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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1dee68e | Yeah. I guess we were both willing to do that, Gavin. I was ready to take that plunge and never look back. Never. I was ready to risk everything for you, to push away the overwhelming fear I had because I knew you and I are worth it. We fell in love in a second. I was barely able to blink, and you had my entire world upside-down. I was scared you weren't... real. I was scared no one could be as magnetic as you are to me. It still scares me... | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| 2ba33f1 | Dillon diminished my sense of feeling alive, Gavin. But you... your brought that back to me. | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| 9b18e7e | Sometimes the only thing which truly tempts us is the thing which we cannot have. | Liz Carlyle | ||
| 19ad078 | Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last? | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 2f2aaa6 | Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time. | digital-identity digitalization identity internet meta network social-media truth | Robin Wasserman | |
| cf69286 | You could love something and still understand it had ruined your life. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| d136289 | Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them. | break fall inspirational things | Robin Wasserman | |
| 2391bf2 | I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened. | writing | Alison Bechdel | |
| 4fc3417 | I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the same things I had been taught, beliefs I knew had long been sharply questioned. Since nobody else appeared to be writing the book, I finally decided to try it myself. Besides, I was curious to learn more. The book you are holding is the result. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 73d651a | Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 9769c3d | I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. Then we find a quiet place where we can talk about what it is like to feel more and more devoted to a relationship that we are less and less able to say anything about. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| a825c08 | The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 3ed2cce | If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at the same time shame over my inability to speak of God without a thousand qualifiers, doubt about the health of my soul, and barely suppressed contempt for those who have no such qualms. These a.. | darkness | Barbara Brown Taylor | |
| bf6bebb | She feels a splash of water on her hand and, turning, sees that the sky has become overcast with a blanket of ominous dark rose-colored cloud, and of a sudden the light fades from the lawn and the cedars. Steerpike, who is on his way back to the Earl's bedroom, stops a moment at a staircase window to see the first decent of the rain. It is falling from the sky in long, upright, and seemingly motionless lines of rosy silver that stand rigidl.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 56ca551 | There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight. Shielded with flax and calfskin and a cold weight of ink, there broods the ghost of Sepulchrave, the melancholy Earl, seventy-sixth lord of half-light. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 715c532 | I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house or a tree.' Fuchsia started to chew at a fresh grass blade. 'Someone will come then, if I live alone. Someone from another kind of world - a new world - not from this world, but someone who is different, and he will fall in love with me at once because I live alone and aren't like the other beastly things in this world, and he'll enjoy having me because of my pride. | steerpike | Mervyn Peake | |
| 60ea18e | Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; and the fumes; the wreaths of ivy and the bloody joints; the chains; the bowl of nettles; the spices; the baskets of fresh grass; the skulls and spines; the ribs and shoulder-blades. Forget nothing or, by the blindness of my sockets, I will have your hearts out. Take him away... | bones crown feast hearts lamb poison | Mervyn Peake | |
| 6738368 | Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered. | passing-of-time | Mervyn Peake | |
| ae24364 | She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement. | colors pastels safety women | Mervyn Peake | |
| d0afe3f | Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights? | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 2f9f0c9 | Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening? | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 147ff81 | The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 900b7e7 | Civilized people don't . | civilized emotions feelings people | Mervyn Peake | |
| 1484300 | The law of Forced Efficiency says that "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." | Brian Tracy | ||
| 5d55a73 | knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history | Brian Tracy | ||
| 940d3a0 | Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." | Brian Tracy | ||
| 76329ba | The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the others find an excuse. | John Mason | ||
| 368c679 | I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote. | humor quotatious | Joseph Epstein | |
| 745bf5e | Don't you ever get pissed off, annoyed, irritated, sad--anything negative?" "No, I accept what is. And that's why life has become so simple." "Well, what if somebody cuts you off in your car?" "It's fine. It's like a sudden gust of wind. I don't personalize a gust of wind, and so it's simply what is." | Dan Harris | ||
| 5ad085c | This, as Joseph had pointed out on retreat, is the lie we tell ourselves our whole lives: as soon as we get the next meal, party, vacation, sexual encounter, as soon as we get married, get a promotion, get to the airport check-in, get through security and consume a bouquet of Auntie Anne's Cinnamon Sugar Stix, we'll feel really good. But as soon as we find ourselves in the airport gate area, having ingested 470 calories' worth of sugar and .. | Dan Harris | ||
| 0cdb650 | In a nutshell, mindfulness is the ability to recognize what is happening in your mind right now--anger, jealousy, sadness, the pain of a stubbed toe, whatever--without getting carried away by it. According to the Buddha, we have three habitual responses to everything we experience. We want it, reject it, or we zone out. Cookies: I want. Mosquitoes: I reject. The safety instructions the flight attendants read aloud on an airplane: I zone out.. | Dan Harris | ||
| ca77ef6 | the Buddha's main thesis was that in a world where everything is constantly changing, we suffer because we cling to things that won't last. | Dan Harris | ||
| 275fc50 | We all have an innate feeling of being separate from the world, peering out at life from behind our own little self, and vying against other isolated selves. But how can we truly be separate from the same world that created us? "Dust to dust" isn't just something they say at funerals, it's the truth. You can no more disconnect from the universe and its inhabitants than a wave can extricate itself from the ocean." | Dan Harris | ||
| fc4ad60 | I'm thinking: Yes, right--there is a point to sitting around all day with your eyes closed: to gain some control over the mind, to see through the forces that drive us--and drive us nuts. | Dan Harris | ||
| fbf5525 | He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth... | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 72ed004 | Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria." | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| a27c7e3 | I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 3d62607 | I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 568d294 | I'm a Waitress. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| d3631b3 | Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?" - Eric, club dead." | romantic | Charlaine Harris | |
| 2d6d403 | Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit. | humor | Charlaine Harris | |
| 05a2d38 | Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| eeaa7a3 | I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now. | humor library | Charlaine Harris | |
| 7f6adf0 | It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either. | Charlaine Harris |