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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4905181 | The precept that location is key to the success of a business applies to art, and even to life itself: we thrive or wither depending on how nourishing our environment is. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5623b78 | I have always found that hell is other people. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 2f64cb0 | He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupted existence. The other two joined in the game with enthusiasm, and soon all three of them were howling with laughter and emptying bottles at a rate which would have alarmed even a depressed Scandinavian. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 1eaec7e | That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal. | personal | Louis de Bernières | |
| 1d8749b | no one is more truly themselves than when they are sick or injured. That's when the qualities come out. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 1509c3a | And this is why I have concluded that although every racial, ethnic, and religious group in the United States claims to want a piece of the American dream, there is no group that apologizes more for its success than black people. | Lawrence Otis Graham | ||
| 2c29fa1 | But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work. | society work | Colleen McCullough | |
| 8f2cdb0 | S'mniavakh se v sebe si, Rein. Vinagi s'm se s'mniavala. I mozhe bi vinagi shche se s'mniavam. -- O, khertskhen, nadiavam se, che niama da e taka. Za men nikoga ne shche ima druga. Samo ti. Tsial sviat go znae ot godini. No obiasneniiata v liubov ne znachat nishcho. Bikh mog'l da ti gi povtariam, da kreshchia dori, bez da razseia ni nai-malko s'mneniiata ti. Zatova ne ti govorikh za liubovta si, Dzh'stiin; prezhiviavakh ia. Kak mozhesh da .. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| a702976 | All that power held dormant, sleeping, only needing the detonation of a touch to trigger a chaos in which mind was subservient to passion, mind's will extinguished in body's will. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| e062780 | she sat rocking his head back and forth, back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 66356f5 | He had always been her baby, her lovely little boy; though she had watched him change and grow with proprietary pride, she had done so with an image of laughing baby superimposed on his maturing face. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 08ea33b | As separacoes sao o que mais custa, Tim! E muito dificil aceita-las, principalmente quando gostavamos dessa pessoa. A separacao significa que depois disso nunca mais somos os mesmos, que perdemos qualquer coisa, uma parte de nos mesmo que nunca mais reencontramos nem pode ser substituida. Mas temos de passar por muitas separacoes, Tim, porque fazem parte da vida, tal e qual como conhecer pessoas novas. | seperation | Colleen McCullough | |
| 822688b | Pitai Gospod, Ralf. - otv'rna Megi - Toi znae vsichko za bolkata. Nali toi ni e s'zdal takiva - i nas, i tseliia sviat. Znachi toi e s'zdal i bolkata. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 2af6f59 | He held up his right hand and spread his fingers out in a fan. I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our fingers and thumbs touch each other. We do this because sometimes father wants to give me a hug, but I do not like hugging people so we do this instead, and it means that he loves me. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 957d340 | And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of. | Mark Haddon | ||
| e38742e | Sit still long enough and everything will come to you. | Mark Haddon | ||
| aad3bf7 | How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question. | Mark Haddon | ||
| affc64b | En la vida tienes que tomar montones de decisiones, y si no tomaras decisiones, nunca harias nada, porque te pasarias todo el tiempo eligiendo entre las cosas que hacer. O sea, que es bueno tener una razon por la que odias unas cosas y te gustan otras. | Mark Haddon | ||
| d2c63cc | most people are almost blind and they don't see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren't connected and are silly, like, "I'm worried that I might have left the gas cooker on." | Mark Haddon | ||
| 9ba15b4 | But in life you have to take lots of deductions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and why you like others. | life | Mark Haddon | |
| abd2ec5 | I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 98ccc37 | Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the protractor or the biscuits again. And a timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable, time isn't there l.. | time | Mark Haddon | |
| d0f432c | She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog. | Mark Haddon | ||
| aafe877 | And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer. | Mark Haddon | ||
| ca0ec00 | On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, It rained very hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. I went upstairs and sat in my room and watched the water falling in the street. It was falling so hard that it looked like white sparks (and this is a simile, too, not a metaphor). P.103 | Mark Haddon | ||
| 6e1d8bc | because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. | confidence imaginative inspirational | Mark Haddon | |
| 360f5ff | like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 7cc306c | That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds. | Mark Haddon | ||
| fe16563 | People stick hearts on Valentine's cards and get married in white dresses and give each other flowers. They think love is every-thing going right. That's not love. That's self-indulgence. That's good luck. Love is when you walk into the burning building. Love is when the person who means most to you in the world is breathing through a mask and pissing in a bag. Love is when they no longer know your name. | love pain self-indulgence valentines | Mark Haddon | |
| c921836 | The rule for working out prime numbers is really simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. If a number is really, really big, it can take a computer years to work out whether it is a prime number. Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you ha.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 0af7556 | He asked whether I wanted to become an astronaut and I said I did. He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 9717bd9 | It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 899cbc9 | Siobhan dice che se si solleva un sopracciglio, questo gesto puo significare molte cose differenti. Puo voler dire: "Voglio fare sesso con te", ma puo anche essere inteso come: "Hai appena detto una cosa veramente stupida"." | Mark Haddon | ||
| 7068005 | And this means time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. And so if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. And this is why I like timetables, because they make sure you don't get lost in time. | Mark Haddon | ||
| e591bb3 | One person looks around and see a universe created by a God who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no greater difference .. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 5f3c453 | Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and non-stick frying pans. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 9d409db | And I remember looking at the two of you and seeing you together and thinking how you were really differant with him. Much calmer. And you didn't shout at one another. And it made me so sad because it was like you didn't really need me at all. And somehow that was even worse than you and me arguing all the time because it was like I was invisible. And I think that was when I realised you and your father were probably better off if I wasn't .. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 83d2303 | La gente dice que siempre hay que decir la verdad. Pero no lo dicen en serio porque no se te permite decirle a los viejos que son viejos y no se te permite decirle a la gente que huele raro o a un adulto que se ha tirado un pedo. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 5c7032f | Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never seen before-sandals made of old truck tires, hats and baskets woven of straw. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 1b4f8c7 | What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison... | intelligent-design life power | Jeanne DuPrau | |
| dfe9350 | Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction." --Martin Luther King, Jr., "Strength to Love," 1963" | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 301e2e4 | All these words, written so long ago, seemed to say to her, Remember us. We were here. We were real. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 26c630e | The mountains hugged each other sternly, similar to the way men hugged other men, not letting their chests touch. Thin clouds hung around their necks, and the mountains farthest away, the ones passed out against the horizon, were so pale, you couldn't see where their backs ended and the sky began. The view made me sad, but I suppose everyone, when happening upon a sprawling expanse of earth, all light and mist, all breathlessness and infini.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| f970f30 | Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones. | Marisha Pessl |