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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c198fb4 | I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?" -Sookie Stackhouse" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 05293e7 | It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e994df1 | Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you." Eric: Darling, you can nail my ass anytime," he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table. Pam rolled her eyes. "You two," she said. "Hey this isn't any of my doing," I said, which wasn't entirely true. But it was a good exit line, and I took advantage of it to leave the bar." | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| dd8d003 | I told you if you ever touched her again, I would kill you. Consider yourself dead. | Ronda Thompson | ||
| 90843a9 | The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future. | poor rich | Garrison Keillor | |
| ea610d9 | Free enterprise runs on self interest. This is socialism and it runs on loyalty . . . if people were going to live by comparison shopping, the town would go bust . . . If you live there you have to take it as a whole. That's loyalty. | garrison keillor | ||
| 78d89c7 | If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 5661e06 | No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1da36d4 | To think is not always to see. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a0e974d | My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 808bc0b | Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 95771b3 | Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6f7fa90 | What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a1409b2 | Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4fe80eb | So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all of my parts. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 26e1f4e | Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3ca8237 | Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 676eb14 | Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 435a3d6 | Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts. | joy spring | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| b87f2d4 | on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9c31f18 | She would die of him or be cured. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e058a54 | She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock to stand on. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8a639b4 | You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 71633ca | Time cures you first, and then it kills you. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bf5ec5d | It's monstrous, what one person will do to another. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d9b0fbb | The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1df0b22 | Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d06e4c4 | My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 4d87e0d | There is a rage inside me that I mitigate with my constant drawing. | drawing rage | David B. | |
| ef917c5 | As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women. | beauty body-image marketing self-esteem society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 4b775ba | Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced in the last generation, has had to draw on more technological sophistication and reactionary fervor than ever before. The modern arsenal of the myth is a dissemination of millions of images of the current ideal; although this barrage is generally seen as a collective sexual fantasy, there is in fac.. | body-image feminist society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 040693e | Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, .. | fear freedom liberty | Naomi Wolf | |
| 1bc531c | In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women in the name of beauty, you may do what you like. It is illegal to claim that something grows hair, or makes you taller, or restores virility, if it does not. It is difficult to imagine that the baldness remedy Minoxidil would be on the market if it had killed nine French and at least eleven American men. In contrast, the long-te.. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexual-violence sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 791e745 | But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people. | John Irving | ||
| 83fd20b | The one critisism the author of Slaugherhouse-Five would make of the young writer was what he called a punctuation problem. Mr. Vonnegut didn't like all the semicolons. 'People will probably figure out that you went to college -- you don't have to try to prove it to them,' he told Danny. | John Irving | ||
| b97b960 | An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy. | John Irving | ||
| fabc926 | he smoked so much marijuana that his hair smelled like a cupboard crammed with oregano; | John Irving | ||
| 2726111 | It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are. | John Irving | ||
| 72c0438 | You can't fight a battle you don't see or know exists. You cannot defeat an enemy when you don't even know he is attacking you. | Rebecca Brown | ||
| 87c87b8 | The weapons of our warfare are powerful through Jesus Christ-that is, if we know when and how to use them. | Rebecca Brown | ||
| 5ce0160 | they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks. | Richard Peck | ||
| 940e532 | You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed. | John Irving | ||
| cab884e | Did anyone who was in love and was unsatisfied with how he was loved in return ever feel saved? | John Irving | ||
| ffa0bc0 | People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it. | John Irving |