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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1283f6 | One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher. | cognitive-dissonance confirmation-bias foreigners philosophy | Iain M. Banks | |
| f7b9938 | Sometimes what goes without saying is best said anyway. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 33c69a6 | The only desire the Culture could not satisfy from within itself was one common to both the descendants of its original human stock and the machines they had (at however great a remove) brought into being: the urge not to feel useless. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| db9270c | I refuse to let him hire a princess in disguise who's hoping to sneak into the next ball wearing a dress as shining as the stars so that Daystar will fall in love with her. Princesses are very persuasive, but most of them aren't much use in the kitchen." Daystar blinked. "But Mother, we hardly ever have balls. And I really don't think I'd fall in love with someone just because she was wearing a fancy dress." "Try and convince a princess of .. | enchanted-forest humor love princess | Patricia C. Wrede | |
| 00faf96 | Obawiam sie, ze lustro nie wymaga zadnych korekt - oswiadczyl z niezwykla dla niego delikatnoscia. - Z zakleciem jest wszystko w porzadku, powinno tez byc kompatybilne z lustrem zamkowym. Problem polega na czyms innym. - Wiedzialam - rzucila gniewnie Cimorena i zaczela chodzic tam i powrotem przed kominem. - W domu stalo sie cos zlego. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 0a59fa1 | Ballimore! Ballimore, where's the inkwell?' Dobbilan's voice echoed down the corridor, interrupting Cimorene in mid-sentence. 'Where are you? Why can't I find anything around here when I want it?' 'Because you never look in the right place, dear,' Ballimore called. 'The inkwell is in the kitchen next to the grocery list, where it's been for the past six months, and I'm in the dining room. Which is where you'd be if you'd done what I asked .. | marriage | Patricia C. Wrede | |
| 65b1827 | Starting is good. You can't get anywhere at all if you never start. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| adc31ed | Your levity is unbecoming, Richard, and not at all the point,' Mrs Lowe said, giving him a stern look.'In another week, the Season will be upon us, and as you have chosen to come to Town for once, I shall expect you to find a little more time for your social and family obligations.' 'Oh, you may expect whatever you like, Aunt.' Mairelon's tone was careless, but there was a set to his shoulders that told Kim he was not pleased. | Patricia C Wrede | ||
| 2e08b7b | It's a madhouse, of course. A complete, utter madhouse. I only hope to God it remains one. | Paul Bowles | ||
| ab8b39a | Tangier is more New York than New York. ... Then you must see how alike the two places are. The life revolves wholly about the making of money. Practically everyone is dishonest. In New York you have Wall Street, here you have the Bourse. ... In New York you have the slick financiers, here the money changers. In New York you have your racketeers. Here you have your smugglers. And you have every nationality and no civic pride. | tangier | Paul Bowles | |
| 0b6e481 | Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, to.. | existence immersion morocco objectivity outsider senses stranger subjectivity truth | Paul Bowles | |
| 75b79cf | The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving behind all familiar things, this constant consideration kept him in a state of pleasurable agitation. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 3e04e73 | Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 2a61271 | In reality the gatherings were held in order to entertain these few Moslem guests, to whom the unaccountable behavior of Europeans never ceased to be a fascinating spectacle. Most of the Europeans, of course, thought the Moslem gentlemen were invited to add local color. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 60e8384 | And it occurred to him that a walk through the countryside was a sort of epitome of the passage through life itself. One never took the time to savor the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and final, that there never would be a return, another time. | Paul Bowles | ||
| b9f96f0 | Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 06f6e5b | Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations. | politics | Paul Bowles | |
| 5884081 | In the school they teach you what the world means, and once you have learned, you will always know," Amar's father had told him. "But suppose the world changes?" Amar had thought. "Then what would you know?" | Paul Bowles | ||
| abe02f3 | Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ... | faith | Paul Bowles | |
| 0c4dbe5 | Sunset is such a sad hour," she said, presently. "If I watch the end of a day--any day--I always feel it's the end of a whole epoch. And the autumn! It might as well be the end of everything," he said. "That's why I hate cold countries, and love the warm ones, where there's no winter, and when night comes you feel an opening up of the life there, instead of a closing down. Don't you feel that?" | Paul Bowles | ||
| b30706d | Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people t.. | sex | Paul Bowles | |
| d19b688 | Life is a journey without reliable tour guides. You made plans and then you got distracted and took detours that proved to be dull, disastrous, or wonderful, or a combination of all three. - Josie Navarre (heroine) | Ann Major | ||
| 0afbf59 | Entertainments nearly always end with triumph or disaster--happiness achieved, or total, tragic defeat precluding any hope of it. But there is always more after the ending--always the next morning and the next, always changes, losses and gains. Always one step after the other. Until the one true ending that none of us can escape. But even that ending is only a small one, large as it looms for us. There is still the next morning for everyone.. | Ann Leckie | ||
| d0303af | Goods and chattel. The words from the leather book came into my head. We were like the gold leaf mirror and the horse saddle. Not full-fledge people. I didn't believe this, never had believed it a day of my life, but if you listen to white folks long enough, some sad, beat-down part of you starts to wonder. All that pride about what we were worth left me then. For the first time, I felt the hurt and shame of just being who I was. After a wh.. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 856a149 | She had the look of someone who'd declared herself, and seeing it, my indignation collapsed and her mutinous bath turned into something else entirely. She'd immersed herself in forbidden privileges, yes, but mostly in the belief she was worthy of those privileges. What she'd done was not a revolt, it was a baptism. I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous m.. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 987a242 | You think there's no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| fde0863 | You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| ffc8b40 | As long as you live under my roof, you'll do what I say!" he shouted. Then I'll find another roof, I thought. | secret-life-of-bees | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| ed82a41 | The queen, for the most part, is the unifying force of the community, if she removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| e14f66e | Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| b5eb630 | Why should God's perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?" I asked. "Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?" | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 1c932b9 | That night it felt strange to be in the honey house by myself. I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realise how it had comforted me. Quietness has a strange, spungy hum that can nearly break your eardrums. | Sue Monk Kidd (Author) | ||
| 66a6691 | The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she'd taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd said, "I'm sorry, Handful, I know how you must feel." It seemed to me I did know what it felt to have one's liberty curtailed, but she blazed up at me. "So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one t.. | equality slavery | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 574eff7 | You do your rebellions any way you can. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| b1ee781 | Quien cree que no hay nada peor que morirse poco sabe de la vida. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 60f00f8 | Ms. came into practice, to give a woman an alternative to being recognized by her marital status, and thereby known as herself. How do I want to be known. | Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor | ||
| 3d6695e | It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it's not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 142fcd1 | I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any. | life-answers meaning-of-life | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 8c8cc7f | It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 8fa1258 | he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| eb51a65 | You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do. To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| a4db575 | My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0bdbe33 | He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in order to heal and differentiate themselves from it. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 16a22fa | women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting. | Sue Monk Kidd |