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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3a1ea7d | Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove | henry | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| b0a44c3 | Clare on Henry: Do you ever wonder if I'm real? Maybe I'm dreaming of you. Maybe you're dreaming of me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 52dd23b | As I penetrate Clare she looks at me and I think I don't exist and a second later she turns her head and sees me. She cries out, not loudly, and looks back at me, above her, in her. Then she remembers, accepts it, this is pretty strange but it's okay, and in this moment I love her more than life. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 9d39926 | To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ad403f5 | Los halagos no significan nada para ella, no cree en ellos. Solo las criticas arrancan un rubor a sus mejillas y atraen su atencion. Si yo le dijera algo despectivo, ella siempre lo recordaria. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ffb4cec | You were supposed to love me. You convinced me it was safe to love you back." Liz Sutton to Ethan Hendrix" | Susan Mallery | ||
| 6b0cd05 | If I start , I'm not going to stop," he said flatly." | Susan Mallery | ||
| e6c8c97 | Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 2152a8c | Katie, honey, you need a date for your sister's wedding." "I had a date, Mom. He's marrying the bride." | maid-of-honor weddings | Susan Mallery | |
| 9c82110 | Being left at the altar was not for sissies. Aside from the humiliation and hurt, there were actual logistics to worry about. Odds were if a guy was willing to leave you standing alone in front of three hundred of your closest friends and relatives, not to mention both your mothers, he wasn't going to sweat the little stuff like returning the gifts and paying the caterer. | jilted weddings | Susan Mallery | |
| 4efb537 | She looked both hurt and broken. As if her spirit had received one too many mortal blows. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 7b75211 | The last time I dated, dinosaurs roamed the earth. We didn't even have electricity. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 081dcf2 | You look good." "You look like shit." "That's how I feel." "Good. What do you want?" He gave her a faint smile. "To tell you how much I love you, Izzy. I probably have from the first moment we met." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 4d23343 | You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 8d1381a | And, in this staunch little portrait, it's hard not to see the human in the finch. Dignified, vulnerable. One prisoner looking at another. But who knows what Fabritius intended? There's not enough of his work left to even make a guess. The bird looks out at us. It's not idealized or humanized. It's very much a bird. Watchful, resigned. There's no moral or story. There's no resolution. There's only a double abyss: between painter and impriso.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 778ce84 | And yes--scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art. But not me. As my mother said all those years ago, my mother who loved the painting only from seeing it in a book she borrowed from the Comanche County Library as a child: the significance doesn't matter. The historical significance deadens it. Across those unbridgeable distances--between bird and .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3e22b6f | In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not true. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 532ad44 | Bleakly, Harriet gazed out into the antiseptic gloom. A weight lay upon her, and a darkness. She'd learned things she never knew, things she had no idea of knowing, and yet in a strange way it was the hidden message of Captain Scott: that victory and collapse were sometimes the same thing. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ed6c966 | God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. ("Mad House")" | creativity writers writing | Richard Matheson | |
| 5ead9b4 | Everything is mental, | Richard Matheson | ||
| 756e143 | Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he'd been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, refusing to let the sea of reason in. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 6bda850 | If you only knew the beauty which awaits you, Daniel. If you only knew how lovely are the realms which lie beyond this house. Would you keep yourself locked in a barren cell when all the beauties of the universe await you on the outside? | Richard Matheson | ||
| 2c31f54 | her fire was roaring, her silhouette raising showers of orange sparks with a hammer made of shadow. | Naomi Novik | ||
| e41d12a | Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?" | humour plates | Naomi Novik | |
| ad8e001 | then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I" | Naomi Novik | ||
| 61c2c42 | I felt argument coiling in my belly. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 2c0c1f6 | He'd chosen to go for a soldier. Maybe he had a story that began that way: a poor widowed mother at home and three young sisters to feed and a girl from down the lane who smiled at him...he'd go home then in his fine uniform and put silver in his mother's hands and ask the smiling girl to marry him. Or maybe he'd lose a leg and go home sorrowful and bitter to find her married to a man who could farm; or maybe he'd take to drink to forget t.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1aeba0d | I stood panting with my hands clenched at my sides, still ringing head-to-foot, and said, "Is that magic enough to put me on the list? Or do you want to see more?" They stared at me, and in the silence I heard shouts outside in the courtyard, running feet. The guards were looking in with their hands on their sword-hilts, and I realized I'd just shaken the king's castle, in the king's city, and shouted at the highest wizards of the land." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 6707b72 | I watched them roam awhile, and had a small weep, but even grief had its limits. By dinner-time I was horribly bored. | Naomi Novik | ||
| a05a9e4 | I think we must only a few of us go," Laurence said, low. "I will take a few volunteers - " "Oh, the devil you will!" Granby exclaimed furiously. "No, this time I damned well put my foot down, Laurence. Send you off to go scrambling about in that warren with no notion where you are going, and nothing more likely than running into a dozen guards round every corner; I should like to see myself do it. I am not going back to England to tell the.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 95469f4 | I wouldn't hold myself that cheap, to marry a man who'd love me less than everything else he had, even if what he had was a winter kingdom. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 0d844d1 | The Wood knew I was here: even now its creatures were moving towards me, stealthy padding feet through the forest, walkers and wolves and worse things still. I suddenly was sure that there were things that never left the Wood at all, things so dreadful no one had ever seen them. And they were coming. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 9da9bff | One man can go where a group cannot, and manage on very little, particularly a rough adventurer such as he. More the point, he risks only himself when he goes: you much consider that in your charge is an inexpressibly valuable dragon, whose loss must be of greater importance than even this mission." "Oh, pray, let us be gone at once," said the inexpressibly valuable dragon, when Laurence had carried the question, still unresolved, back to h.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| dfed832 | It's a lie that matches his desire. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 7c8f489 | A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 5764ab9 | After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| a195e9f | cultivating mindfulness is not unlike the process of eating. It would be absurd to propose that someone else eat for you. And when you go to a restaurant, you don't eat the menu, mistaking it for the meal, nor are you nourished by listening to the waiter describe the food. You have to actually eat the food for it to nourish you. In the same way, you have to actually practice mindfulness, by which I mean cultivate it systematically in your o.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 5c2fa63 | we all tend to fill up our days with things that just have to be done and then run around desperately trying to do them all, while in the process not really enjoying much of the doing because we are too pressed for time, too rushed, too busy, too anxious? We can feel overwhelmed by our schedules, our responsibilities, and our roles at times, even when everything we are doing is important, even when we have chosen to do them all. We live imm.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 4b1cc7c | There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water's waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds. | churned-up meditation mind mindfulness stress water waves wind | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| d99e94c | Another way to look at meditation is to view the process of thinking itself as a waterfall, a continual cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantagepoint in a cave or depression in a rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent. | beyond-thinking cascading-of-thought cultivating-mindfulness meditation mindfulness process-of-thought thinking waterfall | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 550ac8d | Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 5b44b47 | As we just saw, in this learning process we assume from the start that as long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter how ill or how despairing you may be feeling in a given moment. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required. The way we put it is that i.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 117bd57 | Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table... | Charles Stross | ||
| bf18d1f | The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up. | bureaucracy committee-meetings coverups denial five-stages-of-grief | Charles Stross |