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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2fe2c9a | When he went out it was freezing, and a pale winter sun was rising over Paris. No thought of escape had as yet crossed Monsieur Monde's mind. 'Morning, Joseph.' 'Morning, monsieur.' As a matter of fact, it started like an attack of flu. In the car he felt a shiver. He was very susceptible to head colds. Some winters they would hang on for weeks, and his pockets would be stuffed with wet handkerchiefs, which mortified him. Moreover, that mor.. | Georges Simenon | ||
| 0652385 | Si parte da un dettaglio qualsiasi, talvolta di poco conto, e senza volerlo si giunge a scoprire grandi principi. | Georges Simenon | ||
| 3ef0aea | It's in that place that we're reminded that true life comes when we're willing to admit that we've reached the end of ourselves, we've given up, we've let go, we're willing to die to all of our desires to figure it out and be in control. We lose our life, only to find it. | Rob Bell | ||
| 82ac233 | Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. | pain sorrow | Ron Rash | |
| cba3390 | You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing," he said. "But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to be called an adult, then ch-childish in their prejudices. All of us in the world really, I take to be h-halfers- half human, half divine, halfers of the best sort. I'd think the s-same must be true for the people of Wonderland, that there's...there is no such thing as s-someone who is not a halfer, or even a quarter-er, .. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 576dec9 | My ministers have informed me that Alyss is ridding her land of Glass Eyes." Overriding the imperative that Redd embedded in them is harder than she thought," added Ripkins. In other words, they're designed to kill and nothing more." The bodygaurds bowed that this was so. Perhaps the trick is not the override their imperative," Arch mused, "but the reprogram them to acknowledge a differnent master. Everyone in Woderland--even the otherwise .. | Frank Beddor | ||
| b1a6d03 | But I killed you," said Alyss. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 9b2c04e | Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited. | Bobby Henderson | ||
| 9eb60db | Do we have a plan?" she asked. "Yes," he told her. "Shoot everything that moves." | David Wellington | ||
| 7aaad9a | It doesn't matter what we choose. It simply matters what we are. | David Wellington | ||
| 2cb45a0 | Who says that I am dead knows nought at all. I am that is, Two mice within Redwall. The Warrior sleaps Twixt Hall and Cavern Hole I am that is, Take on my mighty role... Look for the sword In moonlight streaming forth At night, when days first hour Reflects the north From o'er the threshold Seek and you will see; | martin-the-warrior redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| 73d5e27 | He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting." | fear humility stoicism | Shelby Foote | |
| b7f388a | Hollindrake once wrote to me that the men who fight for a cause, a noble one, have more honor than any mere gentleman. - Felicity Langley (heroine) | Elizabeth Boyle | ||
| 4751cac | and even if he knew the answer, he would keep on doing this. because, the thing was, he loved her. he couldn't walk away if he wanted to. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 582c870 | i want to live. simple as that. we all do, don't we? | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| f3833b7 | You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| b5d7980 | Like sisters throughout time, whatever battles raged between them, it was always, always, all four of them against the rest of the world. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 0d323a0 | It contains some - not all, but some - of the things I want my daughters to know. And the greatest of these is love. please know that you had mine, unconditional, and powerful and awesome. So strong that I can't believe it will die with me. I want to imagine it as a living thing that goes beyond my body and my death, as a vine that has grown and wound its way through the very core of you all, and cannot be uprooted or destroyed, but rather .. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| cd6470d | I don't remember why it all went so wrong. I mean, I do remember. I remember what i did. I just don't remember why anymore. This - you and me - this feels so right. It just seems stupid - so stupid - that we had it before, and we let it go. We wasted so much time. I'm sorry.' She was close to tears. 'Hey. Don't. There's no point in that. It's the past, and that's where it belongs. This is us now. We're here.' But where's here? We're hiding .. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 1b1cd89 | life's too short, after all, isn't it? not to do the things you want - the things that make you happy? hannah had been thinking that quite a lot t. oday | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| ef5019c | amanda lifted a large handful of pictures out of the box and dropped them into her lap, flicking through them as they fall. they told a thousand stories, didn't they? the pictures of your life. but they left a lot out, too. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 8c9eb5a | My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well. | gender humor men sex women | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 259ddf9 | We cannot speak loudly or angrily at such times; we are not apt to be eager about mere worldly things, for our very awe at our quickened sense of the nearness of the invisible world, makes us calm and serene about the petty trifles of today. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 40a0790 | even before he left the room,--and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 3e56314 | Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker to hewn stone. She puts a deal o' meaning in 'em. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| a7410f7 | I am a man. I claim the right of expressing my feelings. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| ce07b6c | The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear. | morning peace | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| f7b7e87 | Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used-not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 590190b | It was one of Mrs. Hale's fitful days, when everything was a difficulty and a hardship; and Mr Lennox's appearance took this shape, although secretly she felt complimented by his thinking it worthwhile to call. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| cbec2c6 | I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment of dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure, at some former period of their lives. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 8fd4464 | And I too change perpetually--now this, now that--now disappointed and peevish because all is not exactly as I had pictured it, and now suddenly discovering that the reality is far more beautiful than I had imagined it. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 242c9b0 | But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons. If Titania had ever been dressed in white muslin and blue ribbons, and had fallen asleep on a crimson damask sofa in a back drawing-room, Edith might have been taken for her. Margaret was struck afresh by her cousin's beauty. They had grown up together fr.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 8fc1335 | Oh! a little bird told us," said Miss Browning. Molly knew that little bird from her childhood, and had always hated it, and longed to wring its neck. Why could not people speak out and say that they did not mean to give up the name of their informant?" | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | ||
| 8d6b659 | And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 96fbce9 | but the whispered tone had latterly become more drowsy; and Margaret, after a pause of a few minutes, found, as she fancied, that in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 5cbbd95 | While she sought for this paper, her very heart-pulse was arrested by the tone in which Mr. Thornton spoke. His voice was hoarse, and trembling with tender passion, as he said:-- "Margaret!" For an instant she looked up; and then sought to veil her luminous eyes by dropping her forehead on her hands. Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. "Margaret!" Still lower went the head; more closely h.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 10f61f1 | a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1f19760 | What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?" | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| d4ec098 | Mother's love is given by God, John. It holds fast for ever and ever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke,-it changes with every wind. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| fa06e3e | Snoopy Ned Nickerson went to the cupboard To find Nancy Drew a clue. But when he got there, | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 627d2db | Paradise was not far away when I died | Seamus Deane | ||
| 5fe5c71 | Be patient. Don't force your experiences on others. The moving of spirit is a great mystery, and how or why or when certain people wake up is beyond us. Let people have their own experiences. | Rob Bell | ||
| 264c9c6 | The Bible tells a story. A story that isn't over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in. | Rob Bell | ||
| 07f98bd | As a committed Christian, I have always struggled with locked doors--doors by which we on the inside lock out "the others"--Jews, Muslims, Mormons, liberals, doubters, agnostics, gay folks, whomever. The more we insiders succeed in shutting others out, the more I tend to feel locked in, caged, trapped." | outsiders | Brian D. McLaren |