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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 255354f | With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime. | Herman Wouk | ||
| c503ade | She had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world-the piece of knowledge that more than anything else divides women from girls. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 76e4d0c | In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth. | life | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 4b72103 | If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH | reflection shadow stranger stranger-in-the-mirror youself | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 29ecc54 | Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| e81ae4e | Part of me wanted to swoon into nothing, but the other women's bones were talking. I didn't see the bones but I knew they were there, under the house. The little runaway bones of skinny, hungry girls who didn't think they were worth much--anything--so they stayed after the party was over and let Derrick Blue tell them his stories. He probable didn't even have to use much force on most of them. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 1ca7af8 | I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death? | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| cfacebb | A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 25de940 | I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin--if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain. | death-and-dying death-of-a-loved-one empathetic empathy loss pain suffer suffering twin twins | Francesca Lia Block | |
| b55abfa | Life was small but good. (15) | life simplicity small | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 538cbf3 | Ash swirls in the air and the landscape is gray rubble that falls away into the sea. They kept saying global warming wan't going to be the end of us, that it was just threats from the fanatics, that we didn't have to make changes. But every year there were more earthquakes and flood and hurricanes and fires- every element expressing its imbalance. Every year the temperatures soared and the ice melted and no one did anything. My pink house -.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| ed91805 | One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 7c59f6c | Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht. | family-ties father | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 14b171d | If there was a bad guy we could appeal to the people because, like it or not, we, the huddled masses, want our public figures to be good or bad but rarely allow them to mix the two. Not good an bad. We place people in these categories, which then creates a smooth story-line but also a dichotomy. It's why we like our male movie stars to be either bad boys or heroes, our leading ladies sluts or soccer moms. We like our politicians to be tough.. | Bill Carter | ||
| 473b934 | It's my experience that people want to do something, but become confused by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, not knowing what to do, and in the end do the only thing they believe they possibly can: nothing. | Bill Carter | ||
| 6f9ea60 | You'll get through it," she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 8039dcf | She took no pleasure from the very things I loved, from her size, her amplitude, her luscious, zaftig heft. As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did. I was just one voice, and the world's voice was louder. I could feel her shame like a palpable thing, walking beside us on the street, crouched down between us in a movie theater, coile.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 742d4c7 | Born on third base and think they hit a triple, | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 433b5cf | If she married a man, she could let him plan, let him push, let him maneuver; and the world they inhabited would welcome them. They would always have a place. It would be easy, and Jo was so tired. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 917777a | People are like that. They can only give you what they have inside. So if this Sydelle character is giving you so much trouble, it's because she's nothing but trouble on the inside. She's just delivering what's in her heart into the universe. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| b426e1a | I always wondered, though, what the fathers felt as they drove up the street they used to drive down every night, and whether they really saw their former houses, whether they noticed how things got frayed and flaky around the edges now that they were gone. I wondered it again as I pulled up to the house I'd grown up in. It was, I noticed, looking even more Joad-like than usual. Neither my mother nor the dread life partner, Tanya, was much .. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| ee1c7e6 | There is a long time in me between knowing and telling." --GRACE PALEY" | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 74f205f | Admitting you had a problem was the first step - everyone knew that - but admitting you had a problem also left you open to the possibility that maybe you couldn't fix it | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 1dd1c69 | Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. "I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately. "But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked." "What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded. "Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with th.. | morals spiders | Piers Anthony | |
| 3948f06 | The promise of God is not that He will never give us more weight than we want to carry. The promise of God is that He will never put more on us than we can bear. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1cde53f | If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that says, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." The secret to happiness is found in obedience to God. How can we be happy if we are not obedient? How can we be obedient if we do not know what it is we are to obey? Thus the top and the tail of it is that happiness cannot be fully discovere.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3fd822f | The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine sovereignty. All suffering comes within the broader context of the sovereignty of God. | gospel suffering | R.C. Sproul | |
| b0eba21 | How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can't. Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2f36ec1 | The kingdom of God is not our only inheritance. In His last will and testament, Jesus left His heirs something else, something very special: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27)." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b1ae361 | Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord's Supper, and printed Bibles to read. | christianity economics ministers theology | R.C. Sproul Jr. | |
| 863eb9a | A good notion for a novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn't deserve it. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 8c593a5 | If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind. | R.C. Sproul Jr. | ||
| bbb0154 | It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God. | christian-faith faith god | R.C. Sproul | |
| ff442de | Deep within our souls we know that God exists and that He has given His law to us. We seek to suppress this knowledge in order to escape God's commands. But no matter how hard we try, we cannot silence this inner voice. It can be muffled but not destroyed. | R. C. Sproul | ||
| d14447b | I was new Christian. My conversation had been sudden and dramatic, a replica for me of the Damascus Road. My life had been turned upside down,, and I was filled with zeal for the sweetness of Christ. I was consumed with a new passion. To study the Scripture. To learn hoe to pray. To conquer the vices that assaulted my character. To grow in grace. I wanted desperately to make my life count for Christ. My soul was singing, "Lord, I want to be.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f434964 | Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose. | providence-of-god sovereignty-of-god suffering | R.C. Sproul | |
| d482914 | Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us. It is a thought we try to push from our minds. We are uncomfortable when another's death rudely intrudes into our lives and reminds us of what we will face at some unknown future date. Death reminds us that we are creatures. Yet as fearsome as death it is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God. When we en.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f14403f | Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first! | Piers Anthony | ||
| 9693a58 | Yes, I'm always hungry after a fatal injury. --Jordan | Piers Anthony | ||
| c7ab925 | She would have to ride the nightmare in her sleep. Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with it. | Piers Anthony | ||
| ab55565 | Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself. Bink put his face in his hands and cried. | freedom life | Piers Anthony | |
| 2c9853b | Do you seek to bribe Death?" Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious." | Piers Anthony | ||
| f582bf5 | Time has no meaning, space and place have no meaning, on this journey. All times can be inhabited, all places visited. In a single day the mind can make a millpond of the oceans. Some people who have never crossed the land they were born on have travelled all over the world. The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calender, the wrinkles and lines of the body. The self is not contained in any moment or any place, .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| b741e0a | It is the man who can't be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself. | Piers Anthony |