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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 84dd552 | If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5c796ab | George who is out somewhere there in the dark... George who is good to me, and whom I revile; who understands me, and whom I push off; who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me, at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood; who keeps learning the games we play as quickly as I can change the rules; who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy, and yes I do wish to be happy. George a.. | Edward Albee | ||
| e9a828b | It's funny the way things work out. You go in search of one thing and end up finding something else. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was the Force at work." -Han Solo" | James Luceno | ||
| c61f6bb | I never claimed to be the Chosen One. That was Qui-Gon. Even the Council doesn't believe it anymore, so why should you?" "Because I think you believe it," Obi-Wan said calmly. "I think you know in your heart that you're meant for something extraordinary." "And you, Master. What does your heart tell you you're meant for?" "Infinite sadness," Obi-Wan said, even while smiling." | angst obi-wan-kenobi | James Luceno | |
| ebd5581 | Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination," Plagueis said. "Courage comes next." | James Luceno | ||
| 0c3391f | It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others. | Bono | ||
| 4a53d02 | Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. That gnaws away at the night-time hours desperate for a sign and appears at breakfast so self-composed. That longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 19b9837 | When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me. Jordan... I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could have kept him, but I named him after a river and in the flood-tide he slipped away. | children mothers rivers | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f5a3942 | I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 20292ba | It's the cliches that cause the trouble. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 96c434d | That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3f5cd0f | How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0898ba6 | Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's on the other side, and everyone has a story to tell os a woman or a brothel or an opium night or a war. We fear it. We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0d6feec | I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0d00676 | We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment. | healing love oneness pain | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 2b178ca | Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4b1cd4d | When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. | navigation | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 386f214 | Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me is mine? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| bc04ec9 | I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead. | children fenris loki | Joanne Harris | |
| 2419b7d | Even the damned can dream - infact, it's part of their torment. To escape, even for a second or two, to forget reality and drift, only to be yanked back into the waking world like a fish caught on a line... Yes. In some ways that's even worse than to have no relief at all. That second of two, on awakening, when anything still seems possible | Joanne Harris | ||
| a0202e1 | But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right? | Joanne Harris | ||
| c36f9af | Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 01bdfc2 | That's how religions and histories make their way into the world, not through battles and conquests, but through poems and kennings and songs, passed through generations and written down by scholars and scribes. . . . After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith, start a war, change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster, topple walls, scale mountains--Hey, a story can .. | Joanne Harris | ||
| c62d07f | There's something very comforting about the ritual of jam-making. It speaks of cellars filled with preserves; of neat rows of jars on pantry shelves. It speaks of winter mornings and bowls of , with thick slices of good fresh bread and last year's peach jam, like a promise of sunshine at the darkest point of the year. It speaks of four stone walls, a roof, and of seasons that turn in the same place, in the same way, year after year, with s.. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 43ebd05 | A named thing is a tamed thing. | power tamed | Joanne Harris | |
| dcde473 | The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough." | Barry Hughart | ||
| dd5de64 | Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 2de2001 | We were convinced that she looked on with indifference if she noticed us at all. Today I know that everything watches, that nothing goes unseen, and that even wallpaper has a better memory than ours. It isn't God in His heaven that sees all. A kitchen chair, a coathanger, a half-filled ash tray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can perfectly well serve as an unforgetting witness to every one of our acts. | Günter Grass | ||
| e53c5b8 | Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love. | falling-in-love love marriage relationship short-term-feeling successful-marriage | Gary Chapman | |
| c162a0f | Quality time does not mean that we have to spend our together moments gazing into each other's eyes. It means that we are doing something together and that we are giving our full attention to the other person. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 462efc6 | Dr. Dorothy Tennov, a psychologist, has done long-range studies on the in-love phenomenon. After studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 14ec932 | I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 5530d0c | What a gift to have a son. | hope | Diane Mott Davidson | |
| 2c3ad89 | The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not. | sue-grafton v-is-for-vengeance | Sue Grafton | |
| c5e622a | Life is simple. You're the one making things complex. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 5baba1a | People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 923ab66 | People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man... The stars, it seemed, would crush man in a scenic, gravitational panorama before man would ever corrupt the stars. | Rick Moody | ||
| 1251bdb | Do all the good you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 9a04ec3 | My predecessor in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, used to say, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 7bc9cc5 | That which does not kill us makes us stronger. --Friedrich Nietzsche (and Kelly Clarkson) | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| f468a85 | But too many of Trump's core supporters do hold views that I find--there's no other word for it--deplorable. And while I'm sure a lot of Trump supporters had fair and legitimate reasons for their choice, it is an uncomfortable and unavoidable fact that everyone who voted for Donald Trump--all 62,984,825 of them--made the decision to elect a man who bragged about sexual assault, attacked a federal judge for being Mexican and grieving Gold St.. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 7834d38 | I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that America's past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task. Culturally the Negro represents a paradox: Though he is an organic part of the nation, he is ex.. | blacklivesmatter civil-rights immigrants immigration lgbtq lgbtqia melting-pot racial-prejudice racism racism-in-america refugees slavery | Richard Wright | |
| e9c0a8e | So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting. | Richard Wright | ||
| 965bdea | But rape was not what one did to women. Rape was what one felt when one's back was against the wall and one had to strike out, whether one wanted to or not, to keep the pack from killing one. He committed rape every time he looked into a white face. He was a long, taut piece of rubber which a thousand white hands had stretched to the snapping point, and when he snapped it was rape. But it was rape when he cried out in hate deep in his heart.. | Richard Wright |