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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8388b53 | I had no study in those days, not even a desk or file or bookcase to call mine alone....It might have happened sooner [the writing of work worthy of publication] had I had a room of my own and fewer children, but somehow I doubt it. For as I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who took away my time and space are those who have given me something to say. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 925f030 | Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 96bb0e7 | Leslie called them Judy and Bill, which bothered Jess more than he wanted it to. It was none of his business what Leslie called her parents. But he just couldn't get used to it. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 16bdbb8 | Antes de que ocurra nunca sabes como va a ser una cosa realmente. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| b061acd | The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination. | education educational-philosophy imagination | Katherine Paterson | |
| a0f7e86 | she had stood at the gate of her compound and told the Japanese soldiers there that if they tried to come in and get her girls, they would have to do it across her dead body. This | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 72cdbd8 | Even a prince may be a fool | Katherine Paterson | ||
| cde214a | Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied | freedom humor identity | Katherine Paterson | |
| 4279a4b | Trains aren't a problem. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 9817e01 | He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be. | strength weakness | Tanya Huff | |
| 05b8220 | I'm repairing alien tech with a sleeve, Gunny." Torin glanced down at her cuff. "So, ten? Fifteen?" "Fifteen." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 5d406ec | Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between. | thinking | Tanya Huff | |
| c6e2e93 | Torin suspected Darlys was praying and only hoped she wasn't praying to her--for she was a vengeful god, or, at the very least, a god who could use a few hour's more sleep and a large cup of black coffee. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 7b8afa1 | This is not your land," William Lobb said. "Oh, it is, it is. I got the papers. I can show you, back at the camp." "This is Indian land, if it's anyone's." William Lobb spoke as if he hadn't heard Billie Lapham. "Those Miwoks encamped just south of here - they've been here longer than you. It's theirs, or it's God's land - take your pick." | native-americans | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 0ff5d90 | For myself, it took only the early discovery of a golden ammonite, glittering on the beach between Lyme and Charmouth, for me to succumb to the seductive thrill of finding unexpected treasure. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 23b161d | Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 98345b6 | People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 0ebc9d7 | I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 999cccf | But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive. | johnny-appleseed vegetarianism | Tracy Chevalier | |
| b5ad2d1 | We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 55b98ca | Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary--and she herself--might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing would not happen. It hurt, but the truth often does. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| de26a4c | But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted and growing bored with it. Now I had too much time to think about whether I was going to die from the tide | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 823bd26 | It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually he had rarely been alone for long: working in hotels, in stables, on ranches and farms, and as a miner, he had always been around others. Now, out in the woods or up in the hills or out on the flat central plain, he could go for days without speaking to anyone. His throat seemed to close up and he had to keep clea.. | solitude trees | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 73386e7 | If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 54caa0b | Every life ought to contain both a turn and a return. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 4a22c85 | Well, he'd actually never heard anybody say it. But he felt that it should be true. There | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 1103b45 | There is always a solution. For everything. Always. Sometimes it isn't pretty and takes a little longer, but there is still a solution. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 363ee06 | We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| a85263b | None of that used to be in Brian and now it was a part of him, a changed part of him, a grown part of him, and the two things, his mind and his body, had come together as well, had made a connection with each other that he didn't quite understand | Gary Paulsen | ||
| b22af77 | While now and then you hear somebody talking about how ". . . beautiful and elegant the predator-prey relationship is, how natural and proper the death of the prey is," it is usually so much misunderstood balderdash by people who have not witnessed it very many times, or worse, by people who have witnessed only highly edited versions on film." | Gary Paulsen | ||
| d789011 | Do you like the race so far?' I looked at her, trying to find sarcasm, but she was serious; she really wanted to know. And I thought of how to answer her. I had gotten lost, been run over by a moose, watched a dog get killed, seen a man cry, dragged over a third of the teams off on the wrong trail, and been absolutely hammered by beauty while all this was happening. (It was, I would find later, essentially a normal Iditarod day -- perhaps a.. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| d82e830 | But I'm your brother." Daniel sounded genuinely wounded. "You," she announced, "are a turd in the punch bowl of life." | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 79743bc | He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come. | unexpected wilderness | Gary Paulsen | |
| 3517ae6 | How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 5bad23c | It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complainings. As | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 02be3cc | My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 1f7b303 | quel guillochis oeuvre par la providence que la vie de l'homme! par combien de voies secretes et contraires les circonstances diverses ne precipitent-elles pas nos affections! aujourd'hui nous aimons ce que demain nous hairons,aujourd'hui nous recherchons ce que nous fuirons demain,aujourd'hui nous desirons ce que demain nous fera peur... | Daniel Defoe | ||
| c0a6db0 | la crainte du danger est dix mille fois plus effrayante que le danger lui-meme,et nous trouvons le poids de l'anxiete plus lourd de beaucoup que le mal que nous redoutans. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 56f3a75 | But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted manner upon those whimsies. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 07fab87 | I stood still an hour or thereabouts without trespassing on our orders (for so long the caravan was in passing the gate), to look at it on every side, near and far off; I mean what was within my view: and the guide, who had been extolling it for the wonder of the world, was mighty eager to hear my opinion of it. I told him it was a most excellent thing to keep out the Tartars; which he happened not to understand as I meant it and so took it.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| ac8033e | In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying. | lust pride wickedness | Daniel Defoe | |
| 63b7075 | So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| e8101c9 | a near View of Death would soon reconcile Men of good Priciples one to another, and that it is chiefly owing to our easy Scituation in Life, and our putting these Things far from us, that our Breaches are formented, ill Blood continued, Prejudices, Breach of Charity and of Christian Union so much kept and so far carry'd on among us, as it is: Another Plague Year would reconcile all these Differences, a close conversing with Death, or the Di.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| ea9026a | Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?" | Daniel Defoe |