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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2b40b06 | What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head neatly sawn off and designated contents removed. | Carol Shields | ||
| 90b9af3 | Nobody knew him as I did; nobody could appreciate him as I did; nobody could love him as I--could. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d06de4c | In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and go like ocean tides | life poetry | Anne Brontë | |
| 4f84f5d | No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is more vanity and vexation of spirit. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 0afaa3c | God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines. | goodness jesus-christ love power wisdom | Anne Brontë | |
| a59d6d2 | I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a | bronte charlotte-bronte emily-bronte | Patrick Brontë | |
| f128d08 | Well, let them seize on all they can;-- One treasure still is mine,-- A heart that loves to think on thee, And feels the worth of thine. | poetry | Anne Brontë | |
| bfafef5 | She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not. | feelings sympathy | Anne Brontë | |
| ea172d0 | If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. | contempt mother over-indulgence upbringing | Anne Brontë | |
| 61b2b07 | She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes. | artist gratification pride watching | Anne Brontë | |
| 4afc8a9 | Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be. | love purity | Anne Brontë | |
| b0e4b50 | I bite my tongue and scowl my love, lest passion make me slave. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f413a65 | Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire. | fool old-wit smithy | Robin Hobb | |
| 8de45eb | To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. | community duties family friendship relationship responsibility rules socialism | Robin Hobb | |
| 6c0f5bf | We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... thing.' I shook my head. 'Words don't read that far. | together whole | Robin Hobb | |
| 7c5a933 | Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow's trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now. | Robin Hobb | ||
| faa0355 | The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path. | Robin Hobb | ||
| af2e903 | If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere. | enough hunger infidelity looking need possession release roaming | Robin Hobb | |
| f5fceaa | When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d138372 | Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. | beginnings-and-endings endings pain regret | Robin Hobb | |
| bebd0ab | Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2b29eae | In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move. | awaken contemplate depression full numb pain remember sorrow stillness wakefulness | Robin Hobb | |
| f8d5e28 | Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you. | Robin Hobb | ||
| baafef2 | when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 963622f | As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it. | understanding | Robin Hobb | |
| 1dee002 | Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust. | secret secrets trust | Robin Hobb | |
| 7ccfc58 | Some calls you cannot ignore, no matter how it may tear your heart. | Robin Hobb | ||
| fd9be33 | some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that. | betray betrayal confront desire love reveal secret undeclared unspoken | Robin Hobb | |
| 83afee8 | It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done. | strength women | E. Nesbit | |
| a8f0ef9 | What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths covered the stars. Through all the rush of the cloud river the moon swam, breasting the waves and disappearing again in the darkness. I walked up and down, drinking in the beauty of the quiet earth and the changing sky. The night was absolutely silent. Nothing seemed to be abroad. There was no scurrying of rab.. | night sky wind | E. Nesbit | |
| a486ffb | There weren't many good things to be said or felt about my situation. Not many at all. But the rule is that after any engagement, won or lost, you replay it in you mind to see how much you can learn. So that's what I did... | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 9db9c73 | I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind of social audit, I realised that far too many of them were abroad, dead, married to people who disapproved of me, or weren't really my friends, now that I came to think of it. | humor | Hugh Laurie | |
| 161faa1 | Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 55563dc | Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 0d2f9d7 | Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?" | Will Schwalbe | ||
| ec4fc6d | Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. | electronic-books | Will Schwalbe | |
| 25411bc | Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask | questions-and-answers reading | Will Schwalbe | |
| 912a86e | There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house - be it taking out the trash or cleaning your room - and that was to have your face buried in a book. Like churches during the Middle Ages, books conferred instant sanctuary. Once you entered one, you couldn't be disturbed. They didn't give you immunity from prosecution if you'd done something wrong - just a temporary reprieve. But we quickly learned you had to b.. | sanctuary | Will Schwalbe | |
| 9480b18 | A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish. | fish philosophy | Charles Simic | |
| d80d751 | A veces las relaciones que se cimentan en el dano son mas persistentes que las que se basan en el amor. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 6efe33a | O comes o te comen, no hay mas remedio. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 1ff1ac1 | Para todo el mundo es mas dificil vivir en la verdad que en la mentira. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 00cc327 | Tu eres bonita sobre todo cuando sonries. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 723c6eb | In this country, in one way or another, everyone had bean, was, or would be part of the regime. "The worst thing that can happen to a Dominican is to be intelligent or competent," he had once heard Agustin Cabral say ...and the words had been etched in his mind: "Because sooner or later Trujillo will call upon him to serve the regime, or his person, and when he calls, one is not permitted to say no." [Agustin Cabral] was proof of this truth.. | Mario Vargas Llosa |