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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e9c501f | Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis. | enchantment shakespeare spells | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 0ab12e3 | Our contradictions are never so to ourselves. | perception | Jeanette Winterson | |
| ae9f88d | To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man, or simply those small everyday things that somehow manage to hurt us most: the look of impatience, the angry word, the missed bedtime story, the forgotten kiss, the terrible moment when a mother ceases to be the center of her daughter's world and becomes | Joanne Harris | ||
| ac7d9b5 | We leave no trace as we pass on. Ghostlike, we cast no shadow. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 2238364 | He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and find himself there again. He opened each bottle, began each story with the secret conviction that here was the magic drought that would restore him. But magic, like wine, needs the right conditions in order to work. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 540a22d | That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 0cb10bb | Vendo sogni, piccoli comfort, tentazioni dolci e innocue. | Joanne Harris | ||
| a3178bc | I don't think that white collar gives you sole right of access to the divine. | Joanne Harris | ||
| c2ccf69 | He was the cleanest-cut comic-book schoolboy hero imaginable. | Joanne Harris | ||
| cee6ca7 | And yet I could still hear them. As if some part of their essence had evaporated into the air, become a part of this place, ingrained, like the scent of cigarettes and burning sugar, in the woodwork and plaster. Everything was buzzing with that vanished presence, buzzing and singing and laughing louder than ever before, stone and tile and polished wood, all whispering with agitation and excitement; never still, never silent. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 87455ed | There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 916588e | Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is | Joanne Harris | ||
| 5546800 | The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and see it. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| c59d6ae | Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said. "Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccuped their way into history?" -- | Barry Hughart | ||
| 9366a12 | Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It's like a goddamned flower! | Barry Hughart | ||
| eaa4390 | The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable. | Barry Hughart | ||
| d22d947 | They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It was so much easier to cry in company. It gave you a real sense of brotherhood in sorrow when to the right and left of you and in the gallery overhead your fellow students were all crying their hearts out. | Günter Grass | ||
| 1557162 | We are influenced by our personality but not controlled by it. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 2ec937e | Make time every day to share with each other some of the events of the day. When you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you can end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 551dab5 | A central aspect to quality time is togetherness. I do not mean proximity... Togetherness has to do with focused attention. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 06328e8 | When my spouse lovingly invests time, energy, and effort in me, I believe that I am significant. Without love, I may spend a lifetime in search of significance, self-worth, and security. When I experience love, it influences all of those needs positively. I am now freed to develop my potential. I am more secure in my self-worth and can now turn my efforts outward instead of being obsessed with my own needs. True love always liberates. In th.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| c3867d4 | We have been led to believe that if we are really in love, it will last forever. We will always have the wonderful feelings that we have at this moment. Nothing could ever come between us. Nothing will ever overcome our love for each other. [..] Unfortunately, the eternality of the in-love experience is fiction, not fact. The late psychologist Dr. Dorothy Tennov conducted long range studies on the in-love phenomenon. After studying scores o.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| fb9c157 | The choice to love is the choice to take initiative. It is the choice to do or say something for the other person's benefit, something that would help make them a better person, something that would enrich their lives or make life more meaningful for them. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 6153581 | Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 22a264b | The best way to love your children is to love their mother [father]." That's true. The quality of your marriage greatly affects the way you relate to your children--and the way they receive love. If your marriage is healthy--both partners treating each other with kindness, respect, and integrity--you and your spouse will feel and act as partners in parenting." | Gary D. Chapman | ||
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| 5bfa9b0 | Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications. | sue-grafton v-is-for-vengeance | Sue Grafton | |
| b3b7dc1 | The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed. | rumors truth | Sue Grafton | |
| 25056ec | Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you'd been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 710c467 | You can't make someone else do anything, even if you know you're right. | Sue Grafton | ||
| c2337cc | I think all this may help explain why women leaders around the world tend to rise higher in parliamentary systems, rather than presidential ones like ours. Prime ministers are chosen by their colleagues--people they've worked with day in and day out, who've seen firsthand their talents and competence. It's a system designed to reward women's skill at building relationships, which requires emotional labor. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| e428773 | While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States. Everything that I have done and seen has convinced me that America remains the "indispensable nation." I am just as convinced, however, that our leadership is not a birthright. It must be earned by every generation." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| ae04e14 | forward-thinking teachers and school administrators across the country are creating a whole range of alternatives to cookie-cutter teaching and evaluation methods, such as the use of student portfolios and exhibitions in addition to conventional exams to assess students' progress. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 21b4571 | The coldest peace is better than the warmest war. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 3963b95 | Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go. | Karen Cushman | ||
| db5bca4 | I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. | Karen Cushman | ||
| a7bf742 | would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger of life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human | Richard Wright | ||
| 7b64569 | The world of most men is given to them by their culture.. | man world | Richard Wright | |
| fba57b0 | Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams that it is true; but at the same time he does not want really to know it? May not human life on this earth be a kind of frozen fear of man at what he could possibly be? And every move he makes might not these moves be just to hide this awful fact?.. | human-nature man philosophy | Richard Wright | |
| 82dcd97 | Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face | Katrina Kittle | ||
| 473241e | There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. | war | Tim O'Brien | |
| d77d8e8 | The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| aaed60a | He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone--riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria--even dancing, she danced alone--and it was the aloneness that filled him with love | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 30effb7 | He showed me how...See, he says he's going up through Laos, then into Burma, and then some other country, I forget, and then India and Iran and Turkey, and then Greece, and the rest is easy. That's what he said. The rest is easy, he said. | Tim O'Brien |