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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d6fb66e | I'm running as if the force of the wind whipping around my body will be enough to keep all the pieces of me from crumbling. | Beth Revis | ||
| 6c80591 | I feel hollow inside, as if there's a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself. | hollow | Beth Revis | |
| 08c8f97 | I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to the stomach and kicks to the head with which he demonstrated his affection for his wives. --King Urgit | David Eddings | ||
| decbcba | You're going to stay here and help Daran in every way you can. Don't let him sink into melancholia the way his father has...Now, pull yourself together. Blow your nose and fix your face. Daran's talking to the Rivan Warder right now. I'll take you to where they are, and then I have to leave." "You're not even going to stay for the funeral?" "I've got the funeral in my heart, Pol, the same as you have. No amount of ceremony's going to make i.. | David Eddings | ||
| c319708 | Refusing to talk about something wouldn't make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away. | David Eddings | ||
| b6b620a | Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale. | real-life realistic smart true truth | David Eddings | |
| 852b843 | most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual. | David Eddings | ||
| cf40182 | Silk laughed. "You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins." "And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive," Barak told him coolly." | humor problem-solving | David Eddings | |
| 3121040 | Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor." | love witty | David Eddings | |
| 5a50895 | And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 7c75b54 | If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 3f119f5 | A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go.... | fate life path turns | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 61b721a | For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| ec5a739 | To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom," Viviane said. "Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know." | knowledge wisdom | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 4fcad2e | But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 263c1c0 | The birth of a better world is not ultimately up to you, though I know, each day, there are grown men and women who tell you otherwise. The world needs saving precisely because of the actions of these same men and women. I am not a cynic. I love you, and I love the world, and I love it more with every new inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you mus.. | race responsibility | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| ec92555 | The writer, and that was what I was becoming, must be wary of every Dream and every nation, even his own nation. Perhaps his own nation more than any other, precisely because it was his own. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| bee49a2 | As slaves we were this country's first windfall, the down payment on its freedom. After the ruin and liberation of the Civil War came Redemption for the unrepentant South and Reunion, and our bodies became this country's second mortgage. In the New Deal we were their guestroom, their finished basement. And today, with a sprawling prison system, which has turned the warehousing of black bodies into a jobs program for Dreamers and a lucrative.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1066898 | It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this. | blacks discomfort education learning race-relations racism | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 4132ff5 | Considering segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, Richard Nixon concluded, "Strom is no racist." There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened "at the hands of persons unknown." In 1957, the white residents of Levittow.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9a71847 | At this moment the phrase "police reform" has come into vogue, and the actions of our publicly appointed guardians have attracted attention presidential and pedestrian. You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones a.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d3d334d | Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and t.. | american-history foreign-policy patriotism racism social-activism social-justice | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 24a7c70 | WELCOME. YOU ARE MOST WANTED. Come in. I'm R.L. Stine. Welcome to the Goosebumps office. Glad you made it through the barbed wire fence. Don't worry. Those cuts will stop bleeding in an hour or two. Why do we have a barbed wire fence? To keep the Abominable Snowman from escaping. I'm surprised you didn't see him. He's creeping up right behind you. Hurry. Step inside and shut the door. You don't want to find out why everyone calls him Ab.. | R.L. Stine | ||
| 8af855c | At least I rescued your poor hot dog. | coming-of-age disturbing fire frightening funny ghost ghoul gives-me-the-willies goosebumps grief hot-dog humor laugh lonely lord madness nostalgia pyrokinesis rescue savior scary sleepaway-camp spooky summer-camp teen teenage wiener wiener-roast | R.L. Stine | |
| 9115833 | breath freezes | R.L. Stine | ||
| aabc342 | Good dog,' she said, stoking his head. 'Good sweet dog.' That was one of the great things about dogs. They always loved you no matter what was going on. | R.L. Stine | ||
| c63cad4 | What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If ever there was a critic of the fetishizing effect of fascinating and dazzling "leitmotifs", it is Adorno: in his devastating analysis of Wagner, he tries to demonstrate how Wagnerian leitmotifs serve as fetishized elements of easy recognition and thus constitute a kind of inner-structural commodification of .. | self-consciousness | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 764f294 | human Reason cannot be reduced to the result of evolutionary adaptation; art is not just a heightened procedure of providing sensual pleasures, but a medium of Truth; | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 43f5aa5 | Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere? | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 4aaa705 | stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me. | friendship target work-ethic | Jodee Blanco | |
| d2c584a | you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. | life-lesson | Jodee Blanco | |
| ccf6b0d | lm yrbT lns dy'man lwq` blHzn wk'n mn lmfrwD 'n ykwn ljmy` t`s | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 1f03c2e | l yumkn ntq m 'nt `lyh fy hdhh lHy@ wlkn yumknka 'n tuqrr m stuSbH `lyh * | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 66237d8 | Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music, or clothes, or owning clever or obscure possessions, is the way middle-class people fight one another for status. They can't out-consume one another because they can't afford it, but they can out-taste one another. | David McRaney | ||
| bb558d4 | You can't improve the things you love if you never allow them to be imperfect. Thinking in this way, if you looked hard enough so that you saw every flaw in every example, you would soon find that nothing matched your expectations or deserved your definitions, and the membership of every group and category you hold dear would drop to zero. | David McRaney | ||
| 0bf83c1 | Power breeds certainty, and certainty has no clout against the unpredictable, whether you are playing poker or running a country. | David McRaney | ||
| 43d7b20 | A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance. | David McRaney | ||
| e494ddd | You will soon realize you are not so smart, and thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and common fallacies of thought, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality. | David McRaney | ||
| 317888e | When you fear you will confirm a negative stereotype, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy not because the stereotype is true, but because you can't stop worrying that you could become an example proving it. This self-fulfilling prophecy, being only a matter of perception, can be easily sublimated. Another study by Steele measured the math abilities of men versus women. When the questions were easy, the women and men performed the same... | David McRaney | ||
| c315a99 | He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year. | John le Carré | ||
| 6007783 | There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired .. | nuclear-weapons russia spy war | John le Carré | |
| 1e37bc1 | Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled you. I remember that exactly. He danced all ways for you, playing your emotions against each other because he had none of his own. | espionage | John le Carré | |
| ed34d3a | He hated to be alone, but people bored him. Being alone was like being tired, but unable to sleep. | John le Carré | ||
| d7e9f97 | And your wife, she's in the pink and so on?" His expressions were also boyish. "Very bonny, thank you," said Smiley, trying gallantly to respond in kind." | John le Carré |