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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1d9d350 | The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful | family-contact pain reality relationships writing | Monica Ali | |
| c661d1a | It was love, the furnace into which everything was dropped. | James Salter | ||
| fcd1f6e | Frex! | Beth Revis | ||
| dd4b640 | They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky. | Beth Revis | ||
| aebe98c | This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me. | Beth Revis | ||
| 1363009 | We are all children, Kheldar. --Cyradis | David Eddings | ||
| a2c02c6 | I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes." | David Eddings | ||
| 7fecf6d | Salmissra was alone and unguarded. The palace eunuchs were sworn to protect her, but evidently a eunuch's oath doesn't mean all that much to him if it's going to involve bleeding. | David Eddings | ||
| 703fbc7 | What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of. | David Eddings | ||
| 5673800 | I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 74787a2 | Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ... | life | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 5100cec | Men destroy only what they fear. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| e8b5fac | This vulgar grace is indiscriminate compassion. It works without asking anything of us. It's not cheap. It's free, and as such will always be a banana peel for the Orthodox foot and a fairy tale for the grown-up sensibility. Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try to find something or someone it cannot cover. Grace is enough. He is enough. Jesus is enough. John, the disciple Jesus loved, ended his first le.. | Brennan Manning | ||
| 72c2222 | The truth of us was always that you were our ring. We'd summoned you out of ourselves, and you were not given a vote. If only for that reason, you deserved all the protection we could muster. Everything else was subordinate to this fact. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9788e62 | And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 44b0e68 | I, like every kid I knew, loved The Dukes of Hazzard. But I would have done well to think more about why two outlaws, driving a car named the General Lee, must necessarily be portrayed as "just some good ole boys, never meanin' no harm"--a mantra for the Dreamers if there ever was one. But what one "means" is neither important nor relevant. It is not necessary that you believe that the officer who choked Eric Garner set out that day to dest.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| b3d1931 | I never wanted you to be twice as good as them, so much as I have always wanted you to attack every day of your brief bright life in struggle. The people who must believe they are white can never be your measuring stick. I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d6a4fe8 | I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d84d415 | O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for example, Robespierre said, in his justification of the regicide, that one does not have to prove that the king committed any specific crimes, since the very existence of the king is a crime, an of.. | revolution | Slavoj Žižek | |
| cc08796 | We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect that one can actually change things by "extending" democracy to ple's control. Radical changes in this domain should be made outside the sphere of legal "rights", etcetera: no matter how radical our anti-capitalism, unless this is understood, the solution sought will involve ap.. | political politics | Slavoj Žižek | |
| f346b03 | We build model ships in bottles, whispering life into the toothpicks and wire; we make plans and blueprints for the one we hope is coming. And come they do. Fleets of vessels. Battleships and barges. They arrive on the horizon, flags to the sky. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 636192d | If he leaves you with a car alarm heart, you learn to sing along. | Sarah Kay | ||
| d0bd6b1 | He will never marry her, the translator tells me, after we have been driving in the dark for a few minutes. Yes, I say, but he can love her. | Sarah Kay | ||
| f5f6ad2 | For Saffron," it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, "Saffy's angel." Saffron, picking up the broken fragments one by one, said it didn't matter. She hugged Rose and Indigo and Caddy and Sarah, and said again and again that it didn't matter, it didn't matter at all." | broken family | Hilary McKay | |
| 9cc19dd | ymknny tHqyq 'y shy n bdhlt jhdan | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 75cbd5e | You make plans and decisions assuming randomness and chaos are for chumps. The illusion of control is a peculiar thing because it often leads to high self-esteem and a belief your destiny is yours for the making more than it really is. This over-optimistic view can translate into actual action, rolling with the punches and moving ahead no matter what. Often, this attitude helps lead to success. Eventually, though, most people get punched in.. | David McRaney | ||
| 5641ea5 | There are always a dozen reasons for doing nothing," Ann liked to say--it was a favourite apologia, indeed, for many of her misdemeanours. "There is only one reason for doing something. And that's because you want to." Or have to? Ann would furiously deny it: coercion, she would say, is just another word for doing what you want; or for not doing what you are afraid of." | John le Carré | ||
| 492d4ab | And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackens, that his life had consisted of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in. And that what he needed to do from now on, if there was going to be a now on, was abandon his morbid quest for order, and treat himself to a little chaos, on the grounds that while order was demonstrably no substitute for happiness, chaos might open the way to it. | John le Carré | ||
| 0052d3d | However closely we live together, at whatever time of day or night we sound the deepest thoughts in one another, we know nothing. | John le Carré | ||
| 61c9dad | He became a solitary, belonging to that tragic class of active men prematurely deprived of activity; swimmers barred from the water or actors banished from the stage. | John le Carré | ||
| a5c8412 | in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ... | experience intuition thinking | John le Carré | |
| fb9a755 | Can't you see it's the same? The same guns, the same children dying in the streets? Only the dream has changed, the blood is the same colour. Is that what you want? | John le Carré | ||
| 79a8f77 | Smiley was the oddest. You thought, to look at him, that he couldn't cross the road alone, but you might as well have offered protection to a hedgehog. | John le Carré | ||
| 3936365 | Sometimes you do it to save face, thought Jerry, other times you just do it because you haven't done your job unless you've scared yourself to death. Other times again, you go in order to remind yourself that survival is a fluke. But mostly you go because the others go; for ; and because in order to belong you must share. | reporting | John le Carré | |
| 1e13799 | She had the experience to suffer with discretion. | contentment dignity | John le Carré | |
| 7740658 | Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places. This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of champagne in summer, and the art of promise-keeping. | Markus Zusak | ||
| dcdcf19 | The words. Why did they have to exist? Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 38a67ac | I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death | Markus Zusak | ||
| 9597421 | The sky was white but deteriorating fast. As always, it was becoming an enormous drop sheet. Blood was bleeding through, and in patches, the clouds were dirty, like footprints in melting snow. Footprints? you ask. Well, I wonder whose those could be. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 80e38cf | Just give hime five more minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they would all watch. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ed3270e | What I like best is walking with my hands in my pockets, having the Doorman next to me, and imagining that Audrey's on my other side. I always picture us from behind. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 86f4f7f | The happening that happened was that I met this girl ... | happening | Markus Zusak | |
| aeffa84 | Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness. | suddenly | Markus Zusak | |
| c8537ac | When Liesel left that day, she said something with great uneasiness. In translation, two giant words were struggled with, carried on her shoulder, and dropped as a bungling pair at Ilsa Hermann's feet. They fell off sideways as the girl veered with them and could no longer sustain their weight. Together, they sat on the floor, large and loud and clumsy. Two giant words...I'm sorry. | Markus Zusak |