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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4bc3ee | You must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| be8ac53 | Ah, Milk Duds. The official candy of pissed-off fat women everywhere | Susan Donovan | ||
| 571cc5f | A punching bag. The guy was pounding on a punching bag. That realization took about a nanosecond to register in her brain before the real important information came to the forefront: LoriSue, God bless her slutty little soul, had been absolutely correct. He was male-stripper material, and he'd been thoughtful enough to strip to a pair of athletic shorts on his very first night in the neighborhood. | lust romance stud | Susan Donovan | |
| dace5aa | It's a hard pill to swallow when you have to admit, even to yourself, that you were wrong about the person you were certain was perfect for you. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| e4139a1 | Sometimes it's important to let the people we care about know that a single incident doesn't have to define them | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 9239eb0 | Are you free Friday night? Around six thirty? I'd like for us to go on our third date. And you know what that means." "I do happen to be available, and I'm well aware of what sometimes happens on the third date. But for your information, we're not quite there yet." "We're not?" "No." "Are you sure? Because I feel like we could be." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 4d03ab2 | The constant vigilance and my heightened anxiety that I'd screw it up anyway exhausted me, but I persevered. | communication observation perseverance relationships social-anxiety | Tracey Garvis Graves | |
| 8752265 | You know that saying, 'Act now, apologize later?' I'm pretty much the poster boy. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| f29243a | I do think we have the capacity to love more than one person at a time, and that the love we feel for someone can be displaced, transferred, shifted. Even shared with another. But not lost. At least not forever. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 43cd51a | The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow. | mountaineering | Trevanian | |
| 305dbff | Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust? | lust youth | Trevanian | |
| b140cd3 | Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood," | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 3529a42 | Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant . . ." | southern-writers | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 6b20eb4 | I have 50 or 60 pages on the [new] novel but I still expect to be a long time at it. It's a theme that requires prayer and fasting to make it get anywhere. I manage to pray but am a very sloppy faster. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 0fc4414 | I have one of those food-chopper brains that nothing comes out of the way it went in. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 7ac0f3e | There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| bd99b16 | He had never thought himself a great sinner before but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him lest it cause him despair. He realized that he was forgiven for sins from the beginning of time, when he had conceived in his own heart the sin of Adam, until the present, when he had denied poor Nelson. He saw that no sin was too monstrous for him to claim as his own, and since God loved in proportion as He forgave, he felt re.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 5f599b1 | You can't just say NO," he said. "You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another." | behavior repentance | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 5437ce8 | Its face was like the face she had seen in some medieval paintings where the martyr's limbs are being sawed off and his expression says he is being deprived of nothing essential. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| c01ca67 | What we don't protect ourselves against are people and things that make us feel good--or rather, too good. We must prepare for pride and kill it early--or it will kill what we aspire to. We must be on guard against that wild self-confidence and self-obsession. "The first product of self-knowledge is humility," Flannery O'Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves. The" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2800a35 | In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not pretend to do otherwise. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| cb534bd | She raised her hands from the side of the pen in a gesture hieratic and profound. A visionary light settled in her eyes. She saw the streak as a vast swinging bridge extending upward from the earth through a field of living fire. Upon it a vast horde of souls were rumbling toward heaven. There were whole companies of white-trash, clean for the first time in their lives, and bands of black niggers in white robes, and battalions of freaks and.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| ac8d9de | His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. | beautiful | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 286d777 | The first product of self-knowledge is humility. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 00dc5d3 | The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 6ee30f9 | Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world. | napping | Abigail Thomas | |
| 8122130 | Siete vestidos pueden ser toda una vida: el claro de la primera manana, el de regar las hortensias, el de tirar piedras al rio, el de aquella noche que se quemo el mantel de fiesta con un cigarrillo. Ahora, asi apretados, ya no hay fiesta ni hortensias ni rio. Si, Genoveva, hacer un equipaje es como enterrar algo. | Alejandro Casona | ||
| bdb3dc7 | Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 238f9ef | She'd never known fear had a taste, but it did. | Ron Rash | ||
| b25555f | Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for "pie in the sky." | James H. Cone | ||
| 91e9210 | The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God's presence in Jesus' solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair. | liberation-theology lynching | James H. Cone | |
| f39877f | One can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of a pure regard for truth," wrote French philosopher, activist, and mystic Simone Weil. "Christ likes for us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms." | James H. Cone | ||
| 5f98f8f | Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life! | alcoholism drink moon | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 00383a0 | They were the cars at the fair that were whirling around her; no, they were the planets, while the sun stood, burning and spinning and guttering in the centre; here they came again, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto; but they were not planets, for it was not the merry-go-round at all, but the Ferris wheel, they were constellations, in the hub of which, like a great cold eye, burned Polaris, and round and r.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 9fbed31 | Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged! | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| a3dd419 | It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir! | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 15ca3b6 | My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 5d40f74 | I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive. | life | Sarah Miller | |
| 1fcc961 | And I felt, I think for the first time, a rage against men. Not because they could say, "I'm going," and go. Not because they could go to college and become lawyers or preachers while women could only be drudge or ornament but nothing between. Not because they could be parents at no cost to their bodies. But because when they love a woman they may be with her, and all society will protect their possession of her." -- | Isabel Miller | ||
| b34bf06 | Describing our romantic longings in 'Life preserves,' therapist Harriet Lerner shares that most people want a partner 'who is mature and intelligent, loyal and trustworthy, loving and attentive, sensitive and open, kind and nurturant, competent and responsible.' No matter the intensity of this desire, she concludes: 'Few of us evaluate a prospective partner with the same objectivity and clarity that we might use to select a household applia.. | finding-love love love-at-first-sight love-quotes pick-up-line picky romance romantic-partner | bell hooks | |
| c2b31c1 | Of course, adult life is not always so simple. Some issues need to be revisited--not dropped--and talk is essential to this process. We need words to begin to heal betrayals, inequalities, and ruptured connections. Our need for language, conversation, and definition goes beyond the wish to put things right. Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and .. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 3dba3d0 | Don't use "below-the-belt" tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Don't put the other person down." | Harriet Lerner | ||
| e175a78 | Methinks, Oh! vain ill-judging Book, I see thee cast a wishful look, Where reputations won and lost are In famous row called Paternoster. Incensed to find your precious olio Buried in unexplored port-folio, You scorn the prudent lock and key, And pant well bound and gilt to see Your Volume in the window set Of Stockdale, Hookham, or Debrett. Go then, and pass that dangerous bourn Whence never Book can back return: And when you find, condemn.. | Matthew Lewis | ||
| 49698f8 | To one laden with crime, death came armed with double terror. | Matthew Lewis |