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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71b9d8a | Where are we supposed to go to the bathroom?" he asked Magnet. Magnet gestured with his arms to the great expanse around them. "Pick a hole, any hole," he said." | Louis Sachar | ||
| 3a7f9c1 | She hated cleaning up after making something. | cleaning-up patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 011aba6 | She envied him. She envied him his faith there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 81811a3 | January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| a43f9be | I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think? | travel | Patricia Highsmith | |
| c48f4c2 | There were many times when logic was of no comfort. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 8fc5b6c | Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 0ec791a | Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| cbdda9b | He seems to be making you that way too - enough to tolerate people like him. And once you start tolerating them, you're going to end up being like them yourself. | bad-people | Patricia Highsmith | |
| ae80c11 | He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| d241624 | We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-ready arguments. Our delicate cross-stitch of bickers. The house becomes a physical encyclopedia of no-longer hers, which shocks and shocks and is the principal difference between our house and a house where illness has worked away. Ill people, in their last day on Earth, do not leave notes stuck to bottles of red wine saying 'OH NO YOU DON'T COCK-CHEEK'. She was not busy dying, and the.. | Max Porter | ||
| 66289a0 | Wine is so complex, I mused. Thousands of experts and hundreds of thousands of amateur experts would rhapsodize or vilify the vinification of these seemingly simple bunches of grapes. But in the end, it was just these innocuous clusters, photosynthesis, rain or no rain, cool ocean breezes, alluvial soils, that produced these epiphanies in the bottle hundreds and thousands of miles away. | Rex Pickett | ||
| 75d7f18 | Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: That's not true, at least not yet. | the-singularity singularity | Richard Dooling | |
| 1a3bb5e | Even that night, the night he touched one inch of her in the dark, how simply Avery seemed to accept the facts - that they were on the edge of lifelong happiness and, therefore, inescapable sorrow. It was as if, long ago, a part of him had broken off inside, and now finally, he recognized the dangerous fragment that had been floating in his system, causing him intermittent pain over the years. As if he could now say of that ache: "Ah. It wa.. | pain | Anne Michaels | |
| bdbbb10 | There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess an unaccountable feeling, a presence, an absence. Sometimes it takes time to learn this, like a child who suddenly realizes for the first time that the ball he threw over the fence has not disappeared. | Anne Michaels | ||
| d074b42 | our bodies surround what has always been there | Anne Michaels | ||
| 7679409 | The winter street is a salt cave. The snow has stopped falling and it's very cold. The cold is spectacular, penetrating. The street has been silenced, a theatre of whiteness, drifts like frozen waves. Crystals glisten under the streetlights. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 9f3e473 | The greatest loves are those kept in secret. | Barbara Haworth-Attard | ||
| ae13dab | Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you. | maguire liir gregory of witch son | Gregory Maguire | |
| b599ff7 | Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 7b30478 | It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it. | work motivation | Gregory Maguire | |
| ffe6144 | Happiness now sometimes meant turning away from what one remembered of earlier, better happiness. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| f78d794 | What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling paintings in the mind--to which, with nostalgia or dread, you must ever return. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5c3ced3 | In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types. | elphaba oz liir out-of-oz wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
| 792a6d5 | Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir." | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0908ab7 | It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 4c687f4 | In the end, all disguises must drop. | truth inspirational-living | Gregory Maguire | |
| 1e712b3 | There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0888ac6 | The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex." | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 36d7249 | I never use the words "humanist" or "humanitarian", as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature." -- | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 1a1c3f1 | A story in a book has its own intentions, even if unknowable to the virgin reader, who just lollops along at her own pace regardless of the author's strategies, and gets where she will. After all, a book can be set aside for weeks, or for good. (Burned in the grate.) Alternatively, a story can be adored for centuries. But it cannot be derailed. A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it i.. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 765247c | Liir didn't know what to say to that; he wasn't sure what husbandry was. "Animal husbandry," Trism explained, though in the noise of the bar, Liir couldn't tell if he said Animal or animal, the sentient or the nonsentient creature. "Training for military uses," said Trism at last. "Are you slow, or are you falling in love with me?" " | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e337609 | The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 2de312a | Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... that your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too. | home patriotism | Gregory Maguire | |
| 3f7dbca | He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and vulgar colors. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 6b2a40e | What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 00b3a4f | Perplexity isn't as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e12069c | You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| c6c55db | The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both. | perspective perception | Gregory Maguire | |
| e24b32a | It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 922156d | As an old friend of mine once said when I brought him some interesting brownies, 'You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes,'" she replied. "Haven't you read your Maimonides?" | Gregory Maguire | ||
| c833cb7 | Damn the human stomach, this fat betrayor of ideals | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 85f8099 | All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3ccc32e | However, as I hope to persuade you, there are some interesting connections between science and magic. They share a belief, as one mathematician put it, that what is visible is merely a superficial reality, not the underlying "real reality." They both have origins in a basic urge to make sense of a hostile world so that we may predict or manipulate it to our own ends." -- | science math | Roger Highfield |