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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f952c5b | Just got to keep on keeping on | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1c6cd15 | Tiene algo de perturbador, evocar un recuerdo calido y que te deje completamente frio. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 80e808b | Most sows are repeatedly inseminated, brood after brood, till their bodies give way and they go to slaughter. But while they're still useful, they're made to nurse--strapped to their sides in a farrowing crate, legs apart, nipples exposed. Pigs are extremely smart, sociable creatures, and this forced assembly-line intimacy makes the nursing sows want to die. Which, as soon as they dry up, they do. Even the idea of this practice I find repul.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 10be31d | One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. | scissors | Gillian Flynn | |
| d59bc46 | I remember at one point starting a goofy story about a childhood field trip here, and I saw her eyes go blank, and I got secretly furious, spent ten minutes just winding myself up - because at this point of our marriage, I was so used to being angry with her, it felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesn't really feel as good as you think, but you can't quit grinding away. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3065dc9 | I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e10a740 | It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative...we were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firs.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0ec4bb9 | I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1dfae17 | What can I say about a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| bacf341 | She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 13d49cb | Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing. Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and average-ness, and I hated myself for it, and ultimately, I realized, I punished her for it. I turned her into the brittle, prickly thing she became. I had pretended to be one kind of man and revealed myself to be quite another. Worse, I convinced myself .. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e30f705 | My husband is the most loyal man on the planet until he's not. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 442f828 | We had spent years battling for control of our marriage, of our love story, our life story. I had been thoroughly, finally outplayed. I created a manuscript, and she created a life. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4c36177 | I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f2ef9f2 | Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us. | Joan Didion | ||
| 594accd | I liked it all, but most of all I liked the fact that although the play was entirely focused on Quintana there were, five evenings and two afternoons a week, these ninety full minutes, the run time of the play, during which she did not need to be dead. During which the question remained open. During which the denouement had yet to play out. During which the last scene played did not necessarily need to be played in the ICU overlooking the E.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 31b3503 | Janis Joplin is singing with Big Brother in the Panhandle and almost everybody is high and it is a pretty nice Sunday afternoon. | Joan Didion | ||
| db29d70 | You talk crazy any more and I'll leave. Leave. For Christ's sake leave. She would not take her eyes from the dry wash. All right. Don't, he would say then. Don't. Why do you say those things. Why do you fight. He would sit on the bed and put his head in his hands. To find out if you're alive. | Joan Didion | ||
| c019e48 | One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they had bloodied their land with history. In California we did not believe that history could bloody the land, or even touch it. | Joan Didion | ||
| 792350f | To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting up the sins of commission and omission, the trusts betrayed, the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice or carelessness. However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously uncomfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 0fa7317 | The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution... In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. | Joan Didion | ||
| 51da757 | Once she was born, I was never not afraid. | Joan Didion | ||
| 25db4cf | He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to drop words and whole sentences and still arrive at the cold conclusion. | Joan Didion | ||
| 88bbc71 | No one should ever be forced upon those in grief, and all over-emotional people, no matter how near or dear, should be barred absolutely. | Joan Didion | ||
| 361a9b8 | A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging. Wrong, I want to say. In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging. In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age. | fountain-of-youth | Joan Didion | |
| a0e2cec | here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself. | Joan Didion | ||
| eec6e16 | I cannot count the days on which I found myself driving abruptly blinded by tears. | Joan Didion | ||
| db48d3f | I've made my nothing, and now I've got to live in it. | Paul Auster | ||
| cdf410e | When she was three, I sent her to day care for a couple of hours every morning. After a few weeks, the teacher called me and said that she was worried about Lucy. When it was time for the children to have their milk, Lucy would always hang back until all the other kids had taken a carton before she'd take one for herself. The teacher didn't understand. Go get your milk, she'd say to Lucy, but Lucy would always wait around until there was ju.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 9698fb4 | The best thing about being fifteen is that you don't have to be fifteen for more than a year. | Paul Auster | ||
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| 2f4d9c2 | I chanced upon these words from a letter by Van Gogh: "Like everyone else, I feel the need of family and friendship, affection and friendly intercourse. I am not made of iron, like a hydrant or a lamp post. Perhaps this is what really counts: to arrive at the core of human feeling, in spite of the evidence." | friendship | Paul Auster | |
| 919feeb | You realize now that she turned to you as a form of consolation, to give her life a meaning and a purpose it was otherwise lacking. You were the beneficiary of her unhappiness, and you were well loved, especially well loved, without question deeply loved. That first of all, that above and beyond everything else there might be to say: she was an ardent and dedicated mother to you during your infancy and early childhood, and whatever is good .. | Paul Auster | ||
| 341979f | b`d wf@ wldtk wtHt t'thyr lwysky ws`t Twyl@ mn lshr. byn lSHw wlnwm tdrk b'nk lm tsh`r bmthl hdh lsw mn qbl, jsdk lm y`d ljsm ldhy tmlkh, hdh lsh`wr lGry'by, b'nk Durbt bmy'@ mTrq@ khshby@. wsHbtk lkhywl lmy't l'myl `l~ Tryq mly blHjr wlSbr, thm tDlt l~ Gbr b`d DGTk bmkyn@ Dkhm@. dmk Grq fy lkHwl Ht~ 'nk tshmWh mn msmtk. ry'H@ lmkn Hwlk, nfsk lqdhr@. twdW lw 'mknk ltnzl `n `shr@ '`wm mn `mrk. ky tdhhb fy Gfw@ Twyl@. | Paul Auster | ||
| f703449 | A broken heart doesn't care if you run from it or not. Either way you take it with you. | Anthony Flacco | ||
| 961651e | One's salvation could only be brought about through his own efforts. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| e0fd17a | Financial capital - the wherewithal for mass marketing - has steadily replaced social capital - that is, grassroots citizen networks - as the coin of the realm. | Robert D. Putnam | ||
| 766a5e2 | Imagination is the life force of the genius code. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5e3aa0f | Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering,--in the hope that some one, no matter who, may find a solution of one of the pending great problems,--and each succeeding day we return to our task with renewed ardor; and even if we are unsuccessful, our work has not been in vain, for in these strivings, in these efforts, we have found hours of untold pleasure, and we have directed our energies to the benefit of mankind. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 589be32 | The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| d633406 | I wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes on female teachers or her cousin were more real than the other girls' crushes. Hers contained a desire beyond sweetness and attention, it fed a longing, beginning to flower green and yellow into a crocuslike lust, the soft petals opening into her awkward adolescence. It was not so much, she would write in her jou.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| d20cc56 | By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that by sharing such things I might be able to avoid them or, if need be, recognize them when they occurred. By talking about them to her children, she was also acknowledging that they were real and that they had an effect on us too, that things like this shaped a family, not just the person they happened to. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 68eeaf0 | She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 6d7f6db | So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. | Alice Sebold |