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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 63f5b03 | What I'm trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I'm learning that the problems start when you want different things | marriage motivation relationships | Laura Dave | |
| 1d9c045 | I just think people forget what it feels like to really be in love, you know? Like when that's the only thing in the world that matters. I just don't want to decide it's not that important. | Laura Dave | ||
| fdb57c9 | But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you" -Jen" | Laura Dave | ||
| 866428f | Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be. | divorce heartache heartbreak love | Laura Dave | |
| 9845142 | It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it. | Laura Dave | ||
| 96fb04f | Nos. Arvacskarol azt kell tudni - kezdte Dave a felelest -, hogy arva volt. - Zsenialis a logikad - mondta Kardos - Koszonom szepen, igyekszem - mondta Dave buszken. | Laura Leiner | ||
| 4eee391 | It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way-as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it. | Laura Dave | ||
| dcb1dc8 | Sziasztok - koszontem, majd egy ,,szolid, iskolaban vagyunk" csokkal koszontottem Cortezt."} - Es engem ki fog udvozolni? - haborodott fel Zsolti, amikor parokba rendezodtunk. Kinga - Dave, Ricsi - Virag, Cortez - en. - Szia, Zsolti - mosolyogtam ra kedvesen. - Ez miez? Nekem rendes udvozles kell - razta meg a fejet. - Karoooly! - orditotta el magat, mire az egesz folyoso felenk fordult, es izgatottan varta, mi fog tortenni. Karcsi kidugt.. | Laura Leiner | ||
| 08ef7d3 | The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. --Groucho Marx | Laura Dave | ||
| caa04ea | To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity. | inspirational poetry | Dan Simmons | |
| e0e537b | That's what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks' thoughts. Feel their pain. The pain of living folks too. Finding a muse is just an artist or holy man's way of getting a foot in the Void Which Binds' front door. Aenea knew that. You should have too. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 118c0a1 | The left side of my brain had been shut down like a damaged section of a spinship being sealed off, airtight doors leaving the doomed compartments open to vacuum. I could still think. Control of the right side of my body soon returned. Only the language centers had been damaged beyond simple repair. The marvelous organic computer wedged in my skull had dumped its language content like a flawed program. The right hemisphere was not without s.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 1a46ec0 | Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste. | Dan Simmons | ||
| e76585f | Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I decided. Towards the dawn we slept." | Dan Simmons | ||
| f697dda | Holmes smiled tightly. "I discovered, Mr. James," he said as he leaned closer, "that I was not a real person. I am...how would a literary person such as yourself put it? I am, the evidence has proven to me most conclusively, a literary construct. Some ink-stained scribbler's creation. A mere fictional character." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2dcb006 | Father Lenar Hoyt stepped away from the wall where he had been leaning, raised his right hand with thumb and little finger touching, three fingers raised, the gesture somehow including himself as well as those before him, and said softly, 'Ego te absolvo. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 80846b6 | Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence value of any thing is infinite--thus the "mountains in the sun"--and being infinite, equal to every other thing and all truths." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 84035f5 | Sometimes Duane imagined that he was the single crewman on a receding starship, already light-years from Earth, unable to turn around, doomed never to return, unable even to reach his destination in a human lifetime, but still connected by this expanding arc of electromagnetic radiation, rising now through the onionlike layers of old radio shows, traveling back in time as he traveled forward in space, listening to voices whose owners had lo.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| ba414e8 | Once Ummon asked a lesser light Are you a gardener> Yes it replied Why have turnips no roots> Ummon asked the gardener who could not reply Because said Ummon rainwater is plentiful] I think about this for a moment. Ummon's koan is not difficult now that I am regaining the knack of listening for the shadow of substance beneath the words. The little Zen parable is Ummon's way of saying, with some sarcasm, that the answer lies within science a.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| dfa23cb | He suspected that Duane had lived in those lofty realms of thought, listening to the voices of men long dead rising from books the way he'd once said he listened to late-night radio shows in his basement. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 76df84a | Even as he watched, a star moved above the limb of the planet, laser weapons winked their ruby morse | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7d7ea27 | The Hegemony and its relationship with the Ousters aren't my worry now. I sincerely wish a plague on both their houses." To the extent that humanity suffers?" "I don't know humanity," said the Consul in an exhausted monotone. "I do know Sol Weintraub. And Rachel. And an injured woman named Brawne Lamia. And Father Paul Dure. And Fedmahn Kassad. And--" | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7a35acd | Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. | Dan Simmons | ||
