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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a7c7135 | He had lived his life as a good father but now Oscar Mendoza saw again his life as a boy. A daughter was a battle between fathers and boys in which the fathers fought valiantly and always lost. He knew that one by one each of his daughter would be lost, either honorably in the ceremony of marriage or, realistically, in a car pointed out towards the ocean well after dark. In his day, Oscar himself had made too many girls forget their better .. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 0165fbc | You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. | Ann Patchett | ||
| dce8ee4 | I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my grandmother protected. What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things. I had a language in which to consider beauty. Later that extended to the opera, to the ballet, to architecture I saw, and even later still I came to realize that what I had seen in the paintings I could see in the fields or a river. I could see it in people. All of that I attribut.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| af85d76 | Well, you can't tell it from looking at him....It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. | Ann Patchett | ||
| b0ebaac | but over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then the coming together again, that we find our own identity and define our relationships. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6b948ba | Only now, as I'm typing this, have I realized the only thing I wasn't thinking of was how lonely I was. I guess I was my old self for awhile there, my better self. Lately I've been completely obsessed by my loneliness: it colors (note I didn't say colours) everything I see these past few weeks. It's okay to be lonely, I know that, but I don't like the way it's become the thing by which I measure everything else. I can't seem to try to not b.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 4e8917b | The impressions we pick up as children, when our minds are still open to influence and as soft as damp sponges, are likely to stay with us the longest. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 3976eed | The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write--and many of the people who do write--get lost. | Ann Patchett | ||
| d3a28a9 | People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage | Ann Patchett | ||
| 942f6fa | Never be so focused on what you are looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6c4ddbc | No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had opened her mouth to sing. Found her radiant, as if her talent could not be contained in her voice and so poured like light though her skin. Then all that could be seen was the weight and the gloss of her hair and the pale pink of her cheeks and her beautiful hands. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 1b783ca | Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 2039509 | The truth is nobody here is as stupid or evil as I let on. Except me. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e1a2bf0 | Give me a complete late-stage revision of my adult life. Flash. Give me anything in this whole fucking world that is exactly what it looks like! Flash. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3552390 | Mozhe bi chovek ne otiva v ada za onova, koeto e storil, kazva glas't v glavata mi. Mozhe bi otivash v ada zaradi tova, koeto ne si napravil. Za neshchata, koito ne si dovel dokrai. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a6404ea | WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c27502c | actual happiness only happens by accident | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d7f8c83 | Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is the insomnia. Try to relax a little more with every breath out, but your heart's still racing and your thoughts tornado in your head. Nothing works. Not guided meditation. You're in Ireland. Not counting sheep. You count up the days, hours, minutes since you can remember falling asleep. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0aa717d | Grace says, "We all die." She says, "The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." -- | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4650ffc | El futuro que tendras manana no es el mismo futuro que tenias ayer. | palahniuk rant | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 3a6c0d7 | You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 07cd231 | I stepped into the back of a cab and simply told the driver, "Follow the blue Christmas tree..." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 42b2068 | Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e96adbe | They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost. | fiction | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| d7860f4 | Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass." | dogs | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| c91aa62 | lw stT`t 'n SHw fy mkn nkhtlf wfy wqt mkhtlf , fhl bws`y 'n 'SHw kshkhS mkhtlf ? | novel place | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 8fa29d9 | When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn't talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you'd never notice. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1b05419 | You're a product of our language", Brandy says, "and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you" she says. "Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2cf927c | The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aa74c95 | No one sleeps in Hell except as a possible defensive posture in retaliation during yet another punitive presentation of The English Patient. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d0041d4 | Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the outcasts will crouch for days to observe the mating habits of a salamander. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b3762d6 | the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ffbe035 | One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1135fd9 | Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f1a1128 | You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard--something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it's been relocated miles away. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| da8f87e | I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 01b86af | I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aa637cc | The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 219e069 | Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and ene.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 58669f4 | The first group I went to, there were introductions: this is Alice, this is Brenda, this is Dover. Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b3c951a | This is better than real life. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6d0766d | Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't dying the way Chloe was dying. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3d49e20 | Give me attention. Flash. Give me beauty. Flash. Give me peace and happiness, a loving relationship, and a perfect home. Flash. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1ef8405 | I'm not so much a good friend as I am the saviour who wants you to worship him forever. | Chuck Palahniuk |