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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a970858 | Their next reunion shifted like an oasis on the horizon, and Jude couldn't plot her course. She trudged through her days, haunted by the feeling that real life was happening five thousand kilometers away. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 6e5df1f | It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| edc4d01 | Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. "Find me a silk to match that." | nature | Emma Donoghue | |
| 00ebdc7 | So when one spring in spite of all this good advice I fell in love, it felt like disaster. I took a tiny bite and it exploded in my stomach. Love splashed through every cranny, hauled on every muscle, unlocked every joint. I was so full of astonishment, I felt ten feet tall. My shoulders itched as if wings might break through. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 983659f | But for me, Room is a peculiar (and no doubt heretical) battle between Mary and the Devil for young Jesus. If God sounds absent from that triangle, that's because I think that for a small child, God's love is represented, and proved, by mother-love. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 37c0577 | Dr. R scratches out a note on his pad. "Losing you both was only the practice pain, wasn't it? For my mum and dad..." He puts his finger on his lips, his elbow at his chest, not racked with cancer. "Yes." "And when that happens, this will seem like nothing." He nods. "When it happens," he asks me, "what will get you through?" "Friends who love me." "And if your friends weren't there?" "Music through headphones." "And if the music stopped?" .. | Emma Forrest | ||
| 5df6408 | I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs. | Emma Forrest | ||
| 0adf182 | We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be. | Emma Forrest | ||
| b0a59e6 | Rain, forever raining. Drown me in sleep. And soon. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 7b99d9f | Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone. | happy love successful left-alone rescued room saved end wish hide coffin beautiful | Jean Rhys | |
| 8fcf453 | These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me larger than life. But I can put my arm up to avoid the impact and they slide gently to the ground. Individualists, completely wrapped up in themselves, thank God. It's the extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun - that's the person you've got to be wary of. | fun people life individualist wary uneasy extrovert sad | Jean Rhys | |
| e536b6e | And then the days came when I was alone. | solitude | Jean Rhys | |
| 9378509 | she gave him all the love she could not give herself. She loved him becasue he was the embodiment of those attributes she wanted for herself... | Lilian Pizzichini | ||
| 3244dba | Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple -- no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 1d8a56b | poverty is the cause of many compromises. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 2eba272 | He was being really cute and funny. Then he moved in close. I was terrified - I mean, I hardly know him, but it was also sort of exciting. Until we actually kissed. Kendra, he had dog breath. | Brandon Mull | ||
| c69bc9a | Who won the 2004 World Series?" She shrugged, "The Yankees?" "The Yankees? And you claim to be an American?" He enjoyed rubbing it in after her attitude about Harrisburg. "It was the Red Sox. The year they broke the curse." | yankees | Brandon Mull | |
| 1d49b89 | The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2e43269 | If a starving bear ate my family, even though he may have had no wicked intentions, even though he was just being a bear, his nature has made him a menace, | Brandon Mull | ||
| 4a4cef3 | I am custodian of the knowledge hoarded here. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 3aa4fad | The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else. | stupidity truth | Brandon Mull | |
| 8b19bf7 | Remember, if you get into horrible trouble and desperately need me, I'll be much too busy with my own problems! | Brandon Mull | ||
| f6201ff | It doesn't take a genius to plan a perfect assault," Galloran said. "The trouble tends to show up during the execution." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 4af3115 | Brandon's greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 17730e5 | Newel and Doren had inexhaustibly consumed milkshakes, burgers, sandwiches, tacos, nachos, pretzels, nuts, beef jerky, trail mix, soda, doughnuts, candy bars, cookies, crackers, and aerosol cheese. Of the fifty most impressive belches Seth had witnessed in his life, all had occurred on this road trip. "I hate to interrupt the feasting," Vanessa said, "but we did come here for a purpose. Let's try to focus on something besides sweet fat and .. | Brandon Mull | ||
| d029fdc | In some ways, it's easier to recognize your power when you're calm and untroubled than when you're distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don't push too hard. You've done it once. You can do it again. | talent | Brandon Mull | |
| 277d01c | A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship. | Brandon Mull | ||
| b81e607 | Early to bed, early to rise," Ziggy said. "Early or late," | Brandon Mull | ||
| e477a16 | What's the meaning of life?" Cole tried. "There is no inherent meaning," Aero replied. "All significance is constructed." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 957e9c9 | Rotten apples stay spoiled, Nedwin said. Copernum and his allies will hang themselves with future crimes. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 0f68ca6 | Each human being has significant potential for light and darkness," Grandpa continued. "Over a lifetime, we get a lot of practice leaning toward one or the other. Having made different choices, a renowned hero could have been a wretched villain." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 13d8488 | The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --WARREN G. BENNIS, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f68af4a | The designer always has to leave room for the gods. | Robert Bringhurst | ||
| 105ae1b | Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. | Robert Bringhurst | ||
| 023f91e | We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains. | Victoria Holt | ||
| 2ab72e6 | Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 03bb4fc | Twenty-five years from now all religion will be fundamentalist religion, even the Church of England. Wild-eyed "Tutuist" Anglicans will riot in Anzania (formerly the Union of South Africa). They'll force people to play contract bridge at gunpoint and make unbelievers eat little sandwiches with the crusts cut off. No woman will dare appear in the street without a small, stupid hat like Queen Di's." | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| ce39331 | The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. | washington-dc | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 247cc2b | The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| e4d3120 | You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| e8b4781 | A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do. --P.J. O'Rourke | Sarina Bowen | ||
| 5783f56 | To be a missionary you don't have to cross the sea, you just have to see the cross. | Mark Cahill | ||
| 0a6a8b6 | It should be considered illegal for a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ not to be burning with passion for our Lord and burning with passion for the lost. | witnessing souls | Mark Cahill | |
| 01aeaba | I never gained control of my mind--how do you dominate an ocean?--but I began to form a real relationship with it. Through writing and meditation I identified monkey mind, that constant critic, commentator, editor, general slug and pain-in-the-ass, the voice that says, "I can't do this, I'm bored, I hate myself, I'm no good, I can't sit still, who do I think I am?" I saw that most of my life had been spent following that voice as though it .. | Natalie Goldberg |