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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c78a22 | That was the simple objective, being airborne, up longer, up higher, more casually & with more fuck off elegance than anyone else in the world. I never understood the rules or the science of it but I recognized the single-mindedness it took to match risk with nerve come what may. Some endeavours require a kind of egotism, a near autistic narrowness. Everything conspires against you - the habits of physics, the impulse to flee - & you're wei.. | Tim Winton | ||
| ac71cb1 | We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 137c282 | Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing t.. | family life protect shelter | Mary Balogh | |
| 071511c | Why do I want to run from happiness? | run | Mary Balogh | |
| a55cdca | Have you noticed," she asked him, "how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind." -- | Mary Balogh | ||
| 8bf6680 | The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. | meaning simply | Mary Balogh | |
| b94fb15 | I do not believe there is right or wrong," he said. "there is only doing what one must do under given circumstances and living with the consequences and weaving every experiences, good and bad, into the fabric of one's life so that ultimately one can see the pattern of it all and accept the lessons life has taught." | Mary Balogh | ||
| f9d35f3 | Love is a connection with another person, either through birth or through something else that I cannot even explain. It is often just an attraction at first. But it goes far deeper than that. It is a determination to care for the other person no matter what and to allow oneself to be cared for in return. It is a commitment to make the other happy and to be happy oneself. It is not possessive, but neither is it a victim. And it does not alwa.. | meaning-of-life | Mary Balogh | |
| 654feb3 | Then you should have never been born | Christopher Pike | ||
| b1559c2 | The hourglass runs low... | Christopher Pike | ||
| 4171077 | I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to. I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness! But men have not yet changed. | india pakistan sikh south-asian-literature womens-fiction | Shauna Singh Baldwin | |
| 43cafa0 | Don't be silly. People never stop looking for love. Yeah, some of them don't even stop AFTER they've found it. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| fc85bdf | Perhaps the two of us simply got off on the wrong foot, my lord. You seem to have received the mistaken impression that I came to Fairchild Park to make your life more difficult." "The words 'a living hell' have come to mind more than once since your arrival." She blew out a gusty sigh. "Contrary to what you may believe, I took this position so I could bring more ease to your life." "Just when were you planning to start?" | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 76918cb | Of course not! I knew you would protect me. You swore that you were strong enough to protect Vivienne, didn't you? How can you promise to protect my sister, but not trust yourself to keep me safe?" The music swelled to a crescendo. Although Adrian kept her imprisoned against the muscular length of his body, he gave up all pretense of dancing. "Because I don't lose my wits every time Vivienne walks into a room. I don't toss and turn in my b.. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 3c80506 | one may need to undergo several regimens of training and sample several different professions before determining where one's strongest talents lie. This is the driving force behind many life-path alterations. There are few sets of skills that match only one specific job. More often they are adaptable to many different professions. Sometimes, one can plan such a change. Other times, the change appears without warning. In both instances, one .. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 9bc0dc3 | There is no shame in falling," Pernicar said, standing up. "There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again." | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| a123edc | Okay, maybe I don't have to solve every problem with my fists...but every once in awhile, a situation arises that is substantially improved by the judicious application of force. | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 30be313 | But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 1dc4356 | It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 6859855 | The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage. It will more likely derive from our uncompromising belief in the things we consider unimpeachable and idealized and beautiful. Because every strength is a weakness, if given enough time. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 4681e88 | Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 2c729a8 | Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they're out there. And--perhaps surprisingly--the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, t.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 11b5867 | But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you're sharing a reality that doesn't exist. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| ca8b9a7 | I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8016d31 | Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It's so formulaic and unsurprising that you wouldn't dare re-create it in a movie. All the critics would mock it. They'd all say the screenwriter was a hack who didn't even try. This is why movies have less value than we like to pretend -- movies can't show reality, becaus.. | film films gender-stereotypes movies reality stereotypes | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 9c12a53 | All the world's stupidest people are either zealots or atheists. If you want to truly deduce how intelligent someone is, just ask this person how they feel about any issue that doesn't have an answer; the more certainty they express, the less sense they have. This is because certainty only comes from dogma. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| e0f3f5d | The desire to be cool is--ultimately--the desire to be rescued. | cool self-esteem | Chuck Klosterman | |
| ecfc5b6 | Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool. | life media relationship truth | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 288fc92 | Julia dealt with rules the way she later dealt with vegetarians; she pretended they didn't exist. | Bob Spitz | ||
| d2873da | What else could I be? If I were a mono-thinker, I probably wouldn't be an insomniac. How is a poly-thinker supposed to fall asleep, and more importantly, stay asleep, when thoughts just won't stop darting! darting! darting! through my head? | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 73c7cba | I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people--and particularly the guys--I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed ... connection? | Rachel Cohn | ||
| c384683 | Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3353589 | Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 78383ec | Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 7b1910f | There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 60bc197 | I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| f9d1496 | One part of Judaism called tikkum olam. It says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job - is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again ... Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. | broken pieces tikkun-olam | Rachel Cohn | |
| d574a2a | Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 764aae7 | America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now." | Seth Grahame-Smith | ||
| 85c827e | i am... absolutely destroyed at the loss. (--manny) | J.R. Ward | ||
| 2c1ce5b | Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d071cce | Three a.m. in downtown Caldwell, New York, gave you just enough obstacles to keep shit amusing. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 712a2bb | Qhuinn took a step forward, with the intention of stepping in, in the event the Brother locked hands on the SOB's skinny neck: Someone should probably catch the head before it bounced all over their hosts' rugs. And the deadweight of the body. Seemed only hospitable. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d54e226 | I was living with this sense that there was something going on, something important, but I didn't know what it was. It was like...I knew the secret was there, and it was a dark one, but I just couldn't reach it. Nearly drove me mad. | lover-avenged wrath | J.R. Ward |