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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fbb6c6e | It is right to be content with what you have, but never with what you are. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. Don't make the mistake of looking too far ahead and missing the things close by. | John Mason | ||
| ca791d2 | Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. | humanity life legacy | John Nichols | |
| 13f7281 | And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut? | woman feminism sexual-objectification | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 4356b34 | There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter. | truth lying-to-ourselves | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 5c4855c | Besides, you know how I love the theater, and let's face it-a wedding is like a big show followed by a cast party. | wedding | Jennifer Allison | |
| 2eb402f | My bullshit metre is reading that as false'. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ab7e972 | Self pity was a drug. I must not become addicted. Self pity is like chocolate, as you get older, you can only afford a little bit. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 33430a7 | She won't win," Eric said. He sounded confident, passionate--everything I might have hoped would be reassuring. "You're sure?" I asked. "Yes, my lover. I'm sure." "But you're not here," I observed, | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 609276b | There were toes. Those toes wouldn't be happy piggies. But they didn't have any right to be in the way. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e4b3134 | I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1d68ee9 | The queen is ... busy," Wybert said. "When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine." He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door. So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 854becb | When the second hour of Fiji's open house was almost at an end, a mother from Davy said, "How on earth do you get it to look like the cat is talking?" "Oh, did it look realistic?" Fiji had to struggle to keep a smile on her face. "It was so cute! It said, 'Get off my tail or I'll smother you in your sleep.'" "Just some batteries and a CD!" Fiji said. "And isn't that just what a cat should say?" -- | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e15dded | but I was sure he'd been talking about the home of someone white, because he'd said, "All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 02c1338 | Lots of kids in our neck of the woods call their grandfathers "Papaw" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2e5a7be | No one expected to be safe until this century, if you read a little history. Think of the thousands of years before- years with no law, when the sword ruled. No widespread system of justice; no immunizations against disease. The local lord free to kill the husbands, husbands free to rape and kill their wives. Childbirth often fatal. No antibiotics. It's only here and now that women are raised believing they'll be safe. And it serves us fals.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8d6bf75 | Jesus Christ, shepherd of Judea. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 3b179ae | You have a vampire living in your basement, and you're stunned by a talking cat? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 9d8b8a9 | Manfred," I began, exasperated, "I just don't know what to do with you." "I have some very good ideas," he said. He waggled his eyebrows. He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet." | manfred | Charlaine Harris | |
| f251fd7 | There is nothing more wonderful than feeling head-to-toe clean after you've been filthy, having a comfortable bed with clean sheets, being able to sleep in it in safety. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 751dcf7 | In fact," Eric said, as he went to the front door, "I'd throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it." He left, closing the door behind him very quietly. I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood and tortoiseshell buttons." | eric-northman sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| c653dc9 | It's not enough that we have to handle our own race's problems," Claude said. "Now we're sucked into the fucking vampire struggles, too." "No," I said, feeling I was walking uphill in this conversation. "You as a group weren't sucked into the vampire struggles. One of you was taken for a specific purpose. Different scenario." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 73b0f06 | Maybe I felt like I'd come so close to forever-death that I'd better step back and take a look at my life. Maybe I didn't like a lot of what I'd done with it so far. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 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 surviving survival | 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 | ||
| f05f8de | I put the kitch into kitchen. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 82eb461 | By God, no matter what Republicans say, the people of this country really do care about each other. We are not a cold people. By God, when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask what you can do for your country," he spoke to this country's heart and conscience." -- | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 04d044f | James Brown went to the pearly gates and met St. Peter who took him to a room where Jerry Garcia was playing and Jimi Hendricks and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. James Brown says, "I was worried maybe I was going to hell, but I guess not." Jerry Garcia says "You think this is heaven?" Just then Lawrence Welk walked in and says "All right, one more time. 'The Anniversary Waltz.' And a one and a two and a one, two, three..." | Garrison Keillor | ||
| eb4b02b | The drag queen walks into a Catholic church as the priest is coming down the aisle swinging the incense pot. And he says to the priest, "Oh, honey, I love your dress, but did you know your handbag's on fire?" | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 883aa2f | In TIME June 7, 2010 | writers-groups | Garrison Keillor | |
| 8a7c443 | WE DEMOCRATS are deeply flawed people, but we do stick to our guns, and believe in decency and public spiritedness and have refused to hitch our wagon to yahooism and intolerance and have supported government as a necessary force for good to "establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty . . ." | Garrison Keillor | ||
| d5bf33a | Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I'm counting them as blessings? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e5d4645 | I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a6ee0b9 | The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6f8409c | Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees! | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1043eaa | Oh, how can I say this: People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know once again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers. To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less ab.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4c535e0 | Questioning our government's actions does not violate the principles of liberty, equality, and freedom of speech; it exercises them, and by exercise we grow stronger. I have read enough of Thomas Jefferson to feel sure | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 356e263 | What is new is that we know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time. As far as I can tell, that is the intent and purpose of television news. We see so much, understand so little, and are simultaneously told so much about What We Think, as a populace polled minute by minute, that is begins .. | television truth news | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| a97d810 | But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will. | progress dreams hope | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| a439b6b | It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 45c0ad8 | Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet learned that heartbreak can catch up to you on any given day. | Barbara Kingsolver |