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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 114cfeb | Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. | energy form life reason | William Blake | |
| 61507c1 | The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn. The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn. While the Lily white shall in love delight. Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. | William Blake | ||
| 6dd7dc1 | The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent superstition of man, but because it so often is terrible. He who would tamper with the vast and secret forces that animate the world may well fall a victim to them. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 304701c | Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful white legs!" exclaimed Infadoos regretfully. But Good persisted, and once only did the Kukuana people get the chance of seeing his beautiful legs again. Good is a very modest man. Henceforward they had to satisfy their aesthetic longings with his one whisker, his transparent eye, and his movable teeth." | white-legs | H.Rider Haggard | |
| ae8d537 | for women bring trouble as surely as night follows day... | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| ff48e94 | Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; to age in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we may not hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the long centuries falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow dripping on a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful of us, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 8d90e76 | Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done. Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: Arise from their graves and aspire, Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. | William Blake | ||
| b948b50 | As all this suggests our relationship with evidence is seldom purely a cognitive one. Vilifying menstruating women bolstering anti-Muslim stereotypes murdering innocent citizens of Salem plainly evidence is almost always invariably a political social and moral issue as well. To take a particularly stark example consider the case of Albert Speer minister of armaments and war production during the Third Reich close friend to Adolf Hitler and .. | life sins-of-omission | Kathryn Schulz | |
| 4d1aa26 | At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure. | Albert Speer | ||
| 289cf0d | I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been. | Leif Enger | ||
| a71fb4c | Once torched by truth... a little thing like faith is easy. | Leif Enger | ||
| a72282c | I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, golden and so clean it quivers. | Leif Enger | ||
| 3046a7d | Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away. | William Blake | ||
| 0838e2d | They start a tickling fight, laughing hysterically, and then they're necking again. Nicksy registers that his Scottish friend and the Bird With the Big Hair have adopted that arrogant 'look-at-us-we've-just-invented-sex' demeanor of people who're fucking after a long hiatus | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 0aada5a | ras aket`ebt`, bavshebo? ak`, z'vel sadgurze, matareblebis sat`valt`valod moxvedit`, t`u qop`il sacqobshi "sach`xer-ket`elaod?" _ ambobs da gulianad xit`xit`ebs sakut`ar kalamburze. _ gamoic`ani, _ eubneba begbi da dabal xmaze umatebs, _ beberi kuana. _ kai, aba, it`amashet` da gaert`et`, me xels ar shegishlit`! _ ambobs berikac`i da banc`alit` gvec`leba. misi xrinciani sic`ilis ek`o mt`el mitovebul sacqobshi ismis. vamch`nev, ro begbi magr.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 7d2383b | Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw. - Ye should. You could go tae University. - Whit fir? Geoff had to think for a while. He had recently graduated with a degree in English Literature and was on the dole. So were most of his fellow graduates. - It's a good social life, he said. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 07c5876 |
Pero despues, cuando estoy en sus brazos, como ahora mismo, es como si estuviera atrapado en un torno. Tengo ganas de levantarme y salir a dar una vuelta. < |
Irvine Welsh | ||
| 9bd27c4 | This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam... that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body. | trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | |
| 5ec00d3 | _ mag londonshi sul gamoqlevdi, bichi? p`exburt`is televizorshi qureba vis gaugia?! rag'a p`exburt`is match`is televizorit` qureba da rag'a gandonit` ceraoba!... usap`rt`xo sek`si, usap`rt`xo p`exburt`i... qvelap`eri usap`rt`xo gvinda, amis dedac`!.. bare patara usap`rt`xo samqaro gavashenot` irgvliv da qvela shignit` sheviquzhot`, - t`k`va da damc`inavad daimancha. stivis ukve davicqeboda, rogori c`eti da impulsuri xasiat`i hk`onda am viri.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 574f0f9 | aman begbis quradg'eba t`ishikodan met`ize gadaatanina. met`is k`ebas ucqebs da rame, ch`ven kide qvelas k`veshajviebs da qverebs gvez'axis... mara ch`venshi t`u romelime qveria, eg nag'dad met`ia, z'mao. eg met`i qvelap`erze t`avs uk`nevs p`rankos... met`i arasodes ar mevaseboda... magari shignakravi mastia ra!... z'makac`ebi zogjer ert`manet`s utrakeben xolme, xo azze xar, mara met`i ro gitrakebs, mashin isa, ra k`via, guls gtkens ra, da .. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| b8facd2 | Art is whatever you can get away with. | communications media philosophy | Marshall McLuhan | |
