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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aaed596 | The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. | present torture | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 7a6229a | Where we're at right here is the beginning of the end. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8bff792 | There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 91c6295 | How she looks is watered-down. How she looks is disappearing. How she looks is erased. "Don't stress", she says. "This is just me not wearing any makeup." | humor life women | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a582b31 | You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| baf1815 | The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a3df49d | They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment. | fun funny heaven hell humor inspirational life motivational true | chuck palahniuk | |
| ce59db3 | You wake up, and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2c8c79f | Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e94c23b | You do the job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e5111a7 | People need a monster they can believe in." A true and horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 774b481 | She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams. | rescue | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 21dc6c4 | To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 303da24 | Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person. | nice words | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| f948e53 | hnk 'jyl Zlt t`ml fy wZy'f tkrhh fqT ltstTy` shr 'shy l tHtj lyh .. l twjd Hrwb `Zym@ fy jyln w lksd `Zym .. lkn ldyn Hrban `Zm~ llrwH . ldyn thwr@ `Zm~ Dd lthqf@ . lksd l`Zym hw Hytn | life novel soul work | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| aaae099 | Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5d5123f | A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fcc6a87 | bt` ly 'bwy lsmk@ l'wl~ l't`lm 'n 'Hb mkhlwqt llh l'khr~ w'`tny bh , wkl m t`lmth b`d 640 smk@ : hw 'n klW shyin tHbhu ymwt ! | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8688baa | This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ebd0afd | A moment is all you can expect from perfection. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fb566cc | You're a wonderful man, Steele. And behind that tough-as-nails exterior lies a heart of gold." "Yeah, well, don't feel the need to tell everybody that," he said gruffly. "You're the only one who needs to know that kind of information." She grinned." | Maya Banks | ||
| 069a51f | Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 7abb47d | Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterton was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and 'sex equality.' As a result of fifty years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused, not .. | Ian Fleming | ||
| a0d62f4 | During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside. | inspirational people | Noel Streatfeild | |
| ae8d583 | There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness. | love pride unhappiness | P.D. James | |
| bdc2423 | The library at Pemberley was as freely open to her as it was to Darcy, and with his tactful and loving encouragement she had read more widely and with greater enjoyment and comprehension in the last six years than in all the past fifteen, augmenting an education which, she now understood, had never been other than rudimentary. | P.D. James | ||
| eed84e3 | We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope. | P.D. James | ||
| 9c7729d | She felt the glide of his hair as he lowered his head to study the zipper on her skirt. Her imagination supplied other places his hair could touch, and she drew in her breath. He carefully pulled down the zipper, then pulled it back up. After several up and down forays, Kathy grew impatient: "Hello? Have I lost you to a zipper?" Darn. She must sound like every greedy woman who'd ever lain with him. His soft chuckle reassured her. " 'Tis a l.. | romance zipper | Nina Bangs | |
| 4fa09af | I've long maintained that women are born knowing things it takes men a whole lifetime to figure out. This was simply one more case in point. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 6aed555 | Can you swim?" said Victor. One of the cavern's rotting pillars crashed down behind them. From the pit itself came a terrible wailing. "Not very well," said Ginger. "Me neither," he said. The commotion behind them was getting worse. "Still," he said, taking her hand. "We could look on this as a great opportunity to improve really quickly." | swimming | Terry Pratchett | |
| 84ca2ef | It was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 49bf0bd | The figure stopped to cough long and hard, making a noise like a wall being hit repeatedly with a bag of rocks. Moist saw that it had a beard of the short bristled type that suggested that its owner had been interrupted halfway through eating a hedgehog. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d849791 | Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cf177eb | There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 5db9e32 | The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark. | self the-self | Nicole Krauss | |
| 08ff59b | When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you. | love youth | Nicole Krauss | |
| 529a6dc | Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement. Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 3211b83 | There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 1c6a34e | I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25) | Nicole Krauss | ||
| f1eedb2 | Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener. | humor | Bill Bryson | |
| dc282c0 | To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright | Bill Bryson | ||
| 5490276 | If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately one million trillion, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived!. | Bill Bryson | ||
| a995f15 | If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows. | supplements trivia vitamin-c | Bill Bryson | |
| afd4454 | I don't know why religious zealots have this compulsion to try to convert everyone who passes before them - I don't go around trying to make them into St Louis Cardinals fans, for Christ's sake - and yet they never fail to try. Nowadays when accosted I explain to them that anyone wearing white socks with Hush Puppies and a badge saying HI! I'M GUS! probably couldn't talk me into getting out of a burning car, much less into making a lifelong.. | Bill Bryson |