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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c746a4 | I made a sudden decision. "and my dog has followed me from town and cought up with us here. I left him with friends, but he must have chewed his rope. here, boy, come to heel." I'll chew your heel off for you, Nighteyes offerd savagely, but he came, following me out into the cleared yard. "Damn big dog," Nick observed. He leaned forward. "looks more than half a wolf to me." "Some in Farrow have told me that. It's a buck breed. We use them.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f04da96 | A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7b9f36d | I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1d83712 | I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b54f8fd | If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard. | bad bad-habit befall befell complain depression dragon fear future happen hoard loss mourn much occur occurence past predict sadness sorrow tendency wallow woe woes | Robin Hobb | |
| 6471924 | I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b7e28bc | there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have. | distract empty fond fondness have miss remember reminiscence seek sigh sorrow want | Robin Hobb | |
| b8a1ce0 | We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 515f804 | Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. | honesty invite memories memory pain pains ponder remember reminiscence summon truth | Robin Hobb | |
| fbb1d2c | There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them." | Robin Hobb | ||
| d544833 | Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5842549 | It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2adc2f4 | Happy comes and goes, Tats. Loving someone isn't that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes. Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get a glimpse of the person and it all comes back again, in a big rush. But even that's not what you're looking for. What you're looking for is the feeling that no matter what, being with that person is always going to be better than being without .. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 10be694 | That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such.. | aside be complete dead decide destiny discover done end fate finish forget forgo future good honesty life meant not over part past path present section set survive to truth | Robin Hobb | |
| f15e093 | That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm." | Robin Hobb | ||
| ca4e4c6 | How strange to be loved simply for who I was. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 871a3e1 | I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 19c1366 | Life is pure farce from beginning to end, with a little black comedy thrown in for shade. If it was anything else, mankind would have stuck his collective head in the gas oyen years ago. No one could tolerate seventy years of tragedy. When I die - probably of cancer - Jane has prornised to put on my tombstone: "Here | Minette Walters | ||
| e229f61 | Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 1712436 | Aunt Emily says grown-ups never really like playing. They do it to please us." "They little know," Gerald answered, "how often we do it to please them." | E. Nesbit | ||
| 7a4fc0a | Don't bother about believing it, if you don't like it,' said the Princess. 'It doesn't so much matter what you believe as what I am. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 4b8e32d | It's good that you feel bad,' she said, after some thought. Not much thought, obviously, but some. 'If you felt nothing, it would mean there is no love, no passion. And we are nothing without passion. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| d9dcfb9 | The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that's the horrible truth of it. (...) This is a truth we dare not acknowledge these days - because sameness is our religion and heretics are no more welcome now than they ever were - but I'm going to acknowledge it, because I've always felt that humility before the facts is the only thing that keeps a rational man together. Be humble in the face of facts, and proud in the fa.. | rationality sex | Hugh Laurie | |
| bda00ab | The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 9838f03 | Perfection," Inigo said, "is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 2c3c5a5 | Always demand proof of nirvana before you start following messiahs who're selling it to you. Those guys don't exactly have the greatest track record in the universe. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f08f53a | Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us uneasy, and they had also always given us something to talk about when we were stressed or anxious. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 8a7fee9 | books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval... | books | Will Schwalbe | |
| 5b1ff41 | ykhTw lmyt nzl mn `l~ lmqSl@. yHml tHt dhr`h r'sh ldhbyH. shjr ltfH muzhr. wlmyt yshq Tryqh l~ Hn@ lqry@ wljmy` yshhdwn. hnlk ysHb krsyan wyjls jnb mnDd@ wyTlb zjjty byr@, wHd@an lh wwHd@an lr'sh. tmsH 'my ydyh fy lmryl@ wtqwm `l~ khdmth. m 'shd lhdw fy l`lm. ymkn llmr 'n ysm` lnhr, ldhy 'Hyn m yns~ fy Gmr@ rtbkh, wyjry l~ lwr | Charles Simic | ||
| 014bf34 | It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god. | myth nosology taboo wisdom | Charles Simic | |
| 2fdfc56 | The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. | literary-theory literature | Charles Simic | |
| 77a9799 | If the photographers are soul-thieves, whose soul is being stolen in a photograph of the night sky? The soul of the last one to go to bed and the soul of the first one to rise in the morning, perhaps? Photography is a black art like alchemy. It turns matter into spirit and spirit into matter. Still, there are moments when looking at a photograph of a night sky we have a hunch what the word soul means, what the word infinity encompasses. | Charles Simic | ||
| fced8b7 | Hablo de ese dolor que es tan grande que ni siquiera parece que te nace de dentro, sino que es como si hubieras sido sepultada por un alud. Y asi estas. Tan enterrada bajo esas pedregosas toneladas de pena que no puedes ni hablar. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 1032d4c | Y eso es lo que nuestra sociedad no maneja bien: enseguida escondemos o prohibimos tacitamente el sufrimiento. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 9a67e12 | Hay momentos en los que me parece que no siento nada y que puedo trabajar, luego la angustia regresa con el desanimo. | Rosa Montero | ||
| b8a6f52 | L'ispirazione non esiste. E forse qualcosa che guida le mani di scultori e pittori e detta immagini e note all'udito di poeti e musicisti, ma che non va mai a trovare il romanziere: quest'ultimo e del tutto trascurato dalle muse ed e condannato a sostituire quella collaborazione negatagli con la testardaggine, la fatica e la pazienza | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| c07a270 | It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies." | truth | Sara Castro-Klarén | |
| 894222a | Los zorros del desierto de Sechura aullan como demonios cuando llega la noche; ?sabes por que?: para quebrar el silencio que los aterroriza. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 496b083 | The sort of decision arrived at by saints and madmen is not revealed to others. It is forged little by little, in the folds of the spirit, tangential to reason, shielded from indiscreet eyes, not seeking the approval of others--who would never grant it--until it is at last put into practice. I imagine that in the process--the conceiving of a project and its ripening into action--the saint, the visionary, or the madman isolates himself more .. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 9572aef | Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado, un amigo que espera; olvidado, un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazon que llora>>. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 406b64d | Secretul fericirii, sau cel putin al linistii, e sa stii sa desparti sexul de iubire. Si, daca e posibil, sa elimini iubirea romantica din viata ta, caci ea te face sa suferi. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 8fc01e1 | All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. | Molière | ||
| a5c21a9 | Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 18a1c16 | Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends | marriage | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |