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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec18804 | in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9ae7556 | Sam counts the money carefully. I watch him in the mirror. "You know what I wish?" he asks when he's done. "What?" "That someone would convert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me." That startles a laugh out of me. "That would be pretty awesome." A slow, shy smile spreads across his mouth. "And we could take bets on them. And be filthy rich." | Holly Black | ||
| cd35ee4 | O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs. -Augustine St. Clare | cabin harriet stowe tom uncle | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 1904b65 | And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,--the eternal past, the eternal future. The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown; and the voices and shadowy movings which come to her from out the cloudy pillar of inspiration have each one e.. | mysticism unknown | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| fb66bfb | But I want it done now, " said Miss Ophelia. What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia." | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 710d535 | Some jokes are less agreeable than others | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 8a2888b | Perhaps," said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm." | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 243192a | He fell for all those things, and when she died, it was like someone had extinguished the sun, and he had nothing left to orbit. | Tammara Webber | ||
| f66251a | His protective wall had become a fortress holding him hostage rather than giving sanctuary. | Tammara Webber | ||
| c9ac282 | I stare into his eyes, a slight smile pulling at my mouth, and I see myself as he sees me. I feel loved, and scared, and hopeful. I feel found. And I think, Here is the beginning of my faith. Here is my forever. Right here. Right here. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 0fe7860 | When I registered for econ, I had no idea that I'd be in for this level of reality-show drama. It's like a big fat bonus. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 376a19b | I shook to my core, my soul curving around her protectively as my mind strove to determine the logical calculation that could make her mine. I wanted to be hers as much--more--than I wanted to possess her, when I knew damned well that neither was possible. | Tammara Webber | ||
| b4c4063 | I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other... | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 89c9150 | That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it | Patricia McCormick | ||
| b6cfd27 | I have been beaten here, locked away, violated a hundred times and a hundred times more. I have been starved and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd it is that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| c9adce3 | As I head back up the stairs, I hear the dryer make a sound of great mechanical distress, , and I pause for only a moment before I decide that if I leave, I will no longer intimidate the machine, and it will then do its job very well without me. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| c76f0dd | I am in the zone, the perfect balance between manic and drunk, I am mellow, I'm cool, cool as cats. I've found the answer, the thing that takes the edge off, smoothes out the madness, sends me sailing, lifts me up and lets me fly. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| ab23991 | The fear, too, is a fear of yourself: a completely dualistic and contradictory fear. On the one hand, it is the fear that you do not have what it takes to make it, and on the other hand, a possibly greater fear that you do have what it takes, and that by definition you therefore also have a responsibility to do something really big. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| dac9d0d | Shigure Sohma: So, anyway, I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is, if it isn't a problem. Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening. Shigure Sohma: Hmmm? What's this, Hatori? I don't think I ever heard you sound so eager to come over. Could it be you have a secret crush on Tohru? [long silence from the other end of the phone] | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 7fb65f2 | It might be a good idea...to start washing the laundry right at your feet. Of course it's important to think about what lies ahead, too...but if you only look at what's down the road...you'll get tangled in the laundry at your feet and you'll fall, won't you? You see...it's also important to think about what you can do now, what you can do today. And if you keep washing things one day at a time...you'll be done before you know it. Because f.. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 52a7614 | Mom told me...it's better to trust people than to doubt them. She said that people aren't born with kind hearts. When we're born, all we have are desires for food and material things. Selfish instincts, I guess. But she said that kindness is something that grows inside of each person's body...but it's up to us to nurture that kindness in our hearts. That's why kindness is different for each person. Mom taught me that people's differences ar.. | natsuki-takaya tohru | Natsuki Takaya | |
