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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0914e77 | Thomas," she suggested, "you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8e142ef | I was crazy. I was crazy in the way a child is crazy, in the way of someone who believes, with rash fervor, that life can be--that it will yet be, and most certainly--as you would wish it. How could I have been so foolish? | Claire Messud | ||
| 4972978 | The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby. | John Banville | ||
| f1af0d4 | And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 3ba6f7a | He wanted to meet her for the first time, over and over...He told himself the story that this was the great tragedy of his heart. The great tragedy of his heart was that it always needed to be told a story. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 75626c3 | Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them (not so much over the head as between the legs); and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable. | prejudice | Zadie Smith | |
| 8906bb9 | Don't you think they're as bored as you are? You think you're somebody special? You think I wake up everyday so happy to see you? You're a snob, just in the other way. Do you think you are the only one who wants something else? Another life? | happiness life | Zadie Smith | |
| 0d638f8 | Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble. | Zadie Smith | ||
| e2cc078 | you're lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You're lucky that you're happy, that you know how to be happy, that you're a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do? | zadie-smith | Zadie Smith | |
| 5855412 | But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain. One | Zadie Smith | ||
| ea39088 | But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was? | Zadie Smith | ||
| c25a6f8 | I didn't understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 0b672f0 | He smiles shyly at Leah. Aged ten he had a smile! Nathan Bogle: the very definition of desire for girls who had previously only felt that way about certain fragrant erasers. A smile to destroy the resolve of even the strictest teachers, other people's parents. Now she sees ten-year-olds and cannot believe they have inside them what she had inside her at the same age. | Zadie Smith | ||
| f1c8cbb | It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know? | country duty principle | Zadie Smith | |
| 332b93b | They caught up with each other's news casually, leaving long, cosy gaps of silence in which to go to work on their muffins and coffees. Jerome - after two months of having to be witty and brilliant in a strange town among strangers - appreciated the gift of it. People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two lovers, but this too was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. ~ on the comforts of .. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 6901fa0 | A minute later, the young Turk and Howard parted on frosty terms, not much warmed by Howard's twenty-pence tip, the only extra change he had in his pocket. It is on journeys like this - where one is so horribly misunderstood - that you find yourself longing for home, that place where you are entirely understood, for better or for worse. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 0f37826 | So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 6b2cd99 | They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying: Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship. They were married before they noticed many small differences in background, aspiration, education, ambition. (...) Noting such differences, Leah was in some sense disappointed in herself that they did not cause real conflict between them. It was hard to get used to the fact that the pleasure her body found in his,.. | marriage sex | Zadie Smith | |
| f5e3095 | Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs? | Libba Bray | ||
| 75f28fd | Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow." | the-sweet-far-thing | Libba Bray | |
| 73cedb7 | She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition." -- | Libba Bray | ||
| da16656 | I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the mid.. | lost | Libba Bray | |
| 30f0323 | She is the elephant's eyebrows," Evie whispered appreciatively. "Those jewels! How her neck must ache." "That's why Bayer makes aspirin," Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn't immune to the dazzle of a movie star." | Libba Bray | ||
| 7c25f6e | Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7e58852 | We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4c770fd | my stomach aches a new. blasted inconvenience. What do young men have to mark their entry into adulthood? Trousers, that's what. Fine, new trousers. I despise absolutely everyone just now. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4225628 | I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again. | loss | Libba Bray | |
| 7c1cb86 | He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery. | Libba Bray | ||
| cd25fb9 | Memphis--it's just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It's what they do. It's not following you, and it's not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother. | Libba Bray | ||
| 13c9a81 | Will looked at Evie funny. "Advertising?" "Yes. You've heard of it, haven't you? Swell modern invention. It lets people know about something they need. Soap, lipstick, radios--or your museum, for instance. We could start with a catchy slogan, like, 'The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult--we've got the spirit!" | Libba Bray | ||
| 86882d5 | A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee. | Libba Bray | ||
| 0250f1e | With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling--an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8f9c7d7 | He's got a laugh like a machine gun firing through velvet. | Libba Bray | ||
| a3db6a0 | It's just a little initiation we have here at Spence - we like to torture each other. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. | Libba Bray | ||
| 867cc7f | He deserves to have his head on a spike for all to see. Waring: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow. | Libba Bray | ||
| 0b79d28 | Forgiveness. The frail beauty of the world takes root in me as I make my way back through the woods, past the caves and the ravine, where the earth has accepted the flesh of the deer, leaving nothing but a bone or two, peeking above Kartik's makeshift grave, to prove that any of this ever happened. Soon, they'll be gone too. But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close remembering that in each of us lie goo.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 46fde44 | But without that spark of anger, without destruction, there can be no rebirth. | Libba Bray | ||
| b9dceaf | Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute, lively and spirited in the next; a girl kind enough to bring Ann home for Christmas and small enough to think Kartik her inferior. | Libba Bray | ||
| fefc112 | Dans chaque fin, il y a un debut. | end | Libba Bray | |
| a15978d | sometimes a little crazy is all you need | Libba Bray | ||
| 68a02de | I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset. | Libba Bray | ||
| 62e6205 | I know. And I'm Sorry. People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on. I'm offering you a new world. | Libba Bray | ||
| 20ca0d1 | Perhaps it is only the light. Perhaps it is the power of the realms at work through me. Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if first we know were to look without flinching. | Libba Bray | ||
| 61e673f | Even Felicity can't keep from sputtering with laughter. I wish I could use my evil eye. Or at least my evil boot right smack against Cecily's backside. | Libba Bray |