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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3e2267b | It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of another faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap. | Yann Martel | ||
| dc42bf3 | It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me. | Yann Martel | ||
| 092b608 | Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. | life-of-pi metaphor pain suffering time | Yann Martel | |
| 5ccbe1a | This story has a happy ending. | Yann Martel | ||
| d228558 | I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both. | illusion religion zoo | Yann Martel | |
| 3734af7 | Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness. | Yann Martel | ||
| 7560eef | It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers. | humans people | Yann Martel | |
| 152e5ce | Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life. | Yann Martel | ||
| e8fcf3e | The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies. | Yann Martel | ||
| eabaf21 | Mr. Piscine Molitor Patel, Indian citizen, is an astounding story of courage and endurance in the face of extraordinarily difficult and tragic circumstances. In the experience of this investigator, his story is unparalleled in the history of shipwrecks. Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger. | Yann Martel | ||
| d1f40cf | Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. | Yann Martel | ||
| c2a3753 | And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. | Yann Martel | ||
| ae96da4 | The clear liquid in our eyes is seawater and therefore there are fish in our eyes, seawater being the natural medium of fish. Since blue and green are the colours of the richest seawater, blue and green eyes are the fishiest. Dark eyes are somewhat less fecund and albino eyes are nearly fishless, sadly so. But the quantity of fish in an eye means nothing. A single tigerfish can be as beautiful, as powerful, as an entire school of seafaring .. | Yann Martel | ||
| 648576a | The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| d102c4b | Living's for those of us who failed. Greedy God, gathering in the good ones, leaving the world to the rest of us, to rot. | inspirational | Colleen McCullough | |
| 282c9d1 | Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 44fae4b | Nothing is given without a disadvantage in it, | Colleen McCullough | ||
| d07c480 | He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly. | husband-and-wife-relationship marriage | Colleen McCullough | |
| 37e13f5 | Though they were very dissimilar in character, they also shared many tastes and appetites, and those they didn't share they tolerated in each other with instinctive respect, as a necessary spice of difference. They knew each other very well indeed. Her natural tendency was to deplore human failings in others and ignore them in herself; his natural tendency was to understand and forgive human failings in others, and be merciless upon them in.. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| bed450c | There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don't know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window of the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train). And the economist says, "Look, the cows in Scotland are brown." And the logician says, "No. There.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 52ff0c2 | I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 2cfb3eb | intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 0cc6ad3 | Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 4f21411 | Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tuesday? But at eight, 10, 12, you don't realise you're going to die. There is always the possibility of escape. There is always somewhere else and far away, a fact I had never really appreciated until I read Gitta Sereny's profoundly unsettling C.. | literary-fiction reading | Mark Haddon | |
| 549bcd6 | It was like pressing your thumbnail against a radiator when it's really hot and the pain starts and it makes you want to cry and the pain keeps hurting even when you take your thumb away from the radiator. | Mark Haddon | ||
| c726ff1 | I like when it rains hard.It sounds like white noise everywhere,which is like silence but not empty. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 4991985 | People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically and if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it has already happened and they exist. And there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one on thos.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 8341a7a | He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night. | Mark Haddon | ||
| dcf8e78 | wymkn fy b`D l'Hyn tlkhyS lfrq byn ltwHd wmrD mtlzm@ asbrjr bm yly : y`ysh lshkhS lmSb bltwHd fy `lmh lkhS , bynm y`ysh lmSb bmrD mtlzm@ asbrjr fy `lmn , bTryq@ mn khtyrh | novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| e81e7b2 | l shy ymknh tGyyr nmT lHy@ 'kthr mn njb Tfl | children life novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 128eda7 | The ups and downs, the dreams and struggles, had all been part of the journey, she realized--a journey that led to a cattle ranch near a town called King, where she had fallen in love with a cowboy named Luke. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a5aa3af | Hell, if they wanted to act like idiots, why try to stop them? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3eaeb1b | You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 43d6687 | Ha pessoas que se afastam umas das outras quando surgem adversidades. Outras, como nos, aproximam-se ainda mais. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2bed632 | Dawson dera um pontape na terra solta. "Quando se ama uma pessoa, devemos liberta-la. Certo?". Pela primeira vez os olhos dela dardejaram. "E se essa pessoa nao quiser ser libertada, vai ser obrigada na mesma? E assim que ves a situacao? Como uma especie de cliche?" Agarrara-o pelo braco, cravando-lhe os dedos. "Nos nao somos um cliche. Havemos de encontrar uma solucao para que possa funcionar." | dawson-cole | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 27c367b | She hadn't returned to the Body Pump class again--people in there were obviously masochists--but | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7d64fba | I think they've met before," she finally said. "Who? Thibault and the loser?" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0dd703f | It wasn't a question of if a bull rider got injured, but rather when and how badly. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 14e37ae | Intelligent? Kind? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cdfbe35 | 'n lfnnyn m 'nhm l yjdwn m ylhmhm , 'w ytkslwn `n ltjdyd | laziness novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 8bb4fda | lHy@ mhy l mjmw`@ mn Hywt SGyr@ | novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| b49a3bf | Soy un hombre corriente, con pensamientos corrientes, que ha llevado una vida corriente. No me dedicaran ningun monumento y mi nombre pronto pasara al olvido, pero he amado a otra persona con toda el alma y eso para mi, es mas que suficiente | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f7fca44 | Because he's no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he's got new toys, it doesn't mean he wants anyone to play with his old toys. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 86ea979 | Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people. | Nicholas Sparks |