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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0386e61 | Mike took a deep breath and locked all his muscles in place, so he didn't follow her. His fingers tingled where he had touched her skin, it was so soft, he'd never felt anything as soft. | paranormal-romance werewolves | Amanda Clark | |
| 0f5cbce | At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional parties. In other words, the traditional parties in that particular organisational form, with the particular men who constitute, represent and lead them, are no longer recognised by their class (or fraction of a class) as its expression. When such crises occur, the immediate situation becomes delicate and dangerous, because the field is open .. | the-rise-of-fascism | Antonio Gramsci | |
| 7bde4c2 | If you want to solve a big problem, you need to go from taking credit, to sharing credit, to multiplying credit. The systems that all work, multiply credit. Multiplying credit is just another way of making everyone in the system feel ownership. And the byproduct is both resilience and propulsion. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 711bfa4 | God always forgives. Man often forgives. Nature never forgives. -- | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 0f33479 | To learn how to learn, you have to love learning--or you have to at least enjoy it--because so much learning is about being motivated to teach yourself. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 0a63446 | There were no footmarks.' 'Meaning that you saw none?' 'I assure you, sir, that there were none.' 'My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher. | logic | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 2e46ce4 | By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me." | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 5dc82b5 | There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world. | Arthur Conan Doyle Sir | ||
| 5ab5f1c | The God of Thunder has fallen into the milk pail! | Lois Lowry | ||
| f7c52ca | Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen. | danger fear ghost-stories | Lois Lowry | |
| 7e3fa18 | Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation. | Lois Lowry | ||
| e1eae22 | All of his strength and blood and breath were entering the earth now. His brain and spirit became part of the earth. He rose. He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c3e7076 | You've ruined it now," she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan's outstretched hand. "It deserved to live, and to fly." -- | Lois Lowry | ||
| bb1f4eb | Thnks fr th mmrs- Gabe | insperational legit true-to-my-lyfe | Lois Lowry | |
| f222b69 | Jonas wasn't interested, just then, in wisdom. It was the colors that fascinated him. "Why can't everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?" The Giver shrugged. "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences." He thought for a moment. "We gained control of many things. But we had .. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8b25667 | It was so--oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!" The Giver nodded. "It is." "Do you see it all the time?" "I see all of them. All the colors." "Will I?" | red | Lois Lowry | |
| f8d1d9b | We're almost there, Gabriel," he whispered, feeling quite certain without knowing why. "I remember this place, Gabe." And it was true. But it was not a grasping of a thin and burdensome recollection; this was different. This was something that he could keep. It was a memory of his own. He hugged Gabriel and rubbed him briskly, warming him, to keep him alive. The wind was bitterly cold. The snow swirled, blurring his vision. But somewhere ah.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0d4425f | Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid. | songs | Lois Lowry | |
| 04f4e00 | have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love. | Lois Lowry | ||
| f86d20c | I wish I could have a cupcake, | Lois Lowry | ||
| f4efddf | I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking. | friends love relationship thoughts understading | Lois Lowry | |
| 9809d42 | Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him. | Lois Lowry | ||
| bc1f34d | I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 377cd51 | There's much more. There's all that goes beyond--all that is Elsewhere--and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future." He rested for a moment, breathing deeply. "I am so weighted with them," he said." | Lois Lowry | ||
| b148b95 | Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech. Once, when he had been a Four, he had said, just prior to the midday meal at school, "I'm starving." Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision. He was not starving, it was pointed out... | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0cd90e5 | Surely that gift--the gift of a world of human decency--is the one that all countries hunger for still. | Lois Lowry | ||
| f9632eb | The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d7395e9 | I cannot kill someone, he thought. | ethics killing | Lois Lowry | |
| 786b36a | JONAS RECEIVER OF MEMORY Go immediately at the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the House of the Old and present yourself to the attendant. Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day. From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen and you will receive answers. Do not discuss your training with any other member of the communit.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8904093 | Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness? | Claire Messud | ||
| 9fb45f9 | With someone you've always known and have loved without thinking, there's the strangeness of knowing everything and nothing about them at the same time. | Claire Messud | ||
| 0c80b90 | And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone. | Claire Messud | ||
| 7c55440 | I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side. | John Banville | ||
| 4fa12cb | He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with.. | emptyness fear human | John Banville | |
| 35c19fa | I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine. | John Banville | ||
| e9ba097 | What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it. | John Banville | ||
| 217ea5f | By the way, leafing through my dictionary I am struck by the poverty of language when it comes to naming or describing badness. Evil, wickedness, mischief, these words imply an agency, the conscious or at least active doing of wrong. They do not signify the bad in its inert, neutral, self-sustaining state. Then there are the adjectives: dreadful, heinous, execrable, vile, and so on. They are not so much as descriptive as judgmental. They ca.. | John Banville | ||
| 6312d23 | White free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 71cace5 | progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 9aed557 | I wanted to love and to be loved. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 5f4b2da | They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 9fe4e09 | Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house. | god | Zadie Smith | |
| e0a0207 | I was fourteen: the world was pain. | Zadie Smith | ||
| d2667dd | One of the many things TV does not show you is the potential range and horror of the human form. For this alone, thought Alex, it is rightly celebrated. | Zadie Smith |