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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 261c275 | When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 2119b4e | Light mayonnaise is like masturbation--it approximates the real thing but leaves you unfulfilled, ultimately leading to fantasies about diving face-first into a big-ass jar of the real stuff. | Susan Donovan | ||
| ac26dc0 | That's the kind of dress that belongs on the floor, all wrinkled up, with the zipper broken and the sleeves torn. That dress isn't right for you at all. In fact, I think you should take it off right now. | Susan Donovan | ||
| 4d71669 | What did you wrap my hand with?" he asked. "My thong." I looked up at him. "You were right ; it's totally uncomfortable. Awesome for first-aid though." The corners of T.J.'s mouth turned up slighty. He looked at me, his brown eyes showing a trance of the spark that had been missing the night before. "It'll make for a funny story someday," I said. "You know what, Anna? It's kinda funny now." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 47552c9 | If you're going to stare at it, it's going to wake up and say hi. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| eaef30d | Come on over to the dark side, Katie. I'll save you a seat next to me. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 2fa0278 | We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious. | Trevanian | ||
| 3fabe62 | In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty. | Trevanian | ||
| 6cd0a7c | As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the meaning was. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| f2c1cec | Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others." | Rod Dreher | ||
| 8ce942d | Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away. | philosophy | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 416876b | I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| d1bbcf9 | You said how Michelangelo was a manic-depressive who portrayed himself as a flayed martyr in his painting. Henri Matisse gave up being a lawyer because of appendicitis. Robert Schumann only began composing after his right hand became paralyzed and ended his career as a concert pianist. (...) You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death... | frida michelangelo mozart nietzsche palahniuk | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 152ae51 | W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness. | conviction experience writing | Flannery O'Connor | |
| ecd67ef | Poorly written novels -- no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters -- are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| dfc72b0 | what they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| f6b31fb | That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence. | christianity prologue | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 556956b | Zach had brought her a dog. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| d64d3cc | The past is in the wastebasket. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 8bae07b | The cross can heal and hurt; it can be empowering and liberating but also enslaving and oppressive. There is no one way in which the cross can be interpreted. I offer my reflections because I believe that the cross placed alongside the lynching tree can help us to see Jesus in America in a new light, and thereby empower people who claim to follow him to take a stand against white supremacy and every kind of injustice. | James H. Cone | ||
| f29f309 | Hugh put one foot up on the parapet and regarded his cigarette that seemed bent, like humanity, on consuming itself as quickly as possible. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| e2aafc9 | What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On the contrary, he intended taking a little walk, taking the boa-constrictor with him, even to pretend, for a while, it wasn't there. | life psychology suffering | Malcolm Lowry | |
| d326cc5 | Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion. | fear temperament | Tim LaHaye | |
| 82faa52 | If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch's works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul. | Robin Maxwell | ||
| 47d3c3c | Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| a7f228c | You're not by any chance my stepmother are you?" Min said to her mother's reflection. "Because that would explain so much." -- | mothers-and-daughters stepmother | Jennifer Crusie | |
| cb98d86 | Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in my ears, making my skin prickle and crawl as tides of sickness wash me away. | Sarah Miller | ||
| a46a424 | Questioning ourselves for being "oversensitive" is a common way that women, in particular, disqualify our legitimate anger and hurt. ...The fact that some of us feel more vulnerable than others in a particular context does not mean we are weak or lesser in any way." | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 34f819a | We all long to have a relationship so relaxed and intimate that we can share anything and everything without first thinking about it. Who wants to hide out in a relationship in which we can't allow ourselves to be known? Speaking in our own voice, not in someone else's, is an undeniably good idea. I've yet to meet the person who aspires to be phony or invisible in her closest relationships. The dictate "Be yourself" is a cultural ideal tout.. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 14fb749 | The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God. | children chirstian father flower garden god love lovely mom parent soul spirit | Elizabeth George | |
| 7d147ff | Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets. | words-of-wisdom | Elizabeth George | |
| 030242d | Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aiming." | Susan Elia MacNeal | ||
| 4862f07 | God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life. | christian faith god guide heart life love path stage woman women | Elizabeth George | |
| db27be5 | With God's help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow. | daily girl god help lady lead leading-wholeness today tomorrow trial trials walk woman women | Elizabeth George | |
| 9fa2178 | The Shepherd knows our path. And He also knows His sheep and what it takes to prepare us for the journey. And so the Shepherd makes us lie down to fortify us for the trek. He makes certain we won't tire, that we're not at risk because of weariness, that we're invigorated from our pasture-time for any strenuous climb. With His eye on tomorrow, He leads on today. | Elizabeth George | ||
| 87d1ad0 | With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way." | spiritual-living | Elizabeth George | |
| 03d2c4e | All the kids from day care are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no, you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The fuck to sleep. | Adam Mansbach | ||
| ea53726 | If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways--not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways. | women | Thomas Hardy | |
| 1c874ba | A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 41549a2 | I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad in all probability. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6f075ee | What woman, indeed, among the most faithful adherents of the truth, believes the promises and threats of the Word in the sense in which she believes in her own children, or would not throw her theology to the wind if weighed against their happiness? | Thomas Hardy | ||
| a192b01 | Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak's flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object under the hedge - a shephard's hut - now presenting an outline to which an unintiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use. ... Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood .. | freedom gabriel gabriel-oak independence nature shepherd | Thomas Hardy | |
| 54e2a49 | I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! | honour nobility pride tess | Thomas Hardy | |
| 3a758f1 | A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul. | Thomas Hardy |