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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 40efbaa | You can believe anything you like. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 5efda2e | Death is insulting, and I resented its sudden appearance, like an unannounced visit from a boorish relative. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 3ac53dd | I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind added to the drought and the famine that nature dishes up annually as a matter of course. It's hard to know what's actually going to get us first. Sometimes I think we should just blow the whole planet and get it over with. It's the suspense that.. | suspense | Sue Grafton | |
| 880a560 | The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 0663237 | Nico twisted his skull ring. Around him, bones began to quiver as if they were trying to form a new skeleton. Whenever he got moody, Nico had that effect on the dead, kind of like Hazel's curse. Between them, they represented Pluto's two spheres of control: death and riches. Sometimes Hazel thought Nico had gotten the better end of the deal. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 78b8742 | Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe. | Rick Moody | ||
| 1dd1c69 | Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. "I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately. "But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked." "What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded. "Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with th.. | spiders morals | Piers Anthony | |
| 863eb9a | A good notion for a novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn't deserve it. | Piers Anthony | ||
| f14403f | Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first! | Piers Anthony | ||
| 9693a58 | Yes, I'm always hungry after a fatal injury. --Jordan | Piers Anthony | ||
| c7ab925 | She would have to ride the nightmare in her sleep. Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with it. | Piers Anthony | ||
| ab55565 | Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself. Bink put his face in his hands and cried. | freedom life | Piers Anthony | |
| 2c9853b | Do you seek to bribe Death?" Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious." | Piers Anthony | ||
| b741e0a | It is the man who can't be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself. | Piers Anthony | ||
| e9fd976 | There was one major fact that kept the balance steady between us: I still needed my mother. I needed her shoulder to lean on; I needed her wisdom and advice. I used to come home from a long day in the Senate--or, in 2007 and 2008, from a day on the campaign trail--and slide in next to her at our kitchen table and let all my frustrations and worries tumble out. Mostly, she just listened. When she gave advice, it always came down to the same .. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 88ec923 | While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States. Everything that I have done and seen has convinced me that America remains the "indispensable nation." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| e808389 | Donald Trump didn't invent sexism, and its impact on our politics goes far beyond this one election. It's like a planet that astronomers haven't precisely located yet but know exists because they can see its impact on other planets' orbits and gravities. Sexism exerts its pull on our politics and our society every day, in ways both subtle and crystal clear. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| cbc7aee | Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 0eb40dd | It hurts to be torn apart. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 6d8a838 | I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over. | tree | Karen Cushman | |
| 82244de | Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs. | Richard Wright | ||
| 4f595d3 | And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him. | Richard Wright | ||
| ca77a0e | Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it | Richard Wright | ||
| 0aa92bb | Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires | interpretation ideas | Richard Wright | |
| cd17020 | to see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself. | Richard Wright | ||
| a23c935 | A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, that loaf of bread is as important as the stars. | poverty | Richard Wright | |
| 7734d69 | Hence, there is no such thing as an absolute objectivity of attitude. The most rigorously determined attitude of objectivity is, at best, relative. We are human; we are the slaves of our assumptions, of time and circumstance; we are the victims of our passions and illusions; and the most our critics can ask of us is this: Have you taken your passions, your illusions, your time, and your circumstance into account? | Richard Wright | ||
| a385bb5 | I felt that it was unfair that my lack of a few pounds of flesh should deprive me of a chance at a good job but I had long ago emotionally rejected the world in which I lived and my reaction was: Well, this is the system by which people want the world to run whether it helps them or not. To me, my losing was only another manifestation of that queer, material way of American living that computed everything in terms of the concrete: weight, c.. | restrictions american-culture categorization materialism | Richard Wright | |
| 9243fdd | I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway. | Richard Wright | ||
| 1f7eb3d | If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds of thousands of them throughout the country. If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no .. | racism-in-america | Richard Wright | |
| 09f6c0e | At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffer.. | meaning life meaning-of-life | Richard Wright | |
| 898457f | They lived on the surface of their days; their smiles were surface smiles, and their tears were surface tears. Negroes lived a truer and deeper life than they, but I wished that Negroes, too, could live as thoughtlessly, serenely as they. | Richard Wright | ||
| e7fb5f3 | You look like an accident going somewhere to happen | Richard Wright | ||
| f6f69a9 | A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves. | magic humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| cdfcb95 | And still the storm approaches. And there's nothing I can do. So I wait and watch and feel his breath against my face, cool and brave. His salt licks my skin, his promise brushes my hair. His fury drives the wind to touch my cheek and whisper something I can't hear. I think he loves me. I think he comes to see me. I am young. I will learn | Terry Moore | ||
| 0d0a25e | Kiowa who saw it happen said it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something-Just Boom-then down. Not like in the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle-not like that. Kiowa said. The bastard just flat fuck fell. Boom down. Nothing else. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 804e721 | Her white skin and those dark brown eyes and the way she always smiled at the world - always, it seemed - as if her face had been designed that way. The smile never went away. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| f493af7 | It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 92249d3 | They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| fbd6302 | All around me the options seemed to be narrowing, as if I were hurtling down a huge black funnel, the whole world squeezing in tight. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| f2aeabf | Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life. | life | Tim O'Brien | |
| 2b119ed | Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do is proper. Proper courage is wise courage. It's acting wisely, acting wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear - wisely. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| bcaab6c | Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 938a2da | It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling, To wake up wearing a disguise. I lie in bed staring at the ceiling, I don't know who I am There's little that I can Fully recognize.... But I'm taking small steps, 'Cause I don't know where I'm going. I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together, And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way.... Just to make it through the day and not to get hurt.. | song | Louis Sachar |