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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dfef9a1 | But you don't know what will happen.' 'No. That is our curse. To know that something will happen, and only after it is over, to look back and say, "Oh, that is what that meant. If only I'd known". It can break your heart." | Robin Hobb | ||
| d8418f3 | We did hard things for each other. Risked our lives. Gave up our lives and faced death, and then faced life again. You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8572597 | As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved. | revelation sorrow | Robin Hobb | |
| fc17429 | Dragon droppings?" Per asked in awe, as if that were the most fantastic part of their tale." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8ada0cb | It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any .. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 300c1e3 | Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6eebb04 | It's an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to you. Perhaps | Robin Hobb | ||
| fb90b81 | We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread. | fitz fool head heart imagine longing smile | Robin Hobb | |
| c2aab0c | The word of a cat is not to be relied upon. | cats | Robin Hobb | |
| 3445821 | If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest." -- | Robin Hobb | ||
| 40bb609 | There is a peculiar strength that comes to one who is facing the final battle. That battle is not limited to war, nor the strength to warriors. I've seen this strength in old women with the coughing sickness and heard of it in families that are starving together. It drives one to go on, past hope or despair, past blood loss and gut wounds, past death itself in a final surge to save something that is cherished. It is courage without hope. Du.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 99e1c45 | He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, so.. | choose connection depart done final finish friendship leave love over pain part-ways relationship return separate sever soul wait well wish | Robin Hobb | |
| d71e105 | You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones, Changer. He finally swiveled his head to stare at me from his deep-set eyes. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you." "p. 94 Nighteyes to Fitz" | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4b9f244 | It doesn't matter who a man's father is. Your parents made a child, but it's up to you to make the man you'll be. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 09c0f3b | Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else. | inspirational turning-point wintrow | Robin Hobb | |
| e8eada1 | Men cannot grieve as dogs do. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b083e0e | They call it love," said Vernon. "I don't know what they mean by it. What do mean [by love]?" "I don't exactly know," said Temple slowly. "I suppose it's wanting to be with a person, and thinking about nothing else. And thinking they're the most beautiful and all that. And going over everything that they've ever said to you, and wanting-- Well, I suppose if it's really love you want to marry them." | E. Nesbit | ||
| 9345d48 | Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when you can see perfectly well that it is flat and lumpy; and why they say that the earth goes round the sun, when you can see for yourself any day that the sun gets up in the morning and goes to.. | E. Nesbit | ||
| bd8bb6f | I don't understand," says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time." And yet they do." | reality | E. Nesbit | |
| e42a009 | Girls are just as clever as boys, and don't you forget it! | E. Nesbit | ||
| 59565ca | There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society. | children england insight life society | E. Nesbit | |
| 2710557 | Necessity is the mother of self-delusion. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 2932ce3 | Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f7e817a | Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?" "No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue"." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 0a22f11 | Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.' Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. 'Thanks, Dad. That's helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 3d5b1ba | Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 13427af | What's a lightwave ship?" "UFO, basically." "Cool," Angela said." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 62313f1 | He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| c64bf0b | Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 5931267 | I read to live. I read for life. | inspirational | Will Schwalbe | |
| 58b70d2 | Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of Reading." Lin writes that, "the man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighborhood." | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 5bb6428 | in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with .. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 805f9f2 | You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done. | positivity productivity | Will Schwalbe | |
| 8973fce | I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life. So I like to ask; How is this book changing mine? | Will Schwalbe | ||
| e4a4cb3 | two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude. | gratitude psychotherapy | Will Schwalbe | |
| d436c0f | It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic completely out the window, then that writer has me for good. Most book surprises aren't surprising at all but follow a formula, like the dead body that's certain to lurch out of a wreck being explored by deep-sea divers in just about every book that involves wrecks and divers. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 02164fd | If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| fc50bdd | No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future. | Rita Mae Brown | ||
| f599dec | In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all. | Rita Mae Brown | ||
| 68ba314 | As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness. | Philip Roth | ||
| eac591d | Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him. | thoreau | Charles Simic | |
| 3660449 | hndwnh bwdy sbz br pyshkhwn mywh frwsh lbkhndsh r gz myznym w dndnhysh r tf mykhnym :: Watermelons Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. | Charles Simic | ||
| 6dc07c2 | The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. | Charles Simic | ||
| 3ec3be6 | 'n 'bthl llfrS@ lty tmd lyWa ydan tshyr l~ mkhrj mn hdh lsjn ldhy 'smyh nfsy | Charles Simic |