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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0c10436 | I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 88c9f63 | When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, "Where are all my friends?" | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 9ae1f44 | We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 1b4b416 | All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 9ca1d33 | The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 2e27dac | The ways of the Lord are filled with wonder and mystery. | Bette Greene | ||
| dacba17 | Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me? | Bette Greene | ||
| ae13d77 | Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage. | lauren-bacall | Katharine Hepburn | |
| 94ad58d | Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Saboteur, The Big Clock . . . We lived in monochrome those nights. For me, it was a chance to revisit old friends; for Ed, it was an opportunity to make new ones. And we'd make lists. The Thin Man franchise, ranked from best (the original) to worst (Song of the Thin Man). Top movies from the bumper crop of 1944. Joseph Cotten's finest moments. I can do lists on my own, of course. For instance: best Hitchcock film.. | A.J. Finn | ||
| c79de5b | Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early. | Lauren Bacall | ||
| e2f8718 | There is always the fear that a wonder of the world can't live up to expectations. Not so. The Taj Mahal was breathtakingly beautiful - if anything, better even than I'd been told. Beauty like that is too dazzling to be imagined. | Lauren Bacall | ||
| 96b46b1 | Fear seems to exist only in our imagination. Without imagination, without the ability to see our place in the future, to work out the consequence of a particular event in all its gruesome detail, we would be quite fearless. I suppose that is why serious violent accidents, such as car crashes, avalanches, and long bouncing falls are frequently described as not frightening while actually taking place. It's as if so much is happening to you, s.. | Joe Simpson | ||
| 088e659 | But I think that this apparent desire to be a victim cloaks an opposing dread: that Americans are in truth profoundly, neurotically terrified of being victims, ever, in any way. This fear is conceivably one reason we initiated the particularly vicious and gratuitous Iraq war--because Americans can't tolerate feeling like victims, even briefly. I think it is the reason that every boob with a hangnail has been clogging the courts and haunting.. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 7643364 | The place Joanne is building inside [herself] has rooms for all of this. Not just rooms. Beautiful ones. For Karl and Jerry and Karen and Nate in his cowboy hat and the hot-tub guy and movie directors and old-lady healers and people trying to love their asses and people who think they're stupid for it. In these rooms, each thing that looks crazy or stupid will be like a drawing you give your mother, regarded with complete acceptance and put.. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 41f1c16 | It was a day to be inside somewhere, cosseted and loved; by a warm fireside with the clatter of friendly cups and saucers, a sleepy cat licking his paws, a cyclamen in a pot on a windowsill putting forth new buds. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 908738f | I am no traveller, you are my world. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 33b1179 | Rebecca, always Rebecca. Wherever I walked in Manderley, wherever I sat, even in my thoughts and in my dreams, I met Rebecca. I knew her figure now, the long slim legs, the small and narrow feet. Her shoulders, broader than mine, the capable clever hands. Hands that could steer a boat, could hold a horse. Hands that arranged flowers, made the models of ships, and wrote "Max from Rebecca" on the flyleaf of a book. I knew her face too, small .. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a7d4273 | It's natural, I suppose," said Colonel Julyan, "for all of us to wish to look different. We are all children in some ways." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 01e48be | I don't want to love like a woman or feel like a woman, Mr Davey; there's pain that way, and suffering, and misery that can last a lifetime. I didn't bargain for this; I don't want it. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 2a76499 | How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison, which is apt indeed. It passes from the tongue to the parched lips, and from the lips back to the heart. And the heart controls the body, and the mind also. Shall I be free of it one day? | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 962caaa | Suddenly I saw a clearing in the dark drive ahead, and a patch of sky, and in a moment the dark trees had thinned, the nameless shrubs had disappeared, and on either side of us was a wall of colour, blood-red, reaching far above our heads. We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for them. They startled me with their crimson face.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1c06b04 | This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense. It has little in common with the obsession of the politician or the artist, for instance, for both of these understand in a greater or lesser degree the impulse which drives them. But the sportsman fanatic - that is another matter entirely. His thoughts fixed solely on a vision of that mounted trophy against the wall, the eyes now dead that were .. | hunting sportsman trophy | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 7f041c9 | Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gape.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| aeda118 | with its graceful language and poetic conceit, and even more because it expressed his own philosophy of science. To wit: As earnestly as men may seek to understand the workings of the universe, they must remember that God is not hampered by their limited logic--that all observed effects may have been wrought by Him in any one of an infinite number of omnipotent ways, and these must ever evade mortal comprehension. | Dava Sobel | ||
| 69a7c98 | I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business of the Church." "Then what is?" "Salvation." | Catherine Marshall | ||
| 4f73825 | Karpo, as always, was dressed in black. His leather coat was black. Even his scarf and fur hat were black. Rostnikov thought that clothes reflected the people who wore them. Rostnikov himself dressed neatly, conservatively, in old comfortable suits and ties Sarah had bought for him at market stalls. As for Karpo's choice of black, Rostnikov was not given to simple judgment. He himself was rather fond of black, which was either the absence o.. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 2e96bcb | I can't stay," said Chanu, and they clung to each other inside a sadness that went beyond words and tears, beyond that place, those causes and consequences, and became a part of their breath, their marrow, to travel with them from now to wherever they went." | Monica Ali | ||
| 5ca85d3 | People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex with women is totally different from having sex with men. But it isn't. No more than having sex with anyone is totally different from having sex with anyone else. | sexuality | Ariel Levy | |
| 66905b0 | One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been. | innovation modernism | Peter Watson | |
| 9937553 | Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough. | writing | James Salter | |
| d82844a | Summer mornings, the light of the world pouring in and the silence. It was a barefoot life, the cool of the night on the floorboards, the green trees if you stepped outside, the first faint cries of the birds. He arrived in a suit and didn't put it on again until he went back to the city. | James Salter | ||
| 64e7a7b | He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two. | bittersweet epigraph friend friendship once-in-a-lifetime poignant sad tender | James Salter | |
| 34544a7 | How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others? | James Salter | ||
| 3c8b20d | She comes to life with a soft exhausted sound, like someone saved from drowning. | James Salter | ||
| 152373a | WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats b.. | James Salter | ||
| c4b1d83 | For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there. | James Salter | ||
| b6877ed | Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it. | Beth Revis | ||
| 9dd74b1 | Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another. | broken claustrophobic images important light metal shattered sky sun unnatural walls wrong | Beth Revis | |
| db8134e | Para mi, por siempre, no hay mas Nueva York. Pero, mi corazon susurra, hay un Elder. | Beth Revis | ||
| 3bd28f1 | What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the darkness? | Beth Revis | ||
| 6ea97ff | But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick. | funny scientists shades-of-earth | Beth Revis | |
| 94874a9 | I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it's like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that's me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am--maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am--is .. | myself | Beth Revis | |
| d9fe23c | When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn't mean you didn't cry. | dreams dry ella-shepard face tears waking-up | Beth Revis | |
| d845bc2 | She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way. My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire--no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul. | eyes fear fire flames soul window | Beth Revis |