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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 09b0ace | We cannot live without memories, but we cannot live within them either. | David Baldacci | ||
| 5c448f6 | The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed." "That is what is called learning the truth." | Betty Smith | ||
| 3495b93 | Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her, so much of wanting to give of herself to whoever needed what she had, whether it was her money, her time, the clothes off her back, her pity, her understanding, her friendship or her companionship and love. She was mother to everything that came her way. She loved men, yes. She loved women too, and old people, and especially childre.. | humor love | Betty Smith | |
| 8ec76a6 | Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies. | profanity | Betty Smith | |
| 2fd1b84 | Our family used to be like this strong cup," thought Francie. "It was whole and sound and held things well. When papa died, the first crack came. And this fight tonight made another crack. Soon there will be so many cracks that the cup will break and we'll all be pieces instead of the whole thing together. I don't want this to happen, yet I'm deliberately making a deep crack." | Betty Smith | ||
| 56cf7c2 | From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. | Betty Smith | ||
| 550a444 | May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy land. That hour will save you three cents' worth of coal... When you are alone at night, do not light the lamp. Sit in the darkness and dream awhile. Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its va.. | saving | Betty Smith | |
| ced90ab | A woman's hair is her mystery. | Betty Smith | ||
| e42051e | There's no limit to you, is there? | Edward Albee | ||
| 95cfef1 | who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension... | Edward Albee | ||
| 2c19cb1 | Pas a pas se va luenh. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 0b74f20 | The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious. | photographs self-conciousness | Bono | |
| e9eaf25 | I have a room, which is in my brain, and it's very, very, very... untidy! There is stuff fallen everywhere. There are some very important ideas next to dome very silly ones. There is a bottle of wine that was opened five years ago, and there is a lunch I haven't eaten from last summer. There are faces of children who are going to die but don't have to. There's my fathers face telling me to tidy up my room. So that's what I'm doing - tidying.. | Bono | ||
| aca22dd | It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it. | myths stars | Bono | |
| 39c4f41 | When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. ... When I say 'I will be true to you' I must mean it in spite of the .. | formalities love reason temptation truth | Jeanette Winterson | |
| d5e93ad | The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear. | world | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 3609898 | But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 19fe636 | It is always a mistake to argue with a librarian. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d37958a | I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex. | books books-express sex sexuality winterson | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 171a60a | There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 10f3986 | Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 925f7d8 | I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 991f16d | Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 314af90 | How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and them without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a07d95a | Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That solves nothing I know, and I spent a lot of time understanding my own violence, which is not of the pussycat kind. There are people who could never commit murder; I am not one of those people. It's better to know it, better to know who you are, and what lies in you, and what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation. | violence working-class | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 9ff498b | Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off. | pain suffering | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 1d2bf94 | I say I appear naked before you, but so often I whistle for my invisible armed guard; the gap-toothed, jeering, club-headed mob, my feelings, that are used to having me to themselves. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6ca18bf | Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 1c43ef7 | Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 9e5e480 | You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is. | life self selfishness timidity | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 4020ca4 | She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice. | duty parents | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 2d544fe | I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you've learned, forget them. Forget that you've been here before in other bedrooms in other places. Come to me new. Never say you love me until that day when you have proved it. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| ca4ca9a | What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents? | luck serendipity | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 245a087 | He (Napolean) was in love with himself and France joined in. It was a romance. Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. | Winterson Jeanette | ||
| b33854e | How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d2177f2 | The fossil record is always there, whether or not you discover it. The brittle ghosts of the past. Memory is not like the surface of the water - either troubled or still. Memory is layered. What you were was another life, but the evidence is somewhere in your rock - your trilobites and ammonites, your struggling life-forms, just when you thought you could stand upright. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 58d8b67 | Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world. | narrative trust unspoken writer | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 1158749 | No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us. | outsider travelers | Joanne Harris | |
| 3ddc588 | And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war. | norse-mythology runemarks | Joanne Harris | |
| 6d0bf57 | And when you fall from that parapet,the sound you'll be hearing as you go down will be me,laughing my head off. | loki odin | Joanne Harris | |
| e8fa6c5 | Thor had always been popular. Big and strong and good-natured and about as bright as your average Labrador, | Joanne M. Harris | ||
| 9becd95 | I don't believe God really cares what you eat, or what you wear, or whom you love. I think that if God made the stars, He must have a greater perspective. | Joanne Harris | ||
| aa50239 | Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 76928b4 | I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things. | Haven Kimmel |