1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
2481
2482
2483
2484
2485
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b2ac09 | Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 00e0b83 | I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere. | Karen Cushman | ||
| 1c8b53a | I wish I could be an example to you..." I knew that I had conquered him, had rid myself of him mentally and emotionally; but I wanted to be sure. "You are not an example to me; you could never be," I spat at him. "You're a warning." | Richard Wright | ||
| d823cf0 | It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than than a sense of life itself. All my life had shaped me for the realism, the maturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them. | Richard Wright | ||
| b477af0 | With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be lived with dignity, that the personalities of others should not be violated, that men should be able to confront other men without fear or shame, and that if men were lucky in their living on earth they might win some redeeming meaning for the having struggled and suffered here beneath the stars. | Richard Wright | ||
| 36a47aa | We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it, and hold it forever inaccessible. ("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "with my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of the a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our fathers, our gods - they a.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 9142441 | Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 5dd366b | There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that. | treachery | Tim O'Brien | |
| 5421737 | Mitchell sanders was sitting under a banyan tree and using a thumbnail to pry off all the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing them in a USO envelope. When he was done he sealed the envelope, wrote 'Free' in the right hand corner, and sent it to his draft board in ohio. | humor | Tim O'Brien | |
| bb0e72f | What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again. 'Daddy, tell the truth,'Kathleen can say, 'did you ever kill anybody?' And I can say, honest, 'Of course not.' Or I can say, honestly, 'Yes. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 9f5c93b | I learned that words make a difference. It's easier to cope with a kicked bucked than a corpse; if it isn't human, it doesn't matter much if it's dead. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| e8a1aa4 | You're a caring, thoughtful, considerate human being. Maybe that is a curse in this cold world we live in. You have the soul of a poet. --Mrs. Bayfield, to David | Louis Sachar | ||
| eee9df6 | Dana had four beautiful eyes. She wore glasses. But her eyes were so beautiful that the glasses only made her prettier. With two eyes she was pretty. With four eyes she was beautiful. With six eyes she would have been even more beautiful. And if she had a hundred eyes, all over her face and her arms and her feet, why, she would have been the most beautiful creature in the world. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 26d90bb | I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 0351569 | Hay algo mas aburrido que la historia del pasado? -dijo Therese sonriendo. -Quiza un futuro sin historia. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| e7e272a | Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking along the shore when he noticed a small rock shaped like a bird. When he picked it up, I saw the quick gleam of satisfaction in his face and felt in an instant that I had less power to please him than a stone. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 72c3876 | Write to save yourself,' Athos said, 'and someday you'll write because you've been saved. | Anne Michaels | ||
| da767ad | She would emerge. She always had before. The punishing political climate of Oz had beat her down, dried her up, tossed her away--like a seedling she had drifted, apparently too desiccated ever to take root. But surely the curse was on the land of Oz, not on her. Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn't it also made her capable? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 2103f6d | How could anyone live without flying? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 6163063 | Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| b51a9c5 | No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no." | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 671bd75 | A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives. They woke up, were they lucky enough to have consciousness, in the act of doing something they already knew how to do... | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0660e33 | His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 56f28f9 | This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself." | rain | Gregory Maguire | |
| 780f553 | The real thing about evil... you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret. | humanity secrets | Gregory Maguire | |
| aafbed8 | It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do it properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn. | Iain Pears | ||
| 058c5f9 | Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75 | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 3665614 | No surgery in the world was going to offer him the particular history that went along with growing up female. No procedure was going to give him the joys or the terrors that must accompany pregnancy- that must, for teen girls, make sex a walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 566a07b | How the Germans can remain allies with the Turks is beyond me. No European nation would ever commit the sorts of crimes that this regime is blithely committing right now. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 6efeb58 | I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life. | piano | Thad Carhart | |
| 008df13 | Human relationships flourish and decay, quickly and silently, so that those concerned scarcely know how brittle, or how inflexible, the ties that bind them have become. | Anthony Powell | ||
| b57e1ff | Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States. Especially the people who would know best: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by human activity, and I suspect the other 3 percent are being paid by the fossil fuel industry"." | Al Franken | ||
| d3b63ba | Still, I couldn't get over Dad calling those farmers. People might think helping is hard, but really that's the easy part; just look how good it makes people feel. Look how happy all those Red Bend ladies were about chipping in. It's the asking that's so painful. It takes real courage, real , to say you're not strong enough to do it alone. Mom must really be hurting for Dad to be so brave. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 0c998fd | But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this time I'd thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it turned out I wanted to be a player instead. I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom this gave me--I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. I am not a cow. | cow freedom | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 81d3b54 | You can't think about how much you have left to do because that's just one thought, one sad thought, that'll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you've got to think about how much you've already done. | motivation motivational motivational-quotes patience | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 1e60041 | The two women look at each other and in both faces there is a glimpse of the girls that they were. A little smile warms Margaret's face and Jacquetta's eyes are filled with love. It is as if the years are no more than the mists of Barnet or the snows at Towton: they are gone, it is hard to believe they were ever there. Margaret puts out her hand, not to touch her friend but to make a gesture, a secret shared gesture, and, as we watch, Jacqu.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3e109b8 | Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' "Yes i do." she says uncertainly." | ignorance sarcasm-humor | Philippa Gregory | |
| 0f80023 | I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile." | queen royalty the-cousins-war the-lady-of-the-rivers | Philippa Gregory | |
| 492f12b | We are both people of faith," he said quietly. "Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor in others, nor in themselves. The people who should face our crusade should be those who bring cruelty into the world for no reason but their own power. There is enough sin and wickedness to fight, without taking up arms against people who believe in a forgiving God and who try to lead a good life." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| bab811b | Keep him coming forward but never let him think that you come forward yourself. He wants to feel that he is pursuing you, not that you are entrapping him. When he gives you the choice of coming forward or running away, like then--you must always run away.But don't run too fast. Remember he has to catch you. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 55aed85 | We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0d596ee | Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense. | history oppression women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 3fd4a69 | Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or I am nobody's. I will have no half-measures with you. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ba46573 | I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is. | Philippa Gregory |