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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0c8b7af | Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang | Amy Tan | ||
| ee9ace2 | The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night. | life old-age | Amy Tan | |
| 1a5443b | It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable--like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| 986b2db | Wait." Walter went to the basket, taking what was a gray sleeve, drawing it out fro the middle of the heap. "Oh," He said. He held the shapeless wool sweater to his chest. Joyce had knit for months the year Daniel died, and here was the result, her handiwork, the garment that would fit a giant. It was nothing more than twelve skeins of yarn and thousands of loops, but it had the power to bring back in a flash the green-tiled walls of the ho.. | knitting memory sweater | Jane Hamilton | |
| 2e21292 | I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| 1ab5196 | In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to go in and turn on the television just to dull your senses- that's when Claire knew it was time to look for the asparagus in the pastures. If it rained she wondered if she should check our secret places for morels. In June, when the strawberries ripened, we made hay and the girls rode on top of the wagon. I was ever mindful of the boy who ha.. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| 8b7668a | In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done | Richard Brautigan | ||
| bf900a2 | I guess the last remaining question is: What about the sombrero? It's still there, lying in the street but its temperature had returned to -24 degrees and fortunately for America it stayed there. Millions of tourists have walked all around it but not one of them has seen it, though it is in plain sight. How can you miss a very cold white sombrero lying in the Main Street of a town? In other words: There is more to life than meets the eye. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 14cd75e | There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| f2ec5f3 | Welcome!" I said--the most dangerous word in the world." | Eudora Welty | ||
| f2ef01f | It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in love with it (grammar). It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning. Learning Latin fed my love for words upon words in continuation and modification, and the beautiful, sober, accretion of a sentence. I could see the achieved sentence finally standing there, as real, intact, and built to stay as the Missi.. | latin meaning words | Eudora Welty | |
| b0aef79 | Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures, or strives to endure. | fiction | Eudora Welty | |
| e07c2f9 | When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits. They went down again and soon the smell of the river spread over the woods, cool and secret. Every step they took among the great walls of vines and amo.. | fall october | Eudora Welty | |
| 11ed184 | Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad." | henry-james novels | Eudora Welty | |
| 90c09a9 | The writer Lee Smith, who once had a New York copy editor query in the margin of her manuscript "Double-wide what?" tells a perfectly marvelous, spot-on story about Eudora Welty when she came to Hollins College, where Smith was a student. Welty read a short story in which one female character presents another with a marble cake. In the back of the audience Smith noted a group of leather-elbowed, goatee-sporting PhD candidates, all of whom w.. | Sally Mann | ||
| d5d7f71 | Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of seeing it indeed in the round". ... Both men and women can be vain about their appearances, selfish about money, overawed by rank, and limited by parochialism; both men and women can function capably, think profoundly, feel deeply, create imaginatively, laugh wittily, and love faithfully. Without vindicating the rights of anyone directly, Austen.. | humanism | Emily Auerbach | |
| 15c0dd3 | A hidden mussel was blowing bubbles like a spring through the sand where his boot was teasing the water. It was the little pulse of bubbles and not himself or herself that was the moment for her then; and he could have already departed and she could have already wept, and it would have been the same, as she stared at the little fountain rising so gently out of the shimmering sand. A clear love is in the world - this came to her as insistent.. | Eudora Welty | ||
| a527613 | For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall. | Eudora Welty | ||
| 620def1 | And who could ever remember any of the things he says? They are just inspired remarks that roll out of his mouth like smoke. | Eudora Welty | ||
| bc3d148 | I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. This is especially true, I think, when the apposition is cultural. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 2a01bff | In Laos, a baby was never apart from its mother, sleeping in her arms all night and riding on her back all day. Small children were rarely abused; it was believed that a dab who witnessed mistreatment might take the child, assuming it was not wanted. The Hmong who live in the United States have continued to be unusually attentive parents. A study conducted at the University of Minnesota found Hmong infants in the first month of life to be l.. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 90b3a60 | When the corpses of [Sir John] Franklin's officers and crew were later discovered, miles from their ships, the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of button polish, and a copy of "The Vicar of Wakefield." These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen." -- | humor | Anne Fadiman | |