| c7f7e3b | It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains won't do you any good. You need to surround yourself with others. As you get to know them, of course you take the chance that you'll end up hurting them, or they'll end up hurting you. One of those things might very well happen. That's the only way we learn... about others, and about ourselves. | socialism | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 0a3b34c | wklm tGyrt qsmt wjhh, tGyWr jmlh. lm tkn ft@ jmyl@ wHd@, bl knt khmsan w`shryn ft@ jmyl@ mkhtlf@ | Philip Roth | ||
| 93255e2 | E muito dificil ler os classicos; logo a culpa e dos classicos. Hoje o estudante faz valer a sua incapacidade como um privilegio. Eu nao consigo aprender isto, portanto alguma coisa esta errada nisto. E ha especialmente alguma coisa errada com o mau professor que quer ensinar tal materia. Deixou de haver criterios - para so haver opinioes. | educação opinião | Philip Roth | |
| cb8f5cd | Making you believe what he wanted you to believe was his very reason for being. Maybe his only reason. I was intrigued by the way he turned events, or hints I had given him about people, into reality--that is, his kind of reality. This obsessive reinvention of the real never stopped, what-could-be having always to top what is. ... I began to wonder which was real, the woman in the book or the one I was pretending to be upstairs. Neither of.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 6185055 | The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly. | Philip Roth | ||
| cff2f7e | War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night | Philip Roth | ||
| 5d95f6b | Memories particularly of when they weren't being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you're-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and routines, memories, rather, of when they found one another afresh, beyond the tensions between parental mastery and inept childish uncertainty, of those moments of respite in a family's life when they could.. | parenthood | Philip Roth | |
| 87e6f91 | I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself. | difficulties flaws people | Philip Roth | |
| b4a4bac | Now obviously, in peacetime a one-legged catcher, like a one-armed outfielder (such as the Mundys had roaming right), would have been at the most a curiosity somewhere down in the dingiest town in the minors - precisely where Hot had played during the many years that the nations of the world lived in harmony. But it is one of life's grisly ironies that what is catastrophe for most of mankind, invariably works to the advantage of a few who l.. | Philip Roth | ||
| a50c48f | I would browse for half an hour or so in the secondhand bookstores in the neighborhood. Owning my own 'library' was my only materialistic ambition; in fact, trying to decide which two of these thousands of books to buy that week, I would frequently get so excited that by the time the purchase was accomplished I had to make use of the bookseller's toilet facilities. I don't believe that either microbe or laxative has ever affected me so stro.. | Philip Roth | ||
| b88bc1e | I felt as though the skin had been peeled away from half of my body. Half my face had been peeled away, and everybody would stare in horror for the rest of my life. Or they would stare at the other half, at the half still intact; I could see them smiling, pretending that the flayed half wasn't there, and talking to the half that was. And I could hear my self screaming at them, I could see myself thrusting my hideous side right up into their.. | Philip Roth | ||
| d35de0a | You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare. | ideology | Philip Roth | |
| f3fb161 | What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened. | Philip Roth | ||
| 0e263ef | I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love. | Philip Roth | ||
| 2944826 | There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave. | Philip Roth | ||
| c743bad | Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result. | Philip Roth | ||
| 7a61072 | Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character analysis, all the contempt they have been harbouring for you for all these years? | Philip Roth | ||
| 43a6b7b | Jesus Christ, who they go around telling everyone was God, was actually a Jew! and this fact, that absolutely kills me when I have to think about it, nobody else pays attention to. That he was a Jew, and they took a Jew and turned him into some kind of God after he is already dead, and then- this is what can make you absolutely crazy- then the dirty bastards turn around afterwards and who is the first one on their list to persecute? who hav.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 384f435 | I'm not just a college professor. I'm the head of a department. I don't see myself fleeing an airborne toxic event. That's for people who live in mobile homes out in the scrubby parts of the county, where the fish hatcheries are. | Don DeLillo | ||
| fc86806 | I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues. | painters | Don DeLillo | |
| 9ccb406 | What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now. | barn photography | Don DeLillo | |
| ed42362 | i like your mother. you have your mother's breasts." "her breasts." "great stand-up tits." he said" | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| b6e41f4 | The encounter put me in the mood to shop...Babette and the kids followed me into the elevator, into the shops set along the tiers, through the emporiums and the department stores, puzzled but excited by my desire to buy. When I could not decide between two shirts, they encouraged me to buy both. When I said I was hungry they fed me pretzels, beer, souvlaki. The two girls scouted ahead, spotting things they thought I might want or need, runn.. | Don DeLillo |