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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c537fa | Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 335c447 | Inside, the doctor filled an eyedropper with goat milk and began to drip it into the back of the marten's throat. It filled him with immense medical satisfaction when eventually it urinated on the knee of his trousers. This indicated healthy renal functioning. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 05f4ee0 | There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence .. | legend | Colleen McCullough | |
| 032bf8a | No creo que el final sea muy feliz. Creo que obtendremos el resultado que se obtiene siempre con la imparcialidad. Nadie nos dara las gracias, y todos nos criticaran. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 8a4395a | But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us for the slight God did in not creating you in His image. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 0d83bd7 | And people are different from animals because they can have pictures on the screens in their heads of things which they are not looking at. They can have pictures of someone in another room. Or they can have a picture of what is going to happen tomorrow. Or they can have pictures of themselves as an astronaut. Or they can have pictures of really big numbers. Or they can have pictures of Chains of Reasoning when they're trying to work someth.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 6fb3495 | Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing becoming another. Like a flame on the end of a match. Wood turning into smoke. If only we could burn brighter. A barn roaring in the night. | Mark Haddon | ||
| b901832 | And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 598a0b4 | I took the little radio from the kitchen and I went and sat in the spare room and I tuned it halfway between two stations so that all I could hear was white noise and I turned the volume up really loud and I held it against my ear and the sound filled my head and it hurt so that I couldn't feel any other sort of hurt, like the hurt in my chest | Mark Haddon | ||
| 713183c | Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 096fbe0 | sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. | Mark Haddon | ||
| b1ef531 | He said, 'are you telling the truth?' I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 86b2dc4 | but in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 4653236 | I thought about how for a long time scientists were puzzled by the fact that the sky is dark at night, even though there are billions of stars in the universe and there must be stars in every direction you look, so that the sky should be full of starlight because there is very little in the way to stop the light from reaching earth. Then they worked out that the universe was expanding, that the stars were all rushing away from one another a.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 36f2dea | Six thousand pounds of muscle powering a hoop of butcher's knives. The only animal | jaws poetry shark | Mark Haddon | |
| f678d0e | He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. | subtlety | Mark Haddon | |
| 8fcd0ce | Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the protractor or the biscuit again. And a timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable time is not there li.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 7f085cf | A Rough Guide Be polite at the reception desk. Not all the knives are in the museum. The waitresses know that a nice boy is formed in the same way as a deckchair. Pay for the beer and send flowers. Introduce yourself as Richard. Do not refer to what somebody did at a particular time in the past. Remember, every Friday we used to go for a walk. I walked. You walked. Everything in the past is irregular. This steak is very good. Sit down. Ther.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 13e1338 | prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 87b4ece | Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible. | Mark Haddon | ||
| ef292a6 | I think I would make a very good astronaut. To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent and I'm intelligent. You also have to understand how machines work and I'm good at understanding how machines work. You also have to be someone who would like being on their own in a tiny spacecraft thousands and thousands of miles away from the surface of the earth and not panic or get claustrophobia or homesick or insane. And I really like little.. | stars toby | Mark Haddon | |
| 1dcd962 | Snow... blots and softens the top of every object like ice on a plum pudding. Hedges, telegraph wires, cars, postboxes, recycling bins. The world is losing its edges. Look upwards and it seems as if the stars themselves are being poured from the sky and turn out not to be vast and fiery globes after all but tiny, frozen things which melt in the palm of your hand. | snow | Mark Haddon | |
| 0abc59a | He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. | Mark Haddon | ||
| df10a09 | How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss. | Mark Haddon | ||
| bfe7ea1 | For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on." | Mark Haddon | ||
| 148926f | lys `ly 'n 'f`l m yf`lh lakhrwn , wlknny 'stTy` 'n 'f`l m ynsbny | novel others | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 4f8b0ed | They're beautiful. How did you know I loved roses?" "I didn't, but I've never heard of a woman who didn't, so I took a chance." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d93ffff | 'n lHy@ fyh lmsrt w l'Hzn , wlm ykn l'mr ystHq lTq@ lynz`j lmr mn l'Hzn , lys l'nh l mfr mnh wHsb bl wl'nh tnqDy 'yDan | novel sadness | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a1510f9 | That's what parenting is all about. Doing the best you can while being terrified of screwing up. Kids | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 182ccf2 | You have to understand that I'm not the girl I used to be," she said. "I'm a wife and a mother now, and like everyone else I'm not perfect. I struggle with the choices I've made and I make mistakes, and half the time I wonder who I really am or what I'm doing or whether my life means anything at all. I'm not special at all, Dawson, and you need to know that. You have to understand that I'm just... ordinary." "You're not ordinary." Her look .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3d24f14 | The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 74b935e | laid out. It has the most beautiful | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7d04f02 | Is this Molly?" she asked. Gabby didn't bother to hide her surprise. Living in a small town still took some getting used to. "Yeah. I'm Gabby Holland." "Nice to meet you. I'm Terri, by the way. What a beautiful dog." "Thank you." "We were wondering when you'd get here. You have to get back to work, right?" She grabbed a clipboard. "Let me go ahead and get you set up in a room. You can do the paperwork there. That way, the vet can see you ri.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4d82755 | There are too many fault lines to count now. | fault-lines life love nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 5615ca9 | My Darling, It is late at night and though the words are coming hard to me, I can't escape the feeling that it's time that I finally answer your question. Of course I forgive you. I forgive you now, and I forgave you the moment I read your letter. In my heart, I had no other choice. Leaving you once was hard enough; to have done it a second time would have been impossible. I loved you too much to have let you go again. Though I'm still gr.. | nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a6780bc | Trust people," he would tell me, "until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fa2d41f | Czar Nicholas the Second was overthrown by Lenin in 1917." I blink in surprise. "Yes," I say, "he was." "And do you think I want to know that? IT's not even on your exam syllabus. I never had to know that. So now it's your turn to pick up a few pairs of shoes and make ooh and aah sounds for me becuase Jo ate prawns and she's allergic and she got sick and couldn't come and I'm not sitting on a bus on my own for five hours, OK?" Nat takes a d.. | Holly Smale | ||
| 5a31b88 | There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 74bbe0c | I think I repeated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in my head at least one thousand times: the mathematical product of the combined uncertainties of concurrent measurements of position and momentum in a specified direction could never be less than Planck's constant, h, divided by 4p. This meant, rather encouragingly, that my uncertain position and zero momentum and the Beast Responsible for the Sound's uncertain position and uncertain .. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 07b80e9 | Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 102b765 | ' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know.. | ambiguity ambiguous-ending america americans control endings family foreign-film god right-and-wrong | Marisha Pessl | |
| 796b552 | I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2fbc633 | We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so easy to hate the pretty one, worship the genius, love the rockstar, trust the good girl. That's never their only story. | marisha-pessl neverworld-wake | Marisha Pessl | |
| b78e799 | America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream. | Marisha Pessl |