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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d3e63e | With a low bow, she is gone in a haze of roses and hope | Libba Bray | ||
| 16dfff0 | You must work always to understand your own heart so that it cannot be used against you. | Libba Bray | ||
| d38dbb7 | I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating. | Libba Bray | ||
| 154787d | Your mom doesn't know about the movie, does she?" "My mom doesn't know about the book," he said, "It turns out a novel isn't the worst place to hide things." | Ann Patchett | ||
| 304593e | We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are practically invisible, not even a dot, and yet we have each other to hold on to. When we do things differently, and very often we do, I remind myself that it is rarely a matter of right and wrong. We are simply two adults who grew up in different houses far away from one another. | Ann Patchett | ||
| e99a5d1 | It was about the inestimable burden of their lives: the work, the houses, the friendships, the marriages, the children, as if all the things they'd wanted and worked for had cemented the impossibility of any sort of happiness. The | Ann Patchett | ||
| dd91971 | I do not remember our love unfolding, that we got to know one another and in time became friends. I only remember that she came through the door and it was there, huge and permanent and first. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 5bc0ebb | People like to ask me if writing can be taught, and I say yes. I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to write dialogue, maybe even how to construct a plot. But I can't teach you how to have something to say. | Ann Patchett | ||
| bfa5f94 | As if music were a separate thing you could drive yourself into, make love to, fuck. | Ann Patchett | ||
| bb69c52 | Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. If you don't have the starch to stand up in class and admit what you don't understand, then I don't have the time to explain it to you. If you don't have a policy against nonsense you can wind up with a dozen timid little rabbits lined up in the hall outside your office, all waiting to whisper the same imbecilic question in your ear. | teaching timidity | Ann Patchett | |
| 61fef69 | I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees. "But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered." | Ann Patchett | ||
| 0be8d77 | Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It's not their responsibility to figure out where the rent is coming from. | novel | Ann Patchett | |
| 49a3f62 | The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. That is how one respects indigenous people. If you pay any attention at all you'll realize that you could never convert them to your way of life anyway. They are an intractable race. Any progress you advance to them will be undone before your back is turned. You might as well come down here to unbend the r.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 95424ad | Eating as a simple means of ending hunger is one of the great liberties of being alone, like going to the movies by yourself in the afternoon or, back in those golden days of youth, having a cigarette in the bathtub. It is a pleasure to not have to take anyone else's tastes into account or explain why I like to drink my grapefruit juice out of the carton. Eating, after all, is a matter of taste, and taste cannot always be good taste. The ve.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| e332786 | So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. | language silence speech words | Nicole Krauss | |
| 3bac061 | Your whole life, she says, you're searching for disaster--you're auditioning disasters--so you'll be well rehearsed when the ultimate disaster finally arrives. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 166b06d | Come le funi che aprono il sipario di un teatro, ogni tuo sorriso e un debutto. Una prima. Tu che sveli te stesso. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7d3e713 | No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll nevver be totally happy. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d5a8a96 | Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. | chuck-palahniuk courage damned fear | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 1e8090d | Choosing sides, the captain of the Red Team says, "We'll give you our best -pitcher...." And we'll take the kid who picks his nose and eats it. And we'll take the kid who smells like piss. We'll take the leper and the left-handed Satanist and the HIV-infected hemophiliac and the hermaphrodite and the pedophile. We'll take drug addiction and we'll take JPEGs of the world instead of the world, MP3s instead of music, and we'll trade real life .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 819e729 | I love and adore all of my family, except when I'm with them. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fe784ae | She named me Daisy St. Patience and never wanted to know what name I walked in the door with. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b253d5d | Buster was Rant was Buddy. Chester was Chet was Dad. Irene was Mom was Reen. How folks lay claim to their loved ones is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9d710cc | Driving east, I'm not sure what we're running from. Evie or the police of Mr. Baxter or the Rhea sisters. Or nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up, getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a8f0cc6 | This is how we must look to God. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| de627a5 | If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create. | thinking | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| c38cad1 | We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0bb8dcb | Believe in me and you shall die, forever. | death forever | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| fa30d92 | hnk 'shy kthyr@ l yfydn 'n n`rfh `n lns ldhyn nHbhm | love novel people | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 0f6ca8d | Parents, they'll screw you up every time. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b4d2932 | I am my own rakish seducer. I do serve as my own surly, brutish bounder. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0b5754d | It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness | diary | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ec4fbe8 | The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 38625e6 | A different toothbrush waits in every time zone. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b6d2548 | Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 09447cf | When you're dead probably not even homeless people and retarded people will want to trade you places. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b320daa | Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2e5d37e | Disperse your menacing armies! And relinguish your delicious stores of Nestle Crunch bars. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4df839f | You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. We can't give up our concept of who we were. All those adults playing archaeologist at yard sales, looking for childhood artifacts, board games, CandyLand, Twister, they're terrified. Trash becomes holy relics. Mystery Date. Hula Hoops. Our way of getting nostalgic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all because we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose we.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1ba5e57 | Marla said, "This isn't like when guys sit backward on the toilet and pretend it's a motorcycle. This is a genuine accident." | humor motorcycle page-108 | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 2d47029 | People will just knock each other down to dial 911 and be the big hero. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2a12269 | Everything you ever love will reject you or die | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 438b0b3 | According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. | american-society consumerism wanting | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 0026e9d | If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. | Chuck Palahniuk |