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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b1a5bba | I have no doubt that Jesus would actually practice the neighborliness he preached rather than following our example of religious supremacy, hostility, fear, isolation, misinformation, exclusion, or demonization. | religion | Brian D. McLaren | |
| 893abcf | Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. | orthodoxy religion tradition | Brian D. McLaren | |
| e5bf574 | It's worth remembering that [having a baby] is not of vital use to you as a woman. Yes, you could learn thousands of interesting things about love, strength, faith, fear, human relationships, genetic loyalty, and the effect of apricots on an immune digestive system. But I don't think there's a single lesson that motherhood has to offer that couldn't be learned elsewhere. If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then-in .. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 44ee195 | Kite spends three minutes trying to calm me down - 'Dutch! Dutch!' - and then just hugs me with his huge arms, so I am completely wrapped up, and inside him, like an owl inside a hollow tree. This is my most enjoyable crying ever - if all crying were this pleasant, I would do it more often. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| abc2606 | When did feminism become confused with Buddhism? Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone? And why have women--on top of everything else--got to be particularly careful to be "lovely" and "supportive" to each other at all times? This idea of the "sisterhood" I find, frankly, illogical, I don't build in a 20 percent "Genital Similarity Regard Bonus" if I meet someone else wearing a bra. If someone's an arsehole, s.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| a83ac01 | Quite how a heterosexual couple hiring a female cleaner ends up as a betrayal of feminism isn't terribly clear- unless you believe running a household is, in some way: a. an inarguable duty of womenkind- that, in addition, can b. only ever be done out of love, and never for cash, because that somehow "spoils" the magic of the household. As if dishes know they've been washed by hired help, instead of the woman of the house, and will feel all.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5cff11b | I used to fear their deaths--the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!--until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| cea27c3 | The idea that pornography is intrinsically exploitative and sexist is bizarre: pornography is just some fucking, after all. The act of having sex isn't sexist, so there's no way pornography can be, in itself, inherently misogynist. So no. Pornography isn't the problem. Strident feminists are fine with pornography. It's the porn industry that's the problem. The whole thing is as offensive, sclerotic, depressing, emotionally bankrupt and desu.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 3cb5b0e | I want to tell Caz - also a redhead - that I have finally found her another role model, aside from Woody Woodpecker, and Annie in Annie. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| eb42fc6 | Because I am fully aware of what the word "fat" means--what it really means, when you say it, or think it. It's not just a simple, descriptive word like "brunette" or "34." It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 62c5931 | I don't want him to pity me. I don't want him to see what I look like when I do something for the first time. I don't want anyone watching me change. I will do all my changing in private. In public I am, always, the finished thing. The right thing, for the right place. A chrysalis is hung in the dark. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ac37c04 | A gig, I realize now, is a place where people come together and give permission for anything to happen. Things can be said and shouted and sung; people get pissed; people get kissed-there is a communal agenda of joyous wilding. These are the boardroom meetings of young people, where we establish our vibe. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 8da9480 | Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life. | life | Caitlin Moran | |
| 960540b | The sun cannot shine as bright without a proper darkness to counter it. The world had gone a bit gray. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ed8a386 | Finally, consider your predicament a privilege in a world so shrunken that certain people refer to it as the 'global village.' The term 'explorer' has little meaning. But exploration is nothing more than a faray into the unknown, and a four-year old child, wandering about along in the department store, fits the definition as well as the snow-blind man wandering across the Khyber Pass. The explorer is the person who is lost. | exploring | Tim Cahill | |
| 8383a46 | There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all...there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns...not even silence, just an end. | Michael Shaara | ||
| a7bee43 | The true rain came in a monster wind, and the storm broke in blackness over the hills and the bloody valley; the sky opened along the ridge, and the vast water thundered down, drowning the fires, flooding the red creeks, washing the rocks and the grass and the white bones of the dead, cleansing the earth and soaking it thick and rich with water and wet again with clean cold rainwater, driving the blood deep into the Earth, to grow it again .. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 4cc48b4 | She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 6918f54 | Also everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| b927a11 | I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me? | motherhood suicide | Emma Donoghue | |
| 0709974 | One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 9593273 | Perhaps there is no providence, no fate, no grand plan, she thinks now. Perhaps we dig our own traps and lie down in them. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 4f7c44f | In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't. | wishes wishful-thinking | Emma Donoghue | |
| 2817d43 | I chop the broccoli into pieces with ZigZag Knife, sometimes I swallow some when Ma's not looking and she says, "Oh, no, where's that big bit gone?" but she's not really mad because raw things make us extra alive." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| ac3efca | Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws. | sorrow | Emma Donoghue | |
| 1746e58 | The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. | description nature | Emma Donoghue | |
| dba59e4 | Jack. He'd never give us a phone, or a window. "Ma takes my thumbs and squeezes them. "We are people in a book, and he wont let anybody else read it." -- | Emma Donoghue | ||
| b6fe82a | I was tired," she says. "I made a mistake." "You're not tired anymore?" She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| e52d26f | He says he thanks every star the we existed on the same clestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man made throughaway for intersecting dreams. | Emma Forrest | ||
| 7f89d46 | Bad people very often do one good thing. | life people | Emma Forrest | |
| 1cd57a0 | And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, "If I kiss you, it's all over." And then he does. And then it is." | love romance sex | Emma Forrest | |
| 9dd5c68 | The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else. | Emma Forrest | ||
| 539501f | We're born alone and we die alone, but we get to travel with people along the way, and if you get lucky, you have a worthy consort. | love | Emma Forrest | |
| 3ee0915 | I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writing because I don't know how much longer I can hold on. | writing | Emma Forrest | |
| 10a5709 | When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would have to do, and he was mourning us. He was mourning us the whole time. | love love-loss | Emma Forrest | |
| 940791d | It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again--which I have--it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits. | Emma Forrest | ||
| 81b9544 | What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 81bd501 | When man don't love you, more you try, more he hate you, man like that. If you love them they treat you bad, if you don't love them they after you night and day bothering your soul case out. I hear about you and your husband,' she said. 'But I cannot go. He is my husband after all.' She spat over her shoulder. 'All women, all colours, nothing but fools. Three children I have. One living in this world, each one a different father, but no hu.. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 881b1c8 | As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dream are true--all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here. | lies magic secrets truth | Jean Rhys | |
| ab1c093 | I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this | Jean Rhys | ||
| 466a276 | Can I help it if my heart beats, if my hands go cold? | Jean Rhys | ||
| 57d9230 | As soon as you have reached this heaven of indifference, you are pulled out of it. From your heaven you have to go back to hell. When you are dead to the world, the world often rescues you, if only to make a figure of fun out of you. | Jean Rhys | ||
| ba77b97 | Patience mimics the power of infinity. And nobody can win a staring contest with infinity. No matter how long you last, infinity is just getting started. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 6b36e41 | You have been spying all along," Conrad said, unconvinced. "The manhunt for you was a ruse." "Check with the emperor," Ferrin replied coolly. | brandon humor mull rebellion seeds | Brandon Mull |