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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e424d9 | Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock... | Ann Patchett | ||
| 0549f9d | In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can. | name | Ann Patchett | |
| 2a4df8e | They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them. | waiting | Ann Patchett | |
| 9567c5e | All the stories go with you, Franny thought, closing her eyes. All the things I didn't listen to, won't remember, never got right, wasn't around for. All the ways to get to Torrance. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 77251f0 | The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 90ee010 | The part when they are together for a while, the two of them, before things go wrong. The way things ended always obliterated the genuine happiness that had come before and that shouldn't be the case. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 8d24b11 | Franny looked at them up on the porch, everyone softened by the veil of the screen, by the light that was slanting in behind them, by the bank of yellow lilies that separated them from her. It was not unlike seeing tigers at the zoo. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 265ceb8 | But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 9a385d4 | Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 50b2fba | It's a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive. | Ann Patchett | ||
| bf7af72 | They were her kidnappers, sailing her across the lawn and into the backseat of the car, lifting up her feet while pivoting her around in a way that was disturbingly professional, as if stealing old people was what they did. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 153d9d2 | Eating as a simple means of ending hunger is one of the great liberties of being alone ... It is a pleasure to not have to take anyone else's tastes into account or explain why I like to drink my grapefruit juice out of the carton." - Ann Patchett, "Dinner for One, Please, James" | Jenni Ferrari-Adler | ||
| 0568c20 | The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times. But in Lucy's circumstances it was sheer heroism, a real sign of her devotion to her art. She was, in a sense, sitting at a craps table with her last stack of chips, trying again and again to hit it big. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 3b9cffe | Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words. | Ann Patchett | ||
| ce08c16 | We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides. | Ann Patchett | ||
| a13eebc | I never learned how to take the beautiful thing in my imagination and put it on paper without feeling I killed it along the way. I did, however, learn how to weather the death, and I learned how to forgive myself for it. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 666b63e | We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| af29ef9 | Stick and stones may break your bones and words can kill you too | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f85abe8 | The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther your run, the more God wants you back. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fa2834c | This is a terrible way to travel. I go to meetings my boss doesn't want to attend. I take notes. I'll get back to you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 275746e | Oh, I am just that fabulous. So sex furniture. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 83715f1 | This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 73751c4 | As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| acbcd9d | The paradox: Is God a racist, homophobic, anti- Semitic ass? Or is God testing to see if I am? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9486d0d | Her goals had been the goals of radical women a century ago: to become a lawyer . . . to compete toe-to-toe with men. But like any second-hand goal, it felt like a burden. It had already been fulfilled ten million times over by other women. Penny wanted a dream of her own, but she had no idea how that dream would look. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8dffc78 | I'm the one who still needs rewriting. Don't we all? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e1003d6 | I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c5d78c0 | The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aae0c66 | E cumplit de greu sa uiti de durere, dar e si mai greu sa-ti amintesti momentele minunate. Fericirea nu lasa cicatrici. Nu invatam mai nimic din perioadele de tihna. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e435741 | By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d79ed98 | You're that tree falling in the forest that nobody gives a rat's ass about. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0f9f8ab | Somewhere en route to Port Via in the New Hebrides, for my last meal I serve dinner the way I've always dreamed. Anybody caught buttering their bread before breaking it, I promise to shoot them. Anybody who drinks their beverage with food still in their mouth will also be shot. Anybody caught spooning toward themself will be shot. Anybody caught without a napkin in their lap- Anybody caught using their fingers to move their food- Anybody w.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9d924dd | To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 63767b6 | Days she's wasted locked up here in this room, and nothing she's done is half as good as the sketch of a chair she did while shitting her pants. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 758fe67 | The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6703270 | Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness. You can close your eyes, and sit in a cupboard, but that's not the same thing. The darkness at night in the church district colony is complete. The stars are thick above us in this kind of darkness. You can see how the moon is rough with mountain ranges and etched with rivers and smoothed with oceans. On a night without the moon or stars you can't see a thin.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1eba1fc | It's not that I want to get married. I admire guys who can commit to a tattoo. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2af9249 | This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everything. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4b64a22 | The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill | free-will freedom individualism individuality philosophical | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 235d94c | Me, personally, I tell dude 137 how I'm adding an embossed slogan to my dildos. Cast in high-relief going around the base, it's going to say, "The Dick That Killed Cassie Wright..." On the thickest part, so if you twist it the letters of the writing stimulate the clit." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8aae2fc | If no sing, all youth condemned into poverty. Denied possible advancement and self-realization | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e27dff7 | The sun's outside the bathroom window, trying to show us we're all being stupid. All you have to do is look around. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| eb10675 | For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved? With all due respect. According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get. | palahniuk religion | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 1db2b97 | If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived. | living rabid | Chuck Palahniuk |