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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb2fc86 | I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life. This... this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from. | feelings home life rubble wounds | Beth Revis | |
| 8e1fbad | To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 93e118b | I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies--but I don't use that kind of language in public. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 770ac17 | The priest DID have it coming, though," Lelldorin declared hotly. "What priest?" "The priest of Chaldan at that little chapel who wouldn't marry us because Arianna couldn't give him a document proving she had her family's consent. He was very insulting." "Did you break anything?" "A few of his teeth is about all-- and I stopped hitting him as soon as he agreed to perform the ceremony." | funny garion hilarious lelldorin the-belgariad | David Eddings | |
| 2ebfaf4 | You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake. | David Eddings | ||
| fce1485 | Would you look at this?" Silk waved a piece of parchment at the old man. "What's the problem?" Belgarath took the parchment and read it. "That whole business was settled years ago," Silk declared in an irritated voice. "Why are these things still being circulated?" "The description IS colorful," Belgarath noted. "Did you see that?" Silk sounded mortally offended. He turned to Garion. "Do I look like a weasel to you?" "--an ill-favored, we.. | the-belgariad | David Eddings | |
| 578e199 | The Orb is not of itself evil. Evil is a thing that lies only in the hearts and minds of men--and of Gods, also. --Aldur | David Eddings | ||
| 4ceb9f3 | It's common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own." | clergy organized-religion religion society | David Eddings | |
| 02bd6fd | One does one's best" - Silk" | David Eddings | ||
| 8aa2f5a | Your--ah--intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra's whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one's tried to poison me for months. | funny garion polgara the-belgariad witty | David Eddings | |
| 1ea7d90 | Does bouncing count? -- Silk, The Belgariad | David Eddings | ||
| d347ac1 | What am I going to do?" asked Ce'Nedra. "First you ought to go wash your face," Polgara told her. "Some girls can cry without making themselves ugly, but you don't have the right coloring for it. You're an absolute fright. I'd advise you never to cry in public if you can help it." | witty | David Eddings | |
| bf7d4e7 | If he knew, if he was told in so many words, he would have to do the conventional thing, he would have to express the conventional shock and horror. But knowing without analyzing, knowing in a place that went deeper than words, he could see it, know it, accept it. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 8eb1e49 | By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age with a changing world. But fashions change, old loves return, and now that Sputniks clutter up the sky with new and unfamiliar moons, the readers of science fiction are willing to wait to read tom.. | science-fiction the-future | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 2ad3543 | Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 9093432 | He said, and his voice was strained as if he had had a mortal wound, 'Gwenhwyfar-' He so seldom spoke her formal name, it was always my lady or my queen, or when he spoke to her in play it was always Gwen. When he spoke it now, it seemed to her she had never heard a sweeter sound. 'Gwenhwyfar. Why do you weep?' Now she must lie, and lie well, because, she could not in honor tell him the truth. She said, 'Because-' and stopped, and then, in .. | gwenhwyfar | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 4fd2041 | Customs have no reason; they simply are. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| f8de987 | Fear was the worst thing. Fear would put her at the mercy of whatever misfortune came. Even the wild beasts could smell fear on your body and would come and attack, while they would flee from the courageous. This was why the bravest man could run among the deer with safety, so long as fear was not smelled on his skin | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 1deeaa0 | He leaned his head in his hands, as if the burden he bore were too great for endurance. 'You are wise', he said, then raised his head and stared at her with unflinching hatred. 'I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you! | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 8f31d98 | This need to be always on guard was an unmeasured expenditure of energy, the slow siphoning of the essence. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9d877fc | Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. But democracy is a forgiving God and America's heresies--torture, theft, enslavement--are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. | hypocrisy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 9b80a46 | And the plunder was not just of Prince alone. Think of all the love poured into him. Think of the tuitions for Montessori and music lessons. Think of the gasoline expended, the treads worn carting him to football games, basketball tournaments, and Little League. Think of all the time spent regulating sleepovers. Think of the surprise birthday parties, the daycare, and the reference checks on babysitters. Think of World Book and Childcraft. .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9e908ea | To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country as it has always declared itself and turning toward something murkier and unknown. It is still too difficult for most Americans to do this. But that is your work. It must be, if only to preserve the sanctity of your mind. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 7af98b7 | Through the windshield I saw the mark of these ghettos--the abundance of beauty shops, churches, liquor stores, and crumbling housing--and I felt the old fear. Through the windshield I saw the rain coming down in sheets. