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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2071e51 | As soon as I kiss him I know that I love him with a blind instinct beyond all reason, with all his defects. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| aa5db94 | I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain. | diary love pain passion women | Anaïs Nin | |
| 5590729 | Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: "I don't understand" | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| c0c2652 | That last afternoon in Henry's hotel room was for me like a white-hot furnace. Before, I had only white heat of the mind and of the imagination; now it is of the blood. Sacred completeness. I come out dazed in the mellow spring evening and I think, now I would not mind dying. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| e292177 | Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| fe4479f | She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only. | diary erotic-writing | Anaïs Nin | |
| 7ea6a96 | What can you give when there is no self, when you have no sensitivity, no receptivity, no warmth, nothing to contact others with? | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 091165a | In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice. I wanted to be everything. And I took everything in, and the more you take in, the more strength you find waiting to accomplish things and to expand your life, instead of the other (which is w.. | life motivation | Anaïs Nin | |
| 5a4876c | Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me -- the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 4f6b678 | I do not need to be a selfless child, or a woman giving to the point of self-annihilation. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| de3b30a | What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the facts. [...] in self-defense, I accuse the writers of fairy-tales. Not hunger, not cruelty, not my parents, but these tales which promised that sleeping in the snow never caused pneumonia, that bread never turned stale, that trees blossomed out of season, that dragons could be killed with courage, that intense wishing would be fo.. | fairytales imagination | Anaïs Nin | |
| 081728e | Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed of the present anyway, the atom bomb throwers of the mind, of the emotions, seeking to generate new forces and a new order of mind out of continuous upheavals? | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 8f7e6ee | Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the reader himself is led to formulate after watching the story unfold. The ideas, the generalizations, ought to be implicit in the selection and arrangement of the people and places and actions. They ought to haunt a piece of fiction as a ghost fli.. | generalizations ideas subject-matter writing | Wallace Stegner | |
| d8eca8a | There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. | consequences destiny fate history | Wallace Stegner | |
| f588df6 | To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free. | materialism possessions | Wallace Stegner | |
| 732c4de | I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen fro.. | life-experience life-lessons living | Wallace Stegner | |
| 3045b7b | It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours. | Jason Fried | ||
| 733e3fc | Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself | Jason Fried | ||
| af8e47b | Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it. | Jason Fried | ||
| 0507e23 | Ben Solo had sought to abandon everything he had been, even casting aside his name. But Luke sensed that Kylo Ren was just a shell around the same broken boy he had tried so hard to reach. | Jason Fry | ||
| 8cca8d0 | There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet. | Roald Dahl | ||
| cc69570 | Curiouser and curiouser." Startled,I glanced at him. "I say that sometimes." Even with his face tight with worry, Dad managed to look a little amused. "It's from Appropriate, don't you think?" Yeah,except that our rabbit hole was a heck of a lot darker,I thought. I pretended to study the bookcase in the far corner. I'd expected boring books about Prodigium history or shifter economy, and there were a few of those, but I also noticed some .. | Rachel Hawkins | ||
| 62d9ebf | No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 102a189 | Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to. | Jim Trelease | ||
| b0b948c | What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn. | Jim Trelease | ||
| bdf561c | The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. | Jim Trelease | ||
| bcbb072 | You can't find what you don't go looking for. | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 56af673 | A man hates his enemy because he hates his own hate. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| f5b3b25 | Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 64ad0b6 | The damage done through abuse is awful and heinous, but minor compared to the dynamics that distort the victim's relationship with God and rob her of the joy of loving and being loved by others. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| c5e2a4b | So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It's time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 2b10237 | I know without a question you love me and you know I love you, but I am unwilling to let your awkwardness with personal conversations keep us at a distance. Now let's be clear. I'll call when I want to, for as long as I want to, and I will ask anything I want about how you are feeling, what you think of as you face death, what your relationship is with the Lord, and anything else I want to know. You can do as you choose. Hang up on me. Refu.. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| a44a1ee | My friend, that, as anyone can see, is not a hotel; it's a depot. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 02d0f09 | I did not understand how quickly one could fall in love, and I regarded almost as an affliction that one would eventually recover from. However, I now recognize that it is a force that reaches into every fiber of your body, and that it is something not to be resisted, but embraced. | lydon mary simonsen | Mary Lydon Simonsen | |
| 9dcc511 | On this night, I swear to you that I will rise above everything you've ever taught me. I will become a force that this world has never known. I will come into such power that none will dare hurt me again. | Marie Lu | ||
| 431d32a | While Mary brushed my pistachio silk carriage dress, Mama tugged the laces of my corset as tight as they would go. She grunted and I groaned, and we sounded like the giant hogs I'd seen at the zoo-except that, rather than play in the mud and eat to my heart's content, I was forced to sit daintily in the parlor without lunch. For two hours. With my mother for company. | Susan Dennard | ||
| 9e8926f | Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was--and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments; and the people all knowed everything was tiptop, and said so--said 'How you get biscuits to brown so nice?' and 'Where, for the land's sake, you get these amaz'n pickles?'.. | supper women | Mark Twain | |
| 0e65cda | Hell, he'd probably put Ryan in charge just so Bunny wouldn't be forced to do the paperwork. The last time they'd put an expense sheet in front of Bunny, he'd drawn big pink azalea bushes on it. | Dana Marie Bell | ||
| d2d73cf | there are forces out of your control that will shape you into who you are. | Marie Lu | ||
| 91d638b | There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others. | conflation editing exaggeration francis-bacon shakespeare | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| c8aa687 | Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers. | prophets quackery | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 6c2b906 | about as emotional as a bagpipe. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 5f21bf2 | in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| f76b165 | In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches. | greed piracy | Robert Louis Stevenson |