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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| beb6f25 | He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect and emotions were clearly separate; he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the state wherin they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the .. | intellect masculinity youth-age | Thomas Hardy | |
| 5a6c488 | This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there hung a deeper shade than the shade which Angel Clare perceived, namely, the shade of his own limitations. With all his attempted independence of judgment this advanced and well-meaning young man, a sample product of the last five-and-twenty years, was yet the slave to custom and conventionality when surprised back in.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 5bd37f2 | She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils.The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her.It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beau.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| b1f7e6b | He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things. | life nature | Thomas Hardy | |
| 7c89be8 | Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. | animal-welfare jude-the-obscure reading | Thomas Hardy | |
| 8539fff | Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends... | motives | Thomas Hardy | |
| 8c3c868 | I shan't forget you, Jude,' he said, smiling, as the cart moved off. 'Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6f146a4 | The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 06429f5 | The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 7dcc364 | The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fastt enough. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 03ce5d5 | She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast | Thomas Hardy | ||
| bd90d18 | I don't--know about ghosts, but I do know that our souls can be made to go outside our bodies when we are alive... A very easy way to feel 'em go is to lie on the grass at night, and look straight up at some big bright star; and by fixing your mind upon it you will soon find that you are hundreds and hundreds o' miles away from your body, which you don't seem to want at all. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 28d6492 | Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 344e22f | Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in. | love rivalry | Thomas Hardy | |
| 5e4dd0b | I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly. | human-insignificance | Thomas Hardy | |
| c2ee2e8 | The Man He Killed Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have set us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. I shot him dead because-- Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like--just as I-- Was out of work--had sold his trap.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 0bde7f3 | Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony. | disappointment disillusionment faith sovereignty-of-god | Thomas Hardy | |
| cc5b2b2 | How people will talk about one's doings!" Fancy exclaimed. "Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can't blame other people for singing 'em." | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 1a32949 | Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said? | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 706e67c | Everybody has mean little places inside himself. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 3a93c32 | Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 77d2b56 | In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises. | memories past present promises west | Wade Davis | |
| 669040d | Suddenly...a sound...the strangest, undoubtedly, that these lonely cliffs of France had ever heard, broke the silent solemnity of the shore. So strange a sound was it that the gentle breeze ceased to murmur, the tiny pebbles to roll down the steep incline! So strange, that Marguerite, wearied, overwrought as she was, thought that the beneficial unconsciousness of the approach of death was playing her half-sleeping senses a weird and elusive.. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| dd4e425 | She would keep him, keep his love, deserve it and cherish it, for this much was certain, that there was no longer any happiness possible for her without that one man's love. | monogamy | Emmuska Orczy | |
| d345446 | Here I want to see those men of hard voice. Those that break horses and dominate rivers; | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 5118c19 | There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. | life | Graham Greene | |
| 1faed95 | In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There will be plenty of other causes. You and me and poor Jones will not even figure in a footnote. It will be all economics, politics, battles. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1e6ce8c | For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers. | Graham Greene | ||
| 7874d99 | If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter? | Graham Greene | ||
| 6a91b37 | The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. | greeneland life mutability | Graham Greene | |
| f5f9f94 | You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced. | reality | Graham Greene | |
| 96046fe | You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerning the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion. | Graham Greene | ||
| a71a6fe | Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility. | Graham Greene | ||
| 010df2d | No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana. | Graham Greene | ||
| 446531e | You do not always say goodbye to those you love beside a deathbed, in an atmosphere of leisure and incense. | Graham Greene | ||
| b30c573 | There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship... | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 394a890 | We can't have your people fighting each other," I said. The 'royal we' is very important in police work; it reminds the person you're talking to that behind you stands the mighty institution that is the Metropolitan Police, robed in the full majesty of the law and capable, in manpower terms, of invading a small country. You only hope when you're using that term that the whole edifice is currently facing in the same direction as you are." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1881fab | Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| fa005c5 | Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?' 'Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.' 'What's the catch?' 'You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed. | human-sacrifice magic | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 5616d1a | the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| c6c9ed1 | Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty. | comfort surprise | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 019ba41 | Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything. | investigation | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| fbf795b | Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police officer in need of assistance could find a telephone link to Scotland Yard, a dry space to do "paperwork" and, in certain extreme cases, a life of adventure through space and time." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9c644cb | I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all | Ben Aaronovitch |