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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 81af68b | Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 7fec350 | Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention | Colleen McCullough | ||
| d62ee65 | That was what it meant, didn't it. Being good. You didn't have to sink wells in Burkina Faso. You didn't have to give away your coffee table. You just had to see things from other people's point of view. Remember they were human. | Mark Haddon | ||
| aaa7a26 | And it means that sometimes thing are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 07c1642 | No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary | simple-truth | Mark Haddon | |
| 9f4a843 | And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on the earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 9ba6491 | And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. | logicians mathematicians nerdy | Mark Haddon | |
| a296be8 | I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fc01a36 | It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b6f6e6c | I tried to book two rooms at the same hotel, or at least a room with two beds, or even a room with a twin or queen bed, but the only ones available are singles, and even they were hard to find. Apparently some new Nicholas Sparks movie is being filmed here, and that 'Zac Teflon' boy from those high school movies is in town. | Jay McLean | ||
| 02e260c | And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 96dc028 | But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me." -- | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f1c9caf | You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6aca018 | You can't run, you can't hide, and the idea that you have no control at all just gets into your head and it sticks there. In my time in the Navy, I was never so scared in my life. Bombs and smoke everywhere, fires on the deck. Meanwhile, the guns are booming and the noise is like nothing you've ever heard. Thunder times ten, maybe, but that doesn't describe it. In the big battles, Japanese Zeros strafed the deck continually, the shots ricoc.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0356aba | Honestly, of the two of us, I was the lucky one. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 01c5198 | If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 42c297d | The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. | feeling life sand-castle tide | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 4925876 | Of the many things she'd learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that came to mind when evaluating others. "You're going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5898a57 | If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die?" "No, sweetie. Just the opposite." He rolled his head to face her. "I asked you to come so I could watch you live." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ad6cde7 | The way he spoke about Catherine made Theresa hurt for him more than she would have imagined. It wasn't just his voice, but the look on his face before he described her - as if torn between the beauty of his memories and the pain of remembering. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9b6388f | My Dearest, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. I can almost feel you beside me as I write this letter, and I can smell the scent of wildflowers that always reminds me of you. But at this moment, these things give me no pleasure. Your visits have been coming less often, and I feel sometimes as if the greatest part of who I .. | nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 0901895 | Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness you wouldn't otherwise get. People come, people go--they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cd011bf | You could have told me earlier." "You seemed so serious about the game. I didn't want to bother you." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3ce379a | Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c5054bb | I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be." - John Tyree" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4e90d45 | Dusk, I realized, is just an illusion, because the sun if either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are: there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart? I know the answer now. I know what it's like to be day and night now: always together, forever apart. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 773f16e | Like Jesus said 'blessed are the lazy who lie on boats, for they shall inherit a suntan | relaxation | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 1b9d959 | I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you!" | trying understand women | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 20f58ae | You've been through a lot in your life. Too much, I sometimes think. But you keep going. I have to. I've got someone counting on me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 50991a6 | How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6bfd2d7 | While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6bfb9b7 | it was the us they created whenever they were together - that had made all of this both natural and inevitable. She couldn't help thinking that the story between them was somehow unfinished; that both of them were waiting to write the ending. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7aa9a6d | Too many people glorified small-town America, making it seems like a Normal Rockwell painting, but the reality was something else entirely. With the exception of doctors and lawyers or people who owned their own business, there were no high-paying jobs in Oriental, or any other small town for that matter. And while is was in many way an ideal place to raise young children, there was little for young adults to aspire to.There weren't, nor wo.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5a5c20c | Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 816e606 | Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 08ade0e | And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder . | Marisha Pessl | ||
| b9952a8 | It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say . | Marisha Pessl | ||
| fa488cc | Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 5dc4751 | Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - | Marisha Pessl | ||
| b1666d7 | Life does not belong to you. It is the apartment you rent. Love without fear, for love is an airplane that carries you to new lands. There is a universe in silence. A tunnel to peace in a scream. Get a good night's sleep. Laugh when you can. You are more magical than you know. Take your advice from the elderly and children. None of it as crucial as you think, but that makes it no less vital. Our lives go on, and on. Look for the breadcrumbs.. | life-lessons | Marisha Pessl | |
| 89be0e3 | But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won't be like this. Life can be so cruel. It doles out just enough hope to keep you going, like a small cup of water and one slice of bread to someone on the verge of starvation. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 3383017 | Sally put his gun back in his pants. "Guess I flunked the estrogen test." We all stared at his crotch, and Grandma said what Lula and I were thinking. "I thought that bulge was your dingdong,"Grandma said. "Jesus," Sally said, "who do you think I am, Thunder the Wonder Horse? My gun wouldn't fit in my purse." "You need to get a smaller gun," Lula said. "Ruins your lines with that big old Glock in your drawers." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 69d5667 | I don't feel so good." Lula said. And she farted. She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long fart. "Excuse me." she said. I was horrified and impressed all at the same time. It was a record breaking fart. On my best day, I couldn't come near to farting like that." | stephanie | Janet Evanovich | |
| b01f786 | Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner? | Janet Evanovich |