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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a6beb2 | It just may be that the most radical act we can commit is to stay home. What does that mean to finally commit to a place, to a people, to a community? It doesn't mean it's easy, but it does mean you can live with patience, because you're not going to go away. It also means commitment to bear witness, and engaging in 'casserole diplomacy' by sharing food among neighbors, by playing with the children and mending feuds and caring for the sick... | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 363d843 | Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf 's tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world. | fear peter-the-wolf safety survival survive | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| f07470b | Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder. This is our inheritance - the beauty before us. We cry. We cry out. There is nothing sentimental about facing the desert bare. It is a terrifying beauty. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 80e701f | Alice: How long is forever? | lewis-carroll | Lewis Carroll | |
| 686115b | He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 83320c1 | I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| c1dd2d6 | If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. --LEWIS CARROLL It's more important to have the will to grow and stay open to all the infinite possibilities than to know exactly where you're going. That will change as you change. Goal: Stay open to any and all possibilities that present themselves to you. You never know where success and joy will turn up. | Demi Lovato | ||
| 981c686 | You're enough to try the patience of an oyster! | alice-in-wonderland impatience oyster patience wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| e063d0d | If I had but the time and you had but the brain | irony-of-life | Lewis Carroll | |
| 7a4eb49 | And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| eed9937 | Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | Linda Kage | ||
| bc4c204 | Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believe.. | children-s-literature death dying god grief hares rabbits | Lewis Carroll | |
| 023f37a | That would never do, I'm sure,' said Alice: `the governess would never think of excusing me lessons for that. If she couldn't remember my name, she'd call me "Miss!" as the servants do.' Well. if she said "Miss," and didn't say anything more,' the Gnat remarked, `of course you'd miss your lessons. That's a joke. I wish YOU had made it.' Why do you wish I had made it?' Alice asked. `It's a very bad one.' But the Gnat only sighed deeply, w.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 32b1086 | We CAN talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to | lewis-carroll tiger-lily | Lewis Carroll | |
| d93b503 | Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where --' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2adebc2 | What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland | reading | Lewis Carroll | |
| e8728f0 | All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone." | grin | Lewis Carroll | |
| 545d004 | Two girls walk past in gargantuan heels and dresses so tight that their skin is spilling out, and one of them says to the other, "Wait, who the fuck is Lewis Carroll?" and in my imagination I pull a gun out of my pocket, shoot them both and then shoot myself." | humor lewis-carroll literature | Alice Oseman | |
| e119b14 | You've lost your muchness. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| fe9e228 | He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| a5d8de8 | What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| e41975b | books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| cc6ae01 | nn `d@ m nwld lky nHb hw'l ldhyn ySybwnn bljrH kthr mn Gyrhm rb`y@ lskndry@ - bltzr | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 2f200bb | I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 485f73d | Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d146531 | As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers the backward-looking question "Why?" Instead, it raises the very different, forward-looking question, "To what end?"We are not put on earth merely to satisfy our desires, to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.We are here to be changed, to be made more like God in order to prepare us for a lifetime with him. And t.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| dd368df | We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, yet less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; we have more gadgets but less satisfaction; more medicine, yet less wellness; we take more vitamins but see fewer re.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 9c007a2 | Desde que puedo recordar, siempre he hablado con la luna. Le pido consejos. Hay algo profundamente espiritual en su palido resplandor, su superficie llena de crateres, sus crecientes y sus menguantes. Usa un vestido nuevo todas las noches pero siempre es ella misma. Y siempre esta ahi. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d455992 | I am trying really hard not to use the word 'fabulous' right now. | lola-and-the-boy-next-door | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 3018890 | Isla was named after something, too, you know." "Don't you dare," I say. Josh sits forward. His eyes shine. "Do tell." "Prince. Edward. Island," | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 960bd89 | Wow. See? You can't say that's not impressive." I recognize the names, even if I don't know what they all did. "I didn't." He reaches for his wallet and pays our admission charge. I try to get it--since it was my idea in the first place--but he insists. "Happy Thanksgiving," he says, handing me my ticket. "Let's see some dead people." We're greeted by an unimaginable number of domes and columns and arches. Everything is huge and round." | humor st-clair | Stephanie Perkins | |
| a5148dc | She's probably just tired of seeing you miserable.Like we all are," I add. "I'm sure...I'm sure she's as crazy about you as ever." "Hmm." He watches me put away my own shoes and empty the contents of my pockets. "What about you?" he asks, after a minute. "What about me?" St. Clair examines his watch. "Sideburns. You'll be seeing him next month." He's reestablishing...what? The boundary line? That he's taken, and I'm spoken for? Except I'm n.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 421dccc | The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have. And he's standing in front of me right now. So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have? Screw it. Let the fates decide. | stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ee923fc | I stay in bed for as long as possible, but eventually my bladder wins. When I come back from the bathroom, he's looking out my window. He turns around and laughs. "Your hair. It's sticking up in all different directions." St. Clair pronounces it and illustrates his point by poking his fingers up around his head like antlers. "You're one to speak." "Ah,but it looks purposeful on me. Took me ages to realize the best way to get that mussed l.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 3074cd3 | My head jerks up in embarassment, but he's smiling. I drop my face, so that my hair shields my cheeks. They blush more for his smile than anything else. | stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| c31b490 | home isn't a place. It's a person. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| f50bd9a | But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b222c2b | You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him, you would have discovered that he wasn't worth it. | stephanie perkins | ||
| b159670 | fuzzy black lines hiccuped across the screen. | lines maximum-ride television | James Patterson | |
| af2b369 | It was stupidly, infuriatingly impossible. No wonder I hadn't written anything decent in ages-- I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that I loved him. | James Patterson | ||
| 19ea4ac | However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. | Maxim Gorky | ||
| acd1e2b | n m ydf`hm l~ DThd lns Ht~ lmwt hw lHtfZ bfDthm wdhhbhm w'wrqhm lmly@ lHqyr@ wkl dhlk lmt` lby's ldhy ymknhm bh lHtfZ blslT@ `l~ lns - nhm l ydf`wn `n Hythm `ndm yqtlwn lns wyshwhwn 'rwHhm .. lys fy sbyl dhwthm , bl fy sbyl mmtlkthm yf`lwn dhlk. nhm l ydf`wn `m fy dkhlhm , bl `m fy lkhrj mnhm | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 16e960e | n lmr lyGdw, rGm `nh, Dry... fy hdhh lHy@ lDry@ | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 54633fd | The pleasure of living carries with it the obligation to die. | Maxim Gorky |