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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be69ddc | I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 713fd72 | But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 38b526c | There was something different about her, Jake had to admit. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns .The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b46f19b | Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country."--Augustus McCrae" | gus-mccrae | Larry McMurtry | |
| 43bd86a | How he died hadn't been funny, Newt thought. "It's all right, though," Augustus said. "It's mostly bones we're riding over anyway. Why, think of all the buffalo that have died on these plains. Buffalo and other critters too. And the Indians have been here forever; their bones are down there in the earth. I'm told that over in the Old Country you can't dig six feet without uncovering skulls and leg bones and such. People have been living th.. | death | Larry McMurtry | |
| 6b7a114 | she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 06bb60c | Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| bba359b | Deets slapped his leg and laughed, the thought was so funny. When the rest of the outfit finally wondered down from the house they found the two of them grinning back and forth at one another. "Look at 'em," Augustus said. "You'd think they just discovered teeth." -- | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d4414de | The smartest man alive can't learn much about a woman in two weeks. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 758d158 | Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. | readers reading | Larry McMurtry | |
| 8ee59a6 | I'm a man, Sassenach," he said, very softly. "If I thought there was a choice ... then I maybe couldna do it. Ye dinna need to be so brave about things if ye ken ye canna help it, aye?" He looked at me then, with a faint smile. "Like a woman in childbirth, aye? Ye must do it, and it makes no difference if you're afraid--ye'll do it. It's only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5007f38 | Ian--is that by chance Ian Murray?" Grey asked, but then answered himself. "I suppose it must be; how many Mohawks can there be named Ian?" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9d5aa98 | Yes. It doesn't matter what happens; no matter where a child goes - how far or how long. Even if it's forever. You never lose them. You can't. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 3ea6a5a | Heroes don't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 201ff78 | a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c82a001 | The darts which make me suffer are my own. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| aab48b8 | Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bc59292 | I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere. | my-sister-s-keeper sara-fitzgerald | Jodi Picoult | |
| 44f5e87 | It was a leap of faith--to throw one's heart across a gulf, and trust another to catch it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b9fc8b3 | He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' - Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes.. | future grief happiness hope horizon live wait | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 0373b5f | The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 4ce430d | My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| af78996 | You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 233d90b | Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure. | materialism security stewardship | Alexandre Dumas | |
| ffc1e91 | lnsn yjd lkthyr mn l`z f~ lbwH balmh wmt`bh. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 22b382b | Nie minavame chesto p'ti pokrai shchastieto, bez da go vidim, bez da go poglednem, ili ako sme go videli i poglednali - bez da go poznaem | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 46ad48f | When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| d22e80b | Death is the only serious preoccupation in life. | mortality | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 3f3b06c | D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 311f947 | Pauvres creatures! Si c'est un tort de les aimer, c'est bien le moins qu'on les plaigne. Vous plaignez l'aveugle qui n'a jamais vu les rayons du jour, le sourd qui n'a jamais entendu les accords de la nature, le muet qui n'a jamais pu rendre la voix de son ame, et, sous un faux pretexte de pudeur, vous ne voulez pas plaindre cette cecite du coeur, cette surdite de ame, ce mutisme de la conscience qui rendent folle la malheureuse affligee et.. | reflection romance | Alexandre Dumas-fils | |
| f730fe9 | Nothing succeeds like success. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 40bd0bb | Moite mechti niamat granitsi - az vinagi iskam nev'zmozhnoto. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| beb6025 | Consider that, if you talk, if you babble, you will sacrifice the head of your master, who has so much confidence in your fidelity that he has answered for you to us. But remember also that if by any fault of yours any such calamity should befall d'Artagnanan I will hunt you out wherever you may be and completely perforate you." "Oh, sir!" cried Planchet, humiliated at the suspicion, and particularly alarmed by the calmness of the muskete.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2af4ec2 | Great is the truth, fire can not burn, nor water can drown it! | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 25be3e2 | I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie. | Frank Portman | ||
| 93af8ce | Sam Hellerman is a genius! | Frank Portman | ||
| 72921ec | Perseverance I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about; otherwise, you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. --Smithsonian In.. | George Beahm | ||
| cf9bd21 | Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and Central Europe; and service and physical conditions that resembled those in Africa. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| 0c15b2c | Why is it that the look of another person looking at you is different from everything else in the Cosmos? That is to say, looking at lions or tigers or Saturn or the Ring Nebula or at an owl or at another person from the side is one thing, but finding yourself looking in the eyes of another person looking at you is something else. And why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, .. | social-etiquette | Walker Percy | |
| 26558d0 | i had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through the spanish moss, lost in the mystery of finding myself alive at such a time and place. | Walker Percy | ||
| 82e9573 | It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal. | canaries thanatos | Walker Percy | |
| 4e5ffc0 | Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious. | education obnoxious | Walker Percy | |
| cb72580 | Sometimes the very thing I am looking for is staring me straight in the face, but I can't see it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b08897b | In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would not be a far reach for someone to look at my feelings for Jess and assume that, in the context of our relationship as tutor and pupil, I am not in love. I'm just in transference. | psychoanalysis therapist transference | Jodi Picoult |