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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 243d968 | Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home." | Charles Frazier | ||
| 2b3c92f | Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 67a11d4 | Inman guessed Swimmer's spells were right in saying a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep on living. They could take deathblows independently. He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been about burned out of him to fear that the mere existence of the Henry repeating rifle or the eprouvette mortar made all talk of spirit immediately antique. His spirit, he feared.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 4f9229f | But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another. | Charles Frazier | ||
| d17958d | Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 539ce58 | Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 2273027 | Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment's lost attention, and it's all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 3d56fdc | I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves. | Charles Frazier | ||
| a518217 | the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. | Charles Frazier | ||
| bc18244 | Literacy: Blessing? Or curse? | reading writing reading-books literacy | Charles Frazier | |
| 694328a | I sometimes imagine meeting my seventeen-year-old self. She's still here inside me somewhere. Maybe one morning in the mirror, there she'll be. I look at her with affection and understanding and hope. She sees me and backs away in horror while I try to explain why I made the choices I made. | self-reflection | Charles Frazier | |
| 7796c5d | When Luce did look in the mirror, she thought she might still be sort of pretty, if you went by what most people thought was pretty. And if that's the way you went, you had your own problems. It wasn't like being pretty was an accomplishment, and it would go away in time. So it would be a mistake to get too hung up on it. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 3035c8b | Narnia, held captive by the "post-Christian" Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber." | Louis A. Markos | ||
| 52fadf5 | Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before --William Butler Yeats | Susan Kiernan-Lewis | ||
| 4b104d4 | After checking into the Hotel Monaco in downtown Seattle, Dana walked to Yesler Way, a steep street known as Skid Road in the 1850s, when the area was teeming with trees and a chute was used to skid logs to Henry Yesler's sawmill. When Seattle's city center moved north, the area became a dilapidated haven for drunks and derelicts and went from being called Skid Road to Skid Row, a term eventually used all over America to refer to a down-and.. | Phillip Margolin | ||
| 5f4ad49 | To her surprise, Madeleine found herself contemplating this proposal. Why not tell her parents everything, curl up in the backseat of the car, and let them take her home? She could move into her old bedroom, with the sleigh bed and the Madeline wallpaper. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7151714 | Tessie allowed Milton to press his clarinet to her skin and fill her body with music. At first it only tickled her. But after a while the notes spread deeper into her body. She felt the vibrations penetrate her muscles, pulsing in waves, until they rattled her bones and made her inner organs hum. | music | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 532e0c7 | But by the time Madeleine reached the age that Alwyn had been then, she realized that her sister's iconoclasm and liberationist commitments had just been part of a trend. Alwyn had done the things she had done and voiced the political opinions she'd voiced because all her friends were acting and talking the same way. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 94a1df5 | In the Orthodox Church, we don't go for partial immersion; no sprinkling, no forehead dabbing for us. In order to be reborn, you have to be buried first, so under the water I went. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| e4ccd1c | Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else. | sadness | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 723d555 |
Mi meta en la vida es llegar a ser un adjetivo -dijo-. Que la gente vaya por ahi diciendo: < |
anagrama trama-nupcial snob eugenides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 96f393f | My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. | life gender | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 9358883 | Early June, Providence, Rhode Island, the sun up for almost two hours already, lighting up the pale bay and the smokestacks of the Narragansett Electric factory, rising like the sun on the Brown University seal emblazoned on all the pennants and banners draped up over campus, a sun with a sagacious face, representing knowledge. But this sun--the one over Providence--was doing the metaphorical sun one better, because the founders of the univ.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 424f193 | Up until recently, Milton thought of Tessie as his prim cousin. Whenever one of his friends expressed interest in her, Milton told them to give up the idea. "That's honey from the icebox," he said, As Artie Shaw might have. "Cold sweets don't spread." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 9346108 | As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical application. He wanted to know why he was here, and how to live. It was the perfect way to end your college career. Education had finally led Mitchell out into life. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 1a20e7f | Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed. | lefty greek greece | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 69061bf | but the corset had the odd power of making her seem somehow more naked; it turned her into a forbidden, armored creature with a soft side inside he had to hunt for. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7228dc0 | They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us. | suicide | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| ac45f04 | Just when she'd got her head on straight, her body started falling apart. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b3ee086 | She didn't want to be liberated from her emotions, but to have their importance confirmed. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| f32a7d0 | I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 97a7a22 | According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. When she tried to remove it, she noticed that the cocoon had begun to unravel in the hot liquid. She handed the loose end to her maidservant and told her to walk. The servant went out of the princess's chamber, and into the palace courtyard, and through the palace gates, an.. | privilege silk story-telling luck | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 2e790ce | He had the wit of a store mannequin. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| e2e79cb | The sky grew darker, and the light abandoned the daytime, so that we found ourselves always moving in a timeless murk, the only way to discern the hour the taste of sour burps, toothpaste in the morning, redolent in the afternoon of the jellied beef of school cafetetria meals | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7ed8127 | I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say that I have not tasted the purest joys of life. | life | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 14cea79 | There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| e71f0f2 | Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights...How wonderful it was when one sentence followed logically from the sentence before!...There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 91dfefc | Madeline began hearing people saying "Derrida". She heard them saying "Lyotard" and "Foucault" and "Deleuze" and "Baudrillard". That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middle-class kids who wore Doc Martens and anarchist symbols- made Madeline dubious about the value of their enthusiasm." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| d979f0b | A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 0577ad6 | There was nowhere to go that wouldn't be me. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| f62b55e | If they were going to kill you, would they knock? | murder burgaler if-they-were-going-to-kill-you would-they-knock | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 6f43029 | Ye must always give money for a new blade," he explained, half smiling. "So it kens ye for its owner, and willna turn on ye." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 98fe573 | My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To France, to Italy, even back to Scotland. My heart has been yours since the first time I saw ye, and you've held my soul and body between your hands here and kept them safe. We shall go as ye say. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9df501e | And a long time," he said. "I am a jealous man, but not a vengeful one. I would take you from him, my Sassenach--but I wouldna take him from you." | Diana Gabaldon |