| b6237ce | Old Central School still stood upright, holding its secrets and silences firmly within. Eighty-four years of chalkdust floated in the rare shafts of sunlight inside while the memories of more than eight decades of varnishings rose from the dark stairs and floors to tinge the trapped air with the mahogany scent of coffins. The walls of Old Central were so thick that they seemed to absorb sounds while the tall windows, their glass warped and .. | Dan Simmons | ||
| a09c19a | Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter's hug, and realized that in the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love. | Dan Simmons | ||
| d1fb23e | At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest. | missionary priest | Dan Simmons | |
| 0d7c5a0 | Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future | Dan Simmons | ||
| a1a3f1f | Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 6e3100c | It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war. | Dan Simmons | ||
| ff0b7e7 | In the last few months, perhaps because he has had no one to speak to -- or at least no interlocutor who can respond with actual out-loud speech -- he has learned how to let different parts of his mind and heart speak within him as if they were different souls with their own arguments. | northwest-passage reflection soul | Dan Simmons | |
| 1500b2e | the world often seemed more like a template for fiction than something that should be indulged in for its own sake. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 27f8d54 | But he had once told Watson that the "less or fewer" issue, along with the use of "I" in such sentences as "He gave the money to Sheila and I", inflicted on the public by people who considered themselves well-educated, could be drastically reduced in frequency--if not actually abolished--by a few well-aimed pistol shots and an explanatory note that would be pinned to the victims' chests." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 18438b4 | Abraham came not to sacrifice, but to know once and for all whether this God was a god to be trusted and obeyed. No other test would do. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 90b0fcd | Look,' said Tyrena. 'In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. | health human-beings logic meat | Dan Simmons | |
| 276ada6 | I want all the books on the shelves. I want the books with dinosaur words like that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does. | censorship language literature misogyny racism redaction suppression | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 1dc5687 | Jamie spied a Hershey's almond bar still in its wrapper lying in the corner of the landing. He picked it up and tore open one corner. "Was it bitten into?" asked Claudia. "No," Jamie smiled. "Want half?" "You better not touch it," Claudia warned. "It's probably poisoned or filled with marijuana, so you'll eat it and become either dead or a dope addict". Jamie was irritated. "Couldn't it just happen that someone dropped it?" "I doubt th.. | dope funny | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 369b9de | The storm in our private lives had picked him up and put him out of place. Me, too. I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. I, too, had been stranded. We both needed help resettling. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 7303618 | Julian Singh," he said, extending his hand. No one (a) introduces himself and then (b) extends his hand to be shaken while (c) wearing shorts and (d) knee socks and (e) holding a genuine leather book bag on (f) the first day of school." | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 8ee3715 | Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications. | E. L. Konigsburg | ||
| a24701c | But no one was prouder of me or happier for me than Branwell, and I think he would not have been prouder or happier if he had won himself. And I don't know anyone anywhere who has a friend like that. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 758267a | After Margaret moved to Florida they continued to stay in touch in a Christmas card/life-milestone way. | E. L. Konigsburg | ||
| 15b5431 | Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 74491a6 | But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 6563cb5 | There had been a time in high school, see, when I wrestled with the possibility that I might be gay, a torturous six-month culmination of years of unpopularity and girllessness. At night I lay in bed and cooly informed myself that I was gay and that I had better get used to it. The locker room became a place of torment, full of exposed male genitalia that seemed to taunt me with my failure to avoid glancing at them, for a fraction of a seco.. | humor | Michael Chabon |