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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b253e16 | Same Bat time, same Bat place. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 36a8961 | I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 33a3c58 | I was starting to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place. It was the magic of forgetting. | sadness | Francesca Lia Block | |
| b7b92ca | When someone so young and lovely vanishes they leave a cutout in the atmosphere; they don't fade. They leave a place for the sun rays to cut through and burn us, melt all the important ice to floods. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 381380c | Grief is not something you know if you grow up wearing feathers with a Charlie Chaplin boyfriend, a love-child papoose, a witch baby, a Dirk and a Duck, a Slinkster Dog, and a movie to dance in. You can feel sad and worse when your dad moves to another city, when an old lady dies, or when your boyfriend goes away. But grief is different. Weetzie's heart cringed in her like a dying animal. It was as if someone had stuck a needle full of pois.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 526cdd4 | No one noticed Witch Baby as she went back inside the cottage, into the room she and Cherokee shared. Cherokee's side of the room was filled with feathers, crystals, butterfly wings, rocks, shells and dried flowers. there was a small tepee that Coyote had helped Cherokee make. The walls on Witch Baby's side of the room were covered with newspaper clippings - nuclear accidents, violence, poverty and disease. Every night, before she went to b.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a5dfbad | how to (un)cage a girl longer hair bigger breasts smoother skin flatter stomach whiter teeth smaller nose if you worry enough you won't have time or energy to see what really is what could i have learned if i didn't live here in this cell? where could i have flown? how would i have grown? if i forgave this shell? oh, my body let me cradle you like my girl's her long limbs spilling over or folding up like silk her gold-tinged curls ringletin.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 72206b0 | If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real. | walking-the-talk work-life-balance | Qiu Xiaolong | |
| 0cbaa7a | With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recommenced, and arrived at a temporary resting-place in the confessions of the various reformed Protestant sects in the sixteenth century; almost all of which, as soon as they were strong enough, began to persecute those who carried criticism beyond.. | baruch-spinoza civilization criticism d-holbach denis-diderot descartes diderot europe galileo galileo-galilei geologists gotthold-ephraim-lessing gotthold-lessing hobbes jean-jacque-rousseau jean-meslier lessing meslier paul-henri-d-holbach persecution protestant rene-descartes rousseau science science-and-religion science-vs-religion spinoza thomas-hobbes | Thomas Henry Huxley | |
| d5c3a93 | You've got to make time. It's important. You know how they tell you on planes, in case of an emergency, the adults should put their oxygen masks on first? You're not going to be any good to anyone if you're not taking care of yourself. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 4c7f78c | He'd been lonely, and I'd been lonely, but if we were together, we'd never have to be lonely again. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 9b09ef9 | Husbands and houses are negotiable," she said, "And as for a plan... we'll figure it out." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 80082cc | Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was -- her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth -- she wasn't the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn't what she'd made herself out to be -- a cheerful, uncomplicated girl, a normal girl with a happy, orderly life, a girl who wore pretty shoes and had nothing more pressing on her mind that whether ER was a rer.. | family-relationships sibling-relationships siblings | Jennifer Weiner | |
| ae06c2d | Women had made progress - Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it - but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do it all flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough? | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 1c7faf1 | Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name. | R.C. Sproul Jr. | ||
| 154cb7f | It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. The kings of this world and all secular governments may ignore this reality, but they cannot undo it. The universe is no democracy. It is a monarchy. God himself has appointed his beloved Son as the preeminent King. Jesus does not rule by referendum, but by divine right. In the future every knee will bow before him, either willingly or unwillin.. | gospel secularism soverignty-of-god | R.C. Sproul | |
| 41dff8f | It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3ee163a | I was imprisoned, and no-one freed me. I cried for help, and no-one freed me. Eventually, I shook off my chains and I returned. They said, 'Why do you no longer love us?' I said, 'I realized that you have always been my chains. | djinn mythical prison progression revenge stories | Jeff Mach | |
