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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7dc2c7a | Oh" she says "the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a cafe. The last one left"." | Muriel Spark | ||
| 0ca6655 | How do you know when you're in love?' she said. 'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 4a441f7 | You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 0d39d7c | It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due | betrayal loyalty quote | Muriel Spark | |
| 6acc74b | They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans...So when the bread didn't rise, and the fish wasn't quite done at the bone, and the rice was scorched, he slapped Janie until she had a ringing sound in her ears and told her about her brains before he stalked on back to the store. | women | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 3b79460 | Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of a woman that belonged to child-bed. Her shoulders rounded a little, and she must have been conscious of her pelvis because she kept it stuck out in front of her so she could always see it. Tea Cake made a lot of fun about Mrs. Turners shape behind her back. He claimed that she had been shaped up by a cow kicking her from behind. She was an ironing board with things throwed at it. Then that same cow took and s.. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 72faa0a | Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil. It was like a wall of stone and steel. The funeral was going on outside. All things concerning death and burial were said and done. Finish. End. Never-more. Darkness. Deep hole. Dissolution. Eternity. Weeping and wailing outside. Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 7f181fd | Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 011e09f | Her resolutions against Jim Meserve were just like the lightning-bugs holding a convention. They met at night and made scorning speeches against the sun and swore to do away with it and light up the world themselves. But the sun came up next morning and they all went under the leaves and owned up that the sun was boss-man in the world. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 253592a | He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. | the-sacred | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 78e16c0 | But I ain't puttin' it in de street. Ah'm tellin' you.' 'Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 3499ca6 | Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| a155fac | I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person it pleases them to be. And few people want to be forced to ask themselves, "What is there is no me like my statue?" The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 3e66f4f | The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| d581777 | Dis love! Dat's just whut's got us uh pullin' and haulin' and sweatin' and doin' from can't see in de mornin' till can't see at night." Nanny to Janie" | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 28518c6 | The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men. | idols worship | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 4b6bd19 | You may have gotten into the habit of doubting that voice that was telling you quite clearly what was really going on. It is essential you get that back. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0d3e056 | The welcome book would have taught us that power and signs of status can't save us, that welcome--both offering and receiving--is our source of safety. Various chapters and verses of this book would remind us that we are wanted and even occasionally delighted in, despite the unfortunate truth that we are greedy-grabby, self-referential, indulgent, overly judgmental, and often hysterical. Somehow that book "went missing." Or when the editori.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d760525 | I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead mother much more than having an impossible one. [p. 47] | Anne Lamott | ||
| b7ccf03 | Sam was alternately distant and clingy and mean, because I am the primary person he banks on and bangs on. I stayed close enough so he could push me away. Sadie slowly floated off. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 63f925a | Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are. ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94] | Anne Lamott | ||
| d4eee71 | So I pray for people who are hurting, that they be filled with air and light. Air and light heal; they somehow get into those dark, musty places, like spiritual antibiotics. We don't have to figure out how this all works--"Figure it out" is not a good slogan. It's enough to know it does." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1cf96ed | What if Sam's heart got broken again? As with most kids who are fourteen, it has been spackled and duct-taped and caulked back together many times as it is. [p. 258] | Anne Lamott | ||
| 143ebd5 | I went around saying for a long time that I am not one of those Christians who is heavily into forgiveness -- that I am one of the other kind. But even though it was funny, and actually true, it started to be too painful to stay this way. They say we are not punished for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d62e594 | The single most radical thing I know . . . is that I get to take care of myself. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f1c4a1e | A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. | insight life-philosophy | Anne Lamott | |
| 55f122b | With THC in your system, you don't dream. And you need to. Otherwise it is like losing one of your senses. Dreams are part of your wholeness. ... when you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve. ... the dream world had rules in it. You couldn't read a clock in your dreams. It would not give you the time. If the lights were on in a room, you could not turn them off in a dream. ... in indigenous tribes all over .. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b22d33b | Until recently I barely even knew the signs of welcome, like the way a person plopped down across from me and sighed deeply while looking at me with relief: a shy look on someone's face that gave me time to breathe and settle in. I didn't know that wounds and scars were what we find welcoming, because they are like ours. Trappings and charm wear off, I've learned. The book of welcome says, Let people see you. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8f16f90 | I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. I can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5fea1ba | Maybe what you care most passionately about are fasting and high colonics--cappuccino enemas, say. This is fine, but we do not want you to write about them; we will secretly believe that you are simply spiritualizing your hysteria. There are millions of people already doing this at churches and New Age festivals across the land. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a811e96 | Rumi: "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." | Anne Lamott | ||
| af9807f | He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 7516358 | No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You want to know the price I pay for being a writer? Okay, I'll tell you. I travel by plane a great deal. And I'm usually seated next to some huge businessman who works on files or his laptop computer for a while, and then notices me and asks me what I do. And I say I'm a writer. Then there's always a terrible silence. Then he says eage.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| cf9c3bb | Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions. | faith holiness holy ordinary | Anne Lamott | |
| da2397d | Help is the sunny side of control. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f00a7ae | being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised. | sobriety | Anne Lamott | |
| a3df783 | Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. They are full of all the things that you don't.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f1af955 | How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment. 'Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe,' he said. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f3def2a | If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder. | Anne Lamott | ||
| e10772f | He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands. | character charismatic inner looks mappereance personality | Anne Lamott | |
| 6dd0a1c | Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8cdcbe8 | Even if only the people in your writing group read your memoirs or stories or novel, even if you only wrote your story so that one day your children would know what life was like when you were a child and you knew the name of every dog in town -- still, to have written your version is an honorable thing to have done. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 7d78b4d | whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you're lost in the forest, let the horse find the way home. You have to stop directing, because you will only get in the way. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 942ff8f | My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are. | Anne Lamott |