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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d4007b6 | I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades. -Sookie | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e243165 | It's truly amazing what a good screw can do for your outlook, I thought. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| a040044 | But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here. | flourishing survival surviving | Charlaine Harris | |
| db91f73 | It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell. | telepaths vampires-in-america | Charlaine Harris | |
| 18f974b | Their backs were to me, and the vampire hadn't seen me yet I loosened the coiled chain so a good three feet of it swung free. Who to attack first? They were both small and vicious. I remembered Mack's contemptuous dismissal and the fact that he never left me a tip. Mack first. | mack sookie | Charlaine Harris | |
| eabe274 | I settled opposite him in my favorite chair, low enough that my feet can touch the floor, wide enough to curl up inside, with a little table beside it just big enough to hold a book and a coffee cup. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c276969 | Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure out how to be that? Just think existentially. All you do is take what is supposed to be the first day and bury someplace in the next month. By the time you get around to it a month later, who cares? | Francine Pascal | ||
| ccbfb7a | Renny was smarter and funnier and more original than they'd ever be, but he was thirteen. He was at the brutal age when many kids would sell all their uniqueness in their character for the right pair of shoes. | Francine Pascal | ||
| 9aad97a | As the crow flies. That's how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she'd get home? That wasn't the point. It didn't mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn't stop the earth's slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it .. | alone distance tomorrow walking | Francine Pascal | |
| be11d8f | The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe. | Keith Donohue | ||
| 6842412 | Love is the madness which allows us to believe in magic. | Keith Donohue | ||
| e73626d | I am lying in the same bed where my mother died so long ago; on the same mattress, beneath the same black wool coverlet she wrapped us in to sleep. I slept beside her, her little girl, in the special place she made for me in her arms. I think I can still feel the calm rhythm of her breathing; the palpitations and sighs that soothed my sleep. . . . I think I feel the pain of her death. . . . But that isn't true. Here I lie, flat on my back, .. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 0295cd5 | Nadie te hara dano nunca, hijo. Estoy aqui para protegerte. Por eso naci antes que tu y mis huesos se endurecieron primero que los tuyos. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 0783522 | Tu crees en el infierno, Justina? -Si, Susana. Y tambien en el cielo. -Yo solo creo en el infierno -dijo. Y cerro los ojos. | juan rulfo | ||
| 2a1abd6 | Hay aire y sol, hay nubes. Alla arriba un cielo azul y detras de el tal vez haya canciones; tal vez mejores voces...Hay esperanza, en suma. Hay esperanza para nosotros, contra nuestro pesar. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 44e7170 | So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ... | David Lindsay-Abaire | ||
| 797fceb | The truth is, Sidonie, I don't fare well with women." He spoke coolly, and without looking at her. "It is my own fault, of course. I...I neglect them. I forget where I'm supposed to be, and when I'm supposed to be there. I'm irresponsible. I drink to excess, gamble to excess, and sometimes I brawl. I never remember special occasions. And I very often go to sleep before they've...well, never mind that." Devellyn fell silent for a moment. "An.. | Liz Carlyle | ||
| aaf3e0b | If there is something one wants badly, one must often be bold. | Liz Carlyle | ||
| 457a71f | And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some. | religion | Robin Wasserman | |
| a3f9ae2 | Eli: 'If a machine like that really existed, people would be willing to kill for it. Lots of people.' Nora: 'Yeah, and if hot vampires really existed, suicide would be a viable option for wrinkle prevention. Your point? | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 2549858 | pregnant. dead. Jewish. These are impossibles. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| ae01c9a | I told myself I deserved some good luck, overlooking the fact that it would call for substantially more than luck to thrust me into one of those narratives where plain-Jane new girl catches the eye of inexplicably single Prince Charming, because somehow the new school has revealed her wild, irresistible beauty, of which she was never before aware. | love | Robin Wasserman | |
| 0048b43 | Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities. | definition life particle wave | Robin Wasserman | |
| 1516a0d | Eli shouted my name, and then his arounds were around me, and I reached for Adriane who held fast to a blistering, burning creature that once had been Max and somehow still breathed and stood and howled. Though he was now nothing but flame, a golem of fire, that lived only because he'd forgotten how to die. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 341b5da | Stevens, who knew that mouth could do more thana rgue? You're a true blue friend, a red-hot lady and all that other good yearbook shit. You've got a big heart and I've got an even bigger...you know. So we're both winners. KG | Robin Wasserman | ||
