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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4267b20 | We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d3193b4 | What is 'no'? Either you have asked the wrong question or you have asked the wrong person. Find a way to get the 'yes'. | yes no questions | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 1c3a7a2 | And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman's fortune or one man's loss. And we can't know the lives of others. And we can't know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen. And the moment that looks like the rest is the one where hearts are broken or healed. And time that runs so steady and sure runs wild outside of the clocks. It tak.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5a3a69f | And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That's where I am alone, the observer and the observed. | literature self | Jeanette Winterson | |
| ba46400 | There's a planet called Echo. It doesn't exist. It's like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails worn through and the deck empty. It comes on the radar, you fly towards it, there's nothing there. Our crew were outside, repairing the craft, and we saw it moving at speed right at us. It passed straight through the ship and through our bodies, and the strange thing that happened was the bleach. It bleached our clothes and hair, and men that had b.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0c960b3 | My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate. I have no father. There's nothing unusual about that -even children who do have fathers are often surprised to see them. My own father came out of the sea and went back that way. He was crew on a fishing boat that harboured with us one night when the waves were crashing like dark glass. His splintered hulll shored him for long enough to drop anchor inside my mother. Sh.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 57e46b5 | The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 04c8ce3 | Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire. | love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 57589f1 | Love is as strong as death. | love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f6b3bea | He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love. | love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 990942f | People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0bea69d | In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening. Well, I find it so. | thoughts state-of-mind brain feeling suppression emotions | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 004f657 | Can this be true, this simple obvious message, or am I like those shipwrecked mariners who seize an empty bottle and eagerly read out what isn't there? And yet you are there, here, sprung like a genie to ten times your natural size, towering over me, holding me in your arms like mountain sides. Your red hair blazing and you are saying, "Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one." | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 697a2ba | To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. I've thought a lot about death recently, the finality of it, the argument ending in mid-air. One of us hadn't finished, why did the other one go? And why .. | death-of-a-loved-one | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 44e3bf7 | Zabraneno mi e da iam shokolad. Karo i onia idiot doktor't. Zaedno s vsichko drugo, koeto bi moglo da mi dostavi udovolstvie - dobavi ironichno. - P'rvo tsigarite, posle alkokhola, a sega i tova...Edin Gospod znae dali ako otkazha i dishaneto niama da zhiveia vechno. - (...) - Ne che gi obviniavam. Te taka gi razbirat neshchata. Da se pazish - ot vsichko. Ot zhivota. Ot sm'rtta. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 0455207 | Protected from the sun by the half-blind that shields them, they gleam darkly, like sunken treasure, Aladdin's cave of sweet cliches. | Joanne Harris | ||
| ddf3f75 | Weeds and wheat cannot grow peacefully together. Any gardener could tell you the same thing. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 017f35b | the Blessed Damozel essence of every dream and fairy story and legend and fear ... | Joanne Harris | ||
| baacb33 | We're gods, not saints. Everyone lies. Everyone cheats. Everyone scores off everyone else. | Joanne Harris | ||
| e34e8c0 | some books you read. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 6847f4f | Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty. | Joanne Harris | ||
| dd5b72a | You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 79132ac | Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 833eec0 | You could buy individual boxes of detergent and fabric softener, even bleach, and there was nothing that made me grind my teeth with pleasure more than a real thing shrunken down small. The first time my dad showed me a toothache kit from a box of equipment from the Korean War and I saw the tiny cotton balls (the size of very small ball bearings), I nearly swooned. "Let me hold one of those," I said, almost mad at him. He gave it to me with.. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| c06c4ed | I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order to prevent bruising. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 71b31e1 | every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 985ca95 | But here God didn't come. We were all on our own. | religion god maus holocaust | Art Spiegelman | |
| ecd4c88 | At the beginning of the semester, Ulla wanted to pose only for the 'new trends' - a flea that Meiter, her Easter egg painter had put in her ear; his engagement present to her had been a vocabulary which she tried out in conversations with me. She spoke of relationships, constellations, actions, perspectives, granular structures, processes of fusion, phenomena of erosion. She, whose daily fare consisted exclusively of bananas and tomato juic.. | Günter Grass | ||
| 75aa78b | But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| f79fcc8 | Sometimes our words are saying one thing, but our tone of voice is saying another. We are sending double messages. Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use. | Gary Chapman | ||
| b12b1ba | Remember, emotions themselves are neither good nor bad. They are simply our psychological responses to the events of life. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 0730458 | It may surprise you that the primary lifetime threat to your child is his or her own anger. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 20b8ee8 | n `trfk bljhwd lty ybdhlh shrykk ky ySyr shkhSan 'fDl, wthnk `l~ Sfth lyjby@, sydf`h llqym bmzyd mn ltGyyrt | Gary Chapman | ||
| 48b1fff | What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives. | Gary Chapman | ||
| bc69eb1 | life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments but in relationships. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 388c12f | Unconditional love is a full love that accepts and affirms a child for who he is, not for what he does. No matter what he does (or does not do), the parent still loves him. Sadly, some parents display a love that is conditional; it depends on something other than their children just being. Conditional love is based on performance and is often associated with training techniques that offer gifts, rewards, and privileges to children who behav.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 156ef34 | Welcome to the real world of marriage, where hairs are always on the sink and little white spots cover the mirror, where arguments center on which way the toilet paper comes off and whether the lid should be up or down. It is a world where shoes do not walk to the closet and drawers do not close themselves, where coats do not like hangers and socks go AWOL during laundry. In this world, a look can hurt and a word can crush. Intimate lovers .. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 4f1c877 | Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love. "I love you. I care about you, and I choose to forgive you. Even though my feelings of hurt may linger, I will not allow what has happened to come between us. I hope that we can learn from this experience. You are not a failure because you have failed. You are my spouse, and t.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 241a125 | Parents who treat the teenager in the same manner in which they treated the child will not experience the same results they received earlier. When the teenager does not respond as the child responded, the parents are now pushed to try something different. Without proper training, parents almost always revert to efforts at coercion, which often lead to arguments, loss of temper, and perhaps, verbal abuse. Such behavior is emotionally devasta.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 7744308 | Gifts are visual symbols of love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 404acde | You can't buy what you want. It all comes as a gift. | love | Diane Mott Davidson | |
| 798a6c8 | Death doesn't hurt," said one of the twins, and a light came into his silver eyes. "Death is dark, death is sweet." The other twin took up the litany. "Death is all that lasts forever. Death is eternal beauty." "Death is a lover with a thousand tongues--" "A thousand insect caresses--" "Death is easy." | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| d7c5deb | I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good." Kinsey Milhone" | Sue Grafton | ||
| 8a22785 | While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone) | nature | Sue Grafton |