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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0644b4d | Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up. The opposite may be true: We may not be able to get it together until after we show up in such miserable sh.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 70e942a | Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best we can. We show up. We strive for gratitude, and try not to be such babies. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b1b54fe | Pope Francis says the name of God is mercy. Our name was mercy, too, until we put it away to become more productive, more admired and less vulnerable. We tend to forget it's still there. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2cf18a8 | While it is hard to fathom who we are and how we are to live when public chaos shatters our routine, the slow-motion pain of each private death and cataclysm we endure is harder. Each slams us off our feet, yet we have agreed to pretend to be fine again at some point, ideally as soon as possible, so as not to seem self-indulgent or embarrass anybody. Then people can get on with their lives. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0331847 | Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. | Anne Lamott | ||
| dbd2dea | Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d15cdb9 | And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading Roald Dahl, because that way you get to explore dark stuff safely. You get to laugh with it, to step out on the vampire's dance floor and take him for a spin, and then step back into your life. W.. | scary | Anne Lamott | |
| 6c7e45f | I heard an old man speak once, someone who had been sober for fifty years, a very prominent doctor. He said that he'd finally figured out a few years ago that his profound sense of control, in the world and over his life, is another addiction and a total illusion. He said that when he sees little kids sitting in the back seat of cars, in those car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearl.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d35bbc8 | Haters want us to hate them, because hate is incapacitating. When we hate, we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 680064b | You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 14eb709 | But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you? | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8b69a97 | Domestic pain can be searing, and it is usually what does us in. It's almost indigestible: death, divorce, old age, drugs; brain-damaged children, violence, senility, unfaithfulness. Good luck with figuring it out. It unfolds, and you experience it, and it is so horrible and endless that you could almost give up a dozen times. But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what yo.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c8972f2 | There were moments when I understood that there was nothing much I was going to understand or figure out. There was simply the present moment, awareness, impermanence, birdsong, love. There is no fixing this setup here. It seems broken and ruined at times, but it isn't: it's simply the nature of human life. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f77840a | Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste. | money tv | Craig Ferguson | |
| ba210ad | After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. | writing | Craig Ferguson | |
| e4b4a34 | I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it. | citizenship thought | Craig Ferguson | |
| 0c75f48 | Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated." | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 09c7c8e | It's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1aa9b18 | I think balance is for people who don't know why they're here. | life-philosophy | Blake Crouch | |
| f7cef62 | He thinks how it will be winter soon, and then another year gone by and another one on the chopping block, time flowing faster and faster. Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be controlled. Nothing can be controlled. Only endured. | Blake Crouch | ||
| a8f7e30 | If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own. | Blake Crouch | ||
| a5ae69a | Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the same direction. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 1438ae0 | Here the bonds of marriage are formed. For marriage, which is always spoken of as a bond becomes actually, in this stage, many bonds, many strands, of different texture and strength, making up a web that is taut and firm. The web is fashioned of love. Yes, but many kinds of love: romantic love first, then a slow-growing devotion and, playing through these, a constantly rippling companionship. It is made of loyalties, and interdependencies, .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 5af6b74 | And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I used to be afraid of falling in love with people--or having them think I was--that I was chasing them (how ridiculous--I am actually always running away!) but now surely--I should be mature enough.. | journal rest work | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| a6f4b5c | It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core. | solitude space | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 1187b58 | The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves: that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships. She must find that inner stillness which Charles Morgan describes as 'the stilling of the soul within the activities of the mind and body so .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| aa839a2 | You look like the cat that ate the canary." "As a vegetarian, I object to that metaphor." Scout grinned teethily at me. "As a carnivore, I object to your pickines. Now spill the goods." -Scout and Lily" | Chloe Neill | ||
