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| b5afb84 | Indeed, while experiences and information can be good teachers, there are many times in life where we simply cannot afford to learn on the job. You don't want to have to go through multiple marriages to learn how to be a good spouse. Or wait until your last child has grown to master parenthood. This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| a94dfdf | That's not the end of the world! This is the time to cut loose! To really learn about everything! To learn about guys, to really get to know them! Really find out what goes on in the world! You just have to let yourself fly for once, without constantly thinking about what you left behind on the ground! You're a genius. Everybody knows that. I'm being sincere, Charlotte. Totally. Now there's other things to learn, and this is the perfect tim.. | learn take-a-chance | Tom Wolfe | |
| 93a999a | It's great to be a part of the greatest jackoff in history. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 3759195 | I thought you didn't like staying after school." "I didn't at first, but I kind of like it now." "You do?" He nodded. "Miss Andrews makes me feel special." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7f2c66c | Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6414fb4 | It's about who walks into your life, says 'I'm here for you,' and then proves it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6d3036c | He just thinks that he wants to marry me. Brett is the kind of guy that likes a challenge, I'm a challenge. As long as I stay a challenge, he'll keep asking. And when I know he's really ready, that's when I'll say yes. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4e56d7a | I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| be28f19 | I'd have to swing by the house first to change into something more comfortable." "That's fine," he said. "I'm all for you changing into something more comfortable." "I'll bet you are," she said knowingly. "Now, don't start getting fresh," he said, feigning offense. "I don't think we know each other well enough for that." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 74b62ae | Marriages, both good and bad, were defined by repetition. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| db0c707 | What do you like most about being here?" "The quiet. When I'm here, no one asks me questions or asks me to do stuff. I can sit here and think." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e10ce4b | She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her, and love of her. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| faf3bde | Marianne laughed. But you can't disappoint me! I don't love you. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 899e47c | I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 5e3b510 | Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. | literature | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| a87baf0 | The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's business after all but her own, my uncle's face darkening with blood as he spoke, my mother's fair fine skin pink as if smarting yet still I persisted, for I thought it such a horror, such a grief, yes and an embarrassment too, I said, "She's made a prison of this house, it's like she's a nun, it must be to punish herself," and my mother sai.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| fdc74c1 | Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 5f932e3 | The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 85e8fe6 | The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes badly. And they had covered the distances. For most of the summer, they had been unattached. Nobody knew who they were or what they were doing. It didn't matter what they did, as long as they all stayed together. Dicey remembered that feeli.. | growing-up introspective poignant | Cynthia Voigt | |
| 169463b | Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 670c382 | People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 3b7a06e | Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation. | William Styron | ||
| 2aad4dc | It is evil to keep these people in bondage, yet they cannot be freed. They must be educated! To free these people without education and with the prejudice that presently exists against them would be a ghastly crime. | William Styron | ||
| 8448d02 | Most people in the grip of depression at its ghastliest are, for whatever reason, in a state of unrealistic hopelessness, torn by exaggerated ills and fatal threats that bear no resemblance to actuality. It may require on the part of friends, lovers, family, admirers, an almost religious devotion to persuade the sufferers of life's worth, which is so often in conflict with a sense of their own worthlessness, but such devotion has prevented .. | William Styron | ||
| c75283d | Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. I could not have made it through those evenings otherwise. | William Styron | ||
| a018fee | Maybe that's the key to happiness--being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers. | William Styron | ||
