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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f47ea1b | As far as I can recall, none of the adults in my life ever once remembered to say, "Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams. However, you're not going to feel that a lot in seventh grade. Just hang on." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5dd3721 | Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2a61a99 | I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me. | feat visions-hallucinations | Craig Ferguson | |
| 99e328f | Time is only linear for engineers and referees. | relativity time | Craig Ferguson | |
| 73ad654 | His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 9fce404 | And we're not lost." We are so fucking lost. Literally adrift in the nothing space between universes." | humor science | Blake Crouch | |
| 20c6716 | It is the lonely hour of the night, one with which he is all too familiar--when the city sleeps but you don't, and all the regrets of your life rage in your mind with an unbearable intensity. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d44c139 | Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179 This tragedy is such an inextricable part of my story that it cannot be left out of an honest record. Suffering - no matter how multiplied - is always individual. p 179 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| e07c6f4 | There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them. | simplification | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 72ac1e5 | Aw, sad face. I came up with that totally off the cuff. No props for off the cuff? | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| fa95020 | That's our cue to depart." "They know something " I pointed out. "I know something too. I know we're going to attract a lot of unwanted attention if they keep screaming. And then we have to make up some ridiculous explanation about how we heard screaming through the vents in our rooms and we followed the sound back to the basement and we found these girls lying on the ground and pretending to be tied up by invisible rope because they're p.. | magic | Chloe Neill | |
| 5c69142 | I looked at Jonah. "I'm still learning who you are. And you're my partner, so I appreciate that you're willing to take a punch for me." I walked to Ethan and glared up at him. "But you know better than this, Ethan Sullivan." -- | Chloe Neill | ||
| 78ebbae | The world has a lot to offer. There's a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that. | deep drink jonah neill | Chloe Neill | |
| 293e15a | Only a four-hundred-year-old vampire would wonder if a grad student could understand procrastination. | Chloe Neill | ||
| a0f74ff | He unsnapped the top button on his jeans. My eyes widened."Sneaky bastard." I gnawed my lip in pleasure,watching the past,present,and future Master of Cadogan House in the state of utter abandon:shirt on the floor,jeans unbuttoned,his arousal obvious." | Chloe Neill | ||
| fda52c3 | Go ahead," I told him. "Go see your admirers. Sign some autographs. It's good PR for the House." He slid me a glance, smiled. "Not concerned one of the fans will try to sweep me away with words of love?" "Oh, they'll try to sweep," I said. "But I have no worries you'll come back to me." His smile was meltingly handsome. "Because I love you without measure?" "Of course," I said. Also, I had the car keys." | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| cffcd36 | Love is . . . needing to be with this one person. No--it's more like wanting to need to be with this one person. Last semester my English professor read us this great Robert Frost quotation that went something like, 'Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| f522659 | How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on? | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 320c6b7 | Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him? | John Piper | ||
| 160b47b | I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn. | writing | John Piper | |
| 7e5e3be | Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought. | John Piper | ||
| 5785db0 | God is most glorified when you are most satisfied in Him. | John Piper | ||
| 4369b1d | If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends. | discipleship | John Piper | |
| 61ccb64 | Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness. | John Piper | ||
| 0088291 | Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight. | hope sin | John Piper | |
| 6e444ea | Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God"." | John Piper | ||
| 0a4edf2 | We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God. | John Piper | ||
| 21d31ab | Both are manifestations of pride. Boasting is the response of pride to success. Self-pity is the response of pride to suffering. Boasting says, "I deserve admiration because I have achieved so much." Self-pity says, "I deserve admiration because I have sacrificed so much." Boasting is the voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak. The reason self-pity does not look like pride is that.. | John Piper | ||
| c2f83fd | To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors. | John Piper | ||
| ed540bb | In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he alone is knowable as the one totally in control of being known. He is not at the disposal of the human mind. He is known when he wills to be known. Yet he is known in and through created reality, which is known naturally. Therefore the glory of God is exalted most not when we know God apart from observation and reading an.. | faith god knowledge revelation study truth | John Piper | |
| 1cf1ca4 | Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing. | calligraphy poetry | Dai Sijie | |
| 2e25168 | She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price. | literature women | Dai Sijie | |
| 236b74d | Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements. | writing | Guy Kawasaki | |
| 78dbdb7 | Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn't easy, but it's fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world. | writing writing-process | Guy Kawasaki | |
| c824b3f | There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies. | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| 6fe03be | There should be a Stage IV of black identity--Unmitigated Blackness. I'm not sure what Unmitigated Blackness is, but whatever it is, it doesn't sell. On the surface Unmitigated Blackness is a seeming unwillingness to succeed. It's Donald Goines, Chester Himes, Abbey Lincoln, Marcus Garvey, Alfre Woodard, and the serious black actor. It's Tiparillos, chitterlings, and a night in jail. It's the crossover dribble and wearing house shoes outsid.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 94aa146 | Where is everyone?" Cullen demanded, finally emerging from his car and gingerly looking around the deserted camp. He followed Tempest to the truck. "Darius is somewhere in the woods. He likes to string a hammock between two trees far away from all of us and have what he affectionately refers to as his quiet time." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 91c2907 | He knew he needed to release her, but once he allowed his physical connection to drop away, he was uncertain if he'd ever have a chance to reconnect. Instinctively, he knew Azami was elusive, like water flowing through fingers, or the wind shifting in the trees. He needed a way to seal her to him. "How does one court a woman in Japan? Do I need your brothers' permission?" She blinked again. Shocked. A hint of uncertainty crept into her eyes.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 83032ba | If you wish to examine me to determine the sex of the child, you may do so." Her chin lifted. "But as you wish me to accept yourself, for your predatory nature, you must accept me as I am. My heart and soul may be Carpathian, but my mind is human. I will not be put on a shelf somewhere because you or my husband deems it necessary. Human women moved out of the dark ages a long time ago. My place is with Mikhail, and I must make my own decisi.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 3bc4d19 | You're in love, my old friend, and that is the downfall of all good men. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 90f6109 | You're a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin' at his woman than eatin' , he's in trouble. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 16a4312 | Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting in the blanket. "Do you mean it, Gregori? We can go?" "You know how much I love crowds of humans," he said, straight-faced. She laughed at him. "They don't bite." "I do," he said, the words low and soft, his silver gaze at once possessive." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 59dbdb7 | Have you ever heard of a condom? Don't Carpathians have condoms? Because I'm thinking that if you're all that worried, a condom might be just the thing." His smile was slow in coming. "I had not thought of that. As a rule Carpathians do not need such things." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 6a6581d | The real knife to a man's heart was his woman's tears. | Christine Feehan |