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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3251823 | This. This is exactly it. "It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside -- but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if she caught a glimpse of the enchanting realm beyond -- only a glimpse -- and heard a note of unearthly music. This moment came .. | flash revelation transcendence veil | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c644fd3 | Life is going to be harder for some people. It's going to be harder at different times in our lives. But if you're not ready to die today, then you're going to be responsible for tomorrow, whether you like it or not. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 23fc6cd | That was the recipe of our relationship, I think. We gave each other what we never expected to find. | Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason | ||
| 413b1e0 | You ever think that life is something that happens and that you're not ever completely prepared for? | John Lescroart | ||
| e7cb1d3 | Our] struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people. | feminism | Bell Hooks | |
| 9790e52 | When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care. | bell-hooks feminism feminist love love-quotes men nurturance nurturing quotes-about-love spiritual spiritual-growth women | bell hooks | |
| 52779f4 | Students who excel in active listening also contribute much to the formation of community. This is also true of students who may not speak often but when they speak (sometimes only when reading required writing) the significance of what they have to say far exceeds those of other students who may always openly discuss ideas. And of course there are times when an active silence, one that includes pausing to think before one speaks, adds much.. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 58b62fb | When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent, but it will frame all relationships as power struggles. | relationships | bell hooks | |
| 49f69a5 | sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilderness she can enter be solaced believing the power that there be sacred place that there can be atonement now she returns with no fear facing the past ready to risk knowing these woods now hold beauty and danger | danger rain woods | Bell Hooks | |
| bb33bbc | I did not want to hear the pain of my male partner because hearing it required that I surrender my investment in the patriarchal ideal of the male as protector of the wounded. If he was wounded, then how could he protect me? As | bell hooks | ||
| e9dfb78 | Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place where visions of theory and praxis come together. The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know--to understand how life works. Children are organically predisposed to be critical thinkers. Across the boundaries of race, class, gender, and circumstance, children come into the world of.. | Bell Hooks | ||
| ed97d7e | True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. | critical pain resistance solidarity | Bell Hooks | |
| cc8f53d | Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety. | identity language-learning | Bell Hooks | |
| 32d462e | think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. | reflections | bell hooks | |
| 3a53c46 | Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. I liked this definition because it does not imply that men were the enemy. | bell hooks | ||
| cb24daf | Masses of the people think that feminism is always the only about women seeking to be equal to men. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media. | bell hooks | ||
| 6ffe240 | The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the person we want to attract. When our real self appears in its entirety, when the good behavior becomes too much to maintain or the masks are taken away, disappointment comes... | love love-quotes mask true-love true-self | bell hooks | |
| 04d04aa | Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 5031467 | Whether they are able to enact it as lived practice or not, many white folks active in anti-racist struggle today are able to acknowledge that all whites (as well as everyone else within white supremacist culture) have learned to overvalue "whiteness" even as they simultaneously learn to devalue blackness." | bell hooks | ||
| a5b6e26 | to not understand neocolonialism is to not fully live in the present. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 15c7fcd | Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of being free required one to be a person of integrity, a person who lived in such a way that there would always be congruency between what one thinks, says, and does. | bell hooks | ||
| 17cbfb6 | All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature. | bell hooks | ||
| 6c1f512 | If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution. | bell hooks | ||
| 817df88 | QUALITY leadership is neither the product of one great individual nor the result of odd historical accidents. Rather, it comes from deeply bred traditions and communities that shape and mold talented and gifted persons. Without a vibrant tradition of resistance passed on to new generations, there can be no nurturing of a collective and critical consciousness--only professional conscientiousness survives. | Cornel West | ||
| 17f9f7a | Never, ever say the dildo accidentally turned itself on. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f020af5 | That sounds like the sin of pride, Marshal. Better run downstairs and let Miss December flog it out of you. Webcam it and charge by the minute. You won't ever have to take government money again. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 619e223 | Damn, it feels great to hurt idiots. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 391d725 | I'm not a huge fan of other people's logic. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e921100 | Death smiles at us all and all a man can do is smile back. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| b29cfa4 | If Jesus, Jesse James, and a herd of pink robot unicorns strolled in walking on water, this bunch wouldn't even look up. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 9d07bbb | Fortunately, I'm good at ignoring a lot of what my brain does. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 5c3ecca | There's something magical about the sound of breaking glass. Especially around a mob. It works both for humans and Hellions. If you want to start a riot, throw a bottle. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 14efcd0 | You're quite the humanitarian. By the way, thanks a fuck of a lot for leaving me off your who-to-save list. You're on it, Alfredo Garcia. I just didn't want to say it out loud and have you call me Nancy or Tinker Bell. Yeah, I would have done that. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 5001566 | Sometimes just seeing a woman smile is like a knife in the heart. It hurts and it rattles your whole system, but against all your instincts you swallow the pain and keep looking. After a while you realize it doesn't hurt as much as you thought it would. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| b63f19e | To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 35666ea | On mobile phones: "It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| f39b11b | Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question. "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| b389607 | Where I needed to go was where I ended up. I was shutting you out, like I shut everything out, and you pulled me back. You made me see what was important. What's real. You made me see you." His lips brush mine. "See me now, Sara." "I do see you." "No. You don't. You see what happened tonight and what you've decided that means for us. See me now, Sara, like you made me see you." He kisses the corner of my mouth and his lips travel down my ja.. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| a76337a | His eyes hold mine and the depth of power and heat I find there are as limitless as what he makes me feel. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| dee76d4 | He pulls the door shut behind him and drags me against him, murmuring softly, "I understand why you left. I understand everything." I cling to him, holding on for what feels like dear life. "I should have told you." "You would have." He pulls back to look at me. "When you were ready. We all have to deal with our inner demons in our own way, in our own time." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 5d484bd | You're afraid to count on me." "I'm afraid of not being able to count on me." There is a hint of emotion in his stare before his expression becomes unreadable. He drops his hand from my arm. "I understand," he states, his voice monotone, his expression impassive. I think I've hurt him, and reality slaps me in the face. I've let myself think of him as some kind of demon, to avoid the real demons of my past. In two small steps I am in front o.. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 3cbf391 | I told you I do not do anything because I have to. And I don't. But to be inside you right now, baby, I have to. I need to. And, yes - right here in the kitchen. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| d624f19 | My boss is dictating my preventive hangover care, and I just used the word swords in reference to his obvious cockfight with the man I just made out with in a public hallway. I am truly in an alternate universe. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| e607bce | But then two lost souls searching for an escape should connect, I reason. | Lisa Renee Jones |