| 40b6f6e | Ethan sidled next to me, a hand propped on the shelf. "Come here often?" he said. "Excuse me?" "I see you're here in this"--he gestured at the shelves--"library all alone. You must be a student here?" He traced a fingertip down the hollow of my throat, lifting goose bumps on my arms. Since my mind hardly worked when he did things like that, it took a moment for his words to register. Was he initiating a bout of role-playing ... about a libr.. | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| e055db4 | He humphed and grabbed a carton of milk, then chugged directly from the cardboard spout. Mallory and I watched him, the same grimace on both our faces. Sure, I did the same thing with OJ, but he was a boy, and it was milk. That was just gross. | double-standards humor mallory merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 865a3f8 | I believe I've got it covered," Malik said with an admirably straight face and smooth tone. "But I wouldn't mind taking a break before getting to the next round. Grabbing a bite to eat." Ethan glanced at me, questioning eyebrow arched. Have you infected him? You're hilarious, I said." -- | malik merit | Chloe Neill | |
| cc61436 | You know what I need?" I asked. "A chocolate fountain?" Ethan suggested. "A complete paper set of the Encyclopedia Britannica? A lifetime supply of grilled meat?" "I like all those ideas, but I was thinking a magical spray I can use on Mallory to wash the crazy off her." "Like Lysol for evil?" Paige asked." | merit paige | Chloe Neill | |
| 2bdfc6e | Lils, you've barely even planned Sneak yet. Give it time. He'll get there." "He did ask me out on Saturday." "OMG, you two are totally getting married and having a litter of babies. Ooh, what if that's literally true?" -Scout and Lily about werewolf Jason" | Chloe Neill | ||
| 3134f1d | Did I mention I love your nail polish? " I asked. "You did not, but thank you. Times like this, you gotta have a bright spot. You gotta have something to lighten the mood. Catcher's homemade waffles and enormous dick usually do the trick." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 5a89e99 | to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, as long as you both shall live, including accidental or intentional immortality? | Chloe Neill | ||
| f0cfb99 | PAPER TOWERS The library was on the second floor of the House, not far from my room. It had two floors--the first held the majority of the books and a balcony wrapped in a wrought-iron railing held another set. It was a cavalcade of tomes, all in immaculate rows, and with study carrels and tables thrown in for good measure. It was my home away from home(away from home. I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper.. | deep drink library merit neill | Chloe Neill | |
| 5355f02 | It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover. | Chloe Neill | ||
| c2c9b17 | if you can't make a joke at a time like this, what's the point of living? | laughter life | Chloe Neill | |
| 3fa5d4f | Have you ever had one of those days where you give up on being really clean, and settle for being clean? Where you don't have time for the entire scrubbing and exfoliating regime, so you settle for the basics? Where brushing your teeth becomes the most rigorous part of your cleaning ritual? Yeah, welcome to Monday morning at St. Sophia's School for (Slightly Grimy) Girls. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 92e6448 | Love wasn't perfection. It wasn't always roses and candy. Hell, it wasn't even mostly roses and candy. Sometimes it was battling back fear that loomed like a leviathan, trying to find a way through misery, being grateful to have a companion who knew your strengths and weaknesses, and loved you not just in spite of them, but because of them. Love was acceptance. Love was bravery. Love was sticking it out. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 541b6ed | I remember another thing Cosmo said. It typically takes half the time you're dating a guy to fall out of love with him. My ex and I were together almost ten months before he admitted over the holidays that he'd fallen out of love with me, so by that measure I should've been cured weeks ago. But once you've anticipated spending forever with someone, I'm not convinced you can ever feel complete after being uncoupled. I think you just learn to.. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 49b15f8 | If breakups are like deaths, then ex sightings are like seeing a ghost: you feel goose bumps, near loss of bladder control, and the sensation of your heart bursting in your throat. The distinction is that the ex is alive. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| f037e9c | Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at--either figuratively or literally. | John Piper | ||
| 81f4c1a | But it would be a great mistake to think that the awakening of desire for the Bridegroom would produce a wave of monastic withdrawal into the fasting and prayer of passive waiting. That is not what the awakening of desire for Christ would produce. It would produce a radical, new commitment to complete the task of world evangelization, no matter what the cost. And fasting would not become a pacifistic discipline for private hopes, but a fear.. | John Piper | ||
| c1cbad0 | Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold .. | god joy sanctification worship | John Piper |