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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 659c458 | A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who. | women personhood | Philippa Gregory | |
| 71c9ec4 | Life is long, and if a woman survives, she can take her pleasures one way or another. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0c2a37c | We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| eb986c0 | I would carry myself with much more dignity than her. I wouldn't whisper with the king and demean myself as she did. I wouldn't send out dishes and wave to people like she did. I wouldn't trail all my brothers and sisters into court like she did. I would be much more reserved and cold. I wouldn't smile at anyone, I wouldn't bow to anyone. I would be a true queen, a queen of ice, without family or friends. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f824eb4 | when i first saw him i thought he was as beautiful as a knight from the romances, like a troubadour, like a poet. I thought i could be like a lady in a tower and he could sing beneath my window and persuade me to love him. But although he has the looks of a poet he doesn't have the wit. I can never get more than two words out of him, and i begin to feel that i demean myself in trying to please him. | philippa gregory | ||
| 3b022f5 | If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this. | war joan-of-arc will-of-god destruction | Philippa Gregory | |
| 270fd5a | How can I bless you when you are cursed in your choice? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 46d3ae8 | I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 32f30ae | In the darkness of the forest he saw her, and whispered her name, Melusina, and at that summoning she rose out of the water and he saw that she was a woman of cool and complete beauty to the waist, and below that she was scaled, like a fish. She promised him that she would come to him and be his wife, she promised him that she would make him as happy as a mortal woman can, she promised him that she would curb her wild side, her tidal nature.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| cba36cd | If you mean Charles Stuart,' Frances's voice rang out clearly in the hall, 'then calling him "he of whom you were speaking" is hardly a brilliant disguise. And if is your idea of deep concealment then I don't anticipate great success, on the day of which you have spoken, or any other day, actually." -- | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 131ed32 | As he catches my eye he beams at me, his dark face bright with affection. Anyone can see it who cares to look at him, he is hopelessly indiscreet. He puts his hand to his heart as if swearing fidelity to me. I look to left and right, thank God no-one is looking, they are all getting on their horses and George the duke is shouting for the guard. Recklessly, Richard stands there, his hand on his heart, looking at me as if he wants the world t.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 9d3b83f | I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3134f4b | I will own a cat and not fear being called a witch; I will dance and not fear being named a whore. I shall ride my horse and go where I please. I shall soar like a gyrfalcon. I shall live my own life and please myself. I shall be a free woman. It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 80a79b8 | We the daughters of Melusina,' she corrects me. 'Your grandmother was a daughter of the water goddess of the royal house of Burgundy and she never forgot that she was both royal and magical. When I was your age I didn't know whether she could summon up a storm or whatever it was all just luck and pretence to get her own way. But she taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 47d1691 | I raised my hand to wave in case he looked back; but he did not. He rode straight backed, looking forward. He rode like a Howard. We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands, we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onwards and upwards for the Howards; and my father was on his way back to court an.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 15dc7c4 | Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart. | women witch | Philippa Gregory | |
| 7e2d518 | Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him. | marriage women personhood ownership | Philippa Gregory | |
| 6b6862e | I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist. | marital-rape | Philippa Gregory | |
| 0a7cf89 | Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 1d418e9 | I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7046527 | Learn you to die!" means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| bbe88d7 | This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7228765 | We don't really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don't know what it might do in the future. | Richard Preston | ||
| 0a238cb | Epidemiologists think that smallpox killed roughly one billion people during its last hundred years of activity on earth. | Richard Preston | ||
| c2d9230 | I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began to dissolve on my skin. 'It's melting -- like cotton candy.' 'Sure. That's the sugar in the DNA,' Smith said. 'Would it taste sweet?' 'No. DNA is an acid, and it's got salts in it. Actually, I've never tasted it.' Later, I got some dried calf DNA. I placed a bit of the fluff on my tongue. It melted into a gluey ooze that stuck to .. | science freaky genetics | Timothy Ferris | |
| 61ba08b | The kill rate in humans infected with Ebola Zaire is nine out of ten. Ninety percent of the people who come down with Ebola Zaire die of it. Ebola Zaire is a slate wiper in humans. | Richard Preston | ||
| f195d57 | baseball. The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The lining of the gut dies and sloughs off into the bowels and is defecated along with large amounts of blood. In men, the testicles bloat up and turn black-and-blue, the semen goes hot with Ebola, and the nipples may bleed. In women, the labia turn blue, livid, and protrusive, and there may be massive vaginal bleeding. The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is .. | Richard Preston | ||
| 67e7032 | they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tis.. | Richard Preston | ||
| fe11fc3 | The rain forest has its own defenses. The earth's immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance. | Richard Preston | ||
| f063627 | C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188) | Richard Preston | ||
| 89ad3bc | Maybe your son didn't get that job because he's not good enough. Or he's lazy. Or the other guy was better than him, no matter what his skin color. I think the white people who have been here for two hundred years are the ones pulling down the country. They don't know how to work -- they've had it too easy | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 400d4f1 | weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld, | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5c57a98 | TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. You will use algebra in your adult lives. 2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away. 3. Students must stay on campus during lunch. 4. The new text books will arrive any day now. 5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores. 6. We are enforcing the dress code. 7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon. 8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals... | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| cfa3a9f | I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c11b5f3 | Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel." | emotion | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| f5b238b | Mother is the rock, I am the ocean. I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. It takes a lot of energy. I don't think I have it in me. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e4707a3 | Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battle field in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home. I try to ignore death, but she's got her arm around my waist waiting to poison everything I touch. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d11f994 | Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands." | picasso | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 7eb19f8 | Slush is frozen over. People say that winter lasts forever, but it's because they obsess over the thermometer. North in the mountains, the maple syrup is trickling. Brave geese punch through the thin ice left on the lake. Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green. | winter north seeds growth | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 3412a8c | I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything. | sleep | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| d9cf7cf | If I ever form my own clan, we'll be the Anti-Cheerleaders. We will not sit in the bleachers. We will wander underneath them and commit mild acts of mayhem. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8c5a016 | If you howl at the moon and swear on your own blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0b515fa | We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 878158a | Don't forget how to be gentle," she warned. "Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart." | Laurie Halse Anderson |