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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c192582 | I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been .. | positivity strength | J.K. Rowling | |
| 082d675 | Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right," said Hermione. "I heard him telling your mum, Ron." "Sounds like the sort of mental thing Dumbledore would say," said Ron." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5d45cce | Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path,conversed with death in my sleep, wrestled with death in the snow, gambled at dice with death, I have come to the conclusion that death is not an enemy but a brother. Death is a beautiful naked man who looks like Apollo, and he is notsatisfied with those who wither away in old age. Death is a perfectionist, he likes the young and beautiful, he wants to stroke our hair and caress th.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 2896030 | How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again. | Mark Haddon | ||
| a6336db | And that is why a dog can go to the vet and have a really big operation and have metal pins sticking out of its leg but if it sees a cat it forgets that it has pins sticking out of its leg and chases after the cat. But when a person has an operation it has a picture in its head of the hurt carrying on for months and months. And it has a picture of all the stitches in its leg and the broken bone and the pins and even if it sees a bus it has .. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 5e7f8e9 | Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living. | humour | Mark Haddon | |
| 33e4cd2 | I cooked his meals. I cleaned his clothes. I looked after him every weekend. I look after him when he was ill. I took him to the doctor. I worried myself sick everytime he wandered off somewhere at night. I went to school every time he got into a fight. And you? What? You wrote him some fucking letters. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 5819632 | Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 64872d4 | Time is only the relationship between the different things changing | Mark Haddon | ||
| 9ae7d2a | I did know what it meant when you say you promise something. You have to say that you will never do something again and then you must never do it because that would make the promise a lie. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 74a916a | Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. | science | Mark Haddon | |
| 12ab421 | Nuestro amor es como el viento no podemos verlo pero podemos sentirlo | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 674d366 | Her father was dying, and he wanted her forgiveness. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fba1fa0 | sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2ebb99b | No," I mumble. I try to shake my head but can't, the agony making it impossible. "I want to stay awake. I want to be with you." "Do not worry. I will be here when you wake." "But you were gone before." "I was not gone. I was here and I will always be here." "How can you be so sure?" She kissed me again before answering. "Because," she says, her voice tender, "I am always with you, Ira." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 935a354 | Para odiar algo, primero debes amarlo. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| be20656 | I know you may not believe it, but the last thing I want to do is hurt you or do anything that would make you regret that we've met." - Jeremy" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 61ce0ea | I can honestly say I could go two or three days without wondering what Savannah was doing or even thinking about her. Did this make my love less real? I asked myself that question dozens of times during that trip, but I always decided it didn't, for the simple reason that her image would ambush me when I least expected it, overwhelming me with the same ache I had the day I'd left. Anything might set it off: a friend talking about his wife, .. | john love romance | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 5333570 | But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at wh.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 60d1a1f | She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cffd74c | One of my father's was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. | the-longest-ride | Nicholas Sparks | |
| b3a5e0e | No, I mean with us. Do you think we would have made it?" It took a moment for her to answer. "I don't know, Noah. I really don't, and you don't either. We're not the same people we were then. We've changed. Both of us." She paused. He didn't respond, and in the silence she looked towards the creek. She went on. "But yes, Noah, I think we would have. At least, I'd like to think we would have." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b8a252c | mdh ykwn Hss lmr b'n hnk shyy'an ylzmh , wlknh mnfSl `nh l~ l'bd? | lost novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 21ef21d | I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c18502f | That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on--that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5064668 | She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1be3033 | Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me. | emotional-exhaustion loneliness | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 4c56f18 | How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| db179e0 | Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c7be1c3 | It takes a long time to grow an old friend, and trust is built a single moment at a time. Women, she sometimes thought, had a tendency to see what they wanted to see | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b35bd9f | By midnight Theresa was yawning steadily, and Garrett suggested that she get some sleep. "But I came down here to see you," she protested drowsily. "But if you don't get your sleep, I'll look blurry." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1d69745 | We were in love, but the timing wasn't right. And all the love in the world can't alter timing. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 81f20b8 | The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 53fc73f | Do I dare? | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 755a077 | In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain people are prone to colds and catastrophe. And why others can dance on water. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| c5172d3 | Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just . It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul. Take a modern example. Florence and the Machine? In the song 'Cosmic Love,' she catalogs the way in which the world has gone dark, distorting her, when she, a rather intense young woman, was left bereft by a love affair. 'The stars, the moon.. | classical-music confession cosmic-love diary florence-and-the-machine florence-welch horror love-affair lyrics music mystery night-film suspense thriller | Marisha Pessl | |
| 93f14f5 | Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 8f09b7d | The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's bes.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| cbcc595 | Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race! | Marisha Pessl | ||
| a68237a | When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2cb0e89 | Due to Jade's fortresslike manner, which, like any well-built castle, made access challenging, girls found her existence not only threatening but flat-out wrong. Although Bartelby Athletic Center featured the latest advertising campaign of Ms. Sturd's three member Benevolent Body-Image Club (laminated Vogue and Maxim covers above captions, "You Can't Have Thighs Like This and Still Walk" and "All Airbrushing"), Jade would only have to swan .. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 725615d | This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 88d44c2 | It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| b0c5576 | It wasn't my fault. | Janet Evanovich |