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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e380b9d | She looks like she just saw a ghost, a unicorn, and Hello Kitty having a three-way in a clown car and they didn't invite her. I | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d3bb3dc | When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here. "Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate." | cora hope life loneliness nate peace sadness | Lisa Ann Sandell | |
| 9fa511a | So far you've spent your life striving to please others," she heard him say. "With a rather poor rate of success. Why don't you try pleasing yourself for a change? Why not live by your own rules? What has obeying the conventions ever gotten you?" Evie pondered the questions, and her breath hissed in pleasure as he found a particularly sore spot. "I like the conventions," she said after a moment. "There is nothing wrong with being an ordinar.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 01d0b86 | Just remember that people make their own choices, and then they live with them. We can try to change them, but we can't make their choices for them. If you do everything you can to help, you have to accept the outcome they bring on themselves. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 5bf4ef6 | Shit happens, but it only stinks as long as you keep it around. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 5ec1c39 | I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee. It is my one real vice, so I figure why not indulge with an Olympic-style commitment? | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| a0c65c0 | I'm insane for you, Amy. 'Like' lasted all of ten minutes. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 2179df1 | Hope is my enemy. It's worse than lies. It promises and it takes back. It teases and it rips my heart out. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 2bd49b3 | They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth--not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?" | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 42f16fb | I look deep into his eyes and find myself wrapped in the familiar connection we share. It streams through me like moonlight on a bay, glistening through my soul. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| e2092dc | It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb. --John Gotti CHAPTER | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 7660d1f | When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments of participating in something like a visceral function, such as digestion or sweating, a function that is independent of the conscious will. This impression is exaggerated, but the practice or pursuit of drawing touches, or is touched by, something prototypical and anterior to logical reasoning. | John Berger | ||
| 0085851 | Sorrel soup: "You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp green acidity and the round comfort of the egg reminds you of something extraordinary and far away. Of home? Certainly not, not even for Poles. | John Berger | ||
| be100c5 | Preachers love only their own voices. | self subjectivity | John Berger | |
| 032e1fa | There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and an au revoir! Alternately and ad infinitum. | John Berger | ||
| c499c10 | Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you have. | John Berger | ||
| 902ecb2 | We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to touch the vision or experience which prompted them. We then gather up what we have found there and take this quivering almost wordless 'thing' and place it behind the language into which it needs to be translated. And now the principal task is to persuade the host language to take in and welcome the 'thing' which is waiting to be articulated. | thing translation | John Berger | |
| 65b0932 | The happiness of being envied is glamour. | glamour social-anxiety validation | John Berger | |
| 61efde3 | We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually .. | television | Peter Hitchens | |
| 53ec32e | The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue. | clown humour life loss | John Berger | |
| 02249c5 | Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space. | life place-in-life | John Berger | |
| ae4d096 | My mom was Sara Hale. My dad was Jonathan Hale. I was no one's son. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| bf375d4 | She went a little fucking overboard on her anger." He looks at me. "Her daughters are all a bit nuts, so you know exactly where they get it from." "She called the fucking cops on me," I retort. "That's not nuts that's --" "It's nuts," he rebuts. "It's fucked up." "That too," he says." | father jonathan-hale nuts ryke-meadows samantha-calloway son | Krista Ritchie | |
| 4b8de5b | Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens. | middle-east second-class | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 2105363 | There's something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naive. I am. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 56e7e42 | I found myself earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, 'but I've discovered that I can't live as though I didn't believe in him. As long as I don't need to say any more than that I try to live as though I believe in God, I would very much like to come to church--if you'll let me. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 10d1695 | Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was, the stars were not visible. What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort? | shadow | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 32c3dba | Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin! | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 96eadb2 | Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named. | love purpose unique | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| d5df8be | But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, "we" and say "I"? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are "we" and "us," a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along with us as our marriage has grown. Even during the times, inevitable in all marriages, when I have felt angry, or alienated, the instinctive "we" remains. And most growth has come during times .. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 60b771a | Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. MADELEINE L'ENGLE | John Ortberg Jr. | ||
| 245c3ff | When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue. | Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm | ||
| dc0171f | Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realitat fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ist ein Stuck Verhangniss, man gehort zum Ganzen, man ist im Ganzen, - es giebt Nichts, was unser Sein richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen konnte, denn das hiesse das Ganze richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen... Aber es giebt Nichts ausser dem Ganzen!" | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | ||
| 851371a | Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | ||
| 0b6df27 | I ain't got no blood claim on you, and the Lord in Heaven knows I want you to have a good life with your own people. But"--her huge bass voice broke up into little squeaky pieces--"but it's killing me to see you go." | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 1c17857 | If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 3dba404 | Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| e79f030 | Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. | everyone-in-the-world | Katherine Paterson | |
| 64c18ae | I was not happy in any way that would make sense to most people, but I was, for the first time in my life, deeply content with what life was giving me. Part | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 196239b | Brenda burst in. "Do you know what some people do? They charge something and wear it, and then take it back and say it didn't fit or something. The stores don't give 'em no trouble." Her father turned in a kind of roar. "I never heard such a fool thing in my life. Didn't you hear your mother tell you to shut your mouth, girl!" | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 785149d | On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| cb3db38 | You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 093aaf8 | He nodded vigorously. Anything was better than promising to fight Janice Avery. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 8faf6a2 | Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia," and she loaned Jess all of her books about Narnia, so he would know how things went in a magic kingdom--how the animals and the trees must be protected and how a ruler must behave." | Katherine Paterson |