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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da5727f | Now she said, "I'm up to the four-letter words." And I said, "You mean the dirty ones, like shit?" And she laughed and said, "Worse ones than that." And I said, "You mean the c-word and the f-word?" and she said, "No. Like love." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 067b4e9 | The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll Nine months he sailed the wine-red seas of his mother's blood Out of the cave of dreaded Night, of sleep, Of troubling dreams he sailed In his frail dark boat, the boat of himself, Through the dangerous ocean of his vast mother he sailed From the distant cave where the threads of men's lives are spun, Then measured, and then cut short By the Three Fatal Sisters, intent on their gruesome h.. | heirs hierarchy maidens mythos pathetic-fallacy pathos | Margaret Atwood | |
| 44a95a9 | Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows them to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 7828562 | In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand? There is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am | Margaret Atwood | ||
| c04142d | It's no good thinking you're invisible if you aren't | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4f225ba | The sands of time are quicksands, said Adam One. So much can sink into them without a trace. And what a blessing when those things that sink away are needless worries. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 00432b3 | there are some things that do not fare well in high definition. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4eec8da | they lurk passively, like vampire sheep | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4961627 | For the heart was both key and lock, and he who could master the hearts of men and learn their secrets was well on the way to mastering the Fates and controlling the thread of his own destiny. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8b899f4 | Then I find I'm not ashamed after all. I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there. I hope they get hard at the sight of us and have to rub themselves against the painted barriers, surreptitiously. They will suffer, later, at night, in their regimented beds. They have no outlets now except themselves, and that's a sacrilege. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 617fe39 | Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 2f8ad73 | I sort of like watching them," he said; "I watch laundromat washers the way other people watch television, it's soothing because you always know what to expect and you don't have to think about it. Except I can vary my programmes a little; if I get tired of watching the same stuff I can always put in a pair of green socks or something colourful like that." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| f749e5a | From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and runs her fingertip around the corners of her mouth, left one, right one; then she unswivels a pink stick and dots her cheeks and blends them, changing her shape, performing the only magic left to her. Rump on a packsack, harem cushion, pink on the cheeks and black discreetly around the eyes, as red as blood as black as ebon.. | feminism sexism women | Margaret Atwood | |
| e79efc3 | Nothing is ever settled," says Jocelyn. "Every day is different. Isn't it better to do something because you've decided to? Rather than because you have to?" | Margaret Atwood | ||
| bab2acc | I don't think they'll ever replace the living and breathing," says Gary. "They said that about e-books," says Kevin. "You can't stop progress." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 0f1d157 | It's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| c09efd0 | You all right?" he said again. I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was seeing him through a smeared window or glossy paper; he didn't belong here. But he existed, he deserved to be alive. I was wishing I could tell him how to change so he could get there, the place where I was. "Yes," I said. I touched him on the arm with my hand. My hand touched his arm. Hand touched arm. Language divides us into fragments, I wan.. | love | Margaret Atwood | |
| 8cad2b5 | Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat. | williamsburg | Chaim Potok | |
| f7e7c60 | Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 2c2a25a | Do we know exactly who we are? The more urgently we quest for our authentic selves, the more they tend to recede. The Knight and Sancho, as the great work closes, know exactly who they are, not so much by their adventures as through their marvelous conversations, be they quarrels or exchanges of insights. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| d56ffad | How is it possible that things so trivial and so easy to remedy can have the power to perplex and absorb an intelligence as mature as yours, and one so ready to demolish and pass over much greater difficulties? | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| b489e77 | Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep ! | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 529c46a | Limpias, pues, sus armas, hecho del morrion celada, puesto nombre a su rocin y confirmandose a si mismo, se dio a entender que no le faltaba otra cosa sino buscar una dama de quien enamorarse; porque el caballero andante sin amores era arbol sin hojas y sin fruto y cuerpo sin alma"." | don-quijote don-quijote-de-la-mancha español quijote quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 011181f | Having cleaned his armor and made a full helmet out of a simple headpiece, and having given a name to his horse and decided on one for himself, he realized that the only thing left for him to do was to find a lady to love; for the knight errant without a lady-love was a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 20c1c74 | No con quien naces, sino con quien paces. