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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dd3300d | I libri non offrono una vera via di fuga, ma possono impedire alla mente di scorticarsi viva. | David Mitchell | ||
| 93245dd | Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 9ce4164 | I have lived in this tree, in this same hollow," the owl said, "for more years than anyone can remember. But now, when the wind blows hard in winter and rocks the forest, I sit here in the dark, and from deep down in the bole, near the roots, I hear a new sound. It is the sound of strands of wood creaking in the cold and snapping one by one. The limbs are falling; the tree is old, and it is dying. Yet I cannot bring myself, after so many ye.. | owl resignation | Robert C. O'Brien | |
| c36294c | Barking machines!" Dylan exclaimed. "Didn't I tell you? I've never seen a beastie that couldn't get up on its own. Well, except a turtle. And one of my auntie's cats." Alek raised an eyebrow. "And I'm sure your auntie's cat would have survived that aerial bomb." "You'd be surprised. He's quite fast." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 2de6bdd | She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6d119bb | That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly. | beauty brainwash pretty think-on thought thought-provoking ugly | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 1d14923 | Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work." Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 41156b0 | It's exciting. But you can't keep fighting the way things are forever. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| faeff97 | Keep challenging the gods | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b99c46c | But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging. | wisdom | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 4bbf438 | Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil. | evil | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 441dec1 | It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him. | leadership llassar war | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 550566e | A grower of turnups Or shaper of clay, a commot Farmer or a king-Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 8aad360 | How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 376f36e | I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing man's work," she added, fastening her bony thumb and forefinger on Gurgi's ear and marching him to a stool beside Taran, "but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!" | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| e39d24f | I know it isn't nice to vex people on purpose--it's like handing them a toad--but this is much too good to miss and I may never have another chance at it. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| e0a6884 | Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink. | Silas House | ||
| 18bc0bc | Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper. | realizations | Silas House | |
| c453099 | You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 8475c3d | Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people of killing each other than it? | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 2369056 | There wasn't a man alive in Pern who hadn't secretly cherished the notion that he might be able to Impress a dragon. That he could be linked for life to the love and sustaining admiration of these gentle great beasts. That he could transverse Pern in a twinkling, astride his dragon. That he would never suffer the loneliness that was the condition of most men - a dragonrider always had his dragon. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 3e184a5 | Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 8d1b0cf | And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 0accdbd | Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| bc9e12b | It will all end very badly, Gus | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 743fa81 | Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 7383177 | Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 09b6685 | In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| eb8f0fa | They would try to make me into a moron who liked television and new cars and frozen food. Don't you understand? Psychiatry is worse than communism. I refuse to be brainwashed. I won't be a robot! | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| a10a028 | Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing? | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| db9bb92 | I say seduce her, seduce her tonight. Break the door down if you have to. Tell her all those things you said to me about her. You will love her more tomorrow than today and how you want to die with her hand in yours-which is an excellent line, by the way, that I fully intend to borrow when the time comes. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 6450078 | That's the problem with models--they only include the details people think are relevant, | Connie Willis | ||
| 7b9e150 | They make you settle for second best." That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself. "You never get what you want." | second-best | Connie Willis | |
| c4bc29a | In the sixteenth century in England, dictionaries such as we would recognize today simply did not exist. If the language that so inspired Shakespeare had limits, if its words had definable origins, spellings, pronunciations, meanings--then no single book existed that established them, defined them, and set them down. | Simon Winchester | ||
| 8cc705c | An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive." - on the making of the Oxford English Dictionary" | Simon Winchester | ||
| 71dff70 | Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart. | self-awareness | David Brin | |
| b185d1d | where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. | questions religion science scientists | David Brin | |
| 47157d5 | science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. | philosophy science superstition | David Brin | |
| ed3c13f | Tad's mission in life is to have more fun than anyone else in New York City, and this involves a lot of moving around, since there is always the likelihood that where you aren't is more fun than where you are. | Jay McInerney | ||
| cdc01e1 | The conspiracy of women. We are in it together, make no mistake. | Colum McCann | ||
| 8ba6230 | Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty. | Colum McCann | ||
| 1546841 | What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other. | Colum McCann | ||
| 2e4d83d | The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New things were possible with the human form. It went beyond equilibrium. He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake. | Colum McCann | ||
| 835ebdd | There was something of the beautiful failure about her. | Colum McCann |