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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 903e195 | He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism; | Peter Straub | ||
| 7480145 | The face was no longer bone, but animal - the face of a white wolf. "I forbid you nothing. " uttered the awful face. "You may go anywhere - you may open any door. But, little bird, remember that you must be prepared to accept whatever you find." The long jaws spread in a smile filled with teeth." | Peter Straub | ||
| a553754 | What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible. | Peter Straub | ||
| 3bdc8dc | I'm being haunted," she blurted out. "My dear," he cooed. "Turn yourself into a tourist attraction and charge admission." | mysterious horror | Peter Straub | |
| b68e486 | God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. | Peter Straub | ||
| cb0f41f | In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: 'like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane...and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.' With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious tha.. | Victoria Finlay | ||
| 490cbe3 | In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own. | Victoria Finlay | ||
| 8f1b57d | you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible. | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| 7ebfba2 | That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| b43d903 | With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together. | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| 1493dd4 | Never underestimate a droid, | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| db93c58 | Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it was over ("Remember last night?"), while holding out the possibility that whatever happened could be rerun. Neil didn't have that sense of things. He thought people shouldn't romanticize ordinary life. "Our struggles, our little struggles," he would whisper, in bed, at night. Sometimes he or she would clic.. | ordinariness ordinary-life | Ann Beattie | |
| 0c0150c | Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with his James Cagney eyes. He will try to kiss you. Turn your head. Feel suffocated. (from "How")" | relationships discontent | Lorrie Moore | |
| d8de29a | I am thinking of the dancing body's magnificent and ostentatious scorn. This is how we offer ourselves, enter heaven, enter speaking: we say with motion, in space, This is what life's done so far down here; this is all and what and everything it's managed - this body, these bodies, that body - so what do you think, Heaven? What do you fucking think? | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 741a516 | But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| ff4cd49 | The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 9108271 | When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 29e530e | The situation was not easy for her, they knew. Once, at the start of last semester, she had skipped into her lecture hall singing "Getting to Know You" - both verses. At the request of the dean the chairman had called her into his office, but did not ask her for an explanation, not really. He asked her how she was and then smiled in an avuncular way. She said, "Fine," and he studied the way she said it, her front teeth catching on the insid.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 733cedd | Tell him not to smoke in your apartment. Tell him to get out. At first he protests. But slowly, slowly, he leaves, pulling up the collar on his expensive beige raincoat, like an old and haggard Robert Culp. Slam the door like Bette Davis. Love drains from you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and g.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 2e88946 | And you listen to some of that meticulous Mozart stuff and Vivaldi and you realize that they knew that too. They knew when to leave one note just hanging up there where it illegally belongs and let it dangle in the wind and turn a dead body into a living beauty. | Keith Richards | ||
| c479870 | I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass | Keith Richards | ||
| 93ddee4 | I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands | Keith Richards | ||
| 2d98e70 | In acceptance, there is a decreased preoccupation with "doingness," a growing focus on the quality of beingness itself," | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 4ab45c5 | We have had the experience of being totally absorbed in what we were doing, when we scarcely noticed the passage of time. The mind was very quiet, and we were simply doing what we were doing without resistance or effort. We felt happy, maybe humming to ourselves. We functioned without stress. We were very relaxed, although busy. We suddenly realized that we never needed all those thoughts after all. Thoughts are like bait to a fish; if we b.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 78b66a0 | Love as depicted in the mass media is not what this level implies. On the contrary, what the world generally refers to as love is an intense emotionality combining physical attraction, possessiveness, control, addiction, eroticism, and novelty. It is usually evanescent and fluctuating, waxing and waning with varying conditions. When frustrated, this emotion often reveals an underlying anger and dependency that it had masked. That love can t.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| ff070b9 | Before reading on, it is advisable to sit quietly and make an inner decision to let go resisting higher levels of functioning. This means to make a decision to stop denying the higher levels to yourself, and to make a decision to let go of all blocks to happiness, success, health, acceptance, love, and peace. By doing this, the deed is already done, for you have set the whole experience into a context that will automatically begin to unfold.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 147d40d | One's fate, obviously, will either be for the better or for the worse, depending on the choices made by the spiritual will. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| be114b2 | On the level of acceptance, love is experienced as a stable state, a permanent condition of a relationship. The source of love is seen to be within ourselves, emanating from our own nature and reaching out to include others. In the state of desire, by contrast, we speak of being "in love," as the source of happiness and love is thought to be outside of ourselves." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 45b4e01 | The greater our attachment to that which is outside of ourselves, the greater is our overall level of fear and vulnerability to loss. We can ask ourselves why we feel so incomplete. "Why am I so empty within myself that I have to search for solutions in the form of attachment and dependency on others?" | David R. Hawkins | ||
| b3c194d | More things in this world have been accomplished in this world by persistence than by wisdom. | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| c9cf159 | Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. | William Manchester | ||
| 100a327 | His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him. | William Manchester | ||
| c788696 | Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. | William Manchester | ||
| 6fc820a | I will not take by sacrifice what I can achieve by strategy. | William Manchester | ||
| 64c944d | The Howard Hughes thing hadn't actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse. | romance humor ex jock recluse | Heidi Betts | |
| 67dd1d7 | It made him feel like less of a man. And given how much less of a man he'd felt the past several weeks, that was really saying something. He was surprised someone from the Man Club hadn't come by to revoke his dick and balls. | romance humor jock | Heidi Betts | |
| 0070a14 | Even though I'm a Jedi, I am not invincible. | jedi lessons-learned | Jude Watson | |
| eaa1492 | But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times. | James C. Scott | ||
| a97d92d | Social order is not the result of the architectural order created by T squares and slide rules. Nor is social order brought about by such professionals as policemen, nightwatchmen, and public officials. Instead, says Jacobs, "the public peace--the sidewalk and street peace--of cities ... is kept by an intricate, almost unconscious network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves... | James C. Scott | ||
| 0124ab1 | Not so very long ago, however, such self-governing peoples were the majority of humankind. Today, they are seen from the valley kingdoms as "our living ancestors," "what we were like before we discovered wet-rice cultivation, Buddhism and civilization." on the contrary, I argue that hill peoples are best understood as runaway, fugitive, maroon communities who have, over the course of two millennia, been fleeing the oppressions of state-maki.. | James C. Scott | ||
| 42c1f4a | She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 9156a14 | I believe there is an explanation for everything - although we shall never know the explanation for everything. Not everything in this world can be understood by us, nor should it be. It is not necessary. | Steve Augarde | ||
| e554460 | I'll be fine ' Pen told me a little curtly. 'Where are you going anyway ' 'The United States. Alabama.' 'Looking for a change of scene ' 'Looking for a dead woman.' 'Get Jenna-Jane Mulbridge to come down here and I'll make you one. | Mike Carey | ||
| adf7daa | Outside of taking care of a man's needs, women don't get much pleasure out of life, anyways. | Charles Willeford |