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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be09a68 | Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 06c979a | This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| d87cba7 | She called, "Au a!" in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 09c7ef9 | The day was ridiculous. In fact, the situation was so serious I thought they had to be joking - like maybe they staged a special first day to psych people out. I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths." It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 141b5d2 | Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| a8bf549 | The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 6c0abf3 | What tinfoil?" he asked." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| b08259c | No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 4f872b7 | Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 26db042 | They put their shoulders to the wheel during the day, stupefy themselves with drugs or television at night, and try not to think too searchingly about the world they're leaving their children to cope with. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 0d9c040 | Many peoples practiced agriculture, but they were never obsessed by the delusion that what they were doing was *right*, that everyone in the entire world had to practice agriculture, that every last square yard of the planet had to be devoted to it... If they got tired of being agriculturalists, if they found they didn't like where it was leading them in their particular adaptation, they were *able* to give it up. They didn't say to themse.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| b07207d | The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone, to be reassured. Or perhaps I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world. Or it was neither of these--I was afraid I was dreaming. Indeed, considering the events of the day, it was likely that I was dreaming. I sometimes fly in my.. | friendships solitude | daniel quinn | |
| 4e9079c | The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| a1b6049 | To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish." | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 00158b6 | My Lord, you own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more beautiful, and more closely approximate to perfection than yourself. As you yourself, superior to all Flatland forms, combine many Circles in One, so doubtless there is One above you who combines many Spheres in One Supreme Existence, surpassing even the Solids of Spaceland. And even as we, who are now in Space, look down on Flatland and see the inside of all thing.. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 927e9b7 | It fills all Space, and what It fills, It is. What It thinks, that It utters; and what It utters, that It hears; and It itself is Thinker, Utterer, Hearer, Thought, Word, Audition; it is the One, and yet the All in All. Ah, the happiness, ah, the happiness of Being! | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 316b925 | Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows--only hard with luminous edges--and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my univers.. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 6cbc563 | You may weep more if you wish it," he announced, feeling exceedingly generous." | male-chauvenist | Lynn Kurland | |
| 3582279 | I believe I'll be the judge of how much peril you're worth," he said with a smile. "You're daft." "Again, besotted." he said, squeezing her hand. "I'll tell you of it in glorious detail if you can stay awake long enough to hear it." She smiled at him, which eased his heart a bit." | love | Lynn Kurland | |
| dbaedf5 | Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few. | geometry | James Gleick | |
| e30e855 | For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until appropriated words that were ancient and vague--force, mass, motion, and even time--and gave them new meanings. Newton made these terms into quantities, suitable for use in mathematical formulas. Until then, motion (for example) had been just as soft and inclusive a term as information. For.. | information isaac-newton jargon linguistic-drift scientific-revolution | James Gleick | |
| b60e555 | I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. | James Baldwin | ||
| d3c8558 | but the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other side. | James Baldwin | ||
| 16a9035 | His touch could never fail to make me feel desire; yet his hot, sweet breath also made me want to vomit. | James Baldwin | ||
| 7870286 | I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backed, wooden, third-class seats will be the same, and I will be the same. We will ride through the same changing countryside northward, leaving behind the olive trees and the sea and all of the glory of the stormy southern sky, into the mist and r.. | James Baldwin | ||
| fef938d | Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself! And terrifying that the terms of love are so rigorous, its checks and liberties so tightly bound together... Their relationship depended on her restraint... The premise of their affair, or the basis of their comedy, was that they were two independent people, who needed each other for a time, who would always be friends, .. | lovers relationships | James Baldwin | |
| 3e76aef | This past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity, human authority, yet contains, for all its horror, something very beautiful. | James Baldwin | ||
| 6601ffa | She struggled to think of anyone besides perhaps James Baldwin and Jesus who had experiences the profound isolation and loenliness she now knew to be the one and only true reality of this world. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 53c8458 | There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who know that he is going under in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. | James Baldwin | ||
| 16dfae0 | This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. | James Baldwin | ||
| 76a5195 | To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. | fear | James Baldwin | |
| 458324b | I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for? | James Baldwin | ||
| 7c7e007 | But I felt that it was my heart which was broken. Something had broken in me to make me so cold and so perfectly still and far away. | cold detached dissociation distant giovanni-s-room heartbroken james-baldwin | James Baldwin | |
| 1ae8140 | A big, sandy-haired man held his daughter on his shoulders, showing her the Statue of Liberty. I would never know what this statue meant to others, she had always been an ugly joke for me. And the American flag was flying from the top of the ship, above my head. I had seen the French flag drive the French into the most unspeakable frenzies, I had seen the flag which was nominally mine used to dignify the vilest purposes: now I would never, .. | James Baldwin | ||
| 50cdc44 | Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men. Frank claimed that she got it all wrong side up: it was men who suffered because they had to put up with the ways of women--and this from the time that they were born until the day they died. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2c7f4ef | Pluck my heart From my flesh And eat it..... | Robert Cormier | ||
| 640d01c | Fear is a memory of better times. Fear is a dream. | Michael Dorris | ||
| 8a9e4d4 | At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 90d08ee | When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense of cultural values, and our creative use of freedom, not upon our racial identification. I see no reason why the heritage of world culture--which represents a continuum--should be confused with the notion of race. Japan erected a highly efficient modern technology upon a religious culture which viewed the Emperor as a god... | governance identity | Ralph Ellison | |
| 1465cbc | Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn't just blow away. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 9d04c4f | And I love light. Perhaps you'll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| c1d31e6 | All dreamers and sleepwalkers must pay the price, and even the invisible victim is responsible for the fate of all. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 455db1f | Things work out better when you're straight up. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 1425bd6 | BALLROOMS OF MARS" "You gonna look fine Be primed for dancing You're gonna trip and glide All on the trembling plane Your diamond hands Will be stacked with roses And wind and cars And people of the past I'll call you thing Just when the moon sings And place your face in stone Upon the hill of stars And gripped in the arms Of the changeless madman We'll dance our lives away In the Ballrooms of Mars You talk about day I'm ta.. | t-rex | Marc Bolan |