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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 54a7ed7 | But what use was the semblance of power without the substance? | powerlessness pravdo queen-elizabeth-i semblance-of-power show-off | Alison Weir | |
| 0a018d7 | From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm. | eleanor-of-aquitaine history | Alison Weir | |
| 7677173 | There are too many Dudleys already in this world | innocent-traitor jane-grey | Alison Weir | |
| b27c741 | those people who believe in previous lives always think they were dukes or queens or something, ignoring the fact that most people back then spent their whole lives up to their knees in shit before dying of toothless old age at thirty. | Tad Williams | ||
| c92e02e | In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people. | queen responsibility | Tad Williams | |
| ce1be7b | Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work." | Tad Williams | ||
| f3c0d1d | But that is enough of such worrying. The river is waiting, and our hearts must be light, so we can faster travel. | Tad Williams | ||
| f5861af | Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy. | Tad Williams | ||
| aacd08a | but sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation. | Tad Williams | ||
| bfc35aa | Johnny Battistini had gone to Japan once as a replacement drummer for a metal band past its prime ... a one-shot gig that he had talked about for years afterward. At the time, Theo had been frustrated by Johnny's inability to describe Tokyo and why it had made such an impression on him. Although he spoke about it frequently ... he could never explain his fascination more clearly than: 'It was just ... weird. It's like a regular city, but th.. | Tad Williams | ||
| bcce0bb | Now I end my death song. I give my farewell to mountain and sky. It has been good to be alive. | Tad Williams | ||
| ae6c55c | He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me.... | jean-plaidy | Jean Plaidy | |
| f30a626 | It's a wonder, given your prowess with these delicious women, that there aren't dozens of little Bonapartes running around. Tell me, how do you account for that? | good-one josephine-bonaparte | Carolly Erickson | |
| 8aefe8f | Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us. | Margaret George | ||
| 236b481 | As long as the sun rose each day, as long as they could behold it, there life was secure. | Margaret George | ||
| 5cb14de | Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit--now that I've been climbing a hill every other day--that it's very difficult to think about the stresses in your life while you're trying to avoid falling backwards when a goat with large horns is chasing you because you came too close to the little patch of grass he was planning to eat for breakfast. | truth | Gene Wilder | |
| 2c5d87d | Every language belongs to a specific place. It can migrate, it can spread. But usually it's tied to a geographical territory, a country. Italian | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 9ecde41 | Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity of from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 4d3ef10 | But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of his dreams, its reality and its particular logic rendered meaningless in the light of day. The difference was so extreme that he could not accommodate the two places together in his mind. In this enormous new country, there seemed to be nowhere for the old to reside. There was nothing to link them; he was the sole link. Here life ceased to.. | identity immigration | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 318a58f | Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a bus, finding his resume in the bin. She confessed that Dimitri had gone with her to Palm Beach. One by one he stored the pieces of information in his mind, unwelcome, unforgivable. And for the first time in his life, another man's name upset Gogol more than his own. | jhumpa-lahiri names the-namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 1ca8ecb | The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her he had claimed her somehow, already made her his own. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| cda1dec | By now she has learned that her husband likes his food on the salty side, that his favorite thing about lamb curry is the potatoes, and that he likes to finish his dinner with a small final helping of rice and dal. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 99e15c8 | For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy--a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding. Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curi.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 80a63d6 | She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 3b757c7 | While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appear.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 3f96f42 | There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog? | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| e1e85dc | Here is what I learned: Simone Weil was right. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 47183ea | He has to forget you. He has to forget you and fall in love with me. That's what has to happen. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 90681cc | One of the problems with the first date is that you know very little about a person, so you overweight those few things that you do know,' the anthropologist and dating guru Helen Fisher told me. 'And suddenly you see they've got brown shoes, and you don't like brown shoes, so they're out. Or they don't like your haircut, so they're out. But if you were to get to know each other more, those particular characteristics might begin to recede i.. | Aziz Ansari | ||
| 7bd1a85 | Memories come to mind like excavated statues that have misplaced their heads. | poetry | Wisława Szymborska | |
| 6cf372a | a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts. | stone | Wisława Szymborska | |
| 5f52595 | Cierta gente huyendo de otra gente. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
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| 1265e17 | Classifieds" WHOEVER'S found out what location compassion (heart's imagination) can be contacted at these days, is herewith urged to name the place; and sing about it in full voice, and dance like crazy and rejoice beneath the frail birch that appears to be upon the verge of tears. I TEACH silence in all languages through intensive examination of: the starry sky, the Sinanthropus' jaws, a grasshopper's hop, an infant's fingernails, plankton.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 17cb070 | But any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 2ce6a9a | 'We're not... we haven't been writing poetry and sprinkling rose petals and tripping hand in hand under rainbows, Kay.' 'Just because you have Y chromosomes doesn't mean you can't tell each other how you feel, Dylan. Your penises won't fall off if you do.' | feelings humor m-m-romance | Kim Fielding | |
| 0611f8d | I sit in a thickly padded char that, much like this country, isn't quite as comfortable as it looks. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 3951b5f | I don't care if you're black, white, brown, yellow, red, green, or purple.' We've all said it. Posited as proof of our nonprejudicial ways, but if you painted any one of us purple or green, we'd be mad as hell. | Paul Beatty | ||
| fd54232 | That's the difference between most oppressed peoples of the world and American blacks. They vow never to forget, and we want everything expunged from our record, sealed and filed away for eternity. | Paul Beatty | ||
| aabaf7b | the Lost City of White Male Privilege, a controversial municipality whose very existence is often denied by many (mostly privileged white males). Others state categorically that the walls of the locale have been irreparably breached by hip-hop and Roberto Bolano's prose. That the popularity of the spicy tuna roll and a black American president were to white male domination what the smallpox blankets were to Native American existence. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 4400cae | This whole city's a Freudian slip of the tongue, a concrete hard-on for America's deeds and misdeeds. Slavery? Manifest Destiny? Laverne & Shirley? Standing by idly while Germany tried to kill every Jew in Europe? Why some of my best friends are the Museum of African Art, the Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts. And furthermore, I'll have you know, my sister's daughter is married to .. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 3695a0a | You'd rather be here than in Africa. The trump card all narrow-minded nativists play. If you put a cupcake to my head, of course, I'd rather be here than any place in Africa, though I hear Johannesburg ain't that bad and the surf on the Cape Verdean beaches is incredible. However, I'm not so selfish as to believe that my relative happiness, including, but not limited to, twenty-four-hour access to chili burgers, Blu-ray, and Aeron office ch.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 80fb2da | The face that feigns acknowledgment that the better man got the promotion, even though deep down you and they both know that you really are the better man and that the best man is the woman on the second floor. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 58f18ba | Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed. | Paul Beatty |