| 88ec90f | Feel! Feel, feel, feel! Feelings were disrupting my sense of well-being. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| ad87528 | Another world, another life, proximate but inaccessible. The elusive . . . Sat-is-fac-tion. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 8ebb4a7 | I never drink coffee after 3.48 p.m. It interferes with sleep. Caffeine has a half-life of three to four hours, so it's irresponsible serving coffee at 7.00 p.m. unless people are planning to stay awake until after midnight. Which doesn't allow adequate sleep if they have a conventional job. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 8e736d8 | I took her in the standard jive hold that I had practised on the skeleton, and immediately felt the awkwardness, approaching revulsion, that I feel when forced into intimate contact with another human. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 1e82d45 | I was feeling overwhelmed. Meeting Bianca, dancing, rejection by Bianca, social overload, discussion of personal matters--now, just when I thought the ordeal was over, Rosie seemed to be proposing more conversation. I was not sure I could cope. 'It's extremely late,' I said. I was sure this was a socially acceptable way of saying that I wanted to go home. 'The taxi fares go down again in the morning.' If I understood correctly, I was now de.. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 589bb17 | I would normally have scheduled my driving time according to published studies on fatigue and booked accommodation accordingly. But I had been too busy to plan. Nevertheless, I stopped for rest breaks every two hours and found myself able to maintain concentration. At 11.43 p.m., I detected tiredness, but rather than sleep I stopped at a service station, refuelled, and ordered four double espressos. I opened the sunroof and turned up the CD.. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 6af5f7c | What are the symptoms of being fucked-up?' 'I've got crap in my life that I wish I hadn't. And I'm not good at dealing with it. Am I making sense? | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 314e073 | It was odd, paradoxical-crazy-that what Rosie seemed to value most about me, a highly organized person who avoided uncertainty and liked to plan in detail, was that my behavior generated unpredictable consequences. But if that was what she loved, I was not going to argue. What I was going to argue was that she should not abandon something she valued. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 747fb2e | In marriage reason frequently had to take second place to Harmony | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 3c0c187 | Keepers and Seekers were not permitted to do more than trim their hair to elbow length. Ashyn said they ought to be grateful they weren't like the spirit talkers, who weren't ever allowed to cut their hair or their nails. Personally, Moria would be more concerned with the "eyes plucked out, tongue cut off, and nostrils seared" part of being a spirit talker, but she could see that the uncut nails might be inconvenient as well." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 3d44799 | Also, the killing of small animals is the entrance ramp onto the serial killer superhighway. Damn. I bet the cat knows that. He picked me because I can't hurt him, or I'd be fulfilling my biological destiny. So I'm screwed. The cat stays. Unless you'll kill him...How does fifty bucks sound? | killing-the-cat oliva serial-killers | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 853d5e3 | He rewarded her flower with a twitch of a smile, and she began to relax. This was the Gavril she knew. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 57a1257 | Clearly it was time to consider rescheduling that optometrist appointment I'd missed last fall. | otherworld | Kelley Armstrong | |
| e51b78f | Mr. Walsh?" a woman's voice said. "Can I get a comment, Mr. Walsh?" "That's not about me, is it?" I said. "No, my client. He's on trial for killing his business partner and dissolving him in quicklime. Which is ridiculous." "Uh-huh." "It is. Anyone in my client's line of work knows that quicklime is a very poor solvent. Chemical hydrolysis is the method of choice these days." | defense-lawyer gabriel murder-method reporter | Kelley Armstrong | |
| b977f45 | Don't grumble," I said. "Or I'll bake you more cookies." | gabriel olivia teasing | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 0ea7073 | Don't give me that look," I told the cat. "You've caught one mouse since you've been here. And what do you get in return? Food, shelter, and a human servant to clean up your shit. You didn't even warn me when someone was at the door." "Because his sixth sense tells him I can be trusted." "Then his sixth sense is broken." | gabriel humor olivia pet-talk sixth-sense | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 49b2899 | When I hung up, Gabriel said, "Now you're going out that--" "I'm not leaving you." "Don't be stupid. I have a gun." He reached into his pocket and pulled out the .45. "Which will knock you on your ass if you try firing with a bad leg. Sit down before you fall." "I'm--" "Sit down." I walked to the door and peered out. If I strained, I could hear footsteps above. Anderson would search the other rooms first. Then he'd come down here. When I re.. | kelley-armstrong omens | Kelley Armstrong | |
| b73cb35 | I understood that now. I wished I could have understood it then. I wished I could have said something in that last moment, before he let go. He'd told me it was okay. His last words to me. Why couldn't they have been my last words to him? | rafe-martinez | Kelley Armstrong |