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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4020719 | Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she always saw the best in everyone and remarked kindly upon it. There was no servant so stupid that she did not find some redeeming trait of loyalty and kind-heartedness, no girl so ugly and disagreeable that she could not discover grace of form or nobility of character in her, and no man so worthless or so borin.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 25d2296 | Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills. Already the plowing was nearly finished, and the bloody glory of the sunset colored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues. The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| b89da8c | In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. At least, it has been interesting, if not comfortable, to witness a Gotterdammerung.' 'A what?' 'A dusk of the gods. Unfortunately, we Southerners did think we were gods. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| d8743cb | And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| d9d15a3 | He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her. | male upset | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 5a8065e | A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler" | ironic | Margaret Mitchell | |
| dc82339 | I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| af12949 | Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?' Stephin stared. 'If you can explain to me how this is different from parenting in general I might know how to answer that. | vampires | Adam Rex | |
| 03005b9 | Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts--the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in t.. | india multiculturalism pop-culture | Adam Rex | |
| 6463409 | Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegrass song, now that I think of it. | Adam Rex | ||
| cb64236 | The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much. | demotivational humor united-states | Adam Rex | |
| ccef406 | For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER | Adam Rex | ||
| e822fa1 | This is where you all live?" Asked John as they ascended the stairs. "It's small." "This is just our Thanksgiving house," Scott muttered. "We have a house for every day of the year." | sarcasm | Adam Rex | |
| 13d3cb0 | He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| ad141ca | And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| 1cd3001 | And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night | death night poem poet poetry | Archibald MacLeish | |
| c387874 | I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| b103379 | Whoever loved that loved not at first sight? | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 321391e | Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said." | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| abf3f24 | And my emotions were similarly amplified: The highs were higher; the periods of despair were deeper and darker. To a self-possessed young man inebriated with the unfolding drama of his own life, all of this held enormous appeal. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3cf601d | When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. | rape-culture | Jon Krakauer | |
| 1d050e8 | Curiously, Chris didn't hold everyone to the same exacting standards. One of the individuals he professed to admire greatly over the last two years of his life was a heavy drinker and incorrigible philanderer who regularly beat up his girlfriends. Chris was well aware of this man's faults yet managed to forgive them. He was also able to forgive, or overlook, the shortcomings of his literary heroes: Jack London was a notorious drunk; Tolstoy.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 761265d | Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones." -John Gill-" | climbing philosophy sport | Jon Krakauer | |
| e64af48 | he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to abandon the life of a solitary vagabond, stop running so hard from intimacy, and become a member of the human community. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 572d353 | But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad. . . . | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 18a597d | I was irresistibly drawn to write about Latter-Day Saints not only because I already knew something about their theology, and admired much about their culture, but also because of the utterly unique circumstances in which their religion was born: the Mormon Church was founded a mere 173 years ago, in a literate society, in the age of the printing press. As a consequence, the creation of what became a worldwide faith was abundantly documente.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 29791aa | weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3289ed5 | only between 5 percent and 20 percent of forcible rapes in the United States are reported to the police; a paltry 0.4 percent to 5.4 percent of rapes are ever prosecuted; and just 0.2 percent to 2.8 percent of forcible rapes culminate in a conviction that includes any time in jail for the assailant. Here's another way to think about these numbers: When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f8aef14 | We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining," said Mrs. Bunny." | Polly Horvath | ||
| aff8a21 | The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go. | Polly Horvath | ||
| d9b2ba6 | I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. | love | Bette Greene | |
| ac0a0d8 | Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up. | Bette Greene | ||
| af03ddc | He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| ef40631 | Everybody has their sadness. And most people are scared of it. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| a8c230a | He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they'd met with utter disappointment and become attached to it. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 7954b35 | The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white and impersonal with centuries of sun, I think of half-past-four at Manderley, and the table drawn before the library fire. The door flung open, punctual to the minute, and the performance, never-varying, of the laying of the tea, the silver tray.. | tradition | Daphne du Maurier | |
| b6d81db | The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said that of course there must be more sand because of under the sea; in every ocean all over the world there would be sand, if you looked deep down. But there could be grass too, argued Deborah, a waving grass, a grass that nobody had ever seen, and the colour of that ocean grass would be darker than any grass on the surface of the.. | ocean sand sea underwater | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 1a25095 | I might say that we have paid for freedom. But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind of course we have on moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 07cd537 | I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. This we have done in full measure, ironic though it seems. We have both known fear, and loneliness, and very great distress. I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must g.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 0d905c7 | Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| c1919e1 | It was then that Maxim looked at me. He looked at me for the first time that evening. And in his eyes I read the message of farewell. It was as though he leant against the side of a ship, and I stood below him on the quay. There would be other people touching his shoulder, and touching mine, but we would not see them. Nor would we speak or call to one another, for the wind and the distance would carry away the sound of our voices. But I sho.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 7514bb9 | As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe. She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragmen.. | trees woods | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 1dcba52 | But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious. | immorality music | Daphne du Maurier | |
| ebd95c4 | Baby Kochamma had installed a dish antenna on the roof of the Ayemenem house. She presided over the world in her drawing room on satellite TV. The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn't hard to understand. It wasn't something that happened gradually. It happened overnight. Blondes, wars, famines, football, sex, music, coups d'etat--they all arrived on the same train. They unpacked together. They stayed at the sam.. | Arundhati Roy |