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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24e4851 | Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? | brisingr christopher-paolini library reading | Christopher Paolini | |
| 8cb6268 | In the beginning, there were dragons; proud, fience,and independent. Their scale were like gems and all who gazed upon them despaired, for their beauty was great and terrible..! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 67aa120 | Vive el presente, recuerda el pasado y no temas el futuro, porque no existe, ni existira jamas. Solo existe el ahora. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| a4e10ba | brisingr! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 0eedc07 | It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 6ddeb7d | Love takes something that's difficult and makes it feel so effortless. | effortless love | Debbie Macomber | |
| 1f0769f | In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradi.. | custom education etiquette exercise habit human-sciences nature practising training | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| daf3b77 | Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 1673b6e | Anais, I could stay here all night writing you. I see you before me constantly, with your head down and your long lashes lying on your cheeks. And I feel very humble. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 0ddb987 | I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 7ff561c | In you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness... Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on... I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, then it makes me dizzy. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 21293eb | It is undeniable that the source of all our miseries comes from our obstinacy in maintaining that Paradise is a garden. The psychoanalysts have added to the confusion by interpreting the floating dreams as a flight into space. The mystic is the only one who knows that all states of ecstasy are a state of floating in an ambiance more heavy than air. Paradise is at the bottom of the sea, and I can also prove to you that angels are ships. They.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 8aa9449 | nh lkhwf mn hdhh lHy@ ljdyd@ m ystfzny 'kthr mm yf`l lkhwf mn lmwt | Anaïs Nin | ||
| cf6b830 | That night Fay became a woman, making a secret of her pain, intent on saving her happiness with Albert, on showing wisdom and subtlety. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 1c3f4ae | Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms! | Anaïs Nin | ||
| dfa2ca5 | Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him. | living love | Anaïs Nin | |
| e3fb83a | The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most poetic ones indulged in pure bestiality and the purest ones in perversions. We were haunted by the marvelous tales we could not tell. We sat around, imagined this old man, talked of how much we hated him, because he would not allow us to make a fusion of sexuality and feeling, sensuality and emotion. | delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| 8562ea3 | Do you want to be right, or do you want to be in relationship?" Because you can't always have both. You can't cuddle up and relax with "being right" after a long day." | Harville Hendrix | ||
| 14a1cc4 | The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 89841ec | In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 29b83ed | Jesus H. Christ on ice and Mary in the penalty box! | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 132749b | I don't know what your type is. I don't know what your deal is. I don't even know if you have a boyfriend. I know I like you and I want to be in your life, that's it, and if you have any room for a boyfriend, I would like to be your boyfriend, and if you don't have any room, I would like to be your friend. Any room you have for me in your life is great. If you would like me to start out in one room and move to another, I could do that. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 82d2297 | I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 286dce8 | When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements? | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 2a03eea | It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning -- it'll be gone." [ | creative-process ideas memory notes writing | Mary Oliver | |
| 583db68 | How touching," Janco said, pretending to wipe his eyes. "Get going, Yelena. I don't want you to see me cry." He faked a sniffle. "I'm sure your ego can handle it," I said. "Or will you need to beat up some trainees to feel like a man again?" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 31cf0f2 | Is there anything else you haven't told me?" My head spun. So much had happened and we still needed to stop a powerful magician. Death was a real possibility. I needed Valek to know how I felt. | feelings love resist truth | Maria V. Snyder | |
| c425c89 | there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't even require a meal. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 280ee18 | followed a step behind. My thoughts churned as my emotions seesawed | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 91d60b0 | She put her hands on her hips and surveyed the area with a cocky smile on her face. The smirk spread when the traitor met my gaze. "No hello for your old friend?" she asked me. "Don't be rude Baby Face." "Go to hell, Wynn." | baby-face cocky-smile hell-wynn smirk traitor | Maria V. Snyder | |
| f1050a6 | My future appeared to be a long twisted road fraught with knots, tangles, and traps. Just the way I liked it. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 639288a | Care to explain?" Ari asked. "Didn't you see my signals?" "Yeah. But they didn't make sense. Five into one and it's an intrusion." "It's an illusion! Five of them are an illusion." "That's not the signal for illusion. This is." Ari demonstrated the proper signal. "That's what I did." "No, you didn't. You did a weird twisty thing with your pinky." "I had a scimitar at my throat. I'd like to see you try signaling under those conditions." -Jan.. | bickering funny funny-and-random funny-humor funny-quotes | Maria V. Snyder | |
| ea7a5bd | It was in the crypt," Loren said, gesturing. "We just managed to get it here after you pulled your little surprise on us." "You're the best." I blew him a kiss. "Hey, what about me?" Quain asked. "You're second best, as always," Loren said." | loren monastry quain the-monkeys | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 1f9cc6b | Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can't see it. When you die, that heavy blood filled essence will sink to the bottom of the earth where you will burn in eternity for your crimes. | murder | Maria V. Snyder | |
| a6e9a7d | Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 47be516 | The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. They avoid violent movies and TV shows; they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior. In social settings they often focus on subjects lik.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 4e6db8f | Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 95ad294 | Nor are introverts necessarily shy. Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not. One reason that people confuse the two concepts is that they sometimes overlap (though psychologists debate to what degree). Some psychologists map the two tendencies on vertical and horizontal axes, with the introve.. | Susan Cain | ||
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| cc97917 | Introversion--along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness--is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. | Susan Cain | ||
| 4ee62bd | Some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions--from the theory of evolution to van Gogh's sunflowers to the personal computer--came from quiet and cerebral people who knew how to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there. | Susan Cain | ||
| c68bbe2 | Amazingly, neuroscientists have even found that people who use Botox, which prevents them from making angry faces, seem to be less anger-prone than those who don't, because the very act of frowning triggers the amygdala to process negative emotions. | Susan Cain | ||
| c8bd180 | Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. | Susan Cain | ||
| 768296f | Mark Twain once told a story about a man who scoured the planet looking for the greatest general who ever lived. When the man was informed that the person he sought had already died and gone to heaven, he made a trip to the Pearly Gates to look for him. Saint Peter pointed at a regular-looking Joe. "That isn't the greatest of all generals," protested the man. "I knew that person when he lived on Earth, and he was only a cobbler." "I know th.. | Susan Cain |