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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d37646a | One day a young fugitive, trying to hide himself from the enemy, entered a small village. The people were kind to him and offered him a place to stay. But when the soldiers who sought the fugitive asked where he was hiding, everyone became very fearful. The soldiers threatened to burn the village and kill every man in it unless the young man were handed over to them before dawn. The people went to the minister and asked him what to do. The .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 533ad24 | Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 05368fa | Information is power. --Humfrey | Piers Anthony | ||
| 026990d | The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened. | martin-luther-king-jr truth | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| 04f2770 | In politics, regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are. | moderates politics sumbitch | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| 0c37b3c | If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. --WILL ROGERS | David Allen | ||
| 07cefc6 | Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want. | David Allen | ||
| be2db80 | I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin. | David Allen | ||
| 4d93c65 | teaching was the most rigorous form of learning. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| e78ff38 | Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope. | Edward Abbey | ||
| ed35bab | The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 67f288f | An LSD experience without the LSD" -that was a laugh. In fact, the heads are pouring in by the hundreds, bombed out of their gourds, hundreds of heads coming out into the absolute open for the first time. It is like the time the Pranksters went to the Beatles concert in full costume, looking so bizarre and so totally smoked that no one could believe they were. Nobody would risk it in public like that. Well the kids are just having an LSD ex.. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 8927a7c | human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| f4044c2 | What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble before it started. It was hard to see what growing older would mean to such a person. His emotions, from lack of exercise, had disappeared almost altogether. Adaptability and curiosity, he had found, did just as well. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 33ae905 | He'd come to know himself, untranslatably, through his pain. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9d74154 | Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake. | John Irving | ||
| 68d9d72 | To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f33a504 | Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| ec3baf3 | Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| cc32f74 | I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes. | dreams love older strength teenagers young | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 4499430 | There was also a dark-haired man of about thirty (BMI approximately twenty) who appeared not to have shaved for several days, and, beside him, the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. In contrast to the complexity of Bianca's costume, she was wearing a green dress with zero decoration, so minimal that it did not even have straps to hold it in place. It took me a moment to realise that its wearer was Rosie. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| e55ec78 | All of us are programmed-genetically programmed-to keep doing what's worked for us, and to avoid things that didn't work. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 1b07dbd | Highly intelligent people are often bullied. As a result of being different. That difference being high intelligence. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 13ab63a | I became aware of applause. It seemed natural. I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. But it was real. The entire University Club dining room had been watching. I decided to complete the story according to tradition and kissed Rosie. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 3f32227 | Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He's just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it. | kelley-armstrong lawyer-jokes omens | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 83cfd14 | Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you?" "You've never been interested in me before." "You've never been interesting before." -Cassandra and Paige" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 80892d2 | It was long past lunch time, but there were people at nearly every table, more milling around with trays. I stayed back just inside the door and scanned the sea of faces. Beside me, Simon murmured. "One, two, three--" "There," I grunted and strode toward Chloe's table. "Damn," he said as he jogged to keep up. "Three seconds. That's a record." I scowled at him. "What?" he said. "It's cute." My scowl deepened. "So cute," he said, grinning. "I.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| d06ddb4 | Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron." | sarcasm | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 517c206 | I would like to ask one favor though, if that's not too much," he said. I wonder what he saw on my face, because something flickered across his own face in response. But, before I could identify it, he'd composed his features into the same serene mask. "Anything," I vowed, my voice faintly stronger. As I watched, his frozen eyes melted. The gold became liquid again, molten, burning down into mine with an intensity that was overwhelming. "Do.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e72ba53 | Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that. | cerulean flowers healer | Stephenie Meyer | |
| b7adcd2 | I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed. There was no friction in the space between us. The stillness was peaceful - not like the calm b.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7d53e29 | You know, there was a time when childbirth was possibly the most terrifying thing you could do in your life, and you were literally looking death in the face when you went ahead with it. And so this is a kind of flashback to a time when that's what every woman went through. Not that they got ripped apart, but they had no guarantees about whether they were going to live through it or not. You know, I recently read - and I don't read nonfict.. | childbirth horror jane-austen | Stephenie Meyer | |
| db58d70 | I did know this - every second I spent with her was only going to add to the pain I would have suffer later. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8351c3f | Say it...out loud. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| a36ccac | Until your heart stops beating, Bella," he said. "I'll be here-- fighting." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 140ec86 | It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food. | the-host | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 335afdb | I stopped in the porch and took hold of his face in my hands. I looked fiercely into his eyes. "I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6f656a3 | I'd noticed that his eyes were black - coal black. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ce059fc | I took his hand, and suddely he yanked me--too roughly--right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in case," he muttered against my hair, crushing me in a bear hug that about to broke my ribs. "Can't--breathe!" I gasped." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 0c21c0d | Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't see anything wrong with that picture. Jacob was a gift from the gods. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 078b6d3 | I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that they hated all unicorns now and tried to kill them when they saw them. But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else-what do they look like to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children? | forget forgetting forgotten hate kill men unicorns | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 0c540f1 | How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings? | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 099cb08 | There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes." (King Pelles the Sure)" | war | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 147e238 | There's a line in the Bible about perfect love casting out fear. That I don't know about, but orneriness will do it every time. | stubbornness | Peter S. Beagle |