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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f8ab7a | We always hate people who surprise our secrets... | l-m-montgomery secrets | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a88abaf | Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0965336 | The knowledge of that land's geography...'east o' the sun, west o' the moon'...is priceless lore, not to be bought in any market place. It must be the gift of the good fairies at birth and the years can never deface it or take it away. It is better to possess it, living in a garret, than to be the inhabitant of palaces without it. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5026e70 | A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats. | chivalry irish | L.M. Montgomery | |
| b82e575 | After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3ce48ad | Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f23c8ae | It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was handsome auburn, don't you think? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 09a12a3 | Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it." | beauty friends friendship l-m-montgomery thankfulness | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 73c5390 | hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 348d962 | always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b91da41 | He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then. | happiness-in-life happiness-in-simpleness opportunism | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 7769ca8 | It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3e96716 | I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles. | hope imagination love-deferred singleness | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 521c89a | Yes, red-to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all Queen Anne-My Queen Anne-queen of my heart and life and home. | gilbert love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 3b3acb4 | It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| 75675c5 | This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other all the afternoon. They would bend together and talk earnestly for a few moments, then spring back and look at each other, throwing up their hands comically in horror and amazement over their mutual revelations. I wonder what new scandal is afoot .. | anthropomorphism trees | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e18c010 | If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c668d25 | Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| 7ea77c8 | She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4bb4929 | It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8219762 | Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed. "No." "Oh!" Anne drew a long breath. "Oh, Miss--Marilla, how much you miss!" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c369850 | The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7b87c61 | To think that this is my twentieth birthday, and that I've left my teens behind me forever," said Anne, who was curled up on the hearth-rug with Rusty in her lap, to Aunt Jamesina who was reading in her pet chair. They were alone in the living room. Stella and Priscilla had gone to a committee meeting and Phil was upstairs adorning herself for a party. "I suppose you feel kind of sorry," said Aunt Jamesina. "The teens are such a nice part o.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c188137 | So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there's only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here's the question: What kind of sandwich do you make? | John Lescroart | ||
| 1b091ca | You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right. | Enid Blyton | ||
| 9ab74b1 | Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!' said Jimmy longingly. 'How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night! | fields house longing towns wheels | Enid Blyton | |
| f7be1b7 | All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew. | bell hooks | ||
| 587934b | Individual members of certain churches in black communities should protest when worship services become a platform for teaching anti-gay sentiments. Often individuals sit and listen to preachers raging against gay people and think the views expressed are amusing and outmoded, and dismiss them without challenge. But if homophobia is to be eradicated in black communities, such attitudes must be challenged. | homophobia | bell hooks | |
| ee287ce | there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself. | politics | bell hooks | |
| 417a28e | Women have greater freedom than ever before, and yet it is not clear whether that freedom has given us greater access to true love. It is not clear how that freedom has changed the nature of romance and partnerships. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 0b0abc2 | Learning to wear a mask (that word already embedded in the term "masculinity") is the first lesson in patriarchal masculinity that a boy learns. He learns that his core feelings cannot be expressed if they do not conform to the acceptable behaviors sexism defines as male. Asked to give up the true self in order to realize the patriarchal ideal, boys learn self-betrayal early and are rewarded for these acts of soul murder." | Bell Hooks | ||
| 5956591 | They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission. | patriarchy | bell hooks | |
| d833a27 | Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not as intense as loving requires. The risk is not as great. So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even tough we are obsessed with the idea of love the truth is that most of us live relatively decent, somewhat satisfying lives even if we often feel that love is lacking. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 748b33a | Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 1103c2a | Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words have been the source of the pain and the way to heal. Struck as a child for talking, for speaking out of turn, for being out of my place. Struck as a grown woman for not knowing when to shut up, .. | memoir poetry writing | Bell Hooks | |
| 39bf738 | The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. | bell hooks | ||
| 041df2d | Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threa.. | bell hooks | ||
| a7f14c0 | There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love. | children justice love | bell hooks | |
| 22646c6 | Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power. | feminism literature love patriarchy relationships | bell hooks | |
| 65d6d6a | To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings. | bell hooks | ||
| c546a78 | She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b2ecdb6 | All these scars. The road map of my life. My armor. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 3b00b4c | You can take the boy out of the Devil but not the Devil out of the boy | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e7df71a | What now? We can't go to my place or the hospital or the fight club. Should we lay low at the grocery store? | hawaii nurse pack reno wolf wolves | Lisa Kessler |