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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c6a897 | I believe you," he said firmly. "I dinna understand it a bit--not yet--but I believe you. Claire, I believe you! Listen to me! There's the truth between us, you and I, and whatever ye tell me, I shall believe it." He gave me a gentle shake. "It doesna matter what it is. You've told me. That's enough for now. Be still, mo duinne. Lay your head and rest. You'll tell me the rest of it later. And I'll believe you." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 17dcc9e | When you kissed me like that well maybe you weren't so sorry to be marrying me after all. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2b627cc | My grandsire,' Jamie observed evenly, 'has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 055c8f8 | She supposed that it it perhaps not fair to quarrel with someone on the basis of what you thought they were thinking | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9b81772 | Facing something down doesn't mean you aren't afraid of it," I said dryly. "Usually quite the opposite." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| dd9ff01 | When a man dies, it's only him," he said. "And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a man, to feed them, protect them. But any decent man can do it. A woman ..." His lips moved against my fingertips, a faint smile. "A woman takes life with her when she goes. A woman is ... infinite possibility." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7c362b2 | Jemmy won't get to go to Disneyland--but he'll have that. A family that laughs--and millions of little lights in the trees. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1cc73a0 | After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity? | eternity weeks | Diana Gabaldon | |
| ec883e4 | My first coherent thought was, "It's raining. This must be Scotland." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8616fd2 | You're real," he whispered. I had thought him pale already. Now all vestiges of color drained from his face." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 805a9cf | If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| feb3721 | Is it true--that I won't forget?" He paused for a moment, hand on her hair. "Aye, that's true," he said softly. "But it's true, too, that it willna matter after a time." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 98abfc9 | There is nothing more delightful in life than a feather bed and an open fire--except a feather bed with a warm and tender lover in it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 414ddd8 | He came through the front door just as I barreled into the hallway, and grabbed me round the waist, kissing me with sun-dusty enthusiasm and sandpaper whiskers. "You're back," I said, rather inanely. "I am, and there are Indians just behind me," he said, clutching my bottom with both hands and rasping his whiskers fervently against my cheek. "God, what I'd give for a quarter of an hour alone wi' ye, Sassenach!" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4e2b67f | By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ebd2bed | No, my Sassenach", he said softly. "Open your eyes. Look at me. For that is your punishment, as it is mine. See what you have done to me, as I have done to you. Look at me." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d11f7db | I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, would I walk through fire ag.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| dc98f29 | I, ah, I wasn't expecting--" I said idiotically. Brianna gave me a grin to match her father's, eyes bright as stars and damp with happiness. "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" "What?" said Jamie blankly." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7ea21ca | The crucial thing is to be mindful of what is occurring, not to control what is occurring. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| a87697d | Learning to look at each second as if it were the first and only second in the universe is essential in vipassana meditation. | Bhante Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 902b5ea | Nos hacemos fotos, no con el objeto de recordar, sino para completarlas despues con el resto de nuestras vidas. Por eso hay fotos que aciertan y fotos que no. Imagenes que el tiempo pone en su lugar, atribuyendo a unas su autentico significado, y negando otras que se apagan solas, igual que si los colores se borraran con el tiempo. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 1d9c6c2 | She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 4fd4d4a | Amicizia..." Corso si guardo attorno, aspettando che qualcuno gli spiegasse la parola. "I bar e i cimiteri sono pieni di amici inseparabili." | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 1724619 | Es la duda la que mantiene joven a la gente. La certeza es como un virus maligno. Te contagia de vejez. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| bb659fb | It's a beautiful thing to refuse to forget... | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 7cb811f | But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 30e134a | Mientras hay muerte - apunto- hay esperanza. - ?Es otra cita? - Es un chiste malo. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| c110a17 | When he stepped into the shower, the hot water scalded him. He let it run over his face, burning his eyelids. He put up with the pain, his jaw clenched and his muscles taut, suppressing the urge to howl with loneliness in the suffocating steam. For four years, one month, and twelve days, Nikon always got into the shower with him after they made love and soaped his back slowly, interminably. And often she put her arms around him, like a litt.. | nostalgia saudade | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 0a76f30 | Lillian was reminded of the Talmudic words: "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| aaacaf3 | If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves, said the modern Christ. But none of us could bear to pass through the tunnel which led from the house into the world on the other side of the walls, where there were leaves on the trees, where water ran beside the paths, where there was daylight and joy. We could not believe that the tunnel would op.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 7d45e39 | Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality. | growth innocence metamorphosis painful reality transformation wept woman | Anaïs Nin | |
| 083b2d5 | And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I had witnessed. Now I felt utterly poor, because I could not create a human companion. This hunger which had inhabited her entire being, which had thinned her blood, transpired through her bones, attacked the roots of her hair, given a fragility to her skin which was never to disappear entirely, had been so enormous that it had marke.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| e5e0073 | You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I will put down all the interpretations of what is said to you, the right interpretation, that is: the one that is not meant to injure, not meant to humiliate or accuse or doubt. And whenever something is said to you, you will look in my little dictionary to make sure, before you get desperate, that you have understood what i.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| fccd34f | I was growing sad, sad with restlessness and hunger. I felt that nothing would happen to me. I felt desperate with desire to be a woman, to plunge into living. Why was I enslaved by this need of being in love first? Where would my life begin? It seemed to me that a great current was passing all around me and that I was left out. I would have to find someone who felt as I did. But where? Where? | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6b062df | Perhaps," said the Doctor pensively. "It may also be that you Americans are work-cultists, and work is the structure that holds you up, not the joy of pure living." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 4c8aa1a | He was only for the joyous days, the days of courage, when she could share with him all the good things he brought with his passion for novelty and change. But he knew nothing of her; he was no companion to her sadness. He could never imagine anyone else's mood, only his own. His own were so immense and loud, they filled his world and deafened him to all others. He was not concerned to know whether she could live or breathe within the dark .. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 034743e | Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the first denial has set off a fatality of revenge which no amount of giving can placate. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 30a7fd1 | I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it does not match the subtlety of our minds or emotions, the multimedia of our unconscious life. | language literature reading words writing | Anaïs Nin | |
| 97c1de2 | When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 0a8f727 | The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at the present instant of encounter but a summation of his entire being which gives off this powerful drug capturing the fancy and attachment. | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| 643892f | But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom... | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| 7230a4b | She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I don't want to know, I only want to love her. | ecstasy love love-is-blind truth truthful | Anaïs Nin | |
| 51b7ba8 | She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tattered love and faith. He cut into the faith with negligent scissors, and she mended and sewed and rewove and patched. He wasted, and threw away, and could not evaluate or preserve, or contain, or keep his treasures. Like his ever torn pockets, everything slipped through and was lost, as he lost gifts, mementos--all the objects from the past. .. | love relationships | Anaïs Nin | |
| 79018c6 | What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as the creation of a painting... I created a woman for my artist life, bold, gay, courageous, generous, fearless; and another to please my father, a clear-sighted woman with a love of beauty, harmony, and self-discipline, critical and selective; and still another who lives in chaos, embraces the weak and the stumbling and the confused. | chaos disguise personal-mythmaking | Anaïs Nin |