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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 684aeff | Thank God for whiskey or the world would be so full of secrets the weight would spin us into the sun. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a84b4d1 | If Mason wasn't crazy before, he's definitely joined the banana army now. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 3476994 | Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1cdd6a5 | Everything's show biz in the end | Richard Kadrey | ||
| eec796f | I mean, there's doomed. There's screwed. And there's monsoons-in-Hell fucked. And we're at fucked o'clock. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 641c39e | The thing you have to understand about Lucifer is that he hardly ever talks, and when he does, it's never much more than a whisper. When half the universe is hanging on to your every word, you don't have to shout. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 8e22e6f | I've got plenty on my plate. Till then, Ishii can piss his sorrows in a teapot and brew himself a hot cup of fuck off. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 80a3ced | Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it out loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 922b960 | I should sit down and make a list of everything I missed while I was gone. If you can't smoke in bars anymore, what other atrocities has the world committed? | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1e762b4 | So, you're the angel of Death?" The angel shook his head, a little embarrassed. "I don't have that honor. In Heaven, I'm the celestial who bears the great golden quills, the silver Chroma, the holy vellums upon which the Lord God inscribes the fate of the universe." Tiras's eyes narrowed. "You're in charge of office supplies. You're the angel of office supplies." The" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| ab6f92b | IT'S WEIRD starting over from zero. It changes the scale of your ambitions. Instead of fantasizing about what kind of mansion you'll buy when you win the lottery, you ask yourself, | Richard Kadrey | ||
| dbb3eb3 | while being alone sucks, losing someone you care about is far worse. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| b9ec8c0 | Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 1173433 | The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom. The high of not knowing what comes next, so much better than always knowing one day will be like the last. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 5e96b37 | I wiggle an eyebrow. "I get to see you in a tuxedo?" "Better. You can help me take it off." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 68f811a | Possession. Demand. Control. He wants it all. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 790ad89 | This is written in the night. In war the dark is on nobody's side, in love the dark confirms that we are together. | courage hope tyranny | John Berger | |
| 4afec8c | Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself. | understanding-via-drawing | John Berger | |
| 880669c | To become bored with eating is to be bored with life. | John Berger | ||
| 98b77b7 | lmDy hw lzmn lwHyd ldhy lsn sjn lh. ymknn tGyyr lmDy tmman km nrGb. m l ymknn lqym bh hw tGyyr nty'jh. | John Berger | ||
| 934574c | Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal | mediation pre-verbal translation | John Berger | |
| 227c6e2 | The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved. | John Berger | ||
| d5e3315 | Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them. | communication photography | John Berger | |
| 14877da | This seems to me absolutely one of the quintessential things about the human condition. It's what actually distinguishes man from any other animal: living with those who have lived and the companionship of those who are no longer alive. Not necessarily the people that one knew personally, I mean the people perhaps whom one only knows by what they did, or what they left behind, this question of the company of the past, that's what interests .. | death memory post-mortem | John Berger | |
| 4b41891 | When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994" | architecture building new-urbanism | Jonathan Hale | |
| fab681e | Lords of fire and earth and water, Lords of moon and wind and sky, Come now to the Old Man's daughter, Come from fathers long gone by. Bring blue from a distance eye. Lords of water, earth, and fire, Lords of wind and snow and rain, Give to my heart's desire. Life as all life comes with pain, But blue will come to us again. | desire earth eye fire heart lords moon pain rain sky-life snow water wind | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 86bf365 | But his love is greater than all our hate and he will not rest until Judas has turned to him, until Satan has turned to him, until dark has turned to him; until we can all, all of us without exception, freely return his look of love with love in our own eyes and hearts. And then, healed, whole, complete but not finished, we swill know the joy of being co-creators with the one to whom we call. Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 42adef0 | If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive. | popularity remember universal | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7f8f324 | When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, seta against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this--and out of nothing--can still .. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b1c54df | A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 60461e5 | She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit said. The resonant voice rose and the words seemed to be all around them so that Meg felt that she could almost reach out and touch them: "Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that there is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants there.. | christ god love worship | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| ccf5635 | We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. "On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong." | darkness evil resolve strength | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 10df313 | That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2218f98 | And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ff0f181 | There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 36fb0c2 | I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a314539 | It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it may not happen. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8709da7 | Tell your sister I'm all right," Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. "Tell her my intentions are good." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," Charles intoned." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ffef1a5 | It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 57fe740 | Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not a projection of someone who could fill in all her empty spaces, heal all her wounds. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 6727892 | You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't," Mrs. Murry said." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d527299 | It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3855012 | The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children's minds are tender, they are also far more tough than many people realize, and they have an openness and an ability to grapple with difficult concepts which many adults have lost. Writers of children's literature are set apart by their willingness to confront difficult questions. | writing | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 4f46da1 | But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe. | writing | Madeleine L'Engle |