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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6891d69 | If we speak of an angry God at all, we will speak of a God angry at indifference, angry at apathy, angry at racism and violence, angry at inhumanity, angry at waste, angry at destruction, angry at injustice, angry at hostile religious clannishness. That anger is never against us (or them); it is against what is against us (and them). | god | Brian D. McLaren | |
| 07d4ce7 | Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation? | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 21fa05b | These days, if your child announced that they wanted to be a politician most people would react as if they had come down to the breakfast table and said, 'Mother, Father - I've decided to become a massive pervert. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d0276b5 | she is in the girl Matrix trying to catch invisible slow mo bullets those of us outside the Matrix can't see. You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing is happening. When a woman finds the right person, on the other hand, they just disappear for six months and then they resurface, eyes shiny and usually about six pounds heavier. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ee496f9 | And that was the point I knew I just loved this filthy, ugly, loquacious man in a fur coat, who would spend the day roaming all over town, looking for bright lights, and laughter - and then at night come on stage, and unbutton two buttons on his waistcoat, with his clumsy, fat fingers, and show you his heart beneath. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 2f90a73 | Personally, I find the idea that women are supposed to "love" shopping bizarre - nearly every woman I know wants to cry after 45 minutes of trawling the high street looking for a shirt and hits the gin with alacrity upon the sad occasions when jeans have to be found." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 2e80106 | You actually don't exist while you're in your bedroom," I say to the dog, so that she knows this important fact. "Teenage girls in bedrooms aren't real." -- | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e345144 | This is what happens, when it feels like the weight of the world is crushing right down on you. You fear it's going to change you forever. And you're right. It is. It's going to turn you into something that is both beautiful, and the most indestructible thing on the planet. I am both touched, and amused, by how apt its name is: Hope. "I relate to you," I say to the Hope Diamond, as I stand there, staring at it. "I get what you are saying. Y.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 87b698a | Anger is just fear, brought to the boil. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 471bcbf | It's amazing to me that it's still considered a notable, commendable trait -'Oh, she's a well-known feminist' -in a woman, or a girl, or a man, or a boy. That that is the unusual thing. Really, it should be the reverse. Rather than what seems like a minority having to spend time, energy, brain and heart explaining why they're 'into' equality, the majority should be explaining why they're not. You put the time into explaining why -in a world.. | feminism respect | Caitlin Moran | |
| f85f88f | Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5e9f623 | for all that people have tried to abuse it and disown it. "feminism" is still the word we need. No other word will do. And let's face it, there has been no other word, save "Girl Power" -- which makes you sound like you're into some branch of Scientology owned by Geri Halliwell. That "Girl Power" has been the sole rival to the word "feminism" in the last 50 years is a cause for much sorrow on behalf of the women. After all, P. Diddy has had.. | humor | Caitlin Moran | |
| 50e4c8d | When God gives you no lemons - make nonmonade! | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 93c8f28 | It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. --Louis L'Amour | Louis L'Amour | ||
| ba5a2f3 | To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is ... a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men. | Michael Shaara | ||
| d2f5a62 | When he thought of the old man he could see him suddenly in a field in the spring, trying to move a gray boulder. He always knew instinctively the ones you could move, even though the greater part was buried in the earth, and he expected you to move the rock and not discuss it. A hard and silent man, an honest man, a noble man. Little humor but sometimes the door opened and you saw the warmth within a long way off, a certain sadness, a slow.. | Michael Shaara | ||
| d91760f | I wish we could take the hill. Could flood right on over it and end the war, wipe them all away in one great motion. But we can't. No matter how much I wish...or trust in God... | the-killer-angels | Michael Shaara | |
| 2f6a703 | Really, a novel does not exist, does not happen, until readers pour their own lives into it. If | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 20ed1d6 | May there be no frost on your potatoes, nor worms in your cabbage. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| f8a0c21 | Actually, Saint Peter was in jail, one time --" I laugh. "Babies don't go in jail." "This happened when they were all grown up." I didn't know Baby Jesus grows up." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| afba38e | It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew. | life | Emma Donoghue | |
| 9645d40 | Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 492f866 | Adults could be barefaced liars too, of course, and about no subject so much as their own bodies. In Lib's experience, those who wouldn't cheat a shopkeeper by a farthing would lie about how much brandy they drank or whose room they'd entered and what they'd done there. Girls bursting out of their stays denied their condition till the pangs gripped them. Husbands swore blind that their wives' smashed faces were none of their doing. Everybod.. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 7c9082f | In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thing like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then ev.. | life-lessons people stress world | Emma Donoghue | |
| 6014355 | So they're fake?" "No, no. Stories are a different kind of true." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| fdca3ad | If Earth was such unworthy soil for God's best specimens, why did he perversely plant them there? | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 8452523 | At the exit, they sell home-made soap with the evil eye attached, to protect yourself from people who'd wish you ill. I buy one, wondering, How do you hang it inside yourself? | Emma Forrest | ||
| a095135 | In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think. | love love-humor men relationships | Emma Forrest | |
| 6b2527f | You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay. | inspirational life | Emma Forrest | |
| d6c5786 | my quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird to those cold, deep patches of sea where people lose their lives. | Emma Forrest | ||
| c8414ff | He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for you." "I'm afraid of loving again. I'm afraid I've lost my faith." "You haven't." "The trapdoor I have in my mind? That can go to those bad places? It's almost gave way again." "You know the ways to keep it nailed shut." | depression | Emma Forrest | |
| b26fe16 | But they left their treasure, gold and more gold. Some of it is found- but the finders never tell, because you see they'd only get one-third then: that's the law of treasure. They want it all, so never speak of it. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 365d5eb | But nothing could touch her because there was nothing to touch. | Lilian Pizzichini | ||
| 299c614 | The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 97c5d80 | I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut. | nowhere passages see-through shut try | Jean Rhys | |
| ec9a884 | Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other. | patriarchy revisionist-history romance | Jean Rhys | |
| 9759aea | Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set. Nobody would know I had ever been in it. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 98438d6 | Why did you make me want to live? Why did you do that to me? | Jean Rhys | ||
| 400c51e | I remember how covered in blood Rhys was. All over his shirt, his jeans, caked on his neck, his hands. I didn't even think about it then, but it must have belonged to his mother, father. For seven days, he wore their deaths and he never said a word to any of us about it. I feel so bad for him and I don't know how to tell him, so I reach for his hand and hold it as hard as I can, crushing his fingers in mine. It's a futile attempt to redirec.. | Courtney Summers | ||
| e5b0f29 | even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more. | doubt faith learning | Brandon Mull | |
| cd0a35b | All right. Since the world is about to end, why not give an impossible jailbreak one last try? | Brandon Mull | ||
| dd4e227 | Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 706351b | you sometimes act as if you think growing up means the rules don't apply anymore. On the contrary--a big part of growing up is learning self-control. You work on that, and then we can talk about expanding your privileges. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 70c5bd1 | They would probably search for him all over the zoo--the last place he'd been seen. He wondered if any evidence would implicate the hippo. | zoo | Brandon Mull |