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9e29d4c | There are people whom we do not fully know, and yet they live in a warm place within us, and when they are plundered, when they lose their bodies and the dark energy disperses, that place becomes a wound. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| bcc0145 | This is how we lose our softness. This is how they steal our right to smile. No one told those little white children, with their tricycles, to be twice as good. I imagined their parents telling them to take twice as much. It seemed to me that our own rules redoubled plunder. It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because the moments we spent readying the mask,.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| fb115bb | But a great number of educators spoke of "personal responsibility" in a country authored and sustained by a criminal irresponsibility. The point of this language of "intention" and "personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d675c72 | But that is the point of white supremacy--to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (and particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification. | race racism white-people white-supremacy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| b558a4c | Fuck what you have heard or what you have seen in your son. He may lie about homework and laugh when the teacher calls home. He may curse his teacher, propose arson for the whole public system. But inside is the same sense that was in me. None of us ever want to fail. None of us want to be unworthy, to not measure up. | race-relations | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| e631657 | The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me, because even then, in some inchoate form, I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 88c038a | I am ashamed of how I acted that day, ashamed of endangering your body. But I am not ashamed because I am a bad father, a bad individual or ill mannered. I am ashamed that I made an error, knowing that our errors always cost us more. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| a239c63 | I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to "test me." And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. But, forgive me, son, I knew what she meant and wh.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d739161 | West Broadway. It was all that I'd felt looking at those Parisian doors. And at that moment I realized that those changes, with all their agony, awkwardness, and confusion, were the defining fact of my life, and for the first time I knew not only that I really was alive, that I really was studying and observing, but that I had long been alive--even back in Baltimore. I had always been alive. I was always translating. I arrived in Paris. I c.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 2b879df | As journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates has sensibly observed, "human beings are pretty logical and generally savvy about identifying their interests. Despite what we've heard, women tend to be human beings and if they are less likely to marry today, it is probably that they have decided that marriage doesn't advance their interests as much as it once did."60" -- | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 062172f | I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere back in Baltimore. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watch.. | inertia knowledge meaning mortality mourning purpose regret wasted-time wonder | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 55774a6 | I know that "gentrification" is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy, is the interest on enslavement, the interest on Jim Crow, the interest on redlining, compounding across the years, and these new urbanites living off of that interest are, all of them, exulting in a crime." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 890da1d | Her heart at that point was slippery and hot, and loud, so loud so loud. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5903d36 | It feels nice to emerge from the lies. | truth | Markus Zusak | |
| 35292de | To dream in doctrines, how tidy! | inspiration legalism rules | John le Carré | |
| b57a786 | I called back, but not loud enough, probably. I don't like making noise in public | Markus Zusak | ||
| 78feb2d | Arseholes who are expert at making something out of nothing [...] appeared equally capable of making nothing out of something | John le Carré | ||
| 4c9c285 | A dispassionate conceptual development of the typology of violence must by definition ignore its traumatic impact. Yet there is a sense in which a cold analysis of violence somehow reproduces and participates in its horror. A distinction needs to be made, as well, between (factual) truth and truthfulness: what renders a report of a raped woman (or any other narrative of a trauma) truthful is its very factual unreliability, its confusion, it.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 8d0d115 | Lacan define como 'heroe' al sujeto que (a diferencia de Caddell pero como Edipo, por ejemplo) asume plenamente las consecuencias de su acto, es decir, que no da un paso al costado cuando la flecha que dispara completa su circulo y vuela de regreso a el, a diferencia del resto de nosotros, que nos empenamos en realizar nuestro deseo sin pagar su precio. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 766c1f3 | Let's think about the fake sense of urgency that pervades the left-liberal humanitarian discourse on violence: in it, abstraction and graphic (pseudo)concreteness coexist in the staging of the scene of violence-against women, blacks, the homeless, gays . . . "A woman is rpaed every six seconds in this country" and "In the time it takes you to read this paragraph, ten children will die of hunger" are just two examples. Underlying all this is.. | Slavoj Žižek |