| ca7bc71 | A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| c588e9a | Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. | europe history poland war | James A. Michener | |
| af1ca7a | Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with nature. To be wholly alive a man must know storms, he must feel the ocean as his home or the air as his habitation. He must smell the things of earth, hear the sounds of living things and taste the rich abundance of the soil and sea. | James A. Michener | ||
| 4797f61 | The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen your ear to the thunder of the surf. The bright sands, the screaming birds, and the wild winds are always with you. | travel | James A. Michener | |
| 89e0115 | From the earliest days of the nation anyone with an intelligence equal to that of sparrows had realized that the peninsula ought logically to be united as one state, but historical accident had decreed that one portion be assigned to Maryland, whose citizens despised the Eastern Shore and considered it a backwater; one portion to the so-called state of Delaware, which never could find any reasonable justification for its existence; and the .. | James A. Michener | ||
| d4fca67 | Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he knew something about warfare, having served under General Pope in his long and futile struggle against General Stonewall Jackson. Those men were fighters who would face the enemy till the last bullet was fired, but neither would participate in.. | native-americans slaughter | James A. Michener | |
| 9a5c826 | Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection. | money wealth | James A. Michener | |
| 0abc15b | A lot of nonsense is spoken about work. Some of the finest men I've known were the laziest. Never work because it's expected of you. Find out how much work you must do to live and be happy. Don't do any more. | James A. Michener | ||
| fcb1fd4 | Two features would be with her always. Her chin was firm and her mouth was as sweet as a flower and very wide and pink. Her hazel eyes were sharp and intelligent and completely fearless. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0214b05 | The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved. | house men | John Steinbeck | |
| 65119c1 | Lee put his arm around the broad shoulders to comfort him. "You're growing up. Maybe that's it," he said softly. "Sometimes I think the world tests us most sharply then, and we turn inward and watch ourselves with horror. But that's not the worst. We think everybody is seeing into us. The dirt is very dirty and purity is shining white. Aron, it will be over. That's not much relief to you because you don't believe it, but it's the best I can.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c853f8b | Insan bazen o kadar kendi disinda davranir ki, size '' Bunu yapmis olamaz. Karakterine aykiri, dedirtir. Belki de degildir. Yalnizca baska bir aci soz konusu olabilir veya yukaridan asagidan gelen baskilar kisinin davranis seklini degistirebilir. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8510feb | I know this - a man got to do what he got to do, I can't tell you. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in the worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself, Help im, maybe, but not tell him what to do. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5da8fab | And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the buyer man would get much more, but they didn't know how to do it. Merchandising was a secret to them. | ethics faith morality spirituality | John Steinbeck | |
| 41d2b25 | um homem tem de ter qualquer coisa a que se ligue, qualquer coisa que ele possa estar certo de encontrar la de manha. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c54d461 | Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary-do you hear? Who are you in there? | John Steinbeck | ||
| 99afbe2 | a tight hard little woman humorless as a chicken. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c636355 | The thing that give me the mos' trouble was, it didn't make no sense. You don't look for no sense when lightnin' kill a cow, or it comes up a lood. That's jus' the way things is. But when a bunch of men take an' lock you up four years, it ought to have some meaning. Men is supposed to think things out. Here they put me in an' keep me an' feed me four years. That ought to either make me so I won't do her again or else punish me so I'll be af.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b9a6f50 | It is not true as is romantically presumed that people frightened or injured or persecuted are wakeful. More often than not they retire into sleep to be free of trouble for a time. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e4a88b9 | They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c6d8c73 | The world is holy. Nature is holy. The body is holy. Sexuality is holy. The imagination is holy. Divinity is immanent in nature; it is within you as well as without. Most spiritual paths ultimately lead people to the understanding of their own connection to the divine. While human beings are often cut off from experiencing the deep and ever-present connection between themselves and the universe, that connection can often be regained through.. | Margot Adler | ||
| 8088abe | Magic is a convenient word for a whole collection of techniques, all of which involve the mind. In this case, we might conceive of these techniques as including the mobilization of confidence, will, and emotion brought about by the recognition of necessity; the use of imaginative faculties, particularly the ability to visualize, in order to begin to understand how other beings function in nature so we can use this knowledge to achieve neces.. | Margot Adler |