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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c1fce4 | Francis Crozier now understood that the most desirable and erotic thing a woman could wear were the many modest layers such as Sophia Cracroft wore to dinner in the governor's house, enough silken fabric to conceal the lines of her body, allowing a man to concentrate on the exciting loveliness of her wit | arctic hms-terror | Dan simmons | |
| ade6ba7 | The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my purposes. And I will do so consciously, not instinctively like the mindless mass of alien tissue embedded in me. This thing only seeks a mindless avoidance of death by any means. I do not wish to die, but I welcome pain and death rather than an eternity of mindless life. Life is sacred--I still hold to that as a core element of the Church'.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| d564047 | I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water. | Dan Simmons | ||
| ef9d3d1 | But it sold three billion ..." "Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 8694afe | We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 08923bd | at that moment, the sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains. | Dan Simmons | ||
| e04dce6 | It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell. | Dan Simmons | ||
| d7de539 | Goddamn fatherfucking asshole politician moral paraplegic dipshit drag-queen bitch! | insults | Dan Simmons | |
| 34e930a | Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 4081c11 | Be assured, I do not suffer from a sense of humor. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 84938ed | Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 2422420 | I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| e219648 | Jamie: The only kind of deal that I can make is with money, and we haven't got any of that. Mrs. Frankweiler: You are very poor indeed if that is the only kind of deal you can make | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| f28f9f4 | A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| c1f6dd8 | Becoming a team didn't mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to be the same because feeling like part of a team is something that happens invisibly. You might call it caring. You could even call it love. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 43dfefd | Shprintzl Rudashevsky's wide face takes on a philosophical, even mystic, blankness. She looks like she's wetting her pants and enjoying the warmth. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 3829107 | An invisible gas clouds his thoughts, exhaust from a bus left with its engine running in the middle of his brain. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 237c486 | Naomi was a tough kid, so much tougher than Landsman ever needed to be. She was two years younger, close enough for everything Landsman did or said to constitute a mark that must be surpassed or a theory to disprove. She was boyish as a girl and mannish as a woman. When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, "In everything but sexual preference." | Michael Chabon | ||
| 10593e8 | He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them." | conversation marriage | Michael Chabon | |
| 65099b4 | I was still carrying the tuba, for no reason other than that, in my current circumstances, it passed for good company. That's another way of saying it was all I had. | Michael Chabon | ||
| ac407a4 | It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness for a clue. | Michael Chabon | ||
| dbe41a1 | He had been an indifferent father, better than his own, perhaps, but that was saying very little. When Tommy was still an unknown fishboy inside Rosa, Sammy had resolved never to let him feel abandoned, never to walk out on him, and until now, until tonight, he had managed to keep the promise, though there were times--the night he had decided to take that job at Gold Star Comics, for example--when it had been difficult. But the truth was th.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| ca42c92 | Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases to.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| d07bdf1 | Knowing he had done wrong, prepared to make amends, settle his business. Determined to return to Brokeland, open the doors wide to the angel of retail death, and run the place into the ground all by himself, if that was what it took-but to fail calmly, to fail with style, to fail above all with that true dignity, unknown to his wife or his partner, which lay in never tripping out, never showing offense or hurt to those who had offended or h.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| fe4909e | Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights. | Michael Chabon | ||
| cda9193 | I don't want to have 'carnal knowledge' with any old Zuni, asshole." From the way she seemed to relish the word asshole as it unwound from her lips, I guessed that she rarely used it. It sounded like a mark of esteem, and I was momentarily very jealous of Arthur. I wondered what it might take to get Jane to call me an asshole too." | Michael Chabon | ||
| df3776a | People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ ]" | books modern-life modern-society reading | Michael Chabon | |
| d19d6fe | He addressed the class...in a soft, stupefied, increasingly breathless tone like an astronaut pleading with a mad supercomputer to open an airlock. | Michael Chabon | ||
| fc5f302 | Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance. | Michael Chabon | ||
| eb751b6 | He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4312715 | A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime, I said, elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation | Michael Chabon | ||
| e82311b | Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 66e6d25 | I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility." | Michael Chabon | ||
| 170f75f | The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people. | Michael Chabon | ||
| f40b689 | You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all. | death-and-dying father fatherhood fathers | Michael Chabon | |
| 6fb5129 | The shaping of a golem, to [Joe] was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce something-- one poor, dumb, powerful thing-- exempt from the crushing strictures, from the ills, cruelties, and inevitable failures of the greater Creation. It was the voicing of a vain wish, when you got down to it, to escape. To slip, like the Es.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| e9b0478 | They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4ff50b3 | Rosa's brush caught the rime of ash on his lapel, the missed button of his waistcoat, the tender, impatient, defiant expression in his eyes by means of which he is clearly trying to convey to the artist, telepathically, that he intends, in an hour or so, to f*ck her. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a5c2b79 | it had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered--what matters so often in the course of everyday human life--were the surfaces and the joins. | Michael Chabon | ||
| e0e9ac2 | The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 55d733b | The night seems more temporary than the day, especially to lovers, and it also seems more uncertain. In this way it sums up our lives, which are uncertain and temporary. We forget about that in the day. In the day we go on for ever. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| b81a8ea | There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 52816b9 | The stone was moved--not for Jesus--but for the women; not so Jesus could come out, but so the women could see in! | Max Lucado | ||
| 3a092d5 | Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain. | Max Lucado |