| f8d0c77 | The world was full of weapons, when you cared to look. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| ea9fb60 | Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary." | gatsbypoor illusion rich school-teacher | Alison Bechdel | |
| dffe9d1 | Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom. | psychoanalysis | Alison Bechdel | |
| 78b4304 | and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written - Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and tons of others I've never seen before. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 8ad572c | The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 1d7fa86 | If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1 | Nick Lane | ||
| e38f98e | On Columbus's later voyages, his crew happily accepted godhood--until the Taino began empirically testing their divinity by forcing their heads underwater for long periods to see if the Spanish were, as gods should be, immortal. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b748d7f | I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually moving about serving tea had nothing to do with me. I had such high hopes, you see. The boundaries of the world seemed vast. I would visit Rome, Paris, Constantinople. Underground cafes presented in my mind where, crushed against wet walls, a (handsome, generous) friend and I sat discussing--many things. Deep things.. | gender identity | George Saunders | |
| fafc14e | Not that parents are alone in their extreme behavior. That have more than enough company among school boards and high-ranking politicians who think if you "fix the schools, they'll fix the kids." So, in Gadsden, Alabama, school officials eliminated kindergarten nap time in 2003 so the children would have more test-prep time. Two hours away in Atlanta, school officials figured that if you eliminated recess, the kids will study more. And just.. | Jim Trelease | ||
| 0acd174 | Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this. | Lincoln Child | ||
| cd7e15b | I would have to say that at least one of the things that almost killed me was becoming a professional holy person. I am not sure that the deadliness was in the job as much as it was in the way I did it, but I now have higher regard than ever for clergy who are able to wear their mantles without mistaking the fabric for their own skin. As many years as I wanted to wear a clerical collar and as hard as I worked to get one, taking it off turne.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| d8e6c43 | One of the main things that tip people toward garden-variety depression, she says, is a "low tolerance for sadness." It is the inability to bear dark emotions that causes many of our most significant problems, in other words, and not the emotions themselves. When we cannot tolerate the dark, we try all kinds of artificial lights, including but not limited to drugs, alcohol, shopping, shallow sex, and hours in front of the television set or .. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| e87e63c | Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c2fe73d | Spending extended amounts of time inside other religious worldviews has loosened the screws on my own, which is beginning to seem like a good thing. Disowning God has been a great help to me. Owning my distinct view of God has helped me understand it much better. Although I can see the places where religious truth claims collide, this does not bother me as much as it could. I am far more interested in how people live than what they believe... | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 07193a2 | Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia - not covered in dust but evolving all the way- so that each new generation has something to choose from when it is time to ask the big questions in life. Where did we come from? Why do bad things happen to good people? Who is my neighbor? Where do we go from here? No one should have to start from scratch with questions like t.. | questions-in-life religion-spirituality wisdom | barbara brown taylor | |
| da71b6b | According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these days, and some of their reasons make sense. Who wants children growing up with the idea that stepmothers are wicked, ugly people are evil, women can get by on their beauty, and princesses are all white? At the same time, I worry about children who grow up thinking that every story has a happy ending and no one gets per.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| cbcb777 | There is an easy standoff between the two kinds of mother which sometimes makes it hard for us to talk to each other. I suspect that the non-working mother looks at the working mother with envy and fear because she thinks that the working mum has got away with it. And the working mum looks back with fear and envy because she knows that she has not. In order to keep going in either role, you have to convince yourself that the alternative is .. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 27225ee | You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever... | Allison Pearson | ||
| 6a73238 | Yet here apparently on this stifling summer afternoon was the eye of Mr. Flay at the outer keyhole of the Hall of the Bright Carvings, and presumably the rest of Mr Flay was joined on behind it. | humor mr-flay rottcodd | Mervyn Peake |