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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35de974 | You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said. "For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?" "I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling." ... "Yes, it's a fact," she said. "What?" "I love you." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 28f2921 | We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cfe1de7 | Tell Chizalum that women actually don't need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 19058bd | Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself, and not what others want you to want. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3db6278 | She liked that he wore their relationship so boldly, like a brightly colored shirt. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f16197f | She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi's eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler is safe if the hungry ruled are killing one another. | politics the-thing-around-your-neck | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| cca5332 | Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like 'if it were my daughter or wife or sister.' Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy. | equality feminism humanity rape-culture sexism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| d9b0d3d | I often wondered why Sister Veronica needed to understand it, when it was simply the way things were done. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b7bb0de | We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think. Who have turned pretence into an art form. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 19e6d82 | Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert words like "anger," "ambition," "loudness," "stubbornness," "coldness," "ruthlessness." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4e4c338 | He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him | uncertainty | Amos Oz | |
| b5e2390 | Ooh, a plan," echoed Jack, with utter cotempt. "Wellhooray for that." -- | Sam Enthoven | ||
| b45f1fd | People have a basic desire to feel good about themselves, and we therefore have a tendency to be unconsciously biased in favor of traits similiar to our won, even such seemingly meaningless traits as our names. Scientists have even identified a discrete area of the brain, called the dorsal striatum, as the structure that mediates much of this bias. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 27c9db7 | In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless. | fear-of-unknown fright helplessness terror thunderstorms wilderness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 9db6e06 | With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203) | Robert Whitaker | ||
| e989235 | The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live. | aging blueprints change growing-older | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 7f74547 | Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust. | lover lovers men men-and-women relationship relationships romance sex women women-s-fiction women-writers | Barbara Delinsky | |
| df94f3f | It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused. | love-at-first-sight love-story lovers relationship romance | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 1501119 | Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now. | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| de45b6e | If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| f0a813e | Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| ec534a0 | I have questions, he said. - Then you have more wisdom than most. | eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| b75c410 | No dejes que la desaprobacion de los demas dicte tus actos. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| dd84c60 | Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose. Eragon: But what can I do? Saphira: The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you. | eragon paolini | Christopher Paolini | |
| 0516f47 | He bent his gaze sternly on them. "First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. "Consider none your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will s.. | life life-and-living | Christopher Paolini | |
| d14e48a | Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them. | prayer | Debbie Macomber | |
| 3a32c17 | I love the way knitting brings people together. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| cd8bbff | Parents love their children. We might not always approve of the things you do, we might not like your friends, and cringe at some of the choices you make, but that doesn't change our love. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| fc1f386 | We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility. | impulse personality-traits war | Anaïs Nin | |
| b6e0003 | And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity... | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| d0cb7f9 | I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them? | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 093c4ac | In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 79a2138 | The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence. | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| e82218b | When we walked together through the streets, bodies close together, arm in arm, hands locked, I could not talk. We were walking over the world, over reality, into ecstasy. When she smelled my handkerchief, she inhaled me. When I clothed her beauty, I possessed her. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| c745fa7 | I have created myself a soul, big as the world, that leaks all over, and I have to keep calling for the plumber. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| a870820 | When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me. | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| 49deef9 | says he is afraid of me because I am the kind of woman who leaves scars. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 729495f | Didn't the old man know how words carry colors and sounds into the flesh | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 7f5a3f8 | The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of ch.. | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| 87cd34a | you are a narcissist. That is the raison detre of the journal. Journal writing is a disease. But it's all right. It's very interesting. I don't know of any journal more interesting. I don't know of any woman writing so frankly. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| e5b9e6d | I will cover the walls with words. It will be la chambre des mots. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| a32de14 | When he first stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where I stood waiting, I saw a man I liked. In his writing he is flamboyant, virile, animal, magnificent. He's a man whom life makes drunk, I thought. He is like me. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| f043262 | Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles--that is, by saying to herself in the morning while brushing her blond hair, "Today I want to become this or that person," and then proceeding to be that person. One day she decided she would like to be an elegant representative of a well-known Parisian modiste and go to Peru. All she had to do was to act the role. So she dressed with care, presented herse.. | delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| ff09f20 | I am losing my great, dissolving, disintegrating pity for others, in which I saw deflected the compassion I wanted for myself. I no longer give compassion, which means I no longer need to receive it. | Anaïs Nin |