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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da3dd51 | If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills, with warm blood and cold. With feathers and scales. Under the hot gloom of the forest canopy you'll want to breathe with the spiral calls of birds, while your lashing tail still gropes for the waes. You'll try to haul your weight from simple sea to gravity of land. Caught by the tide, in the snail-slip of your own path, for moments suffocating in.. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 7e78022 | And while people ran about proclaiming such things,] I could only think that everything exists because of loss. From the bricks of our buildings, from cement to human cells, everything exists because of chemical transformation, and every chemical transformation is accompanied by loss. And when I look up at the night sky I think: The astronomers have given every star a number. | Anne Michaels | ||
| a5288d6 | Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. | war | Anne Michaels | |
| 1d3cc04 | Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves. | Anne Michaels | ||
| a717ce0 | Men were beasts. Everyone knew that. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 2bf4f15 | I'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| baf01e3 | We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls. . . | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3c8f083 | I have the distinct feeling I'm not in Oz anymore,' said Brrr. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 79b55cb | They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| dc9afcc | YOU HAVE YOUR OWN LIFE TO LIVE, IRIS, AND AT ITS END, THE ONLY OPINION THAT AMOUNTS TO ANYTHING IS THAT WHICH GOD BESTOWS. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| d3d6217 | At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3508352 | And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. | life | Gregory Maguire | |
| a83e3c6 | Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way." | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3312848 | The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself. | revival time | Gregory Maguire | |
| d5668a8 | As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e077688 | I never talk about the end game." He winked at her. "I've lived so long without death that I've stopped believing in it." | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0fe3fbb | I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 591d124 | Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice--just policy | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 64192de | All paths lead to the same place, and that place is whatever comes next. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0a584b2 | I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 4000735 | We can't leave just like that." Cat was appalled. "Where can we find you if we need you again?" [Baba Yaga] "You can't. Listen, Little Drear, I hate saying good-byes. I have a good strategy for avoiding them." | egg-and-spoon goodbye guests witch | Gregory Maguire | |
| 739f980 | The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| c9cd886 | Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 7e5f6c4 | You might forget a story, but you can never unhear a story. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 894b292 | In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| fbf8f64 | Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surpri.. | civilization crudeness education knowledge like-mindedness materialism philosophy plato power understanding vulgarity | Iain Pears | |
| 8e07111 | I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind. | Iain Pears | ||
| b412a98 | I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited pati.. | doctrine evil good injustice killing learning peace philosophy pride prosperity public-office soul values vice virtue | Iain Pears | |
| 3fa166c | In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages. | Iain Pears | ||
| 8faef7b | Generally speaking, our minds impose an entirely artificial order on the world. It is the only way that such an inadequate instrument as our brain can function. It cannot deal with the complexity of reality, so simplifies everything until it can, putting events into an artificial order so they can be dealt with one at a time, rather than all at once as they should be. Such a way of interpreting existence is learnt, rather in the way that ou.. | Iain Pears | ||
| f12aa7c | Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment. | human-spirit philosophy | Iain Pears | |
| 8d2812b | And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end. | friendship | Iain Pears | |
| a90d595 | Have you heard a story where the victim of a kidnap falls in love with the kidnapper? | nana reira takumi | Ai Yazawa | |
| a00c6fa | She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself. | world-war-2 | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 97dcebd | The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys. | piano | Thad Carhart | |
| c2af106 | A broken heart can masquerade as a cold one. | Ann Packer | ||
| 13ff5cd | A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief. | philosophy | Joel Salatin | |
| e4d7c16 | I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0c32d0d | I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| b9ad71a | I don't know how much we will rise," I say stoutly. "And I have no fear of falling. He looks at me. "You are ambitious to rise?" "We are all on fortune's wheel," I say. "Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it." | philippa-gregory the-cousins-war the-lady-of-the-rivers wheel-of-fortune | Philippa Gregory | |
| bf5efb1 | Dear god, I am only twenty seven, my cause is defeated, my husband is dead. am I to be one of the poor widows who will spend the rest of their days at someone else`s fireside trying to be a good guest? shall I never be kissed again? shall I never feel joy? not ever again? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| fbe8ed1 | I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. | madonna queen statues | Philippa Gregory | |
| 75ca48c | I do think your brother grows more peculiar every day,' I complain to Edward when he comes to my rooms in Whitehall Palace to escort me to dinner. 'Which one?' he asks lazily. 'For you know I can do nothing right in the eyes of either. You would think they would be glad to have a York on the throne and peace in Christendom, and one of the finest Christmas feasts we have ever arranged; but no: Richard is leaving court to go back north as soo.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 504953b | He has lost his print upon the earth; he has lost any fire. | Philippa Gregory |