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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f0adab | I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me. | beauty mockery | Katherine Paterson | |
| 31ee3c5 | How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page? | inspiration | Katherine Paterson | |
| 3ac6b96 | Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| b902999 | Su corazon era un castillo de purpura situado en un pedregoso desierto, oculto tras las dunas y rodeado de un oasis pantanoso y de siete murallas de piedra. Solo volando se podia acceder a el. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| e205e36 | El terror que ahora le atenazaba era el de ignorar algo de si mismo y se trataba de una especie opuesta a la anterior, ya que de este no podia escapar, sino que debia hacerle frente. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 364963d | aquel sentimiento que suele calificarse de tolerancia: una tibia mezcla de asco, desprecio y compasion. El hombre ya no le conmovia. Le resultaba indiferente. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 54b09d8 | Benim neye ihtiyacim var, biliyor musunuz? Bana hep, ele geciremeyecegim bir kadin gerek. Ama "onu" ele geciremedigime gore, kadina da ihtiyacim yok demektir." | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 0487fe7 | Se pare ca fiece individ in parte intelege iubirea drept ceva care-l priveste in modul cel mai personal, ca pe o chestiune de cea mai mare insemnatate pentru existenta sa, astfel incat nici macar astrofizicianului, atunci cand i s-au aprins calcaiele, nu-i mai pasa catusi de putin de originea universului - daramite de vremea de-afara. | moarte | Patrick Süskind | |
| 38692fc | Cet homme paraissait etre tellement fatigue de sa vie qu'il ne voulait meme pas vivre ses dernieres heures eveille. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 79b781d | This is the final book about Brian | Gary Paulsen | ||
| d2c007e | Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life. | diligence life | Daniel Defoe | |
| a91d06c | If you have regard to your future happiness, any view of living comfortably with a husband, any hope of preserving your fortunes or restoring them after any disaster, never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 7a1a5a1 | What is this earth and sea of which I have seen so much? Whence is it produced? And what am I and all the other creatures, wild and tame, humane and brutal? Whence are we? Sure we are all made by some secret power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky; and who is that? Then it followed most naturally, It is God that has made it all. Well, but then it came on strangely, if God has made all these things, He guides and governs them a.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 2280816 | But how just it has been! And how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience... | Daniel Defoe | ||
| fb193f4 | Man is a short-sighted creature, sees but a very little way before him; and as his passions are none of his best friends, so his particular affections are generally his worst counselors. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 3b1c9f1 | It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| a1dad07 | I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c441942 | That was when I learned that, in America, you don't reveal the ending of the movie, and if you do, you will be scorned and made to apologize profusely for having committed the sin of Spoiling the End. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| f97e703 | We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7bcd1f5 | of wrongdoing and rightdoing, | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bcd939b | 'ryd 'n 'r~ Hlm 'wld~ ytHqq, 'ryd 'n 'r~ lywm ldh~ syGdr fyh lswfyyt l~ bldhm mkllyn bl`r, lywm ldh~ ySn` lmjhdwn lnSr l~ kbwl. 'ryd 'n 'kwn hnk `ndm yHdth dhlk, `ndm t`wd 'fGnstn Hr@, syr~ l'wld dhlk 'yDa, syrwnh mn khll `yn~W | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4e860c7 | knt lshwr` mmlw@ bljthth, wlzjj, w'kwm mn lqT` lm`dny@. kn hnk nhb, qtl, wbshkl mtzyd, lGtSb, wldh~ stkhdm ltrwy` lmdnyyn wmkf'@ lrjl lmylyshyt. sm`t mrym `n ns qtln 'nfshn khwf mn 'n yGtSbn, w`n rjl bsm lshrf, qtlw zwjthm 'w bnthm, dh GtSbn mn lmylyshyt. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 21c766b | Pustinnite bureni otseliavat, a proletnoto tsvete razts'fva i poviakhva. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bf39ffe | I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7386121 | She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0d111d6 | They say Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one your never had in mind. | time | Khaled Hosseini | |
| c9fe4fe | n lqSS klqTrt lmtHrk@ l yhm mn 'yn trkbh , l'nk stSl l~ Gytk ajl 'm `jl `l~ mtnh .. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8a534cd | I have heard it said we are the uninvited. We are the unwelcome. We should take our misfortune elsewhere. But I hear your mother's voice, over the tide. and she whispers in my ear, "Oh, but if they saw, my darling. Even half of what you have. If only they saw. They would say kinder things, surely." | refugees | Khaled Hosseini | |
| fd042b5 | Cuanto tiempo? - me pregunto Sohrab. -No lo se. Un poco. Sohrab se encogio de hombros y sonrio, una sonrisa mas ancha aquella vez. -No me importa. Puedo esperar. Es como las manzanas verdes. -?Las manzanas verdes? -Una vez, cuando era muy pequeno, trepe a un arbol y comi unas manzanas que aun estaban verdes. Se me hincho el estomago y se me puso duro como un tambor. Mi madre me dijo que si hubiese esperado a que madurasen, no me habrian sen.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 27d42d6 | She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. . She actually says this under her breath. . At that moment, she cannot think .. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 07e0ea6 | For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 43671f5 | Solo te permiten ser asi de feliz cuando estan preparandose para llevarse algo de ti. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8fcd941 | And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she would die this way. Now so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of legitimate beginnings. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 50f389d | But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2ee7deb | nh qdrn fy lHy@ y mrym , yjb `ly ns mthln ltHly blSbr | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1513116 | Where had they all gone to, he often pondered; those threads he had once held together, how far had they scattered, some to break, others to weave into unknown patterns? The strange randomness of the world beguiled him, that randomness which never would, so long as the world lasted, give meaning to those choruses again. | James Hilton | ||
| c39ea37 | It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away." -- | remarkable review story | James Hilton | |
| cdd6363 | When you are getting on in years it is nice to sit by the fire and drink a cup of tea and listen to the school bell sounding dinner, call-over, prep., and lights out. Chips always wound up the clock after that last bell; then he put the wire guard in front of the fire, turned out the gas, and carried a detective novel to bed. Rarely did he read more than a page of it before sleep came swiftly and peacefully, more like a mystic intensifying .. | James Hilton | ||
| b071a1c | It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the other that no sentence could seem wholly impersonal. There are times when the whole world is personal to a mood whose intensity seems a reason for all things. Words are of small moment when the mere sound of a voice makes an unreasonable joy. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a71c2fd | When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One | poison weakness | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| fb0ebf2 | stories belong to everybody. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ab10d54 | Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d68b0e0 | At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6e97664 | It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. | Frances Hodgson Burnett |