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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b55c11d | I would always be earthbound; he hadn't robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have? | Miranda July | ||
| 0d9d4ac | Well, then. Whatever trauma you went through, these things don't last forever. You can't hate all men." The smile is back. "Oh, there wasn't any trauma, Don, and I | James Tiptree Jr. | ||
| b754b90 | Hunter) "conner was at his desk, tapping away at another computer. It was amazing how much he and Quinn looked alike. Quinn nudged me as if he knew what I was thinking. "I'm cuter,"he informed me loftily." | humor hunter-and-quinn | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 7410b52 | You are beautiful as always, Violet," he murmured. His parents smiled at us from where they sat sipping wine. There. Every single one of us was smiling. It was all very pleasant, even if my cheeks were starting to hurt." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| b1847ed | I hauled myself over as if I were mounting a horse. Which I'd never actually done before. Needless to say, it was hardly a graceful affair. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| b562e2c | Come to rob my sister then,have you?" "Certainly not," Mother replied, her smile brittle. "This fashion for talking to the dead is pure poppycock,if you ask me.Dead is dead." "Agatha,that's rude even for you," Mrs. Gordon said. "Shall we begin,Mrs. Willoughby, before my sister's abominable manners drive you clear away?" | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 16f7bea | I was usually hungry enough to eat what I was given without comment, but if the Earl served boiled tongue or calves' foot jelly, I fully intended to wrap it in my napkin and hide it in the nearest umbrella stand. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 1fc02eb | Isn't he utterly divine? Beautiful?" "Somehow,I think he'd disagree with that last one." And not enough with the first. "All right," she waved her dismissively. "Handsome then. Do you think he noticed me?" "We were sprawled in a heap of twitching limbs and lace at his feet. He would have had to have been unconscious to notice us." She wrinkled her nose. "I meant,do you think he noticed I'm nearly on the Marriage Mart now?" I didn't know h.. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 91b98d3 | This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them. | empire india mughal | Indu Sundaresan | |
| b2c323d | Over everything--up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the riverbanks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing on charred tree trunks--was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green; the verdancy rose even from the foundations of ruined houses. Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city's bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of the plants intact; it had stimul.. | hiroshima world-war-2 | John Hersey | |
| 1e8716f | If your child fails at something merely express your confidence in their ability to handle the consequences. If they behave irresponsibly, merely point out the consequences to themselves and others, and again express your trust that they will learn. As soon as possible give them another opportunity to be appropriately responsible. Do not slip into the downward spiral of blame, shame, and control. It doesn't work. | William Martin | ||
| be3b5e1 | You mean..." Billy exclaimed at last, "you mean..." - his voice rose high and clear - "you mean..." - and he jumped to his feet, and standing there under the giant trees, pointed at himself, a small outraged boy named William Martin Quarrier, aged eight: "You mean I just came crashing down into Ma's under-pants?" | Peter Matthiessen | ||
| 36f26d4 | The "symptom" theory goes as follows: An affair simply alerts us to a preexisting condition, either a troubled relationship or a troubled person." | Esther Perel | ||
| 1f92684 | Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics--in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs." | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 0904127 | We don't like to be intimate alone. Some couples take this one step further, confusing intimacy with control. What passes for care is actually convert surveillance. .. When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and private space is denied, fusion replaces intimacy and possession co-opts love. | Esther Perel | ||
| b55113a | It takes two people to create a pattern, but only one to change it. | Esther Perel | ||
| 62c4c46 | The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. For generations, these traditional institutions provided order, meaning, continuity, and social support. Dismantling them has left us with more choices and fewer restrictions than ever. We are freer, but also more alone. As Giddens describes it, we have become ontological.. | Esther Perel | ||
| 1019347 | Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do. | Esther Perel | ||
| d54ba7a | Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and steali.. | evolution politics sex | Geoffrey Miller | |
| 4906b15 | yt`yn `tbr tshrlz drwyn k'wl `lm nfs tTwry bsbb nbwth fy nhy@ bHthh b`nwn "fy 'Sl l'nw` 1859" Hyth yqwl: 'r~ fy lmstqbl lb`yd mjlt mftwH@ l'bHth 'kthr 'hmy@. wsyqwm `lm lnfs `l~ 'ss jdyd ytmthl fy Drwr@ ktsb kl qw@ `qly@ wkl kf@ bltdryj." -- | علم-النفس علم-نفس نظرية-التطور | David M. Buss | |
| f882e82 | The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wouldn't pay us to be there, then we didn't want to be there. As if there were no American interests in forging and keeping a peaceful world order, as if the American organizing principle was money. | Bob Woodward | ||
| c9f4b3a | To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Representatives- And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Senate- And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial -the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger- And to the nation... The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from t.. | united-states | Carl Bernstein | |