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| b07238b | You are a coward by nature, Sancho, said don Quixote, yet to prevent you from claiming I am obstinate and never do as you recommend, just this once I shall take your advice and keep my distance from the fury that so frightens you, but on one condition: never, in life or in death, will you tell anyone that I retreated from this peril out of fear, but rather acceded to your entreaties; and if you say anything else, you will be lying, and I gi.. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| f8c64fc | he who does not know how to take advantage of luck when it comes to him, has no right to complain if it gives him the go-by; | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 86a0bf8 | But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 9d76552 | All you have to do is try, with meaningful words, properly and effectively arranged, to honestly unroll your sentences and paragraphs, clearly, sensibly, just explaining what you're up to as well and as powerfully as you can. Let your ideas be understood without making them complicated or obscure. And see, too, if your pages can make sad men laugh as they read, and make smiling men even happier; try to keep simple men untroubled, and wise m.. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| a8b756f | there are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 7607a9d | Let each look to himself and not try to make out white black, and black white; for each of us is as God made him, aye, and often worse. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| bdec34c | If one were to reply that those who compose these books write them as fictions, and therefore are not obliged to consider the fine points of truth, I should respond that the more truthful the fiction, the better it is, and the more probable and possible, the more pleasing. Fictional tales must engage the minds of those who read them, and by restraining exaggeration and moderating impossibility, they enthrall the spirit and thereby astonish,.. | writing | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 8036721 | Yo no creo en brujas, pero que las hay, las hay. | humor witches | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 8a95233 | Night fell... "Night brings good counsel", my grandmother always told me." | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 0be7f87 | Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| f5e7bbb | the true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 043c1e0 | We know it is good to receive, and we have been blessed by receiving not only as children, but also as adults. Yet Jesus taught that it is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35), and part of growing up is learning the art of giving. If we fail to learn this art, we will live unfulfilled lives, and in the end, chains of bondage will replace the bonds that keep our communities together. If we just keep taking or even trading, we wi.. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 9dba461 | Love properly understood is God--the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 96d1929 | In the minds of most people, Christianity is supposed to be about love of God and neighbor (even though it is true that at the heart of Christianity does not lie human love at all, but God's love for humanity24 | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 7a52d78 | The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| c847202 | dJack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack forgot to check if the ice was thick. Emma was still, Emma was late, Emma's brother is now part of the lake. Time has passed, Time has gone, Time brought Jack back wrong. He was solemn, He was brave, He left his coat on Emma's grave. Emma was sad, Emma was scared, But she knew inside that Jack really cared. Jack was lost, Jack had forgot, That he had a story before the plot. Jack had wondered, Jack had f.. | dead dream fantasy fearless jack teen wonder | William Joyce | |
| d2033f4 | Our quest for safe harbor begins when we acknowledge our need to give up the independence and self-reliance of the orphan heart and humble ourselves willingly to be fathered and mothered by other men and women who have been there before, people who know how to find their way through the storms and the gales of life and who know where safe harbor lies. Safe harbor--the heart and love of the Father, along with all the riches and resources of .. | Jack Frost | ||
| f5b061b | Jack Frost hibernates from March to November, dreaming snowflake designs to share in December. With glittering breath, snowstorms, and blue blizzards, lakes made of crystal, he's an icy wizard! People assume winter will be harsh, cold, and cruel and that Jack must be a wicked, cold-weather ghoul. But he's truly an artist, known as Bringer of Ice, and although his heart is cold, he's really quite nice. | christmas jack-frost snow winter | Claudine Carmel | |
| 44050f1 | Would you like to become my wife?" "Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!" -- | love marriage proposal | Marjane Satrapi |