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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dd09d18 | Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our hopes and plans, or could see the manner in which we are doomed to die - how ruined our lives would be! Instead we live on dumbly from day to day as happily as animals. But all things must come to dust eventually. No human being, no system, no age is impervious to this law; everything beneath the stars will perish; the ha.. | cicero tiro | Robert Harris | |
| d100baf | Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring! | Robert Harris | ||
| 1086020 | What do you do,' he said, 'if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for? What do you do when everyone tells you not to worry, you can't do anything about it, it was a long time ago?' She was looking at him in a different way. 'I suppose you go crazy.' 'Or worse. Sane. | Robert Harris | ||
| 4bee25f | Good stories are never about a string of successes but about spectacular defeats," Stop had said. "Even though Roald Amundsen won the race to the South Pole, it's Robert Scott the world outside Norway remembers. None of Napoleon's victories is remembered like the defeat at Waterloo. Serbia's national pride is based on the battle against the Turks at Kosovo Polje in 1389, a battle the Serbs lost resoundingly. And look at Jesus! The symbol of.. | Jo Nesbø | ||
| 902c182 | Travel is sold as freedom, but we were about as free as lab rats. This is how they'll manage the next Holocaust, I thought, as I shuffled forward in my stockinged feet: they'll simply issue us with air tickets and we'll do whatever we're told | Robert Harris | ||
| 4f2fba7 | To survive painful beliefs and feelings, we often mask them with anger. That way, we don't have to feel the shame behind it. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 205f434 | My ex-girlfriend Lisa once said that every woman wants the same thing in a relationship: to be adored. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 1c56445 | You will speed up your growth by being selfish. So imagine that the people you're looking at can actually take care of themselves. And if you ask for what you want and trust that the other person will say yes or no powerfully, it will make things very interesting. | Neil Strauss | ||
| dbe7501 | If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone. | Neil Strauss | ||
| a7fca8c | Many women think that if they put out too quickly, their partner won't respect them. This is not the case. It's not about waiting for a certain quantity of time before having sex, it's about waiting for a certain quality of connection. | relationships sex women | Neil Strauss | |
| a86dd49 | In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you. | Neil Strauss | ||
| b2d4514 | Every word, every step, every action is irreversible. If we step in front of a moving car, if we sign a contract we haven't read, if we betray the person we love, the best we can do is try to clean up the mess. But no matter how hard we scrub, the stain on reality will never come out. The word you just read can never be unread. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 5263715 | All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| b29ed5e | A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated -- and turned out to grass. | education empowerment inequality men women women-s-liberation women-s-rights | Pearl S. Buck | |
| fd589d4 | Waiting patiently doesn't suit you.I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth it can put fire it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, Have you? | Arthur Golden | ||
| c012653 | I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils... - In the far-off woods you can hear them sound the mort. For more than a thousand years sad Ophelia Has passed, a white phantom, down the long black river. For more than a thousand years her sweet madness Has murmured its ballad to the evening breeze. The wind kisses her breasts and unfolds in a wreat.. | Arthur Rimbaud | ||
| b4d576d | I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be | geisha memoirs | Arthur Golden | |
| 16ebad8 | Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. | virginity | Arthur Golden | |
| d3c5d81 | If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle | Arthur Golden | ||
| 39bbc40 | It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered away from the inn in a daze and ended up on the sea cliffs, staring out into the darkness with sound of the roaring water below me. The thundering of the ocean was like a bitter lament. I seemed to see beneath everything a layering of cruelty I have never known was there. The howling of the wind and shaking of the .. | Arthur Golden | ||
| d0eb5d4 | Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 0a8d036 | I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. Nobu's touch had made a deeper impression on me than most. No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between u.. | clay destiny geisha hopes impression memoirs memoirs-of-a-geisha | Arthur Golden | |
| e1fb48d | Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| ad1ba88 | Good God." He felt like he'd just finished running the Boston Marathon. How did she do it? How the hell did she do all that every day, and probably a lot more? But just the dinner, the squabbles, the mess, the sheer volume of stuff that needed to be remembered, done, handled with three kids. It was mentally and physically exhausting. Fun, he admitted, but exhausting. And she'd have to get up in the morning, get them up, dressed, fed. Then g.. | the-next-always | Nora RobertsThe Next Always | |
| fb22444 | It's part of us," she said jerkily. "How could I not want part of us? It's your baby.I'm carrying your baby and I love it so much already it terrifies me." "Oh,Diana." He touched her then, gently, his hands on her face. "You've let two weeks go by when we could have been terrified together." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 676fe87 | Don't worry."... "We are right behind you." "Notice," Lilah added with a smile, "the direction is behind." | Nora Roberts | ||
| a47d092 | We're stuck now because you wheedled me into falling in love with you. So we get through whatever there is to get through." He kissed her. "With or without porn." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4ead8e2 | My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 6aaa74b | What is it about you?" he repeated. "How does touching you calm me down and excite me at the same time? What is it you want from me? You never ask. Sometimes I wonder, is this a trick?" His eyes on hers, he backed her slowly toward the bed. "Just a way to pull me in? But it's not. You're not built that way." - "Why would I want anything I had to trick out of you?" - "You don't." He lifted her, held, then laid her on the bed. "So you pull me.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 23db64c | How are you holding up?" "I'm good.And still untouched," she added. "Are you alone in that bed?" "Except for the six members of the all-girl Swedish volleyball team.Helga's got a hell of a spike.Aren't you going to ask what I'm wearing?" "Black Speedos,sweat,and a big smile." "How'd you guess?So,what are you wearing?" Slowly,she ran a tongue around her teeth. "Oh,just this little..very little..white lace teddy." "And stiletto heels." "Natur.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 9dfc895 | Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2896410 | Let's go have lotsa drunk sex before it hits." "'Kay. Drunk sex for everybody!" | Nora Roberts | ||
| c466759 | Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. "He fights with us. We're an army." "An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?" she asked Glenna. "Witch." "So, we've got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 911b97f | No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it." -- | Nora Roberts | ||
| 385f71c | Love can kick your ass. | Nora Roberts | ||
| c77c0b7 | I'm not in love with someone!" he shouted at her, infuriated because she was right and he couldn't do a thing about it. "I'm in love with you, and damn it,I don't like it." "You've made that abundantly clear." She straightened her shoulders and lifted her chin. "Don't pull that regal routine on me," Grant began. Her eyes sharpened to dagger points. Her skin flushed majestically. Abruptly he began to laugh.When she tossed her head back in fu.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| fae6f9f | You're excuses are so lame they're limping... | Nora Roberts | ||
| cb74f52 | My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 2985336 | Death can be a good friend to those in extreme pain. I wondered how he held on so long... | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 40f552b | The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever." Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." That comed--as you call it--of being arrant asses." -- | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 6562e28 | It's not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 3a8afcd | The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 3f6ce17 | He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have made, some flaw in me that he didn't share, so he could believe it wouldn't have happened to him. But it wasn't my fault. It was either blind, dumb, stupid luck from start to finish, in which case, we are all in the wrong business gentleman, or it was a God I cannot worship. | religion | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 762d83a | Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism." | Mary Doria Russell |