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| 211dfe2 | On , five college friends take a sixth to an expensive Italian restaurant, supposedly to introduce him to a hot girl, actually to break the news that his mother is dead. This is the InitialTwist. During dessert they are told that, in fact, all of their mothers are dead. This is the SecondTwist. The ThirdTwist is, not only are all their mothers dead, the show paid to have them killed, and the fourth and FinalTwist is, the kids have just eat.. | George Saunders | ||
| 5a39688 | But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will have been recorded for posterity after one mere year!) (September 5) Oops. Missed a day. | George Saunders | ||
| 8da71fc | There was a touch of prairie about the fellow. --hans vollman Yes. --roger bevins iii Like stepping into a summer barn late at night. --hans vollman Or a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns. --roger bevins iii Vast. Windswept. New. Sad. --hans vollman Spacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious. --roger bevins iii Back slightly out. --hans vollman Right boot chafing. --roger bevins iii | character lincoln presidents | George Saunders | |
| 1b5ee54 | I was back to feeling myself which, believe me, is no picnic. | George Saunders | ||
| 063fd59 | graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny... | George Saunders | ||
| 0ec51fe | We were perhaps not so unlovable as we had come to believe. | George Saunders | ||
| 339f1c8 | What I mean to say is, we had been considerable. Had been loved. Not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way. Our departures caused pain. Those who had loved us sat upon their beds, heads in hand; lowered their faces to tabletops, making animal noises. We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory. | George Saunders | ||
| 9672f48 | He is going, he realizes. He is going, and will not be coming back as Brad. He must try at least to retain this feeling of pity. If he can, whoever he becomes will inherit this feeling, and be driven to act on it, and will not, as Brad now sees he has done, waste his life on accumulation, trivia, self-protection, and vanity. | George Saunders | ||
| 04fd222 | There's a theme that appears in much of your work," I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, "and I can only hint at it because it's difficult to formulate or describe. It has something to do with the lines: 'As I went over the water/the water went over me' [from As I Went over the Water] or 'I'm in the milk and the milk's in me' [from Night Kitchen]." "Obviously I have one theme, and it's even in the book I'm working on right now... | obsession rain themes | Jonathan Cott | |
| 2993145 | This is a roll call! SEAN BELL! Then she followed with "Absent again today! OSCAR GRANT! Absent again today! REKIA BOYD! Absent again today! RAMARLEY GRAHAM!" She paused, and at that point the rest of us knew exactly what to do. "Absent again today!" "AIYANA JONES!" "Absent again today!" "FREDDIE GRAY!" "Absent again today!" "MICHAEL BROWN!" "Absent again today!" "TAMIR RICE!" "Absent again today!" "ERIC GARNER!" "Absent again today!" "TARI.. | Jason Reynolds | ||
| 03a1732 | He had never been willing to believe that life had to be as gray and dull as people claimed. He heard them saying: "Life is like that," but he couldn't agree. He never stopped believing in mysteries and miracles." | Michael Ende | ||
| b33a174 | In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hinge, creaking in the wind. | Michael Crichton | ||
| b1ee7c1 | Niccolo Machiaveli stood apart from the rest of the crowd, arms lightly folded across his chest, careful not to wrinkle his Saile Row- tailored black silk tuxedo. Stone gray eyes swept over the other bidders, analyzing and assessing them. | Michael Scott | ||
| 44722ab | Approaching the Williamsburg Bridge - not really certain of how he had managed to find himself there - he experienced an extraordinary moment of buoyancy, of grace. There was a lot more traffic now, but his shifting was smooth and the sturdy little car was adroit at changing lanes. He launched himself out over the East River. He could feel the bridge humming underneath his wheels and all around him could sense the engineering of it, the for.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 1577a1e | I would say that it is different for all of us, but that it happens when we grow up, when we mature and pass from the childishness of our youthful tears, and become adults. I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realis.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 36b66ea | The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 90e828c | Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it's impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9cee85d | The ancient Sanskrit legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. The legends say that the loved one is instantly recognised because she's loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. The legends say that we know her by her wings - the wings that only we can see - and because wantin.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 41559cf | For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable y.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c260330 | A man must love his bear. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0c4c8aa | love like water, searching for the sea. Love like Time, searching for meaning. Love like all that was, and ever will be. | ocean romence sea water | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 60dffc9 | And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e884be2 | Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a7d909f | There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 883dbef | Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 809bdc9 | Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it's our will alone that leads us to one or the other. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| cd8ff6f | I was sure there had to be a pay-off, somehow, and I kept waiting for it. I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6f8e5bd | Now sadly there is attitude and no style. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f321a22 | You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 909eb4e | I want everything,' she replied with a faint, wry smile. 'You know, I said that once to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a3d2438 | At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart, Prabaker. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorro.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d499bd4 | The end mirrors the beginning. In the end, its about a woman & a city. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 00503cb | A mujaheddin fighter once told me that fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c52690c | No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dc1216e | depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6bb3ea1 | The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake's still burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you're done, and you can't go on. But it's not true. It's never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you're lost, .. | life love luminescence mumbai night shantaram stars | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 183ea15 | You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that's left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love you. I do. I do. | family inspirational integrity love | Victor Villaseñor | |
| 9be0268 | In a world where time cannot be measured, there are no clocks, no calendars, no definite appointments. Events are triggered by other events, not by time. | Alan Lightman | ||
| c0cac18 | On occasion a traveler will venture from one city to another. Is he perplexed What took seconds in Berne might take hours in Fribourg or days in Lucerne. In the time for a leaf to fall in one place a flower could bloom in another. In the duration of a thunderclap in one place two people could fall in love in another. In the time that a boy grows into a man a drop of rain might slide down a windowpane yet the traveler is unaware of these dis.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 7eb4a3b | It [the mind] can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven." In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And un.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 293a1c5 | Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck. -NATALIE | random | Kresley Cole | |
| 0ecfc10 | Apparently, he was a show-er and a grower. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 99080ea | If you feel lust"--he pressed a kiss against her collarbone--"I want you automatically to seek me to ease it." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 060772b | Good thing you blend." "I do not blend." | Kresley Cole |