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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a4a405 | Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 9b8c514 | I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 2eb144c | To take the tops off all the houses and mingle our miseries was too simple a solution, I knew. Houses had windows with shades. Yards had gates and fences. There were carefully planned out sidewalks and roads, and these were the paths that, if you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 5f25f07 | We're all miserable together. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 86421ec | Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it. | writing | Sharyn McCrumb | |
| cbbf97b | Is the groom going to go where no man has gone before? | star-trek | Sharyn McCrumb | |
| e2e12c0 | God, Caro. You make it all worthwhile," he said, kissing my hair. "Thank God for you." -- | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 418263f | You've taught me everything I know. ... You've taught me who I can be, you've made me stronger. You make me want to see the magic in the world. I didn't know falling in love could be...like this. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 06191a3 | I want you, Caro. I want to make love to you. I want to make love to you forever. My breath caught in my throat. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| c6dfbb1 | I wasn't jokin'," he said, holding my gaze. "I'm just so fuckin' grateful that you're here." He took a deep breath. "And I really want to kiss you right now." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 3b7bd5a | Well, Nicole, I was planning on taking her to bed and using her in ways that aren't even mentioned in the Kama Sutra, but now you've told me that, I think I should go take a cold shower instead. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| b06745a | I just don't want you thinkin' about any other guy when you're with me. I want you with me--all of you. It's not just fuckin'. Not for me, not with you. I know you think it's because I haven't slept with a woman in a long time, but it's not. It's because it's you, and I meant it when I said I wanted to make love to you. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 4173207 | The matter, Sebastian, is that you're a minor. What we've just done... what I've just done... it's against the law. It's a felony, for God's sake! | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| a8af297 | Hunter: you promised me separate rooms, remember?" He looked like I'd just told him Christmas was cancelled." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| b78a9ac | Thank you for this, Sebastian. Thank you for bringing me." Sebastian's expression told me that outdoor sex at the top of a mountain pass in the snow was suddenly on his 'to do' list." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 41e6b9e | Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| fd6e2b2 | To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic inquiry. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 22a8e28 | He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 196cafa | Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| bb81f71 | Familiarity can blind you | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 31a1d30 | That's the way the world keeps on happening. Be interested in it. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 29b29b3 | A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, "If you don't whip me, I won't work." He didn't get whipped. He didn't work." | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 1e7fa69 | The idea that "all men are created equal" is a gift to the world from the American Indian." | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| dd60cd7 | It's an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it's done and the talk about how it's done never seems to match how one does it. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 6f8955c | If you can't define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity. | irrationality language logic rational-thought stupidity | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 7bcb642 | Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 01e7e19 | Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination--"unstuckness," in other words--are completely outside its domain." | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| cddcf48 | To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 1d40f38 | Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| fa1baf8 | Part Three, that part of formal scientific method called experimentation, is sometimes thought of by romantics as all of science itself because that's the only part with much visual surface. They see lots of test tubes and bizarre equipment and people running around making discoveries. They do not see the experiment as part of a larger intellectual process and so they often confuse experiments with demonstrations, which look the same. A man.. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 118816a | Motorcycle maintenance gets frustrating. Angering. Infuriating. That's what makes it interesting. | motorcycle-maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| fc31f08 | She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty spaces in her mind. | Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson | ||
| 0043493 | As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life?..." p330" | Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson | ||
| 49cf3f8 | Cheerios One bright morning in a restaurant in Chicago as I waited for my eggs and toast, I opened the Tribune only to discover that I was the same age as Cheerios. Indeed, I was a few months older than Cheerios for today, the newspaper announced, was the seventieth birthday of Cheerios whereas mine had occurred earlier in the year. Already I could hear them whispering behind my stooped and threadbare back, Why that dude's older .. | Billy Collins | ||
| 0e2ad78 | saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God. | Billy Collins | ||
| 8ba92bd | one burst after another as my wife turned in her sleep. I was a single monkey trying to type the opening lines of my Hamlet, | Billy Collins | ||
| 0221c6b | These days every morning begins like a joke you think you have heard before, but there is no one telling it whom you can stop. One day it's about a cow who walks into a bar, then about a man with a big nose on his honeymoon, then about a kangaroo who walks into a bar. Each one takes up an entire day. The sun looks like a prank Nathanael West is pulling on the world; on the drive to work cars are swinging comically from lane to lan.. | life life-and-living | Billy Collins | |
| 772ca13 | After counting all the sheep in the world I enumerate the wildebeests, snails, camels, skylarks, etc., then I add up all the zoos and aquariums, country by country. By early light I am asleep in a nightmare about drowning in the Flood, | flood nights noah sleeplessness | Billy Collins | |
| 93d0b45 | What did Ethan care? _He_ had no trouble navigating. This was because he'd lived all his life in one house, was Macon's theory; while a person who'd been moved around a great deal never acquired a fixed point of reference but wandered forever in a fog -- adrift upon the planet, helpless, praying that just by luck he might stumble across his destination. | geographic-dyslexia | Anne Tyler | |
| 28e3555 | She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them-an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 5c1e134 | Reading is the first to go," my mother used to say, meaning that it was a luxury the brain dispensed with under duress. She claimed that after my father died she never again picked up anything more demanding than the morning paper. At the time I had thought that was sort of melodramatic of her, but now I found myself reading the same paragraph six times over, and I still couldn't have told you what it was about." | Anne Tyler | ||
| 61bfc0a | In my country they have proverb: 'Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' " This was intriguing. Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." | Anne Tyler | ||
| 6440560 | It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded. | woundedness | Anne Tyler | |
| a924d7d | As Feynman once wrote, "[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is--absurd." | Brian Greene |