| 924559d | White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who was a commander in the Naval Reserves, tried several times to persuade Mattis to appear on Sunday talk shows on behalf of the administration. The answer was always no. "Sean," Mattis finally said, "I've killed people for a living. If you call me again, I'm going to fucking send you to Afghanistan. Are we clear?" | Bob Woodward | ||
| 74e5f89 | In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would be drawn into the fight. It is different today. We don't know who we are, we don't know the issues, and we still do not understand the nature of the enemy." | Bernard Lewis | ||
| bf7b1a7 | Small breasts are best for the long haul. | haul long small | Norman Rush | |
| a7f4794 | The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 2885b33 | She thumped her weapon (others might call it a cane, but he knew better) against the floor. "Fell off your horse?" "No, I--" "Tripped down the stairs? Dropped a bottle on your foot?" Her expression grew sly. "Or does it involve a woman?" He fought the urge to cross his arms. She was looking up at him with a bit of a smirk. She liked poking fun at her companions; she'd once told him that the best part of growing old was that she could say an.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 002e951 | Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 77f40fd | kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams. | love mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting | Mary Stewart | |
| 2fa6de1 | Bucuriile mele sunt triste pentru ca ele manifesta o acceptare a nu stiu caror legi inferioare. Sunt deficiente fata de orice tristete care nu trebuie sa priveasca decat neimplinirea mea in absolut. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 926a01a | If I tell these private thoughts of mine, it is because I know they are not mine alone, and that practically everyone is trying to say the same things and that the writer is only a man who says out loud what other people think or whisper. | the-writer | Eugène Ionesco | |
| f9a2026 | To build wealth, minimize your realized (taxable) income and maximize your unrealized income (wealth/capital appreciation without a cash flow). | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 75765e5 | I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 0a2daef | Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| f068567 | There are good and great books on the Esquire list, though even Moby-Dick, which I love, reminds me that a book without women is often said to be about humanity, but a book with women in the foreground is a woman's book. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a29d585 | Goodwill is something you put away like preserves, for a rainy day, for winter, for lean times, and it was moving to find that i had more than I had ever imagined. People gathered from all directions, and I was taken care of beautifully...Afterward...I occasionally wished that life was always like this, that I was always being showered with flowers and assistance and solicitousness, but you only get it when you need it. If you're lucky, you.. | goodwill thankfulness thanks | Rebecca Solnit | |
| e9c276c | A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his or her country. The German shuddered, the Dutch were equivocal, the Brit said he was "comfortable" with Britain, the expatriate American said no. And I said yes. Driving across the arid lands, the red lands, I wondered what it was I loved. the places, the sagebrush basins, the rivers digging themselves deep canyons through arid lands, the in.. | patriotism politics | Rebecca Solnit | |
| d175e94 | For a while it was forever, and then things started to fall apart. There isn't a story to tell, because a relationship is a story you construct together and take up residence in, a story as sheltering as a house. You invent this story of how your destinies were made to entwine like porch vines, you adjust to a big view in this direction and no view in that, the doorway that you have to duck through and the window that is jammed, how who you.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 3cedc22 | A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a plot, connecting moments and incidents into a narrative. The narrative structure might be a simple chain of events with a beginning, middle, and end. It might be embellished with diversions, digressions, and picaresque twists, be accompanied by parallel ways (subplots), or deceptively fork into blind alleys.. | landscape-architecture page-76 walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| fe53330 | One more thing about Cassandra: in the most famous version of the myth, the disbelief with which her prophecies were met was the result of a curse placed on her by Apollo when she refused to have sex with the god. The idea that loss of credibility is tied to asserting rights over your own body was there all along. But with the real-life Cassandras among us, we can lift the curse by making up our own minds about who to believe and why. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 30099ae | We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather that be told by them. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a20b068 | In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a kind of populist communion...At such times it is as though the still small pool of one's own identity has been overrun by a great flood, bringing its own grand collective desires and resentments, scouring out that pool so thoroughly that one no longer feels fear or sees the reflections of oneself but is carried alon.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d6a1918 | William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it. | hope wilderness | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 28aedd5 | Credibility is a basic survival tool. | Rebecca Solnit |