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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ced88b8 | Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| c1d0437 | It is a hunger with me, books. I had rather read than eat, I do think. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 19f39a5 | It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 8470fb0 | We're squirrels in human form, she whispered. And so are you. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 87c5975 | I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto! all set, ready to rock and roll. I sigh. Henry loves my hair almost as though it were a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back. I know he loves it as a part of me, but I also know he would be deeply upset if I cut it off. And I would miss it, too... it's just so much effort, someti.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 47125a0 | I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow? " | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 09a2352 | The hell with virtue. I've figured out the mechanics of her dress. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| d75f41c | Her spirit flew out into the night And the sky reached down And drew her up, And she was filled with light... And she is happy. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 8e66727 | Angel! | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ec52b84 | When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness...In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth. | abuse-recovery abuse-survivors child-abuse child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-survivor healing if-only incest letting-go powerless powerlessness survivor survivor-of-abuse survivors-of-abuse truth | Maureen Brady | |
| 12907dd | Want to sleep over?" "Absolutely." | Susan Mallery | ||
| ae592cb | He tucked her hair behind her ears and kissed her. "I love you Gracie Landon," he said quietly." | Susan Mallery | ||
| c4f4712 | Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 9f0be2a | I don't want to hurt you," he said. "Too late." -- | Susan Mallery | ||
| a4384c2 | You don't look like the librarians I remember," he told her. "We've changed. There was a whole press release issued about it, but we didn't get much media coverage." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 2a97cc4 | Hope gets you through. | Susan Mallery | ||
| b3da4ce | I don"t hate men," she said, giving him a quick glance before returning her attention to keeping her horse in line. "I think you"re a bit overrated, butthat"s not hating . Men have ruled women and the world by virtue of their gender for several hundred years." "Cream always rises to the top," he replied. "This isn"t about cream. It"s about ruling through physical and mental intimidation. We all have strengths and weaknesses. The difference .. | jamal women | Susan Mallery | |
| 8d4c5b6 | Why would men want to do without women? We adore women." "Because they serve you," she grumbled. "No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 091a3d6 | A little word can have a big impact. The difference between all and some. - Liz Sutton | Susan Mallery | ||
| 36eeb99 | I] thought of that line from The Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e60368a | It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if I were waiting for trains that never came. And, like one of those ghosts who are said to linger around depots late at night, asking passersby for the timetable of the Midnight Express that derailed twenty years before, I wandered from light to light until that dreaded hour when all the doors closed and, step.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 101bdee | The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws--this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos. Easy to see why the Romans, usually so tolerant of foreign religions, persecuted the Christians mercilessly--how absurd to think a common criminal had risen from the dead, how appalling that his followers celebrated him by drinking his blood. The illogic o.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| be2eb51 | Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ("Death Ship")" | dying precognition | Richard Matheson | |
| a3096ff | I don the robe of hermit without a cry. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 11328e5 | Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of change. The way things shaped up, he would live out his life with no more than he already had. And how many years was that? Thirty, maybe forty if he didn't drink himself to death. The thought of forty more years of living as he was made him shudder | Richard Matheson | ||
| 71c9e1a | Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood? He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes a good excuse, doesn't it, Neville? Oh, shut up. | Richard Matheson | ||
| afb5774 | I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 0a08912 | He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's embrace. To sink into that hideous coma, to sink then into death and, perhaps, return to sterile, awful wanderings. All without knowing what it was to love and be loved. That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire. | love vampire | Richard Matheson | |
| 052f0f4 | I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors were scholars in China while his were starving in pits. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 5f94c9b | He was a thing of books and alembics to me, library and laboratory. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 0e9ffc9 | Success excuses all risks. | Naomi Novik | ||
| a865261 | A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true; the proving makes it so. | Naomi Novik | ||
| d76f3df | I had hated him, but I wouldn't have reproached him, any more than I would have reproached a bolt of lightning for striking my house. He wasn't a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 204d242 | They cut them down. They will always cut them down. They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring | Naomi Novik | ||
| 9c26d90 | I was so tired that I was nothing but my body: the steady dull throb in my thighs, the tremor all along my arms, the thick grime of dust muffling my skin. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 4f5173c | TRY: During the day, see if you can detect the bloom of the present moment in every moment, the ordinary ones, the "in-between" ones, even the hard ones. Work at allowing more things to unfold in your life without forcing them to happen and without rejecting the ones that don't fit your idea of what "should" be happening. See if you can sense the "spaces" through which you might move with no effort in the spirit of Chuang Tzu's cook. Notice.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| c6ec032 | There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being "right." | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| c53c3a3 | The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are. Things get simpler. In some ways, it's as if you died and the world continued on. If you did die, all your responsibilities and obligations would immediately evaporate. Their residue would somehow get worked out without you. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 1f44ca7 | Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust. | June Casagrande | ||
| 32123a1 | In the distance, the cat hears the sound of lobster minds singing in the void, a distant feed streaming from their cometary home as it drifts silently out through the asteroid belt, en route to a chilly encounter beyond Neptune. The lobsters sing of alienation and obsolescence, of intelligence too slow and tenuous to support the vicious pace of change that has sandblasted the human world until all the edges people cling to are jagged and br.. | singularity | Charles Stross | |
| c55dd34 | One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time. | religious-experience | Charles Stross | |
| 41ed93e | You wouldn't believe the scope for mischief that the Beast of Redmond unintentionally builds into its Office software by letting it execute macros that have unlimited access to the hardware. I remember a particular post-prandial PowerPoint presentation where I was one of only two survivors (and the other wasn't entirely human). However, this is the first time I've seen a Word document eat a man's soul. | Charles Stross | ||
| da53769 | Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam. | Charles Stross | ||
| 310f4e3 | My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I don't have mail it would mean that something is very wrong with the world | humor | Charles Stross |