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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 58a74f0 | Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. | lovers | Nick Hornby | |
| 7c3a2b0 | I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 59a3f27 | How do people cope? Do you have to go? What happens if you refuse on the grounds of it being just too fucking grim? | Nick Hornby | ||
| a720278 | Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to me no convincing cause for it; I just felt as though I had come off the rails somewhere. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 44791b2 | The point is not that my life is one long golden summer which I am simply too self-absorbed to appreciate (although it might be, of course, and I am simply too self-absorbed to appreciate it), but that happy moments are possible, and while happy moments are possible I have no right to demand anything more for myself, given the havoc that would be wrought. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 96db13a | La gente si preoccupa perche i ragazzini giocano con le armi, perche gli adolescenti guardano film violenti; c'e la paura che nei giovani finisca per imporsi una specie di cultura della violenza. Nessuno si preoccupa dei ragazzini che ascoltano migliaia di canzoni - migliaia, letteralmente - che parlano di cuori spezzati, e abbandoni e dolore e sofferenza e perdita. Le persone piu infelici che conosco, dico in senso amoroso, sono anche quel.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| a3a2722 | I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength. | Alison Weir | ||
| 1ccaa7b | When these with violence were burned to death, We wished for our Elizabeth. | Alison Weir | ||
| 6949f96 | Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed | Tad Williams | ||
| 8fb86d2 | Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical. | Tad Williams | ||
| 5b53cd5 | When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock. | Tad Williams | ||
| 7cb6252 | God gives us all youth, and the takes it away again. What have you gained to offset that loss? Patience? Perhaps a little wisdom? Then be patient, and perhaps you'll also be wise. (Miriamele) | Tad Williams | ||
| 498921b | Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth | Tad Williams | ||
| a9bf293 | People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 965974b | You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong. | inspirational julius-caesar loss resilience war | Margaret George | |
| 6959b88 | If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier | Gene Wilder | ||
| cf98ff7 | This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of respect in America ad Europe, this symbol of heritage and lineage, would be ridiculed in India. Within Bengali families, individual names are sacred, inviolable. They are not meant to be inherited or shared. | jhumpa-lahiri the-namesake tradition | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 912747c | How many times does a person write his name in a lifetime--a million? Two million? | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| bc74515 | Should I dream of a day, in the future, when I'll no longer need the dictionary, the notebook, the pen? A day when I can read in Italian without tools, the way I read in English? Shouldn't that be the point of all this? I don't think so. When I read in Italian, I'm a more active reader, more involved, even if less skilled. I like the effort. I prefer the limitations. I know that in some way my ignorance is useful to me. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 23b0658 | I don't know, he said, handing her the ticket. He'd been standing there all the while on the sidewalk, waiting for her. Waiting, until they were in the darkness of the theatre, to take her hand. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 18fb3bd | She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| ceeb78a | Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She recalls, visually, certain passages in the books she'd read. Which side of the book, where on the page. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 0fef892 | Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 81b63e8 | The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 1c0f554 | I am too near to be dreamt of by him. I do not fly over him, do not escape from him under the roots of a tree. I am too near. Not in my voice sings the fish in the net, not from my finger rolls the ring. I am too near. A big house is on fire without me, calling for help. Too near for a bell dangling from my hair to chime. Too near to enter as a guest before whom walls glide apart by themselves. Never again will I die so lightly, so much bey.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 9dba995 | Me--a teenager? If she suddenly stood, here, now, before me, would I need to treat her as near and dear, although she's strange to me, and distant? Shed a tear, kiss her brow for the simple reason that we share a birthdate? So many dissimilarities between us that only the bones are likely still the same, the cranial vault, the eye sockets. Since her eyes seem a little larger, her eyelashes are longer, she's taller, and the whole .. | change growth poetry self youth | Wisława Szymborska | |
| d210f83 | Like Nazis at a Ku Klux Klan rally, they were comfortable ideologically, but not in terms of corporate culture. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 4b36da0 | I cannot see anything admirable in stupidity, injustice and sheer incompetence in high places, and there is too much of all three in the present administration. | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 67ab822 | And although like most black males raised in Los Angeles, I'm bilingual only to the extent that I can sexually harass women of all ethnicities in their native languages, I understood the gist of the message. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 30c3806 | It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors taking to you and through you. Some of it is primal, some of it is hallucinatory bullshit. That madness those boys rapping ain't nothing but urban folklore. They retelling stories passed down from chicken coop to apartment stoop to Ford coupe. Hear that rhyme, boy. Shit, I could get down and rap if I had to. MC B.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| aaef0a6 | The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the 20th century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine- the imago dei, image of god...And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case, love.. | parenting religion spirituality | Huston Smith | |
| ce78a4b | Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art. | Huston Smith | ||
| 17d11f3 | I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in .. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 105455b | He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 9ac96c4 | But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity. All of the Hat Creek Outfit, including particularly Augustus McCrae, want Call to accept the boy as his son. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 9071b1d | For most of the hours of the day--and most of the months of the year--the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and stinging lizards, but a hell for pigs and Tennesseans. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| ce1e4a9 | If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8c2fec4 | Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk--and | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 12676cf | Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 7995988 | It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life. | grown-up grown-ups harder life older simple simple-way simple-way-of-life | Larry McMurtry | |
| 9322b00 | Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8c15d43 | This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call) | Larry McMurtry | ||
| e9e3ac9 | Monkey John looked at the dead boy. "By God, life is cheap up here on the goddamned Canadian River." "Cheap," Blue Duck answered. "And it might get cheaper." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 11ddd72 | If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient. | justice law politics practical | Amartya Sen |