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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c59b5ae | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. | envy life | Yann Martel | |
| 0fb659b | Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemies. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| e39e813 | DON'T CALL ME COWARD! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b413ccb | Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| ad9d6b3 | I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere, but where I find myself, I find myself condemned. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| c25371e | Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous. | honor men women | Louis de Bernières | |
| f0689ff | There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its lif.. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 34ea346 | And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon's choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally. | Mark Haddon | ||
| deeb852 | But sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don't really know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad. But really we are. | Mark Haddon | ||
| a98499f | He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. | Mark Haddon | ||
| fb2493b | Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 78132cc | What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing except his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skelet.. | bodies burial cremation death decay decomposition energy funeral life molecules nature rot science | Mark Haddon | |
| 8e64115 | companionship refused is worse than loneliness. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 1c5ec37 | It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house. | opening-lines | Mark Haddon | |
| 6f10e75 | And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out as he was saying it. Often I can see what someone is saying written out like it is being printed on a computer screen, especially if they are in another room. But this was not on a computer screen. I could see it written really large, like it was on a big advert on the side of a bus. And it was in my mother's handwriting" | Mark Haddon | ||
| a94c04c | At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in .. | Mark Haddon | ||
| c47242a | You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever. | Mark Haddon | ||
| ce30c13 | lys hnk shy ymknk qwlh ltj`l shkhSan m ytwqf `n lsh`wr bl'lm . ffy nSf lmrt , 'sh`r wHsb 'nny yjb 'n 'khbrhm lHqyq@ . w'n 'qwl : swf tsh`rwn lmd@ thlth@ 'shhr bshkl 'sw' mm sh`rtm bh fy Hytkm , wswf tkfHwn qdr stT`tkm , wb`d sn@ 'shhr l ykwn l'lm bdhlk lsw , wlknh l yzl yw'lm 'kthr mm tZnwn , Ht~ b`d snwt , stbqwn tjdwn 'nfskm tfkrwn blshkhS ldhy fqdtmwh , wtHznwn bsh'n dhlk , wstbqwn tftqdwnh Twl lwqt | life-lessons miss novel pain | Nicholas Sparks | |
| bf8f819 | n Hy@ bl Sl@ hy 'mr l ymknny tkhyuWlh | novel pray | Nicholas Sparks | |
| b7450f6 | I know what you're thinking. Maybe a fifteen-year-old girl had stolen my phone and was texting those things to you. I'd love to say it's true, but I'd be lying. Please don't think I'm crazy. I mean I am. Over you. Shit. I just really want to see you. Bad. Wait. Do I sound like Nicholas Sparks? | Jay McLean | ||
| 8c181e0 | Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in my lap. "I wish she could be there this weekend." Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. "So do I," he said." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f111de5 | dy'man mthb fy `lmn - ldhy qlm nfhmh - ryH l'qdr Hml@ 'Hdthan l ntwq`h . f'Hynan mt`Sf bkyn lmr , w'Hynan l nsh`r bh `l~ l'Tlq . wlknn l nstTy` nkrh . fhy tHml dy'man m`h mstqbln ldhy l nstTy` tjhlh | life novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| fb452c7 | That staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 78045ac | La poesia no debia de ser objeto de analisis, penso; debia inspirar sin motivo, emocionar sin intervencion del entendimiento. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 733a5ff | Everyone's entitled to a bad day. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5651edd | There's nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day at the beach. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0ea7e7a | It was late afternoon and the last remnants of the day were fading. The sky was slowly changing color, and as I watched the sun go down I remember thinking about that brief, flickering moment when day suddenly turns into night. Dusk, I realized, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet th.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 62ef48e | lHb hw lHb , nh ljdhby@ byn lmsHt lskhyf@ , wl yhm l~ 'yn ttjh | novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 904c02e | Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c58ef2c | and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 89bda74 | because everybody lies. It's part of living in society . | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 34fa8e8 | You kissed me, yes, but it was not just good night. Even then, I could feel the promise in it, the promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 023543f | Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4e987bd | Al final, la gente que sufre tiene que 'querer' seguir adelante, que el primer paso, esa chispa de motivacion, tiene que salir de ellos. Y cuando lo hace, abre la puerta a lo inesperado | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 32a45d7 | Even though you may not want to hear it, I want you to know that you'll always be a part of me. In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace. You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it. I'm .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f9dd66a | You've been giving me the full-court press since you got here, and we know what'll happen if I let you through that door. But you're leaving. And when you do, I'll be the one who's hurt afterward. So why start something you have no intention of finishing?" - Lexie" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8dff783 | En ese momento me di cuenta de que el anochecer es solo una ilusion, porque el sol sigue estando presente, ya sea por encima o por debajo de la linea del horizonte. Y eso significa que el dia y la noche estan unidos como muy pocas cosas lo estan; no pueden estar el uno sin el otro, pero tampoco pueden existir a la vez. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8c99781 | there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4dcb4b7 | I'll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year." - Nana" | nana the-lucky-one | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 4467b15 | I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 429ba0c | Aku ingin sekali mengatakan padamu bahwa segalanya akan berakhir dengan baik untuk kita, dan bahwa aku berjanji akan berusaha mewujudkan itu. Tapi andaikan kita tak pernah bertemu lagi, dan perpisahan ini mesti terjadi, aku yakin kita akan bertemu lagi di kehidupan lain.... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ea3cf4a | I think it's because you're frightened and you feel helpless, and even though you're trying, things continue to get harder and harder--for the both of you. And the more you try, the more hopeless things seem." "Is there any way to stop feeling this way?" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e18293e | lsh`r lm yktb mn 'jl tHlylh wdrsth , bl mn 'jl 'n yb`th llhm fy lnfws dwn sbb wDH , w 'n ylms lwjdn dwn fhm w` | novel poetry | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 53b912a | The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could. | Nicholas Sparks |