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| 0fbb0c0 | Montana," he said, dragging her against him. "Montana, I'm so sorry. I was wrong. What I said, how I treated you." He drew back so he could see her face. "I love you. I have from the first. You're the best part of me. You are the light to my dark and without you, I'm blind. I'll give you anything, if only you'll stay with me." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 53e8167 | Making a family work was about love and trust and knowing where to draw the lines. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 66331b0 | the only thing that makes life worthwhile is loving orher people and being loved by them. - Pia Obrian | life life-lessons love loving | Susan Mallery | |
| 3770ec8 | is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? | duty fate temptation | Donna Tartt | |
| 819a838 | And as much as I'd like to believe there's a truth beyond illusion, I've come to believe that there's no truth beyond illusion. Because, between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there's a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.And--I would argue.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| bd8e7e7 | When you're worried about something,' said Henry abruptly, 'have you ever tried thinking in a different language? | Donna Tartt | ||
| a0ebba4 | Because I don't care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here's the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence - of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do - is a catastrophe. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 527a114 | A wine-colored welt of scar tissue had bubbled up in the little stab hole; it was interesting to look at, like a small blob of pink glue, and it reminded her in a good way of Lawrence of Arabia, burning himself with matches. Evidently that sort of thing built soldierly character. "The trick," he'd said in the movie, "is not to mind that it hurts." In the vast and ingenious scheme of suffering, as Harriet was now beginning to understand it, .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 45bbb6a | Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity. | singularity | Charles Stross | |
| 7576d50 | For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 86a5dd9 | Maybe I can do some writing then. The phrase made him sick. It had no meaning anymore. Like a word that is repeated until it becomes gibberish that sentence, for him, had been used to extinction. It sounded silly; like some bit of cliche from a soap opera. Hero saying in dramatic tones - Now, by God, maybe I can do some writing. Senseless. For a moment, though, he wondered if it was true. Now that she was leaving could he forget about her a.. | writing | Richard Matheson | |
| c370780 | In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the living room, is a mountain of midterm examinations with essays I must suffer through, feeling my stomach turn at their paucity of intelligence, their adolescent phraseology. And all that tripe, all those miles of hideous prose, had been would into an eternal skein in his head. And there it sat unraveling into his own writing until he wondered if h.. | writing | Richard Matheson | |
| 88c5b03 | How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your point of view will determine that. Perhaps it was a combination of them all... So, to the story. A chronicle of greed and cruelty, horror and rapacity, sadism and murder. Love, American style. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 9e09076 | No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included. | Richard Matheson | ||
| b64b6d0 | A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliche. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 2c36213 | Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her? His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope. | change dead death decision hope murder murderer zombies | Richard Matheson | |
| 8091938 | Of course", I said. I was sure he'd even gone to Olshanka for the tribute first, just so he could pretend that was the truth for a little bit longer. But I couldn't really bring myself to pretend with him, not even long enough for him to get used to the idea; my mouth was already turning up at the corners without my willing it to. He flushed and looked away; but that wasn't any better for him, since everyone else was watching us with enormo.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| a2554eb | The water-dragon's name was Lady Kiyomizu, although much to Junichiro's horror she breezily told Laurence to call her Kiyo, and not to stand on formality. "You have no manners anyway," she said, "and there is no sense your trying to put out sakura blossoms, when you are a bamboo." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 92ed098 | The passageway smelled of smoke: burning wood, a torch, acrid. His head ached. Blood was wet and sticky upon his arm and on his fingers, and the orange glow of torchlight played from behind his back and over the corridor walls, leaping like a bonfire. There was a strange familiarity to it: the narrow walls in around him. And when he came to a wooden door set in the wall, he put his hand upon it and pushed it open. There was a room, and a pa.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| b281b2c | It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river. | Naomi Novik | ||
| f93b34e | No one had made her talk to me, or be in my company. I couldn't understand why she would have gone to the trouble just to be unpleasant. | Naomi Novik | ||
| c94f15c | Bring me the winter king, and I will make you a summer queen. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3deee18 | And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding? | irony logic | Naomi Novik | |
| 9bde76e | Solya may not be wicked, but he likes to be too clever for everyone's good. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 4d141ba | With bare feet in the dirt, fulmia, ten times with conviction, will shake the earth to its roots, if you have the strength, Jaga's book had told me, and the Dragon had believed it enough not to let me try it anywhere near the tower. I had felt doubtful, anyway, about conviction: I hadn't believed I had any business shaking the earth to its roots. But now I fell to the ground and dug away the snow and the fallen leaves and rot and moss until.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 04e35f7 | But wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 4a2cf45 | I glared down. "Do you me to go?" His hands tightened on my arms. He didn't look me in the face. For a moment he didn't speak. Then harshly he said, "No." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 8c7e31e | It was all right when I did it," I said, "but when you did it, it was wrong. As though--you were following a trail, but a tree had fallen down in the meantime, or some hedge grew up, and you insisted on continuing on anyway, instead of going around it--" "There are no hedges!" he roared. "It comes, I suppose," I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, "of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don't always s.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| d26dcf9 | I didn't know how to answer anything so brazen; the only thing I could have managed would have been an inarticulate hiss. | Naomi Novik | ||
| aa3d5b9 | Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience. | mindfulness | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 70f7ab6 | But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 8b7d602 | we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 5431332 | Genetically speaking, we are one people. The two most seemingly different people in the world are virtually identical from the point of their genes.ph At most, about one in a thousand nucleotides in our DNA are different between the blackest and the whitest, the tallest and the shortest of us. We are 99.9 percent the same. We are one tribe, one family, but have yet to recognize it. We humans are all intimately interconnected. How we treat e.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| de98ebb | Accelerating to speeds faster than light was, of course, impossible. General relativity had made that clear enough back in the twentieth century. However, since then a number of ways of circumventing the speed limit had turned up; by now, there were at least six different known methods of moving mass or information from A to B without going through c. | Charles Stross | ||
| a5bd1fa | They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants. | social | Charles Stross | |
| ee66741 | The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318) | rapture-of-the-nerds singularity | Charles Stross | |
| 5343440 | Basically it's a velociraptor with a fur coat and an outsize sense of entitlement. Right now it has convinced Pete that it is harmless, but I know better: just give them thumbs and in no time at all they'll have us working in the tuna mines, delivering cans from now until eternity. (Hey, wait a minute, doesn't this one have thumbs?) | Charles Stross | ||
| a0e64ec | We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty. | Charles Stross | ||
| b1a671f | Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...] | Charles Stross | ||
| d3be2a7 | Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph. | Charles Stross | ||
| a84ae4d | The European Parliament responded by focusing on corporate governance. If corporations wanted to be legal citizens they could damned well shoulder the responsibilities of good citizenship as well as the benefits. Social as well as financial audits were the order of the day. Directives outlining standards for corporate citizenship were drafted and a lucrative niche for a new generation of management consultants emerged - those who could look.. | Charles Stross | ||
| 4149080 | His Infernal Majesty leans towards me confidingly. "You have imposter syndrome," He says, "but paradoxically, that's often a sign of competence. Only people who understand their work well enough to be intimidated by it can be terrified by their own ignorance. It's the opposite of Dunning-Kruger syndrome, where the miserably incompetent think they're on top of the job because they don't understand it." | Charles Stross | ||
| e49bdb0 | I wasn't expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins. | Charles Stross | ||
| 814c64c | Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake. | Charles Stross |