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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9fd1f6c | Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 0a3d9cc | Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells a.. | envy jealous jealousy | Francesca Lia Block | |
| ba602af | He might be faithless but I believe in him. | romance teenage-love ya-lit | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 1ee5434 | It's hard to remember what you fall in love with. Usually it is an expression in the eyes, an exchange, or a gesture or the sound of a voice, a word spoken. Those things can get blended with the atmosphere around you at the time -- a fragrance in the air, a play of light, even music -- so that they become almost one with each other and when you see or smell or hear the memories of a place you feel the love again, but as a pang of loss. Some.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| bb22991 | All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and t.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 9e0c5ef | Grandma Fifi had two friends named Martin and Merlin who were afraid in a way Dirk didn't want to be. They were both very handsome and kind and always brought candies and toys when they came over for tea and Fifi's famous pastries. But as much as Dirk liked Martin and Merlin he knew he was different from them. They talked in voices as pale and soft as the shirts they wore and they moved as gracefully as Fifi did. Their eyes were startled an.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 6b510b5 | Bad things happen because things happen. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| a9bcd50 | We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 71ab0b9 | Watson retorted: 'Well I don't think we're for anything. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 728be5f | Evil...doesn't mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to "the Christian majority's" private liking." | christianity evil | Richard Dawkins | |
| 97e933a | Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 2d591d3 | You can't get away with saying, 'If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.' But you can get away with saying, 'It violates my freedom of religion.' What, when you think about it, is the difference? Yet again, religion trumps all. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 1bac605 | In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. | extraterrestrial-life life science universe wonder | Richard Dawkins | |
| fbbea83 | Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b23f74b | The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| a2882c6 | There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is not something I can decide to do as an act of will. I can decide to go to church and I can decide to recite the Nicene Creed, and I can decide to swear on a stack of bibles that I believe every word inside them. But none of that can make me actually believe it if I don't. Pascal's Wager could .. | belief god pascals-wager religion theology | Richard Dawkins | |
| 276fef7 | Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 80c2a36 | We should always be open-minded, but the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 7561ac2 | You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 22c5f8c | One of its ears stuck straight up, the other flopped as it ran, and I remembered something I'd read somewhere--that when God sees a dog he likes, He folds one of its ears down to remember it. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| aca5d7a | There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| da96f8d | The measure of a man is, does he know how to love. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 4ddeda0 | Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe. | integrity life | R.C. Sproul | |
| fe1f9f7 | You can grieve for me the week before I die, if I'm scared and hurting, but when I gasp that last fleeting breath and my immortal soul flees to heaven, I'm going to be jumping over fire hydrants down the golden streets, and my biggest concern, if I have any, will be my wife back here grieving. When I die, I will be identified with Christ's exaltation. But right now, I'm identified with His affliction. | gospel heaven | R.C. Sproul | |
| a257d0f | Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place? | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6886a12 | It's dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man--a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 26cc720 | Isn't it interesting that you find nothing blasphemous about seeking to be like the devil, but seeking to be like God offends you-- | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 2423b98 | Reaction is just that--an action you have taken before. When you "re-act," what you do is assess the incoming data, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the work of the mind, not of your soul." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 7c80213 | Express your life as a demonstration of your highest beliefs, rather than as a denial of them. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 8d8ec8b | He looked around at the others....They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the weather. Maybe that's how the world was now....Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore. | David Baldacci | ||
| 9a95086 | There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert | David Baldacci | ||
| c5bc3e1 | you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers." | comebacks smart-women the-finisher wit | David Baldacci | |
| f9ea03f | Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world. | Betty Smith | ||
| 330fe99 | We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5e60fc6 | Francie is smart, she thought. She must go to high school and maybe beyond that. She's a learner and she'll be somebody someday. But when she's educated, she will grow away from me. Why, she's growing away from me now. She does not love me the way the boy loves me. I feel her turn away from me. She does not understand me. All she understands is that I don't understand her. Maybe when she gets education, she will be ashamed of me - the way I.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 34b2b16 | If what Granma Mary Rommely said is true, then it must be that no one ever dies, really. Papa is gone, but he's still here in many ways. He's here in Neeley who looks just like him and in Mama who knew him so long. He's here in his mother who began him and who is still living. Maybe I will have a boy some day who looks like Papa and has all of Papa's good without the drinking. And that boy will have a boy. And that boy will have a boy. It m.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 1915095 | Laurie's going to have a mighty easy life all right. Annie Laurie McShane! She'll never have the hard times we had, will she? No. And she'll never have the fun we had, either. "Gosh! We did have fun, didn't we, Neeley?" Yeah! Poor Laurie, said Francie pityingly." | Betty Smith | ||
| 6469312 | Nothing was changing. She was the one who was changing. | Betty Smith | ||
| a91668b | Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful! | Betty Smith | ||
| ff6b79d | The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets. | food fruit page-25 | Adam Leith Gollner | |
| 4afcfa4 | If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 2398d45 | There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound. | universe | Kate Mosse | |
| bb82bfd | Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action. | future instinct past | James Luceno | |
| 40bd333 | A smitten smile unexpectedly shot across my face, and I quickly hid it as best I could-purely out of habit. Will Stephens doesn't get smitten smiles. | love | Laura Miller Butterfly Weeds |