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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| adddc57 | After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one. | ideas | Miranda July | |
| 2424089 | You know what? Forget what I just said. You're already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living. | Miranda July | ||
| 08d7020 | It was a new experience to walk across the city in tiny shorts and a half shirt... I often felt that I would be shot in the back with an arrow or gun, but this didn't happen. The world wasn't safer than I had thought; on the contrary, it was so dangerous that my practically naked self fit right in, like a car crash, it happened every day. | Miranda July | ||
| 5de7bb4 | I typed "royal family" into a dream-interpretation website, but they didn't have that in their database, so then I typed "butt" and hit "interpret," and this came back: To see your buttocks in your dream represents your instincts and urges. It also said: To dream that your buttocks are misshapen suggests undeveloped or wounded aspects of your psyche. But my butt was shaped all right, so that let me know my psyche was developed, and the firs.. | Miranda July | ||
| fa5f64c | Will you date me when I ask you out? it asked. Yes. Even if I'm ugly and you don't like my personality? Yes. No, you won't. I will! You're just saying that because you're in a hurry. Well, it won't be my fault if I miss the bus. Goodbye, sweetness. Bye! Where's my backpack? It's on the counter. Oh. Bye! | Miranda July | ||
| ba1a672 | Was everything redneck actually mystical? | Miranda July | ||
| 90168bf | Se anche ci capitasse d'incontrare Geova, o Allah, o Visnu, io continuerei a basarmi sulla seconda legge della termodinamica. | James Tiptree Jr. | ||
| 7c52fd0 | Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta. | sleep | James Tiptree Jr. | |
| d66b141 | What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside. 'She's royalty!' "And a vampire, remember?" 'Oh yeah,' Chloe paused. 'Nope, princess trumps vampire." -- | drake-chronicles hunter princess solange vampire | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 88377f7 | Me own mam saw things," he said, looking at the fire as if she might be there behind it. "And they always came true. She didn't say anything about spirits. She just called it the Second Sight. Said it was hereditary and dangerous sometimes,if you didn't take care." "Do you have it? Do you see things?" He shook his head. "Colin." If he thought I was going to be fobbed off with a vague reply, the day's events had clearly addled his wits. He h.. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| acc3bdd | The sound of carriage wheels and horses was faint,seeming more distant than they actually were. Drops of water clung to the wool of my dress and my cloak, the men dragging in the grass. We were in a soft cocoon.It might have been romantic. If it wasn't for all the dead bodies. And the faint scratch of a footstep. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 6f4c767 | Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own? | hatred | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| c9361e5 | The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him. | Donna Woolfolk Cross | ||
| 6d078b4 | But nothing could be held true for the rest of one's life, every coveted thing in the end was maya, illusion, a myth, and this the great sages of India had always understood --- little was real. We were put on this earth transitorily; we deposited our genes in offspring; deluded ourselves that we would be missed when we were gone; pretended that money, wealth, titles, and land were to be desired. But every such thing was ephemeral, prone to.. | Indu Sundaresan | ||
| d66bc20 | Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itse.. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 7381d48 | Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. -- Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library" -- | books creating library writers writing | Phillip Lopate | |
| 2f5470a | Monsters exist," wrote Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. "But they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are . . . the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 5fb286d | At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticis.. | eroticism marriage passion pleasure sexuality | Esther Perel | |
| ba3ba6d | The shift from shame to guilt is crucial. Shame is a state of of self-absorption, while guilt is an emphatic, relational response, inspired by the hurt you have caused another. | Esther Perel | ||
| 4ad7525 | If we think of eroticism not as sex per se, but as a vibrant, creative energy, it's easy to see that Stephanie's erotic pulse is alive and well. But her eroticism no longer revolves around her husband. Instead, it's been channeled to her children. There are regular playdates for Jake but only three dates a year for Stephanie and Warren: two birthdays, hers and his, and one anniversary. There is the latest in kids' fashion for Sophia, but on.. | Esther Perel | ||
| 549ffe1 | Bannon added that Trump had another advantage. He spoke in a voice that did not sound political. This was what Barack Obama had in 2008 in the primary contest against Clinton, who spoke like the trained politician she was. Her tempo was overly practiced. Even when telling the truth, she sounded like she was lying to you. Politicians like Hillary can't talk naturally, Bannon said. It was a mechanical way of speaking, right out of the polling.. | Bob Woodward | ||
| f8de0f7 | Cohn and Porter worked together to derail what they believed were Trump's most impulsive and dangerous orders. That document and others like it just disappeared. When Trump had a draft on his desk to proofread, Cohn at times would just yank it, and the president would forget about it. But if it was on his desk, he'd sign it. "It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said privately. "It's what we saved him from doing." | trump white-house | Bob Woodward | |
| 78d2c5a | Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction. | Bob Woodward | ||
| fa42e0e | When Trump called Mexicans "rapists" in the speech announcing his candidacy on June 16, 2015, Priebus called him and said, "You can't talk like that. We've been working really hard to win over Hispanics." | hispanics | Bob Woodward | |
| 1288f4b | When I visited , in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about . During the course of the conversation, he told me that had made a tremendous impression upon him, and had exercised an influence upon him probably greater than that of any other man. He seemed particularly anxious to impress me with the importance of 's influence upon his intellectual endeavors and acc.. | darkness debt fear george-b-shaw george-bernard-shaw george-shaw greatness honor ignorance influence ingersoll praise respect robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll shaw superstition wisdom | Joseph Lewis | |
| 6362c97 | As Osama bin Laden puts it: "In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between two superpowers--the United States and the Soviet Union. Now we have defeated and destroyed the more difficult and the more dangerous of the two. Dealing with the pampered and effeminate Americans will be easy." | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 5807324 | The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain. | marines military pain war | Philip Caputo | |
| 447fd43 | Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| fc63b33 | Delight is delice, delit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are.... | forbidden-fruit french sin | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 77681e4 | All families are silly in their own way. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 2367ea0 | I may plan to make Christ the center of Christmas, but when I wait until December to focus on celebrating His birthday, I become entangled in Christmas lights, holiday baking, and festive engagements, often wondering if I've experienced the illusive "true meaning" of Christmas." | christmas inspirational | Ann Marie Stewart | |
| 1ada420 | Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body. | myth | Mary Stewart | |
| 6d7dbed | Oh, hell." He landed beside me, soft-footed on the pine needles. "This is beginning to have all the elements of a farce, isn't it? Too many villains, and nothing to tie them up with." -- | Mary Stewart | ||
| cae70e9 | I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand. | nature paranormal spirit | Mary Stewart | |
| 9ae8cb7 | It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 78ab7b3 | The "some college," "four-year college graduate," and "no college" types who have high incomes often had a head start on many well-educated workers." | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| e0dcea6 | The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d82fc88 | The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way. | hell paradise | Rebecca Solnit | |
| a68eb2d | Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time. | explore silence solitude time travel wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| fa7cb4f | As it happens, there are many reasons why I don't have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I've done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I'm no.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a9b5f9c | I made my first home there and had been happy, because to be alienated in one's own country, in one's own hometown, among one's kin and peers, was problematic, but nothing could be more natural than to be alienated in a foreign country, and so there I had at last naturalized my estrangement. This may be one of the underappreciated pleasures of travel: of being at last legitimately lost and confused. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 5b7547e | Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that it.. | page-286 walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c6ede1d | Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone. | vocation writing | Rebecca Solnit | |
| ef08853 | Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be? | revolution | Rebecca Solnit |