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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20b358a | You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in his head instructed. *As you reach the state of sleep, you will slip your body off as you would a coat. Start from your heart and mind, for they are the links that most bind you to the mortal plane. See? This is how it is done...* - Chapter 4 | fantasy other-worldly spiritual | Richard A. Knaak | |
| 18fd0ca | So to the end when life's dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| e5b5f57 | Where's my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up? | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| d076ccd | Then the sun peeped over the edge of the prairie and the whole world glittered. Every tiniest thing glittered rosy toward the sun and pale blue toward the sky, and all along every blade of grass ran rainbow sparkles. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| e300825 | I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws) | voting women-s-rights | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 5217ad4 | So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. And that was the last of the little house. | little-house-on-the-prairie memoir | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| d9d7626 | There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. | little-house-on-the-prairie memoir | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| ef3616d | I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still here, and by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit I intend to be a thorn in your side until one of us has had enough!" | spiritual-warfare | Frank E. Peretti | |
| 32379cc | The very word philosophy terrifies many women. In Quintessence I strive to exorcise this patriarchally embedded fear that undermines our intelligence and passion. We were all philosophers when we were five years old. Re-Calling our connections with nature at that age, many women can Re-member our sense of wonder and our urgent need to know. We were always asking "Why?" This state of mind can be called Wonderlust--meaning a strong and unconq.. | Mary Daly | ||
| 4a8febd | The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term "method" must be reinterpreted and in fact wrenched out of its usual semantic field, for the emerging creativity in women is by no means a merely cerebral process. In order to understand the implications of this process it is necessary to grasp the fundamental fact that women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our po.. | men method naming process religion sexism women | Mary Daly | |
| d94c890 | Originally, it was believed that witches possessed the power of glamour and according to the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, witches by their glamour could cause the male 'member' to disappear. In modern usage, this meaning has almost disappeared into the background and the power of the term is masked and suffocated by such foreground images as those associated with glamour magazine. | Mary Daly | ||
| bb78fbe | No valentines from the cats again. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 09b9ae9 | If there is one lesson to be learned from this book, it is that there is never a dull moment in the world of punctuation. | Lynne Truss | ||
| a30efb4 | I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own." | Lynne Truss | ||
| 2be9004 | Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels? | Lynne Truss | ||
| d4aa667 | the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something needs to be added [ . . .] The period [or full stop] tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with the semicolon there you get a pleasant feeling of expe.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 1f406cc | Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 22308f2 | Sure, it is weak and illiberal to speak slightingly of any considerable body of men; yet it so happens that the only judges I have known have been froward companions, and it occurs to me that not only are they subjected to the evil influence of authority but also to that of righteous indignation, which is even more deleterious. Those who judge and sentence criminals address them with an unbridled, vindictive righteousness that would be exce.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 0e5b074 | Hatred the only moving force, a petulant unhappy striving - childhood the only happiness, and that unknowing; then the continual battle that cannot ever possibly be won; a losing fight against ill-health - poverty for nearly all. Life is a long disease with only one termination and its last years are appalling: weak, racked by the stone, rheumatismal pains, senses going, friends, family, occupation gone, a man must pray for imbecility or a .. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 976b364 | I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater beadth and depth and fewer contraints. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 5d57ce1 | Compulsion is the death of friendship. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 1ca87a6 | Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 76aaa5f | Let us drink to the renewed success of Irish arms, and confusion to the Pope. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 265991a | Are you very much attached to money?' asked Stephen. 'I love it passionately,' said Jack, with truth ringing clear in his voice. 'I have always been poor, and I long to be rich. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| f26ffbf | Where there was no equality there was no companionship: when a man was obliged to say 'Yes, sir,' his agreement was of no worth even if it happened to be true. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| c31c063 | Within himself Jack had not the slightest doubt of victory, but it would never do to let this conviction take the form of even unspoken words; it must remain in the state of that inward glow which had inhabited him ever since the retaking of the Africaine, and which had now increased to fill the whole of his heart - a glow that he believed to be his most private secret, although in fact it was evident to everyone aboard from Stephen Maturin.. | victory | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 9fc9d0f | First there was the sky, high, pure and of a darker blue than he had ever seen. And then there was the sea, a lighter, immensely luminous blue that reflected blue into the air, the shadows and the sails; a sea that stretched away immeasurably when the surge raised the frigate high, showing an orderly array of great crests, each three furlongs from its predecessor, and all sweeping eastwards in an even, majestic procession. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 159b9eb | I am so happy that you saw your epop. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| e900b11 | Well, Killick, I trust you are not rushing into matrimony without due consideration? Matrimony is a very serious thing.' 'Oh no, sir. I considered of it: I considered of it, why, the best part of twenty minutes. There was three to choose on, and this here -' looking fondly at his purchase - 'was the pick of the bunch. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| dd7c7e1 | But what if we find we don't suit?" "Then ye'll do as the rest o' us and work at suiting." | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 96e0447 | Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| bce10e6 | It does not pay to be possessive of a man determined to remain free. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 485b740 | Stop looking as if you'd like to toss me from the window. Give me a hug, and go on to your dinner guest. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 04a3f76 | No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word 'love' in it. | proposal woman | Karen Hawkins | |
| 13e916b | Blast it! Where is that letter?" Sophia pulled it from her pocket. "I have it here." Sir Reginald's voice lifted with amazament. "You took that from me? When we were-" "Yes," she said, her color high. "I thought you'd sold my jewelry and that the envelope contained the payment. I wanted proof,so I took it." "By kissing me?" Outside, lightning cracked. "You him?" Dougal demanded. "Only once." "Actually, it was twice," Sir Reginald said sof.. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 1799a1a | Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all | Mary Lawson | ||
| 7debf1f | The lake hadn't been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on their bellies. So they did. "We thought it was exciting as all get out," Miss Vernon said. "We could hear the ice cracking but it didn't give, and we slid across it like seals. Oh, it was tremendous fun. The ice was clear as glass and you could see .. | lakes northern-ontario | Mary Lawson | |
| c17589f | Arthur found himself staring down at the knife embedded in his foot. There was a surreal split second before the blood started to well up and then up it came, dark and thick as syrup. | Mary Lawson | ||
| 061176a | I am the last prophet. A woman? | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 20be689 | Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own. | Gore Vidal | ||
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| cda77af | Dude," said Hassan softly. "Khanzeer." (Arabic:Pig) "Matha, al-khanazeer la yatakalamoon araby?" Colin asked. (Arabic: What, pigs don't speak Arabic?" "That's no pig," answered Hassan in Enlgish. "That's a goddamned monster." The pig stopped its rotting and looked up at them. "I mean. Wilbur is a fugging pig. Babe is a fugging pig. That thing was birthed from the loins of Iblis." (Arabic: Satan) It was clear now the pig could see them. Col.. | John Green | ||
| 68cebf3 | I actually thought and believed that the story would be compelling enough to cause a real sea change in the way Congress reacted to that issue. I thought they would be startled, too. And they weren't. | Al Gore |