by magic any human being that took our fancy and the power to keep that person by our side through all eternity, and had we all the world to chuse from, then I dare say our choice might fall on someone a little more .. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| bb086ed | Mr. Segundus began to suspect that they had an uneventful morning, and that when a strange gentleman had walked into the room and dropt down in a swoon, they were rather pleased than otherwise. | Susanna Clarke |