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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6d94612 | Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave. | eric-jerome-dickey k-wan nikki-giovanni sister-souljah sonia-sanchez stephanie-myers zane | Brandi L. Bates | |
| 12ae1c4 | John Mason wrote a very good book that I recommend you read: An Enemy Called Average. I learned from this book: 'Know your limits, then ignore them. The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse. Don't sit back and take what comes. Go after what you want' " (excerpt from her book, A Leader in the Making)." | John Mason | ||
| cf5d656 | Forgiveness has a great capacity to heal even in the most difficult of situations. | John Nicholl | ||
| d15467f | My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing. | life meaninglessness | David Hewson | |
| 1fc627a | If you stay in the moment, you'll have what is called spontaneous right action, which is intuitive, which is creative, which is visionary, which eavesdrops on the mind of the universe. | Dan Harris | ||
| 418d579 | Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind the waterfall. Again, elegant theory - but, easier said than done. | Dan Harris | ||
| ed5faa3 | Menulis berarti menciptakan duniamu sendiri." Stephen King "Menulis itu pekerjaan orang kesepian. Punya seseorang yang memercayaimu dapat membuat perbedaan besar. Hanya percaya saja biasanya sudah cukup." Stephen King "Menulis fiksi seperti memasak." Donatus A. Nugroho "Menulis itu gampang." Arswendo Atmowiloto "Tulislah apa yang kau ketahui seluas dan sedalam mungkin." Stephen King "Sedapat mungkin aku tidak melakukan keduanya, yaitu me.. | Ahmad Sufiatur Rahman | ||
| 24fdd54 | I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6d33a58 | It's always possible for human beings to spoil their own peace of mind | Charlaine Harris | ||
| a51cea7 | Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ec2c153 | I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d38b219 | Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one. | coconut-oil lectures sookie-stackhouse sunbathing tanning vice | Charlaine Harris | |
| ced7434 | Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood. With a huge effort, Eric reined himself in. "When you smell like that," he said. "I just want to fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you." -Eric drunk on Fairies." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e23dc07 | Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. | ettiquette manners sympathy | Charlaine Harris | |
| 82aea22 | We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 91cf118 | What are you, Zen Master Fang? | sookie | Charlaine Harris | |
| 20550d9 | I think it's 'only polite' that my wife should let me know when she's entertaining a male visitor, furthermore one that has shared her bed. | eric-northman humor sookie-stackhouse upset | Charlaine Harris | |
| 9d2d89a | I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I'd had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-St.. | storytelling truth | Garrison Keillor | |
| 3cf3f28 | Never say anything bad about a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. By then he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want to. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 65460d4 | As I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In these moments we are driven to try and hoard happiness by taking photographs, but I know better. The improtant thing was what the colors stood for, the taste of hard apples and the existence of Lena and the exact quality of the sun on the last warm day in October. A photograph would have flattened the scene into a happy moment, whereas .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8fed788 | You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 28e5c77 | But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said. Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.' Van got up from his chair to gath.. | press | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 3899a38 | But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3b7ca77 | Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 786aa22 | Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b13a3a6 | Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks. | wordplay | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 07caa83 | Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle's edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doin.. | alternative-histories freedom | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 39ab782 | I prefer to remain anomalous. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 23ad98a | You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 940028c | Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors--however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 247fca4 | Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, out.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e31dae4 | As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing...he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never could have discussed it, that everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1871a7a | A blank space on a form, the missing page, a void, a hole in your knowledge of someone--it's still some real . It exists. You don't get to fill it in with whatever you want. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 99d1cd9 | Doesn't the Federal Farm bill help out all these poor farmers? No. It used to, but ever since its inception just after the Depression, the Federal Farm Bill has slowly been altered by agribusiness lobbyists. It is now largely corporate welfare ... It is this, rather than any improved efficiency or productiveness, that has allowed corporations to take over farming in the United States, leaving fewer than a third of our farms still run by fam.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f860b02 | It was hard to feel the remotest sympathy for any of the different fools she'd been. As opposed to the fool she was being now. People hang on to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4aad49c | Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated. | barbara-kingsolver communism dies-committee mccarthyism the-lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 4c7cc37 | Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger. | life | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 24b4f17 | A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| cc6e9a2 | That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so." | talyor-greer | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 59321b8 | My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 91f130e | It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life... Maybe being perfectly happy is not really the point. Maybe that is only some modern American dream of the point, while the truer measure of humanity is the distance we must travel in our lives, time and again, "twixt two extremes of passion--joy and grie.. | grief joy life love salvation | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| cd504b3 | I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| dda0759 | What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it. | forgiveness grace humanity imperfection wisdom | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| b85a217 | A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God. | Marianne Williamson |