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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 182cdd4 | every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one's own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one's own snowflake. | mystery snow uniqueness-of-individual | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 8380362 | Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world. | islam poverty religion | Orhan Pamuk | |
| ca3fd8c | A Good Education Removes the Barriers Between Rich and Poor | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 3f3cb9e | shqh khh adm blh mykhnh y fqT dmy Hmq `shq myshn? | love-quotes relationships | Orhan Pamuk | |
| ff6c290 | You'll learn it all soon enough . . . You will see everything without being seen. You will hear everything but pretend that you haven't . . . You will walk for ten hours a day but feel like you haven't walked at all. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 646cfda | he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working. | coffee humor thinking | Orhan Pamuk | |
| c4a6a1e | It's exhausting. When everything's a deliberate political stance. Even if it's interesting. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 39cd680 | Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and s.. | craft literature poetry self-confidence skill writing | A.S. Byatt | |
| 32c8f39 | Outside our small safe place flies mystery. | prose | A.S. Byatt | |
| 8e4d9ef | They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift button, summoning it from the depths. As it creaked up, Blackadder said, 'That's not the worst thing a human being can do, take himself seriously. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 199ab33 | I lifted my chin. "All right then. You are always very precise when it comes to magic. So I've observed. And really, really don't like to get things wrong. So when you saw there were two young women, that day you came to this house, why did you not even ask about my cousin?" His crooked smile made my heart turn over. "All right, then. I'll tell you." He paused as if gathering courage, before he forged on. "When I saw you coming down the sta.. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 786075a | Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God's presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn't understand everything that was happening, but she was certain that God would be with her through it all. | inspirational mary miracle | Stormie Omartian | |
| 32cd7d0 | Feed the hungry and you're a saint, ask why they are hungry and you're a communist. | Rick Steves | ||
| b06d14b | What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?" | gangsters humor | Dennis Lehane | |
| e29be42 | We live by night and dance fast so grass can't grow under our feet. That's our creed. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| d5c05e7 | Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended. | sacred | Dennis Lehane | |
| f8a91e2 | She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic. | dead depression family friendship grief lost melancholy mental-illness mourning professional reflection regret remember sad the-past | Dennis Lehane | |
| c8bd38f | Those eyes, Teddy thought. Even frozen in time, they howled. You wanted to climb inside the picture and say, 'No, no, no. It's okay, it's okay. Sssh.' You wanted to hold her until the shakes stopped, tell her that everything would be all right. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5aedf45 | You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 240bbfb | Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one. | Greg Bear | ||
| 18aa6da | You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 539ca00 | There is kindness in so many unexpected places | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 8890562 | In a rare moment of candor, he had once told her that being in a library was like sitting down at a table laid with all his favorite foods but not being able to eat any of them. And he hated himself for it. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 66577b9 | Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive. I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f121d89 | Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 03161e6 | He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 3e2dafd | When we sleep together, he holds me like he loves me. I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck, the guy holds you much better than he does the next few times. The first date, you're sort of a stand-in for whomever he loved last, before he fully realizes you're not her, so you get all this nice residue emotion. | Aimee Bender | ||
| b5fef31 | My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 4bb5c21 | I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air. | Aimee Bender | ||
| dedc24d | Isn't it weird when that happens?' says Zazi. 'It's like the first time I heard the second Pete Ubu album and thought it just blew completely, I thought anyone who liked it must be stupid and full of shit--and then for about a year it was practically the only album I listened to. It was the only album that made any sense at all. So why does that happen? The music hasn't changed. The movie hasn't changed. It's still the same exact movie, but.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 9f9b795 | Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers) | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 83e5f61 | No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart." | effort | Carol Ryrie Brink | |
| ebf8789 | He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn't think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn't find such a place in himself. He was afraid, and fear made him serious. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5628b87 | If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| dbeb597 | Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. | prophet red | Orson Scott Card | |
| e481afd | But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus. | history loss-of-innocence | Orson Scott Card | |
| e1941b7 | Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent. | love philosophy religion | Orson Scott Card | |
| 20d9d3c | When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes. | forgiveness journey life world | Orson Scott Card | |
| f3108ec | who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world." | life meaning purpuse world | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8167593 | If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow [God], I believe [God], because I want to live in the world that [God] has shown me. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 4835307 | A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5766731 | I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me. | comprehension crazy ender forgivness genius life love regret truth | Orson Scott Card | |
| 70b0bbe | I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 00d86a7 | You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like you want them to, Mother, you'll always feel betrayed. And because eventually everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat, Mother. You're the one who uses our love for us to try to control us. | Orson Scott Card |