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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3b6d37e | This is a sublime work whether any higher power exists or not. It does not prove the existence of anything. No gods ever created art.' 'In an earlier age, some might have considered such a sentiment blasphemy.' 'Blasphemy,' said Revelation with a wry smile, 'is a victimless crime. | Graham McNeill | ||
| 5b87996 | I know everything I need to know about you," she countered, taken aback. "You do?" he asked, and peered at her, eyes intent. "You do, You have that look in your eyes from the forest, when you called me a monster." He came within a meter or two of Rey, and she wondered what would happen if she refused to move and they intersected. Would she find herself in his mind again, and have to endure his presence in hers? Could they actually touch, .. | force-connection kylo-ren rey reylo | Jason Fry | |
| 680eda7 | For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| b89d78c | I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?" | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 474d7ac | It's strictly constables, sergeants, and lunatics. We'll keep the kettle on for you. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9a1c8f1 | Whatever was in the sandwiches, you didn't want them getting too warm and going off, or starting to smell, or spontaneously mutating into a new life form. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9941638 | THE TROUBLE with the old boy network is you can never be really sure whether it's switched on or not and whether it's operating in your interest or some other old boy's. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 49e0460 | Urban Outfitters, eh," said Beverley. "That explains the Dr Denim shirt." "My mum bought me that," I said. "And you think that's less embarrassing?" | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 973652f | What are my options?" she asked as I climbed into the driver's seat. "Meaningless euphemisms at one end and your full-on Unseen University at the other," I said. "The Unseen University is a bit like Hogwart's--" Stephanopoulos cut me off. "I have read some Terry Pratchett," she said." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 60ca2eb | He was a Parisian,' he said. 'You can never be sure what Parisians believe in - beyond Paris of course. | humour paris | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| d9b4603 | He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking...transparent. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9b20620 | You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons," Lesley had said when I explained my reasoning. I'd been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I've learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0fdc523 | Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn't in the mad oligarch class but once you're past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you're sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| df3b0e8 | I don't know why Nightingale was so surprised--I barely knew four and a half spells and you couldn't have got me to give it up, and that's despite close brushes with death by vampire, hanging, malignant spirit, riot, tigerman, and the ever-present risk of overdoing the magic and getting a brain aneurysm. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a9c0e30 | Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education. | puns latin | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 49297f1 | I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0c98fd9 | Up on the Magdalen Islands, eight crew members from the Sea Shepherd sprayed more than a thousand seal pups with a harmless but permanent red dye. This dye was designed to ruin their pelts and save the pups from hunters. The activists were arrested and, in pitch-perfect Orwellian double-speak, charged with violating the Seal Protection Act. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| c7d8ef2 | He didn't believe animals could think, not in the way he defined the term, but he wasn't much impressed with human thinking, either. He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 1f9f376 | A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholome Chassenee earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholome Chassenee argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the vil.. | history humour lawyers law rats | karen joy fowler | |
| 4c61312 | An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two." | terrorism government | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| e80bee7 | IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| cfa541e | There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 888b75c | We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies, | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 25b34a1 | A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 81f2d3c | Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface. | reason rationality | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 028cd98 | A quote hung on the opposite wall: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 2c233f7 | IN EVERYONE'S LIFE there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken away against their will. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 6ada3da | The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 56472de | It was long past time to change the subject. "The boy playing the bagpipes is really good," Prudie said. If only she'd said it in French! Trey made a delighted noise. "Nessa Trussler. A girl. Or something." Prudie looked at Nessa again. There was, she could see now, a certain plump ambiguity. Maybe Trey wouldn't tell anyone what she'd said. Maybe Nessa was perfectly comfortable with who she was. Maybe she was admired throughout the school f.. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| a712ad8 | There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do. | science love | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 05039b0 | It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 60e4ba8 | Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| d0678b9 | You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look-- | Iris Murdoch | ||
| ec302cd | T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any function. Poetry is the creation of linguistic quasi-things; prose is for explanation and exposition, it is essentially didactic, documentary, informative. Prose is ideally transparent; it is only | Iris Murdoch | ||
| a8eaf51 | Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world. | rage jealousy envy emotions | Iris Murdoch | |
| 6ebd883 | The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It is, on the whole, a merciful arrangement. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 7a1d3e1 | But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 6a424e1 | I am beginning to ramble. It is evening. The sea is golden, speckled with white points of light, lapping with a sort of mechanical self-satisfaction under a pale green sky. How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 324b71e | I feel I'm at the end of something -- everything is going to be different -- and terrible." "That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave." "There is one that will drown me." | metaphor the-end the-green-knight iris-murdoch giving-up dialogue resilience | Iris Murdoch | |
| baf6c9a | Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children. | travel trains social-anxiety travelling | Iris Murdoch | |
| d18f83c | But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. | murder women unrequited-love | Iris Murdoch | |
| ce70f5d | The exercise of power is a dangerous delight. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 9930eaf | There is nothing like a bit of ink to bring reason to the most disordered mind. | Stephanie Barron | ||
| 8a257c2 | How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you"ve given up something. ... I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. - Andy Warhol, 1963" | Legs McNeil |