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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a96a2ef | Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? [...] People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 24d0f46 | Our DNA does not fade like an ancient parchment; it does not rust in the ground like the sword of a warrior long dead. It is not eroded by wind or rain, nor reduced to ruin by fire and earthquake. It is the traveller from an ancient land who lives within us all. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| 4d0ce4c | Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the other Snowy monarch, asked in her soft voice. He did indeed, madam," Ezylryb replied. "Soren is a much-misunderstood owl these days. Believe me, Soren will do whatever is required in this invasion." | guardians-of-ga-hoole meeting soren | Kathryn Lasky | |
| e3a658a | Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned be. Now to thy golden talons Homage we're bringing. Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing Long may we triumph in the coming years. - The Owls of St. Aegolius | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 8c56dcd | Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring. Through our hollow bones it flows To each feather and downy fluff. Quell the terrible, horrid urge that so often prinkles us, Still our dreams, make slow our thoughts Let tranquillity flood our veins. Come to us and drink your fill So we might end our pains. - The Owls at St. Aegolius calling to.. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 310f1f5 | A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| a6b3f3a | You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the valu.. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| ca4ae77 | Look at those clouds," said Jamie, gazing up at the sky. "Look at them." "Yes," said Isabel. "They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them." "Look at the shape of the clouds," she said. "What do you see in those beautiful clouds, Jamie?" "I see you," he said." | clouds isabel-dalhousie | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| ffc82d1 | Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so. | reality | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| c82d0c8 | These sociopaths,' he said. 'What do they feel like? Inside?' Isabel smiled. 'Unmoved,' she said. 'They feel unmoved. Look at a cat when it does something wrong. It looks quite unmoved. Cats are sociopaths, you see. It's their natural state. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 6a54cb3 | That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing? | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| fe233a4 | A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes. | wedding | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| e701499 | Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 688e1d1 | She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position. Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reve.. | disclosure facts information lying questions questions-and-answers truth | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| a6ba8de | If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. | kindness | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 0530f05 | Isabel saw the intimacy of the gestures and felt immediately empty, a sensation so physical and so overwhelming that she felt for a moment that she might stop breathing, being empty of air | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 69d426c | No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many. | humour wisdom | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| aec3806 | Do I shock you? I think I do. That's the problem these days - nobody speaks their mind. No, don't smile. They really don't. We've been browbeaten into conformity by all sorts of people who tell us what we can and cannot say. Haven't you noticed it? The tyranny of political correctness. Don't pass any judgement on anything. Don't open your trap in case you offend somebody or other. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 4e3ac28 | We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in the shade of the acacia tree and talk about things that happened the day before. We were not born to sit in kitchens by ourselves, with nobody to chat to." Mma Ramotswe" | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 58190a2 | The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough. | language | Adam Gopnik | |
| 4602ca1 | There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| a2a8986 | I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real." -- | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 1bd8cc3 | That's the existential problem," Fat said, "based on the concept that We are what we do, rather than, We are what we think. It finds its first expression in Goethe's Faust, Part One, where Faust says, 'Im Anfang war das Wort'. He's quoting the opening of the Fourth Gospel; 'In the beginning was the Word.' Faust says, 'Nein. Im Anfang war die Tat.' In the beginning was the Deed. From this, all existentialism comes." | faust | Philip K. Dick | |
| 3dade09 | As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy. However, if any living being suffered, then for all the rest the shadow could not be entirely cast off. A herd animal such as man would acquire a higher survival factor through this; an owl or a cobra would be destroyed. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 88267fb | But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared. | philip-k-dick | Philip K. Dick | |
| eb3aaa3 | Fat heard in her rational tone the harp of nihilism, the twang of the void. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2d7233b | I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 8cf014a | In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| c85cce4 | Little sleep, no investment portfolio, no family around, no hot water. On an evening a few days after arriving in Cange, I wondered aloud what compensation he got for these various hardships. He told me, "If you're making sacrifices, unless you're automatically following some rule, it stands to reason that you're trying to lessen some psychic discomfort. So, for example, if I took steps to be a doctor for those who don't have medical care, .. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| dc085eb | With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 28a9637 | Lymond surveyed the grinning audience with an air of gentle discovery. "Is there no work to be done? Or perhaps it's a holiday?" | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f8092af | was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow stumbling into a little dell where a warm spring was and found the grass green and weeds sprouting and skunk cabbage pushing up a potent thumb, He went home and sat by the stove and read Struggle for Existence Origin of Species Natural Selection that wasn't what they taught in church, so ceased to believe moved .. | charles-darwin darwin herbert-spencer huxley luther-burbank spencer t-h-huxley thomas-h-huxley thomas-henry-huxley thomas-huxley | John Dos Passos | |
| f32dba3 | lyst thm@ mSyb@ 'fdH mn 'n yjm`k byt wHd bHsn l~ l'bd .. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 08a5592 | fy lmjtm` lmkhtl ybdw lSHyH mryD wlmryD SHyH | unbalanced | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| f1dbadd | 'lsn nshdhb l'shjr fnbtr m `wj mn 'GSnh wfrw`h ? flmdh nbq~ `l~ mn l ySlHwn llHy@ mn 'frd lns ?! lmdh ntsmH bl nhml fnfrDhm `l~ lHy@ frD 'w nfrD lHy@ `lyhm krh ?. lhdh ys`wn fy l'rD Grb mdh`wryn, wqd blG ldh`r mnhm 'Hyn 'n ykhbTw `l~ wjwhhm klmHmwmyn fydwsw b'qdmhm lmt`thr@ DHy 'bry. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f066267 | The way love can disregard fears, however, is an age-old wonder. No fear is able to spoil love's development or keep it from dreaming of its appointed hour. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 4813616 | n mn ykhTb mTlban blstqll wldstwr khyr mmn ybny lkwrnysh wysfk ldm | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| a6af6ad | Only the poor are handicapped by honor. | poverty | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 9ac0448 | lk~ tDmn lntSr `l~ Grym ynbG~ 'n tftrD fyh lGy@ mn lmn`@ wlb's. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 55b17f7 | April. Month of dust and lies. | month months naguib-mahfouz | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 4da73de | lkhwn ySTn`wn `mly@ tzyyf hy'l@,fhm Hyl lmthqfyn yqdmwn lslm fy thwb `Sry,whm Hyl lbsT ytHdthwn `n ljn@ wlnr,fyntshrwn bsm lshtrky@ wlwTny@ wldymwqrTy@ | muslim-brotherhood | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| c349bcc | When you travel you become invisible if you want. I do want. I like to be the observer. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist's office. When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. La.. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 14f9868 | Italy's siren call lures us more and more. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 1d0f5de | All Carolina folk are crazy for mayonnaise, mayonnaise is as ambrosia to them, the food of their tarheeled gods. Mayonnaise comforts them, causes the vowels to slide more musically along their slow tongues, appeasing their grease-conditioned taste buds while transporting those buds to a place higher than lard could ever hope to fly. Yellow as summer sunlight, soft as young thighs, smooth as a Baptist preacher's rant, falsely innocent as a m.. | Tom Robbins |