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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0cd33bd | When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262) | love | Raymond Chandler | |
| cb4de22 | But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard--well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights. | mystery-novels thriller | Raymond Chandler | |
| 6d4e7ed | The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate smut. I rewrapped the book and locked it up behind the seat. A racket like that, out in the open on the boulevard, seemed to mean plenty of protection. I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it. | rain smoking | Raymond Chandler | |
| 94ddf39 | She sighed. "All men are the same." "So are all women--after the first nine." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 1a09101 | There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 8eb9762 | His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush. | humor new-york-city | Raymond Chandler | |
| 52ba3df | Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question. | Paul Murray | ||
| d6f7dc6 | a person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 8946ff8 | He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me. | shame | Ted Dekker | |
| 9905eec | When you step away from it all, you lose perspective. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 13cfd6b | I'm not this unusual," she said. "It's just my hair." She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction. "Be brave," I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking .. | glbtq love pregnancy pregnant-woman romance self-doubt threesome triangle | Michael Cunningham | |
| 5a39710 | What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized? | Michael Cunningham | ||
| eb2151c | Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight? | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 4891e71 | What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. | joy love | Michael Cunningham | |
| 0b337ca | Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take. | passion | Ted Dekker | |
| 32c58e6 | The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden? | Ted Dekker | ||
| d252be1 | You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God. | Ted Dekker | ||
| d650adb | Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs." He paused. "Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal." | Ted Dekker | ||
| e3a0417 | You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 2f87d99 | Billos ran. He tore down the shore, bounded up on the rock, and dove into the air. The warm water engulfed him. A boiling heat knocked the wind from his lungs. The shock alone might kill him. But it was pleasure that surged through his body, not pain. The sensations coursed through his bones in great unrelenting waves. Elyon. How he was certain, he did not know. But he knew. Elyon was in this lake with him. Billos opened his eyes. Gol.. | christian elyon forgiveness renegade the-lost-books | Ted Dekker | |
| eb667f7 | Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 851381a | For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to denote what we saw, we had to make up our own. That was why we spoke of "yodeling in the canyon" and "tying the tube," of "groaning in the pit," "slipping the turtle's head," and "chewing the stinkweed." Years later, when we lost our own virginities, we resorted in our panic to pantomiming Lux's gyrations on the roof so long ago; .. | memories sex-education virginity virgins | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 150ebb9 | Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 6dd6027 | Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a82d485 | Eating is natural. Gaining weight is your choice. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7a6f248 | She leaned toward him and said in a quiet voice, "Are you Christian?" Mitchell hesitated to answer. The worst thing about religion was religious people." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 5078848 | When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not broken." | mental-illness suicide the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 5a4b664 | Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1bd6978 | Lincoln reflecting on) George Washington's words: "It is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prospertiy. Washington advised vigilance against "the first dawning of eve.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 38dbdff | And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing. | lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 7c9696b | With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e65f7ed | You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness. | grief isolation loneliness loss sadness | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | |
| 7202ab1 | We usually know more about suppressing anger than feeling it. Tell a counselor how angry you are. Share it with friends and family. Scream into a pillow. Find ways to get it out without hurting yourself or someone else. Try walking, swimming, gardening--any type of exercise helps you externalize your anger. Do not bottle up anger inside. Instead, explore it. The anger is just another indication of the intensity of your love. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 0dc73b4 | When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 4d7634c | As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 79e55fa | Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| a28bf60 | Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles! | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| bb5aa1b | We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| b88dc33 | When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| cdc3ccd | Understanding is the one-dimensional comprehension of the intellect. It leads to knowledge. Realization is three-dimensional -- a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. It comes only from direct experience. | Dan Millman | ||
| 1f0c75c | Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment. | Dan Millman | ||
| a46b08f | He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone, she'd liked to much to be alone. At school, where all the girls had crushes on one another and trailed in sweetheart pairs, she had kept to herself: except once, and that was when she'd allowed Naomi to adore her. Naomi, scholarly, and bourgeois as a napkin ring, had written her passionate poems that really rhymed, and once she'd let Naomi kiss her on the.. | Truman Capote | ||
| 3f856dd | But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. | Truman Capote | ||
| 90d0261 | You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner. | Truman Capote |