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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f15c885 | She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 0194526 | You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they? | Jean Rhys | ||
| 9bb0721 | And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy. | love music nostalgia youth | Jean Rhys | |
| 5de8985 | There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between us - hard, cold and misted over with my breath. Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I? | Jean Rhys | ||
| 8fba460 | She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 5628d3a | Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow | Jean Rhys | ||
| 98831d8 | Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new... | saved | Jean Rhys | |
| e9bd55a | No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary. | future past sentimental wary | Jean Rhys | |
| 44655b9 | I must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow. | english-prose | Jean Rhys | |
| 4f67771 | In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 7af62b8 | I remain your pledged man," Tark avowed, touching a fist to his chest. "What are your orders?" Jason turned to the stocky musician. "Do your best to help Galloran win this war." "I swear it." "And keep an eye on Rachel. See if you can get her to stop telling me she's going to see me again. I think she's jinxing us." Rachel punched Jason's arm. Tark eyed Rachel uncertainly. She saw a hint of disapproval in his gaze, along with a little warin.. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 99b614b | She shall be my queen, and I her most ardent admirer and protector. A new standard of love shall be established for the ages. Time will clarify my devotion! On this I would gladly stake my very soul! | ages devotion love queen soul standard time | Brandon Mull | |
| 15127e3 | Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade. | Brandon Mull | ||
| e4e4216 | The others were trying to spare you from pain. The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even mange to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die. | life pain truth | Brandon Mull | |
| a017484 | None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 6521133 | You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 7759b5b | Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 74abda0 | In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| 326df3d | Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks - open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, eager to see what the new day brings... | leadership vigor youth zeal | Warren G. Bennis | |
| 97bce21 | If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world. | peace | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 9402c6d | The bullying of citizens by means of dreads and fights has been going on since paleolithic times. Greenpeace fund-raisers on the subject of global warming are not much different than the tribal Wizards on the subject of lunar eclipses. 'Oh no, Night Wolf is eating the Moon Virgin. Give me silver and I will make him spit her out. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 44ac0be | We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel. To do so harms others. That's wrong. Therefore we don't disembowel Bambi like the way coyotes do, we shoot him first. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| feafdfd | Sucking the fun out of life has always been an important component of politics. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| c84df7a | A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. | luck trust | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| e06b1a5 | It's the process of writing and life that matters.Too many writers have written great books and gone insane or alcoholic or killed themselves. This process teaches about sanity. We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 420d051 | LIFE IS NOT ORDERLY. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| b4d56f3 | You have to let writing eat your life and follow it where it takes you. You fit into it; it doesn't fit neatly into your life. It makes you wild. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 8bac8bf | When you write a memory, it isn't in the past anyway. It's alive right now. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 7f0801e | I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me that...Then I thought to myself, 'You know, I've never met a writer who wanted to be anything else. They might bitch about something they're writing or about their poverty, but they never say they want to quit...and if they do abandon it they become crazy, drunk or suicidal.' Writing is elemental. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 70e10b4 | Rien n'est jamais acquis a l'homme Ni sa force Ni sa faiblesse ni son coeur Et quand il croit Ouvrir ses bras son ombre est celle d'une croix Et quand il croit serrer son bonheur il le broie Sa vie est un etrange et douloureux divorce Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux Sa vie Elle ressemble a ces soldats sans armes Qu'on avait habilles pour un autre destin A quoi peut leur servir de se lever matin Eux qu'on retrouve au soir desoeuvres incertains.. | Louis Aragon | ||
| 3fd8251 | Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others. | microcosm world | Louis L'Amour | |
| 0606b2c | the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| a27fb28 | if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil. | justice nation | Louis L'Amour | |
| 9050140 | If there is something, though, if there is...well, I believe in the things I love...the feel of a good horse under me, the blue along those mountains over yonder, the firm, confident feel of a good gunbutt in my hand, the way the red gold of your hair looks against your throat. The creak of a saddle in the hot sun and the long riding, the way you feel when you come to the top of a ridge and look down across miles and miles of land you have .. | personal-philosophy | Louis L'Amour | |
| efad874 | They need to get a good PR guy." "What's a PR guy?" "They're kind of like the old Greek sophists who played with words until you believed up was down. PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars." "Ah!" Manannan's expression lit with comprehension. "They are politicians?" "No, they're smarter and less pretty. They advise politicians." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7858d41 | Put your affairs in order, mortals," she boomed, as a gust of wind--yes, wind inside my shop--blew their hair back. "I will feast on your hearts tonight for the offense you gave me. So swears the Morrigan." I thought it was a bit melodramatic, but one does not critique a death goddess on her oratory delivery." | the-morrigan | Kevin Hearne | |
| 132b3cd | Demons smell like ass--nasty ass that slithers down your throat, finds your gag reflex, and sits on it with authority. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1b9dbb6 | Side effects from doggie joy may include face lube and leg-humping" ~ Oberon" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6bb356f | They may have been victims at one time, but what you have to focus on is what they are now. | granuile | Kevin Hearne | |
| 0177624 | I still didn't know quite what the witches were capable of. The threshold could be booby-trapped or enchanted. I could be walking into a cage fight with a demon. Hell, she could open the door with a Glock 9 in her hand and put a bullet in my ear, or throw a cat at me, or call me a damn hippie. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 940e489 | but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." I" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| d3b21df | Yes, you're adorable, aren't you? Are you a good boy, Snugglepumpkin?" Oberon wagged his tail and came over within petting distance. "Oh, yes, you are a good boy, yes, you are." She stopped making sense and instead made high-pitched squeals of delight as she scratched Oberon's giant head; the rest of us stood and watched as a woman with an advanced degree completely lost her mind. Okay," | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4968e23 | Druids were supposed to be forces of preservation, not destruction, and I could not dance around the fact that my stupid pride had turned me into a misbegotten cockwaffle. | pride | Kevin Hearne | |
| d2eaacb | when you thumb your nose at the laws of physics like you've been doing, the universe tends to get you back through biology." Atticus" | Kevin Hearne |