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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d435cf8 | There is nothing more seductive -- and dangerous -- than being listened to. | Donald Antrim | ||
| ee533b3 | There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love. | Rick Bass | ||
| f871ac7 | He could never admit to himself that it was death that had given his life meaning. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 784036a | Bad things are gonna' happen to you, because they happen to us all. And worrying won't stave the really bad things off. Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to other people's blow-dried outsides. Even the most privileged person in this stadium suffers the torments of the damned just going about the business of being human. | graduation | Mary Karr | |
| 0dce06b | We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin. | memoir memoirs | Mary Karr | |
| 97804d3 | And Meredith says that reminds her of a Camus novel, the one about the plague, and she tells the story of it, the tale holding you in thrall, and she ends her version with a line you'll write down in your notebook, the place where the atheist doctor hollers at a priest: All your certainties aren't worth one strand of a woman's hair. | Mary Karr | ||
| 5261c80 | The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding. | Mary Karr | ||
| 4596202 | Together, we soar. | Celeste Bradley | ||
| a24881b | My father represented authority, which meant--to me--that he could not also represent understanding. | William Maxwell | ||
| 6ef33ec | Whether they are part of a home or home is a part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer. Having taken away the dog, take away the kitchen-the smell of something good in the oven for dinner. Also the smell of washing day, of wool drying in the wooden rack. Of ashes. Of soup simmering on the stove. Take away the patient old horse waiting by the pasture fence. Take away the chores that kept him busy from the time he got hom.. | William Maxwell | ||
| 4389329 | A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounc.. | page-156 | George Saunders | |
| df62d5e | At sixteen, the caption read, this boy has never been hugged. Aoyama gazed for sometime at the kid's face. It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 5869c46 | Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them. Sometimes they remind me of the Invisible Man, but I've never quite understood why they end up that way. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 473e8e7 | Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135) | Michael Robotham | ||
| d05dce3 | Sophie, what will you do to help Josh,to save him, to bring him back?" Tsagaglalal asked. "Anything. Everything." Perenelle leaned forward to place both forearms on the table. Her hands were tightly locked together, knuckles white with tension. "And Sophie, what do you think I will do to help my husband?" "Anything," Sophie said again. "Everything." "We will do anything-everything-to help those we love. That is what seperates the humani fro.. | Michael Scott | ||
| 5203e02 | I wonder if this is what it feels like, falling out of love: feeling yourself fading out of existence - the gray sky, the coffee shop limbo - everything a way station of sorts. Making promises you know you can't keep. Making promises - period. People in love shouldn't have to vow or demand, petition or exhort. Nothing. Not even question. No collisions with your surroundings or yourself - you move gently, unknowing, in time. | Michael Thomas | ||
| 6b1c6e9 | Alone is current in truth's river, like togetherness. Alone has its own fidelity. But when you navigate that closer view of the shore, it often seems that faith you have in yourself is all the faith there is. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dac2142 | But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| df4ac42 | A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare. | interpretation | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 46c0e3e | The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 33dd2d6 | A [real] man does not flee from truth | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| f0117d1 | There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 2f2d4a4 | In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that terminates at the present, both in reality and in the mind. In this world, no person can imagine the future. Imagining the future is no more possible than seeing colors beyond violet: the senses cannot conceive what may lie past the visible end of the spectrum. In a world without future, each parting of friends is death. In a world without future, each loneliness is.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e60ea01 | I don't know why we long so for permanence, why the fleeting nature of things so disturbs. With futility, we cling to the old wallet long after it has fallen apart. We visit and revisit the old neighborhood where we grew up, searching for the remembered grove of trees and the little fence. We clutch our old photographs. In our churches and synagogues and mosques, we pray to the everlasting and eternal. Yet, in every nook and cranny, nature .. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e5ab1fd | Again, I love you too, Aric. Now, wear your fucking armor. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 004cd63 | The woman didn't taste bad, but she tasted wrong. She smelled good, but it wasn't | Kresley Cole | ||
| b1cb2fe | Olivia sat back and propped her half-boots on the table. 'So far it's working. He has to return to me because I have his sister hostage.' She briefly put her fingertips to her lips. 'Did I just say that? I mean I'm protecting the baby sister and earning his trust | humor love unrequited-love | Kresley Cole | |
| 3ce9602 | With a flick of her hand, Sabine wove an illusion. Suddenly she and Lanthe both looked like patients. "We'll create a stampede of humans and run out into the night with them." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 4f0f658 | And you always do your duty. Doesn't it ever get boring? I think that's why you're so attracted to me, because I've shaken your reasonable, rational, ordered life. I'd wager that you've felt more excitement with me in the last week than in centuries." That hit far too close to home. "And I think I've never known anyone as egotistical as you." "Egotistical? Try self-confident. Should I be meek instead? Would you like me better then?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 1ead39b | You wanna know what I'm feeling? Lemme tell you, bebe. Amusement. You're acting like we got some kind of choice in this matter. You're just as screwed as I am--because we're both too far gone for the other. | Kresley Cole | ||
| e220009 | Tera, I need a favor. I need you to translate something." "Indeed. And why should I help you?" Lucia said, "To stop an apocalypse." Then she explained where she and MacRieve were and the highlights of the threat. Once she'd finished, Tera sighed. "Can you take a picture of the symbols and e-mail them?" "What's your e-mail addy?" Lucia asked. "Hmm. Thegreatestarcherever at gmail dot com." "Surely the greatest archer ever had already tak.. | Kresley Cole | ||
| ad144d5 | When do you give up on someone you love? | Kresley Cole | ||
| bb43902 | It figures--it's always either the butler or the resurrected mate." [Elianna]" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3f30602 | With all my dreams having come true, what will I dream of now ? | Kresley Cole | ||
| c05487f | I can't help it that this is the Bermuda Triangle-she pointed at her crotch-when guys venture there, they tend to stay. I tapped my chin. Oh, I thought you called it that because it's sucked in lots of seamen. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 5a1c8df | My tone was part bubbly, part cutting - a mash-up of sugar and snide so perfected I should TM it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9b3f20d | Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned,I do the poisoning.I'm the princess of it. | stick-it-to-the-man | Kresley Cole | |
| 63fb7e9 | If a sorceress wanted a man who would stay faithful even when bespelled and accosted by nymphs, then she had to support that man even when he believed he could rehab his douchelord brother. | Kresley Cole | ||
| efa11e7 | I quirked a brow at him. "No kids for me. Would you really bring children into a world like this?" Eyes alight with playfulness, he said, "No. It was just an excuse to get in your pants." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8166fcd | Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet. | Robert Crais | ||
| 60eb1ae | I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at eighty as I was at twenty; I am sorry that I speak no languages but my mother tongue and that I have not traveled or experienced other cultures as widely as I should have done. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| db49456 | As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe. -DONNE | solitude | Oliver Sacks | |
| 3e30bfa | Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician - but they would recognize the brain of a professional musician without moment's hesitation. | Oliver Sacks | ||
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