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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a652ff0 | I think love should make you happy. It should make you into the best possible version of yourself. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 57a2fc1 | We are the Thirteen, from now until the Darkness claims us." She said it quietly, but knew all could hear her. "Let's remind them why." Manon kicked her mount into action." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5b81dab | The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be a poison. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8b19b22 | Just her, just him. Just as it should be; no loss of life beyond their own, no soul stained but hers. It would take a monster to destroy a monster. | pg5 the-king | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b28c435 | This was the least she owed those murdered in Endovier and Calaculla--the least she could do, after so long. A monster to destroy monsters. The flames on her left hand burned brighter as Celaena stepped beyond the archway and into the beckoning abyss. | hope pg436 | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0cefa2d | She passed through a world of snowcapped mountains under shining stars. Passed over one of those mountains, where a winged male stood beside a heavily pregnant female, gazing out at those very stars. Fae. They were , but this was not her world. She flung out a hand, as if she might signal them, as if they might somehow help her when she was nothing but an invisible speck of power-- The winged male, beautiful beyond reason, snapped his head.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c434280 | Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 4c36b7f | It was only once I was in the car ... that the only two reasons I hadn't joined right in with the loon with the gray crew cut, beating my head and screaming "Fuck!" in primal syncopation, were (1) I'd be embarrassed and (2) I didn't want to get my cute vintage suit any dirtier than it already was. Performance anxiety and a dry-cleaning bill, those were the only things keeping me from stark raving lunacy. " | Julie Powell | ||
| 63b51a1 | And I realized that, for this night at least, I didn't much care if anyone was the marrying kind or not - not even me. Who could tell? We none of us knew for sure WHAT kind we were, exactly, but as long as were the kind that could sit around eating together and having a lovely time, that was enough. | Julie Powell | ||
| 1bf89cc | I began to ponder; this life we had for ourselves, Eric and I, it felt like the opposite of Potage Parmentier. It was easy enough to keep on with the soul-sucking jobs; at least it saved having to make a choice. But how much longer could I take such an easy life? Quicksand was easy. Hell, death was easy. Maybe that's why my synapses had started snapping at the sight of potatoes and leeks in the Korean deli. Maybe that was what was plucking .. | Julie Powell | ||
| ef6cc76 | When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we call him an abomination. As with love, knowledge has its seasons. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 68d57d9 | Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| b90c00c | Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| bd8ebf9 | Mystery made thing gigantic. Knowledge made small. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| ad43a51 | So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self. | philosophy | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 3a7b987 | No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of world spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another should to carry our own...NO one's soul moves alone, Leweth. When one love dies, on must learn to love another. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| a6f8ceb | Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls. | Suki Kim | ||
| 66c00b5 | Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better--for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized. | faith hope magick religion | Roger Zelazny | |
| 53d0596 | I tako, kad se vec cinilo da imam cijelu kucu na raspolaganju, odlucih se vratiti u knjiznicu i vidjeti sto mogu otkriti. Osim toga, volim knjiznice. Osjecam se ugodno i sigurno okruzen sa svih strana zidovima od rijeci, predivnih i mudrih. Uvijek se osjecam bolje kad mogu vidjeti da postoji nesto sto rastjeruje tamu. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| f24893a | First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it. | causes service superiority yama | Roger Zelazny | |
| e5d1b9a | Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 990b533 | Wishes, wishes. Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true | Roger Zelazny | ||
| eb770e7 | I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted, despite my power over the Pattern. A true prince of Amber should have had no such qualms. I decided then that my centuries on the Shadow Earth had changed me, softened me perhaps, had done something to me which made me unlike my brothers. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 98fd813 | Ali covek zaboravlja stvarnost i pamti samo reci. Sto je reci vise upamtio, to ga pametnijim smatrajunjegovi drugovi. On gleda velike transformacije sveta, ali ih ne vidi onako kako su bile sagledane od prvog coveka koji se suocio sa stvarnoscu. Radije trazite to Bezimeno u sebi, to sto nadolazi dok mu se obracam. Ono ne opaza moje reci, vec realnost u meni, ciji je deo. To je atman, koji cuje mene, a ne moje reci. Sve ostalo je nestvarno. .. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| e37b7ac | It's the only bad thing about animals," she told Cleon. "Most don't live as long as we do." "I know, sweet," Cleon said, kissing first one of her eyelids, then the other. "But think how bleak life would be without them." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 079bff3 | The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| f4b43eb | Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles) | Tamora Pierce | ||
| e95310e | When I say I want time to think, I want time to think!" Jonathan sighed wearily. "All right, you've had time to think. What's your answer?" "That I need more time to think!" | jon proposals time | Tamora Pierce (Author) | |
| 9a686f2 | Don't threaten someone unless you're certain you can carry out the threat. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 67254c4 | She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee! | gender-differences pee | Tamora Pierce | |
| e3c0d28 | Huston Smith, the scholar of religion, once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7ee6828 | A happy brain is a supple and flexible brain, he believes; depression, anxiety, obsession, and the cravings of addiction are how it feels to have a brain that has become excessively rigid or fixed in its pathways and linkages--a brain with more order than is good for it. On the spectrum he lays out (in his entropic brain article) ranging from excessive order to excessive entropy, depression, addiction, and disorders of obsession all fall on.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 8429fcb | A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if that it what it is, though why organic farmers should feel defensive about it is itself a mystery, a relic, perhaps, of our fetishism of science as the only credible tool with which to approach nature. ... The peasant rice farmer who introduces ducks and fish to his paddy may not understand all the symbioti.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| fe34363 | American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent. | calories corn farmers fats fresh fruit fruits-and-vegetables soy soybeans subsidies sweeteners vegetables | Michael Pollan | |
| 005c816 | We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 323a4f6 | is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil. | Michael Pollan | ||
| f767a59 | You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness and you will bump into the sacred. It's not something we generate; it's something out there waiting to be discovered. And this reliably happens to nonbelievers as well as believers." Second, that, whether occasioned by drugs or other means, these experiences of mystical consciousness are in all likelihood the primal basis of religion." -- | Michael Pollan | ||
| 76a09f9 | Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we're confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner. (That is, from freedom rather than compulsion.) If you need to be reminded how completely mental habit blinds us to experience, just take a trip to an unfamiliar cou.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 4bb838c | There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 52b484d | In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving, in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no ultimate victor. But coevolution ceases in an orchard of grafted trees, since they are genetically identical from generation to generation. The problem very simply is that the apple trees no longer reproduce sexually, as they do when they're grown from seed, and sex is nature's way of creating fresh genetic combinations. At t.. | pesticides plants resistance | Michael Pollan | |
| 65e7c7b | Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward. | dreaming | Michael Pollan | |
| fe2e02e | Now, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again. | Maile Meloy | ||
| f09252c | The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way? | Maile Meloy | ||
| 19348ea | In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all--librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they're right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education.. | Marilyn Johnson |