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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 662be8b | The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a429a86 | He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist. | realization thoughts worry | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 3b89ad2 | They say that when we sleep our sub-conscious selves are revealed, our hidden thoughts and desires are written plain upon our features and our bodies like the tracings of rivers on a map; and no one reads them but the darkness. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| e33b941 | And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 86bd1d3 | It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. This was what I had done. I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage .. | shyness truth | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 4c72ae9 | In 1942 the Germans sent a spy called Eppler into Cairo before the battle of El Alamein. He used a copy of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca as a code book to send messages back to Rommel on troop movements. Listen, the book became bedside reading with British Intelligence. Even I read it. | Michael Ondaatje | ||
| 3e19159 | Then all at once she turned to me, her face pale, her eyes strangely alight. She said, "Is it possible to love someone so much, that it gives one a pleasure to hurt them? To hurt them by jealousy, I mean, and to hurt myself at the same time. Pleasure and pain, an equal mingling of pleasure and pain, just as an experiment, a rare sensation?" | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| ced1483 | No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem Merlyn was a man, and she was a woman, and whether it was his hands or his skin or his smile she did not know, but something inside her responded to him, and the very thought of him was an irritant and a stimulant at the same time. It nagged at her and would not let her be. | romance | Daphne du Maurier | |
| ebcdc81 | I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us. And I have been alive, who was never alive before. | love | Daphne du Maurier | |
| c765b4b | A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And just as lives don't stay still, so life-writing can't be fixed and finalised. Our ideas are shifting about what can be said, our knowledge of human character is changing. The biographer has to pioneer, going 'ahead of the rest of us, like the miner's canary, testing the atmosphere, detecting falsity, unreality, and the presence of obsole.. | life woolf | Hermione Lee | |
| 73f3c5d | With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth--temporal--dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. | longitude longitude-act marine-chronometer marine-clock | Dava Sobel | |
| d2d9d78 | Regardless of who leads it, the professional-class liberalism I have been describing in these pages seems to be forever traveling on a quest for some place of greater righteousness. It is always engaged in a search for some subject of overwhelming, noncontroversial goodness with which it can identify itself and under whose umbrella of virtue it can put across its self-interested class program. There have been many other virtue-objects over .. | Thomas Frank | ||
| 4c0d0b6 | It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line." | democrats politics republicans | Mark Halperin | |
| d89bf5c | The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a group of former Confederate soldiers; its first grand wizard was a Confederate general who was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. The Klan soon spread beyond the South to the Midwest and the West and became, in the words of historian Eric Foner, "the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party." The main point of the Klan's orgy of violence was to preven.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| efb6a24 | They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug | foreign immigration london lost society | Monica Ali | |
| 02adb25 | Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her. | Monica Ali | ||
| 1c12944 | The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity. | Monica Ali | ||
| 4805e8e | Writing was the solution to every problem--financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave me an excuse to go places I would otherwise be unlikely to venture. It satisfied the edict my mother had issued many times throughout my life: "You have to make your own living; you never want to be dependent on a man." | Ariel Levy | ||
| 64a64bd | THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided." | James Salter | ||
| 41a4e2f | Suddenly I like him. Cristina can't take her eyes away. She asks when he was born, and it turns out he's a Sagittarius which is a very good sign. 'Really?' 'It's one of the best for me,' she says. 'Scorpio is the worst. | James Salter | ||
| 08185af | But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun. | James Salter | ||
| bd2355d | Love must wait; it must break one's bones. | James Salter | ||
| 7d97e84 | As Rilke says, there are no classes for beginners in life, the most difficult thing is always asked of one right away. | James Salter | ||
| 27e9233 | Watson, Deep Blue, and ever-better machine learning algorithms are cool. But the most valuable companies in the future won't ask what problems can be solved with computers alone. Instead, they'll ask: how can computers help humans solve hard problems? | Peter Thiel | ||
| 308459e | You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity, in his stories of contemporary Police activities, and, with a disarming tongue in cheek, frankness. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| dfcbeb3 | Asi de fragil es la vida de una generacion en una nave espacial: el peso de nuestra existencia se basa en un motor roto. | Beth Revis | ||
| 30b772b | I guess when someone's gone from your life for a while, all you think about are the big things. The big regrets, the could-have, should-haves. Or the big moments, the memories that are going to be with you forever, those life-changing moments, like first kisses and first confessions and first trusts. And you think about the lasts too: the last kiss, the last words, the last moments. | Beth Revis | ||
| 511e354 | I didn't realise how important the sky was until I didn't have one | science-fiction-ya science-fiction-young-adult | Beth Revis | |
| e97dda6 | It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us. | centauri-earth shades-of-earth | Beth Revis | |
| 3987a82 | Maybe I'm reading too much into this. It's probably nothing. But I've had "nothing" for too long, and I'm ready for . Anything." | Beth Revis | ||
| 7b7a22a | I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms. This room feels very large, and I feel very small. | Beth Revis | ||
| f8d2b66 | A splatter of rain on my skin, but its bright and sunny under the blue sky and Jason's there, and we almost kiss but everything changes and were at that party where we met. | Beth Revis | ||
| 071d994 | The jeers that had risen as Barak's and Greldik's ships had been manoeuvred onto their wheeled carriages turned rather quickly into angry mutterings as the carriages, pulled by teams of Algar horses, rolled effortlessly toward the escarpment past men straining with every ounce of strength to move their ships a few inches at a time. To leave it all to artistry, Barak and Greldik ordered their men to lounge indolently on the decks of their sh.. | David Eddings | ||
| 1440a40 | Being afraid was not the sort of thing that endangered life or limb, but it was still an injury of sorts - and sometimes a deeper and more serious kind of injury. | David Eddings | ||
| b3f8028 | A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut. | mouth secret shut-up silence | David Eddings | |
| 685c836 | Why do some trees stay green while others change their color?" "Certain trees need to show off, dear. I'm sure that my big brother could explain why it happens. Dahlaine loves to explain things, and he can be very tedious about it. I prefer simpler answers. The trees are sad because summer's almost over." | autumn-leaves forest mansplain mansplaining nature sexism trees | David Eddings | |
| 1f1c47e | Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked. "Not if I can avoid it, no." | growing-up inner-child | David Eddings | |
| c20c45f | Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options. | idea ideas options problem-solving solution solutions | David Eddings | |
| ece6b80 | Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security. | David Eddings | ||
| e890bc2 | Now there's something for you to think about. If you don't know that you can't do something, isn't there a remote possibility that you'll go ahead and do it anyway in absolute defiance of physical law? That might be one of the drawbacks of education. If you don't know that you can't pick yourself up by the scruff of the neck and hold yourself at arm's length, maybe you can. | David Eddings | ||
| c3ec443 | God is one and there is but one God -- all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand... | god | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| af07e97 | I suppose all societies adapt their morals to their needs. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 4d82c27 | For all the Gods are one God," she said to me then, as she had said many times before, and as I have said to my own novices many times, and as every priestess who comes after me will say again, "and all the Goddesses are one Goddess, and there is only one Initiator. And to every man his own truth, and the God within." -- | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 3cacd0a | If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life. | Marion Zimmer Bradley |