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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 766e50d | And what about Edward, is he still alive?' 'I don't know... I pray God he is.' 'But you don't expect him anymore?' 'No... If Edward is alive then I pray God he will find his way to me. And there will always be a candle in the window to light his way home, and my door will never be locked in case one day it is his hand on the latch. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 9642159 | He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst. | spinsters women | Philippa Gregory | |
| b9a596f | I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6ceda67 | I sit on the bed and kick off my shoes, and he kneels before me and takes the riding boots, holding one open for my bare foot. I hesitate; it is such an intimate gesture between a young woman and a man. His smiling upward glance tells me that he understands my hesitation but is ignoring it. I point my toe and he holds the boot, I slide my foot in and he pulls the boot over my calf. He takes the soft leather ties and fastens the boot, at my .. | intimacy love marriage-proposal richard-iii touching | Philippa Gregory | |
| bdc260f | God does not make the way smooth for those He loves. He sends hardships to try them. Those that God loves the best are those who suffer the worst. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0f5e255 | We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men. | fear history oppression religion witchhunt women-s-rights | Philippa Gregory | |
| cde1dae | Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born." | history life personhood women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 50254f1 | In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d5338b3 | I will make my own future, not predict it. I don't need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen. I throw the gold charm which is like a wedding ring up in the air and catch it before it falls. This is my choice. I don't need magic to reveal my desire. The enchantment is already done: I am in love; I am sworn to a man of earth; I am not going to give this man up. All I have to do is consider how we can stay together. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 8e5f577 | There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them? | power-of-words words | Mark Dunn | |
| 61e8ff4 | Hundreds of words await ostracism from our functional vocabularies: waltz and fizz and squeeze and booze and frozen pizza pie, frizzy and fuzzy and dizzy and duzzy, the visualization of emphyzeema-zapped Tarzans, wheezing and sneezing, holding glazed and anodized bazookas, seized by all the bizarrities of this zany zone we call home. Dazed or zombified citizens who recognize hazardous organizations of zealots in their hazy midst, too late -.. | z | Mark Dunn | |
| 70c2de4 | U" is gone. I suppose you're aware. The 1st aeiouy to go. Up until now the other graphemes were not aeiouys. When the aeiouys start to go, Ella, writing to you turns exponentially more grueling. I will not throw in the towel, though. I trust that you won't either. I truly relish our partnership." | Mark Dunn | ||
| fc60b21 | Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 127f176 | Mandatory community service" seemed like hypocrisy," | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d63a948 | Mr. Freeman thinks I need to find my feelings. How can I not find them? They are chewing me alive like an infestation of thoughts, shame, mistakes. I squeeze my eyes shut. Jeans that fit, that's a good start. I have to stay away from the closet, go to all my classes. I will make myself normal. Forget the rest of it | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 22fdf0a | Too much sleep is bad for your health, Matilda." She slipped a freshly made ball of butter into a stone crock. "It must be such a grippe, a sleeping sickness." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 237c855 | Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8dfab46 | I wish I were three feet tall and he could pick me up and he still had a beard and he wore cotton sweaters that felt soft on my cheek and I could cry it all away and I would wipe my tears on his shoulder and I could suck my thumb and suck the end of my ponytail and he wouldn't tell me only babies did that and he would rock me on the front porch with the wind coming clean from the north and he would sing nursery rhymes with made-up words lik.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8186318 | Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3ae5028 | One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an apple. I show the little plantseed to Ms. Keen. She gives me extra credit. David rolls his eyes. Biology is so cool. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| cea8077 | Our frog lies on her back. Waiting for a prince to come and princessify her with a smooch? I stand over her with my knife. Ms. Keen's voice fades to a mosquito whine. My throat closes off. It is hard to breathe. I put out my hand to steady myself against the table. David pins her froggy hands to the dissection tray. He spreads her froggy legs and pins her froggy feet. I have to slice open her belly. She doesn't say a word. She is already de.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1ca8bcf | thoughts hidden there? If she can, what will she do? Call the cops? Send me to the nuthouse? Do I want her to? I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head. Maybe I should wait until David Petrakis is a doctor, let him do it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a495f41 | I'm just going to pretend that a very good-smelling, incredibly warm stranger is sitting next to me, a harmless stranger. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| aa124e5 | I can't face the idea of riding home on a busful of sweaty, smiling teeth sucking up my oxygen. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 93e0f05 | How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let them know if I was good enough to go here? | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7f710b9 | It was the most eloquent silence I ever heard. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b7d544d | You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ff5ce4f | She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d072568 | Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black hole in his belly and from his mouth - surely enough blood for ten men, a sight horrid enough to make God Himself weep - and suddenly, his boots stopped running and his form stilled and then......Death caught him. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1c58a7d | This note about anatomy from me to you is for the remembering that after you speak after you shout your open mouth will breathe in the light for which you've hungered and your backbone will unfurl, until you can again dance to the beat of your steadfast heart. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 18508cf | I'm fighting the shock of having a guest in my room. I almost kick her out because it's going to hurt too much when my room is empty again. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 9ee54e6 | Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel. | catholic-church church gospel | Scott Hahn | |
| 8c29c1b | What did I learn that day in the sabha? All this time I'd believed in my power over my husbands. I'd believed that because they loved me they would do anything for me. But now I saw that though they did love me--as much perhaps as any man can love--there were other things they loved more. Their notions of honor, of loyalty toward each other, of reputation were more important to them than my suffering. They would avenge me later, yes, but on.. | women | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| b9c8a5d | Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret. | fiction immigrant-experience indian-authors mothers-and-daughters novel wisdom-quotes | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 88cd304 | I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| cfa811b | Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0fac929 | The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 043d879 | Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 74449b1 | The "eat" part was easy. The praying and loving were harder." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c7be579 | I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it." -- | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ff0e927 | The mind is a fathomless mystery. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a0191b7 | What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?" Sylvie said." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c6b3196 | Butter was plastered on to the roll with no regard for the hard labor of the cow | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 086da50 | As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow. | Kate Atkinson |