| 9549d77 | If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain." --C. S. LEWIS" | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 223980c | God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 76b9584 | natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 274921a | And remembered--all he'd nearly forgotten, all her wild responses had driven from his mind. This was one seduction he had to, needed to, manage perfectly--this time, there was meaning beyond the act. Seducing Patience Debbington was too important to rush--conquering her senses, her body, was only the first step. He didn't want her just once--he wanted her for a lifetime. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 3341563 | You are riding for a fall, Your Grace," "I'll be riding you before Christmas." | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 457e9ab | You've given me everything I need of you-thanks to you I have all my heart desires, all I thought I might never have. All I need for a wonderful, fulfilling future. And I nearly lost it all." She held his gaze but was wise enough not to interrupt. If she had... He drew breath and forged on, "Nearly dying clarified things. When you stand on the border between life and death, the truly important things are easy to discern. One of the things I.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 4fab3a1 | It's been my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello. That's why trains are so popular at Christmas. People get on to meet their country over the holidays. They're looking for some friendship, a warm body to talk .. | christmas trains | David Baldacci | |
| ef3a4c2 | It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry. | divine funny miracle shaw truth whole | David Baldacci | |
| c1907fa | Diamond Skinner had had no material possessions to his name and yet had been the happiest creature Lou had ever met. He and God would no doubt get along famously. | David Baldacci | ||
| ddbd9ce | I will never forget that the passing down of memories is the strongest link in the gossamer bridge that binds up as people. I plan to devote my live to doing just that. And if you've taught me anything, it's that what we hold in our hearts is truly the fierest component of our humanity. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0171768 | After Election, the politicians forgot their promises and enjoyed an earned rest until New Year, when they started work on the next Election. | Betty Smith | ||
| 6d40a18 | Katie stood alone... 'They think this is so good,' he thought. 'They think it's good- the tree they got for nothing and their father playing up to them and the singing and the way the neighbors are happy. They think they're mighty lucky that they're living and it's Christmas again. They can't see that we live on a dirty street in a dirty house among people who aren't much good. Johnny and the children can't see how pitiful it is that our ne.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 01c1687 | It takes a lot of doing to die. | Betty Smith | ||
| 26dec3c | Money! Would that make it better for them? Yes, it would make it easy. But no, the money wouldn't be enough... That means there must be something bigger than money... An answer came to Katie. It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like a pain shot through her head. Education! | Betty Smith | ||
| 67a753e | Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet. | Betty Smith | ||
| 89677e8 | And that's where the whole trouble is," thought Francie. "We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. Papa and I were two different persons and we understood each other. Mama understands Neeley because he's different from her. I wish I was different in the way that Neeley is." "Then everything's all right now between us?" Katie asked with a smile. | Betty Smith | ||
| d073e3d | Forgiveness," said Mary Rommely, "is a gift of high value. Yet its cost nothing." | Betty Smith | ||
| 9d30f80 | I will not speak falsely and say to you: 'Do not grieve for me when I go.' I have loved my children and tried to be a good mother and it is right that my children grieve for me. But let your grief be gentle and brief. And let resignation creep into it. Know that I shall be happy. I shall see face to face the great saints I have loved all my life. | death grief | Betty Smith | |
| 931cf4b | Katie heard the story. 'It's come at last,' she thought, 'the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them...Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 9512b82 | Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Sunday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books...books..books. | flowers library life passion | Betty Smith | |
| a752a70 | The child must have a valuable thing which Is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, she can reach back and live in her imagination.... Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for. | Betty Smith | ||
| 198b07f | The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. | urban | Betty Smith | |
| 6683ea4 | I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops with my build. I got to sling beer and sing when I just want to sing. I drink because I got responsibilities that I can't handle...I am not a happy man. I got a wife and children and I don't happen to be a hard-working man. I never wanted a family...Yes, your mother works hard. I love my wife and I love my children. But shouldn't a .. | Betty Smith | ||
| 87a0d58 | Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smiled tremulously at the kind man. She knew that he was.. | swear-words swearing | Betty Smith | |
| 3048e53 | I believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and His Mother, Holy Mary. Jesus was a living baby once. He went bare-footed like we do in the summer. I saw a picture where He was a boy and had no shoes on. And when He was a man, He went fishing, like papa did once. And they could hurt Him, too, like they couldn't hurt God. Jesus wouldn't go around punishing people. He about people. So I will always believe in Jesus Chirst.' They made the sign of t.. | Betty Smith | ||
| c4e3492 | One of Francie's favorite stores was the one which sold nothing but tea, coffee, and spices. It was an exciting place of rows of lacquered bins and strange, romantic, exotics odors. There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil! Argentine! Turkish! Java! Mixed Blend! The tea was in smaller bins: beautiful bins with sloping covers. They read: Oolong! Formosa! Orange Pekoe! B.. | mysterious odors spice store tea | Betty Smith |