| fe8abc2 | Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| afd2a0f | All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime, | ridiculous sublime | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 483666e | Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness. | Doris Lessing | ||
| f47e3d2 | Whoa, cowboy! I don't have phone sex on the first phone call. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 79e70b3 | Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| fce8df0 | Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| cf7cf3e | Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences! | self-referential | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| 18c5b48 | But how did you know that it was Stacy?" "There wasn't a green light flashing, that's for sure," he said. "Mostly, I felt I'd met a person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. That I didn't need to look any further."" "But how can you be sure?" I persisted. "You can't. There's not just one person in the world who's your type. There's a whole group with the same likes and dislikes. But you want to spend your whole life looking for all.. | marriage the-one true-love | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| ba3e48e | I told myself. | flirting safety sexual-harrassment | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 9030441 | Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. Earl Briggs sits on my jury, Gloria Dayton, too. They are there with Katie and Sandy, my mother, my father, and soon Legal Siegel as well. Those I have loved and those I have hurt. Those who bless me and those who haunt me. My gods of guilt. Every day I carry on and I carry them close. Every day I step into the well before them and I argue my case. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 2d019ed | Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left. | desperation escape las-vegas los-angeles nevada | Michael Connelly | |
| 879498e | The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 86d2ee1 | Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in a hurry. The dusk was smoother, the moon more graceful. Maybe it was because the moon was more patient. In life and nature, Bosch thought, darkness always waits. | dusk moon sun | Michael Connelly | |
| b4d175c | from the short story, Cielo Azul "Harry, get an ambulance." I stood up and stepped back from the scene. I felt my chest growing tight, a clarity of thought coming over me. In all my years I had spoken for the dead many times. I had avenged the dead. I was at home with the dead. But I had never so clearly had a part in pulling someone away from the outstretched hands of death. And in that moment I knew we had done just that. And I knew tha.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 6488843 | Hispanics have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Come to that, the Irish and Italians and Jews also have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Thinking it over, everybody has a long tradition of defiance against authority. (Except the Germans, of course.) | Donald E. Westlake | ||
| 339b361 | It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong. | Donald E. Westlake | ||
| 255a2af | She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan. | underwear | Anne Stuart | |
| 5590768 | I would have to ask her, just to make certain I'd done everything I could. But I'd warn her. I have no money, no prospects, an exceedingly ugly face, and my dearest friend is the King of Hell." "You think that would stop her?" "I have no idea. Would it, Lydia?" "Nothing would stop her, if she loved you. And she does, Charles. She loves your pretty face and you scarred face. She loves your past and your present and she most especially loves .. | Anne Stuart | ||
| feebb30 | Beth) "You can't leave me behind!" "I can and I will, if I have to break your neck to keep you from following me." "I'd like to see you try." "No, you wouldn't." His voice was flat, unemotional, but even in the darkness she could see the faint flicker in his eyes. She looked behind her, at the crumpled body of the pot smoking soldier, his head at an odd angle, his eyes open and staring. "Oh, God," she whispered, horrified. What had seemed a.. | Anne Stuart | ||
| 22b90eb | Desperaux," she said. He saw his name on her lips. "I honor you," whispered Desperaux. "I honor you." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 7ce7561 | The world is dark, and light is precious. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 72a4c75 | And now you have a small map of the princess's heart (hatred, sorrow, kindness, empathy), the heart that she carried down inside her as she went down the golden stairs and through the kitchen and, finally, just as the sky outside the castle began to lighten, down into the dark dungeon with the rat and the serving girl. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 5636631 | There is nothing worse than war in the summetime. | Kate DiCamillo |