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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f855c85 | How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 887e303 | As time passes, memory, inevitably, reconstitutes itself. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| aa0861a | I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 138f044 | As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness! | Antonia Fraser | ||
| 3cc497d | The Burgundian chronicler Philippe de Commines thought the English a choleric, earthy, and volatile people, who nevertheless made good, brave soldiers. In fact he regarded their warlike inclinations as one of the chief causes of the Wars of the Roses. If they could not fight the French, he believed, they fought each other. | Alison Weir | ||
| 53a8c23 | Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty. | eleanor-of-aquitaine history medieval medieval-history royalty | Alison Weir | |
| eefafd7 | It's amazing the stupid things I say sometimes. I mean, you could start an entire branch of scientific research about the stuff I say that gets proved wrong while I'm still busy saying it. | Tad Williams | ||
| 28a21cf | Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been, to discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age. Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds. | Tad Williams | ||
| 0e6985a | But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden. | Tad Williams | ||
| 649959b | Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty -- a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless -- if it cloaked such a viperous soul? | evil masks | Tad Williams | |
| e146e47 | But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is. | life queen-victoria | Jean Plaidy | |
| 65586b9 | Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever. | mythology | Margaret George | |
| 2d7fbb4 | People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| adf5ba1 | Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 7f406a3 | Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby's birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true. As she strokes and suckles and studies her son, she can't help but pity him. She has never known of a person entering the world so alone, so deprived. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 9672c6a | She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| da632b4 | I just wanted to go home, to the language in which I was known, and loved. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| e1ef648 | I think that the power of art is the power to wake us up, strike us to our depths, change us. What are we searching for when we read a novel, see a film, listen to a piece of music? We are searching, through a work of art, for something that alters us, that we weren't aware of before. We want to transform ourselves, just as Ovid's masterwork transformed me. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 8271fde | Like the sound of a velvet curtain being drawn aside on a peaceful morning to let sunlight wake someone very special to you. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c4b9e65 | Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d6cf994 | I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c53e335 |
No quiero que vuelvas a marcharte. No puedo vivir sin ti. No quiero volver a perderte. No quiero volver a oir las palabras < |
Haruki Murakami | ||
| d32d66e | Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d4abd7b | That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 83fb663 | Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist." "You agree with that?" "Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ad869c9 | I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my s.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c0d5972 | For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see. | change darkness grief loss | Haruki Murakami | |
| 0e3f6de | No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1b883c4 | Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c90363d | But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn't that just what life is? Aren't we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they've taken away our food and water, and we're slowly dying, little by little...? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 663fb89 | qltu: l`lki lm tfhmyny. l tt`lq lms'l@ b"mdh b`d?". ytwlWah b`D lns bqr@ jdwl lqTrt, whdh m yf`lwnh Twl lwqt. b`D lns ySn` nmdhj qwrb mn '`wd lthqb. fm lkhT' dh kn hnk shb wHd fy l`lm yjd mt`th lkbr~ fy mHwl@ fhmik?" | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2145e36 | I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it. | personal personality | Haruki Murakami | |
| 083b73e | In any case, though, I believe that I have no been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply. In doing so, however, I have led myself around in circles and hurt myself just as deeply. I say this not as an excuse or means of self-justification but because it's true. If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound, but mine as well. So please try not to hate me. I am a flawed hum.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 46bcbbe | Le travail ne representait qu'ennui pour moi, je detestais aller au bureau. Je me sentais vraiment oppresse. J'avais l'impression que mon moi veritable se retrecissait de plus en plus, et que j'allais finir par disparaitre. | moi travail | Haruki Murakami | |
| 0476003 | In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b81f51c | We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c4bc40d | My arm was not the one she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. I felt almost guilty being me. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1937eab | When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: "I spent my days pursuing the nothingness - - it creates." My job is to create that void, that . Hunting knife" | debussy | Haruki Murakami | |
| aa31137 | Nights without work I spent with whisky and books. | love-story lovers sadness tears | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7b4f34a | With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called 'I' -or, rather, make the things that constituted me. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c4fd3ca | Lo que sea que estes buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a187381 | Ya ves, continuamos viviendo, cada uno a su manera [...]. Por profunda y fatal que sea la perdida, por importante que sea lo que nos han arrancado de las manos, aunque nos hayamos convertido en alguien completamente distinto y solo conservemos, de lo que antes eramos, una fina capa de piel, a pesar de todo, podemos continuar viviendo, asi, en silencio. Podemos alargar la mano e ir tirando del hielo de los dias que nos han destinado, ir deja.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| adb49e6 | I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy. | hard-boiled wonderland world | Haruki Murakami | |
| 601a26f | finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning. | Haruki Murakami |