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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2762ae2 | I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. | tragedy | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| e83b65a | There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it" | lost-love sad | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| dc4a0b9 | One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c78d431 | Lords of space and Lords of time, Lords of blessing, Lords of grace, Who is in the warmer clime? Who will follow Madoc's rhyme? Blue will alter time and space. | grade rhyme space time | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| df56a58 | You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b94eeaf | There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change. | science scientific | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 9f38547 | All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects...Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2801e97 | Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here!" Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out on his face. "Even traveling at the speed of light, it would take us years and years to get here." "Oh we don't travel by the speed of anything," Mrs. Whatsit explained earnestly. "We teaser. Or you might say, we wrinkle." | tesseract | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 8c60b65 | It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. But a child rejoices in presents! | grace | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| cada041 | And this feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ocean, out in the ocean beyond this rising and falling of the breakers, lying on the moving water, pulsing gently with the swells, and feeling the gentle, inexorable tug of the moon. | ocean | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 725f0e0 | Ah," she said, "that's ever so much better," and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. "My stomach is full and I'm warm inside and out and it's time I went home." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c842a50 | The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| bffa181 | I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f82ccd2 | It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn't ready to be stopped. No one's ready to be stopped. We don't have *time* to be ready to be stopped. It's all crazy. . . . Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine... | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b5409b2 | matter and energy are the same thing, that size is an illusion, and that time is a material substance. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9f863a3 | Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but he is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ba726f5 | I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; it doesn't hurt nearly as much as remaining open. | emotions isolation openness strength withdrawal | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| f47c58e | William Wordsworth was said to have walked 180,000 miles in his lifetime. Charles Dickens captured the ecstasy of near-madness and insomnia in the essay "Night Walks" and once said, "The sum of the whole is this: Walk and be happy; Walk and be healthy." Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of "the great fellowship of the Open Road" and the "brief but priceless meetings which only trampers know." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said, "Only those thought.. | Ben Montgomery | ||
| bfe0d63 | The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't. | religion | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 660bcd5 | They ate a late lunch in the cafeteria. When she mentioned lunch, he realized with horror that he would need money, and he didn't know how to tell her that he hadn't brought any--didn't have any to bring, for that matter. But before he had time to figure anything out, she said, "Now I'm not going to have any argument about whose paying. I'm a liberated woman, Jess Aarons. When I invite a man out, I pay." | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 54f8700 | Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years. | usefulness | Katherine Paterson | |
| 641a53c | Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| fe2dd64 | She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it too late to go back, she had left him stranded there - like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| c99fc58 | Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 0437998 | They were always nice to Jess when he went over, but then they would suddenly begin talking about French politics or string quartets (which he at first thought was a square box made out of string), or how to save the timber wolves or redwoods or singing whales, and he was scared to open his mouth and show once and for all how dumb he was. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 666f994 | Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 903e0b8 | What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved. | relationship | Tanya Huff | |
| a96338f | Lick your lips, Griet." I licked my lips. "Leave your mouth open." I was so surprised by this request that my mouth remained open of its own will. I blinked back tears. Virtuous women did not open their mouths in paintings." | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| aea03ff | There is a difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes to painting," he explained as he worked, "but it is not necessarily as great as you may think. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things-tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids-are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 09158de | have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| bd49ed0 | Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me. | tapestry weaving | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 651c4e6 | It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation." | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 0e15a78 | That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| bfda547 | I felt as if my parents had pushed me into the street, that a deal had been made and I was being passed into the hands of a man. At least he is a good man, I thought, even if his hands are not as clean as they could be. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| d133a80 | He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I. | wisdom | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 59a6224 | What made him most attractive was that he was attracted to her. Another's interest can be a powerful stimulant. She could feel his eyes on her as an almost physical pressure. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| c78bd67 | I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| e2dacc4 | Misery is optional. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 55ced97 | To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 6168dbd | Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 8eceedb | Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote over five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (i.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 1b6e48a | The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. --Daniel Defoe | Cindy Trimm | ||
| 83ff44c | It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words that she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand having been written in language more like one still in Newgate than one grown penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 4cc0a8f | My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last. | Khaled Hosseini |