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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a1374a | He could hope for many things, though he had stopped doing so long ago. If one didn't hope, then disappointment didn't visit. Hoping meant you had somehting to live for, and living for something or someone else was asking for pain. -Nik | Lora Leigh | ||
| 79f37b5 | This isn't a game we're playing between ourselves," he continued. "Don't pretend that it is." "Isn't it?" A challenge flared in her eyes, like fire inside the purest emerald. "Don't lie to me, John. Don't pretend it's any more than it really is. It's a job. One we're both determined to complete, nothing more." "Like hell." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 5a11c5c | Oh, he was insane all right. There was no doubt in her mind now that he was bat-shit crazy. | Lora Leigh | ||
| ccb1582 | No" she jerked back, stared up at him. Her eyes were like thunderclouds. He'd never seen them like that. Shock and fear filled them. Her face was paper white. Her body shuddering. "Don't you leave me!" She gripped his shirt and tried to shake him, tears falling from her eyes. "Don't you leave Noah." His head lowered. He touched her lips with his and knew this woman held the best part of him. The memories of the husband he had been, the man .. | broken-hearted impossible-love leaving nathan-malone noah-blake sabella | Lora Leigh | |
| 9a63d2c | You amaze me," he said then, reaching out to lay the toy on her pillow. That wasn't where he had gotten it from. "You bring a toy to do a man's job, knowing the man is more than willing to provide the service. Where does that make sense, Chay?" | Lora Leigh | ||
| 8041d9d | Jesus' life and ministry consistently reveal the humble character of a servant. Though he rightfully owned the entire cosmos, he, by choice, had no place to lay his head (Matt. 8:20). Though he rightfully should have been honored by the world's most esteemed dignitaries, he chose to fellowship with tax collectors, drunkards, prostitutes, and other socially unacceptable sinners (Matt. 11:19; Mark 2:15; Luke 5:29-30; 15:1; cf. Luke 7:31-50). .. | Gregory A. Boyd | ||
| 98b037c | You can always tell God how you feel and ask for His help and strength, but talking about negative feelings just to be talking does no good at all. The Bible instructs us not to speak with idle (inoperative, nonworking) words (see Matt. 12:36). If negative feelings persist, asking for prayer or seeking advice is a good thing, but once again I want to stress that talking just to be talking is useless. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 3918000 | The mind is the battlefield. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 1a505a8 | All of us have the privilege and responsibility of choosing our attitudes, no matter what circumstances or situations we find ourselves in. The key word here is choosing. Attitudes don't just happen; they are the products of our choices. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 6fe3c6c | Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others or position in life will keep us permanently secure. The outside approval we seek becomes an addiction. We work to get approval and it feels good for a short while; then we find that we need more and more. True freedom never comes until we fully realize that we don't need to struggle to get from others what God freely gives us: love, acceptance, approval, security, .. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 1c6614b | Proverbs 15:15: "All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances]." I realized at that time that most of my life had been made miserable by evil thoughts and forebodings. Yes, I had circumstances that were very difficult, but even when I didn't, I was still miserable because my thoughts were poisoning my outlook a.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 3a06faf | Staying angry at someone who has hurt you is like taking poison hoping that your enemy will die. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| a68ed7d | Lord, I need to see You and hear Your voice over and above the storms in my life. Help me to break free of anything that is holding me back from doing | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 24048d5 | You cannot have a negative mouth and a positive life. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 7c4682f | Is he going to- will he live?" "No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me." "Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay?" | Holly Black | ||
| 6ecb00b | I realize that," said Ms. Daniels. "Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough." | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 0328724 | This is the worst thing that will ever happen, I thought, and as I stared into Olivia's enormous green eyes, I knew she was thinking the same thing. This is the worst thing that will happen to us in our entire lives. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 2636a7f | Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides. | Muriel Spark | ||
| e2e4906 | Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| e02d572 | Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 49c4cd9 | Moon's too pretty fuh anybody tuh be sleepin' it away. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 0179f0b | For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. | man mind thinking thoughts woman | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| f6f6138 | Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships...pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her...She had found a jewel inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| a1ea805 | Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees. | quotable talking | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| d2b4d50 | for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.... | their-eyes-were-watching-god zora-neale-hurston | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| d67519e | She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So .. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| b1cb1f9 | So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don't tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 33f2309 | What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I am well, I know not to mess with mess right away; I try to let silence and time work their magic. [p. 100] | Anne Lamott | ||
| 640ca47 | Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a8df546 | The way I dance is by writing. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 090a0ec | Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical notes. | Anne Lamott | ||
| e2ecb43 | One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 399491f | At five that night, I went back to the market and bought three sixteen-ounce Rainier Ales. I bounced back to my house, Mary Lou Retton-like, sipped the first ale, took the Valium, smoked a joint, drank the second ale, took another Valium, listened to "Into the Mystic" ten times, drank the third Ale, too the Valium and the Halcion, and discovered two unhappy thoughts. One was it was only seven o'clock. The second was that I was wide awake." | Anne Lamott | ||
| bd24785 | Wow" has a reverberation - wowowowowow - and this pulse can soften us, like the electrical massage an acupuncturist directs to your spine or cramped muscle, which feels like a staple gun, but good." | Anne Lamott | ||
| a21e363 | The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ceab6b4 | Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel. | love | Anne Lamott | |
| 23de864 | Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God. | dark fear hide prejudice see | Anne Lamott | |
| 3d99bc1 | A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal. | marriage spouse | Anne Lamott | |
| 5f3fe53 | The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 81b4133 | Into every life crap will fall. Most of us do as well as possible, and some of it works okay, and we try to release that which doesn't and which is never going to. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 398cc17 | I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head." | authoring authors on-writing write writer writers writing | Anne Lamott | |
| 978d392 | Trappings and charm wear off, I've learned. The book of welcome says, Let people see you. They see that your upper arms are beautiful, soft and clean and warm, and then they will see this about their own, some of the time. It's called having friends, choosing each other, getting found, being fished out of the rubble. It blows you away, how this wonderful event happened--me in your life, you in mine. Two parts fit together. This hadn't occur.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 473ce59 | These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: "What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them." I under[stand] that failure is surely one of these strange angels." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 08414cc | Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously. | Anne Lamott |