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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 02f4710 | changes are so frightening. | Norton Juster | ||
| 1520bc8 | Yes, indeed," they repeated together; "but if we'd told you then, you might not have gone--and as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." | Norton Juster | ||
| eb5b7a6 | I'd love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I'd want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose. | france paris parisians travel travel-quotes travel-writing young-adult young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance young-adult-series | Maureen Johnson | |
| 085db6a | Last things were so strange. Most people had no control over of what their last acts would be. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| b137cb5 | You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 1803c7e | If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 3dfa1f5 | Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 0fb4686 | Is this all right?" he asked. He was using that very low, somewhat husky universal kissing voice. "Huh?" I said, because I am sexy." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| dfd9333 | I had always liked him, but it never occurred to me to like him, like him. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| b48732b | Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty--but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson | cassandra-clare magnus-bane maureen-johnson natural-beauty paris the-bane-chronicles the-runaway-queen unnatural-beauty | Cassandra Clare | |
| a8052ce | It's hard to imagine talking to Lucy. But I can imagine sleeping with her. I have been imagining it quite regularly. I can't stop imagining it. Maybe it's time for my first Lucy Branch, my first truly physical relationship. And why do I assume it would be a bad thing? Maybe it's better with someone different from you. I could teach her how fluorocarbons affect the ozone. She could teach me about oral sex. We would both become better people. | humor sex | Blake Nelson | |
| 379e16b | You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you. | Blake Nelson | ||
| 5a3fe13 | Normal people never like me. | Blake Nelson | ||
| 52af758 | Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream?" "Not your life, Greg, your past." | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 3bd4a61 | Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot -- a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attentio.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 35ade38 | The little Hexagon meditated on this a while and then said to me; "But you have been teaching me to raise numbers to the third power: I suppose three-to-the-third must mean something in Geometry; what does it mean?" "Nothing at all," replied I, "not at least in Geometry; for Geometry has only Two Dimensions." And then I began to shew the boy how a Point by moving through a length of three inches makes a Line of three inches, which may be re.. | dimensions geometry squared | Edwin A. Abbott | |
| 9f34dcf | Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 0d223ec | Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So information has been created and stored in our structure. In the development of one person's mind from childhood, information is clearly not just accumulated but also generated--created from connections that were not there before | geometry | James Gleick | |
| a960fca | In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man. | deforest-kelley star-trek | Terry Lee Rioux | |
| 64dea35 | Somehow, after all, as the universe ebbs toward its final equilibrium in the featureless heat bath of maximum entropy, it manages to create interesting structures. | James Gleick | ||
| 5ef834d | One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself - that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving | James Baldwin | ||
| f319a87 | The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear. | beliefs bigotry fear inferiority life race-relations racism superiority white-people | James Baldwin | |
| 3f5dfbb | Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous--dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say. | danger ideas morality | James Baldwin | |
| 262d8ea | I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself in hereafter will remind me of Giovanni's room. | James Baldwin | ||
| 400e807 | To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. | James Baldwin | ||
| c255a38 | Nothing tamed or broke her, nothing touched her, neither kindness, nor scorn, nor hatred, nor love. She had never thought of prayer. It was unimaginable that she would ever bend her knees and come crawling along a dusty floor to anybody's altar, weeping for forgiveness. Perhaps her sin was so extreme that it could not be forgiven; perhaps her pride was so great that she did not need forgiveness. She had fallen from that high estate which Go.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 79e2e86 | Whereas Jesus and his disciples were distrusted by the state largely because they respected the poor and shared everything, the fundamentalists of the present hour would appear not to know that the poor exist. | humanitarianism hypocrisy james-baldwin religion | James Baldwin | |
| 71b8cb0 | I don't believe in this nonsense about time. Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care. | James Baldwin | ||
| 3ecf0ba | John's heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God's minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father. | James Baldwin | ||
| c08011e | But he had the tendency of all wildly disorganised people to suppose that the lives of others were tamer and less sensual and more cerebral than his own. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5c43be2 | They have never put it into words, they cannot; but each absence is a threat. They never felt this way in New York - they moved all over New York. Here each is afraid that one of the others will get into some terrible trouble before he is seen again, and before anyone can help him. It is the spirit of the people, the eyes which endlessly watch them, eyes which never meet their eyes. Something like lust, something like hatred, seems to hover.. | hatred lust streets | James Baldwin | |
| b0e0460 | You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. | James Baldwin | ||
| c26b98b | In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back; but I think that the past is all that makes the present coherent, and further, that the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly. | blacks history past race race-relations racism understanding whites | James Baldwin | |
| fe66d87 | A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named. | humble life mercy | James Baldwin | |
| 325aab1 | There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees. | James Baldwin | ||
| a0095cc | It's a great city, Paris, a beautiful city--and--it was very good for me. | city-of-light cosmopolitan-cities france paris paris-attacks | James Baldwin | |
| f53e521 | The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation. | first-love heartbreak love | James Baldwin | |
| a35880f | Fonny had found something that he could do, that he wanted to do, and this saved him from the death that was waiting to overtake the children of our age. Though the death took many forms, though people died early in many different ways, the death itself was very simple and the cause was simple, too: as simple as a plague: the kids had been told that they weren't worth shit and everything they saw around them proved it. They struggled, they .. | James Baldwin | ||
| 3884bf0 | Yes, he had heard it all his life, but it was only now that his ears were opened to this sound that came from darkness, that could only come from darkness, that yet bore such sure witness to the glory of the light. And now in his moaning, and so far from any help, he heard it in himself--it rose from his bleeding, his cracked-open heart. It was a sound of rage and weeping which filled the grave, rage and weeping from time set free, but boun.. | James Baldwin | ||
| e18e81c | she was disquietingly fluid--fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already by too many men like me ever to be conquered now. | James Baldwin | ||
| 4a28225 | The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would soon give up the tremendous struggle it cost her to get to Paris for a few hours every day. | James Baldwin | ||
| 9da7c52 | In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity--and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top. | avoidance difficulties good-will problems | James Baldwin | |
| dc504e0 | Take no one's word for anything, including mine - but trust your experience. | locus-of-evaluation phenomenology self-trust | James Baldwin | |
| 6ff042d | People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all--a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named--but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. | James Baldwin |