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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a5b80b | It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while....But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportat.. | Yann Martel | ||
| ea74f04 | You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. | life | Yann Martel | |
| fa926f0 | Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar--the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved. | Yann Martel | ||
| ab1680e | We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat destruction, but we do tend to shelter them from excessive irony. | Yann Martel | ||
| 0a20be9 | fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life...you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. | Yann Martel | ||
| 18ff947 | We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be. | Yann Martel | ||
| 563da28 | That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support. | Yann Martel | ||
| 43ba43b | Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone. | Yann Martel | ||
| a54c8f2 | ymkn 'n y`td lmr `l~ 'y shy, bm fy dhlk lqtl. | Yann Martel | ||
| b3da503 | I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic. | Yann Martel | ||
| 0c944d1 | He showed his daughter how to use cushions to vary his position and relieve the monotony of pressure that corrupts the flesh, but he made her leave the room for all those tasks which would normally fall to the lot of a woman, and which show the greatest love. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| bdd52e0 | What do you learn at school, then?" "We learn about the Prophet and his three hundred authenticated miracles,and about Abraham and Isaac and Jonah and Omar and Ali and Hind and Fatima and the saints, and sometimes the big battles of Saladin against the barbarians. And we recite the Holy Koran because we have to learn al-Fatihah by heart." "What's that?" "It's the beginning." "What's it like?" Karatavuk closed his eyes and recited:'Bismillah.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 4e03a4e | As vezes a distancia nao conta, pensou, as vezes reduz-se ao silencio breve que espaca as batidas de um coracao. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| db9a520 | Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 0029534 | Love isn't truly the body. Love is freedom to roam the heart and mind of the beloved. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 3294a47 | And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 087d85d | MR JEAVONS SAID THAT I liked maths because it was safe. He said I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting, but there was always a straightforward answer at the end. And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers at the end. I know he meant this because this is what he said. This is because Mr Jeavons doesn't understand numbers. H.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 3b54f76 | Some people think the Milky Way is a long line of stars, but it isn't. Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 0ce4254 | It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time. | Mark Haddon | ||
| b47cbf8 | And it was exactly like having flu that time because I wanted it to stop, like you can just pull the plug of a computer out of the wall if it crashes, because I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn't go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and hurt. | Mark Haddon | ||
| bf61e2d | People think computers are different from people because they don't have minds, even though, in the Turing test, computers can have conversations with people about the weather and wine and what Italy is like, and they can even tell jokes. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 9496f08 | I find people confusing. This is for two main reasons. The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you just said was very stupid." Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose, it can mean that you are .. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 1a2462e | And when I am in a new place, because I see everything, it is like when a computer is doing too many things at the same time and the central processor unit is blocked up and there isn't any space left to think about other things. And when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is even harder because people are not like cows and flowers and grass and they can talk to you and do things that you don't expect, so you have to .. | going-out people thinking | Mark Haddon | |
| 3f914fe | Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 63dec20 | This is how we leave the world, with the heart weeping, and the hope that distance brings the solving wonder of one last clear view before that long sleep about the weather's changes | Mark Haddon | ||
| 370b295 | Her room felt wonderful to her, as usual. She looked around with satisfaction... She imagined to herself that she would always live this way, even after she had grown up and moved away from her family. She planned to have exactly the same room wherever she was, because this room was her. No matter what happened out there in the rest of the world, she felt totally comfortable once she got into this room and closed the door. | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 189200d | Harriet: How do you practice being an onion? | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| db2fffc | The people you love are just weapons used against you. | heir-of-fire rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f20c0d8 | Love doesn't mean anything if you are not willing ta make a commitment | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9aedd89 | We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 47ad956 | She had opinions about everything, and she wasn't afraid to share them. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 99e0704 | There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. | inspirational life love soul the-notebook | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 44016ab | It is but it's also true. Long term relationships - the ones that matter - are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. And you are still thinking long term, right? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6537443 | I'm so sorry... just please... stay. Just tell me the truth, just tell me what happened. I don't care, I'm not going to let him hurt you anymore. Listen to me, I'm in love with you. If you stay I promise there's no safer place in the world than with me. You don't have to be scared... I love you... please stay. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e8f0b10 | to do with his natural exuberance | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f78ffa8 | She paused, as if trying to organize her chaotic thoughts. "I didn't want to fall in love with anyone," she said. "I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess. I know it's different, but you'll be leaving in just a few days and all this will be over... and I'll be a mess again." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 53108e7 | Theresa, remember - you've got nothing to lose. The worst that could possibly happen is that you fly home in a couple of days. That's all. You're not going on a quest to search for a tribe of cannibals. You're just going to find out if your curiosity was warranted. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 188f900 | They're beautiful. How did you know I loved roses?" "I didn't, but I've never heard of a woman who didn't, so I took a chance." She smiled. "So you send lots of women roses?" "Millions. I have a lot of fans. Dive instructors are almost like movie stars, you know." "They are, huh?" "You mean you didn't know? And here I thought you were just another groupie." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6c993da | What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God's presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9ee0b78 | Como e que sabes que era amor? Bem, sabe-se que e amor quando tudo o que nos apetece fazer e estar com a outra pessoa, e sabemos mais ou menos que a outra pessoa sente o mesmo. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 307b4ff | I love you, Sophia. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f4a6fc2 | My Dearest, Can you forgive me? In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. You, my darling, are the wind that I did not anticipate, the wind that has gusted more strongly than I ever imagined possible.. | nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 80fb9cd | I don't know you? Hell, I know you! You're a damn coward, is what you are! You're afraid of living because you think it means giving up this cross you've been carrying around your whole life. But this time, you've gone too far. You think you're the only one in the world with feelings? You think you'll just walk away from Denise and everything's going to go back to normal now? You think you'll be happier? You won't Taylor, You won't let your.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 46b10fa | the power to remind us that there are times when destiny and love collide. | Nicholas Sparks |