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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2063ef4 | No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal. | Taylor Jenkins Reid | ||
| 2f645cb | To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4fc362d | And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold. | Mark Helprin | ||
| dfcf498 | When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 3e841a3 | Whatever is, is, and whatever is not, is not | Mark Helprin | ||
| f462839 | I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra. You only live once. | Mark Helprin | ||
| c25966e | They glanced over at Catherine, who was dancing with Billy, as only fathers and daughters can dance. No matter how old the daughter may be, the father is dancing, in joy unparalleled, with his child when she was little. | Mark Helprin | ||
| e353c3d | When you're alone you can long so hard for something like an embrace that you mine it from the air. You find it in meanings that you might not otherwise grasp, for which it is helpful to arise early in the morning, when the mind is clear and the heart is gentle. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 755e452 | Humankind, or at least American-kind, will lose its edge as we produce more and more pipsqueaks and everyone gets nicer. Whole generations of pipsqueaks will be so fucking nice you won't be able to tell a man from a woman...And it will get worse and worse as people mistake nice for good. HItler was nice, supposedly, most of the time. A lot of good that did... | Mark Helprin | ||
| 92a537c | They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes, reedy snow-filled steppes, and winter gods who played with storms and stars. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 1336d8e | A cat is an excuse for a lonely woman to talk to herself. That's what a cat is. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 517e982 | It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust. | Mark Helprin | ||
| e1686f6 | Because I don't need oxygen. I've already come to all my conclusions. I'm just slowly gliding down. Someday I'll be as light as a feather. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 6d29d64 | Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who had bent over just slightly to examine a raging battle that was long over. Alessandro imagined that Bindo Altovini was saying, half with longing, half with delight, "These are the things in which I was so helplessly caught up, the waves that took me, what I loved. When light filled my eyes and I was restless an.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| ba0d63f | The abandoned stars were hers for the many rich hours of sparkling winter nights, and, unattended, she took them in like lovers. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 204cece | The abandoned stars were hers for the many rich hours os sparkling winter nights, and, unattended, she took them in like lovers. She felt that she looked out, not up, into the spacious universe, she knew the names of every bright star and all the constellations, and (although she could not see them) she was familiar with the vast billowing nebulae in which one filament of a wild and shaken mane carried in its trail a hundred million worlds... | Mark Helprin | ||
| 1e77fa0 | His name was Peter Lake, and he said to himself out loud, "You're in bad shape when a horse takes pity on you, you stupid bastard," | Mark Helprin | ||
| 5b2d4a9 | Then in the darkness and purity of the meadows he began to feel that the world had many secrets, that they were shattering even to glimpse or sense, and that they were not necessarily unpleasant. In certain states of light he could see, he could begin to sense, things most miraculous indeed. Although it seemed self-serving, he concluded nonetheless, after a lifetime of adhering to the diffuse principles of a science he did not know, that th.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| ae8125a | Because no windows were open and the air was so still and cold that the trees dared not move for fear of encountering more of it than they had to, Christiana thought that she had entered a city of the dead. | Mark Helprin | ||
| b755784 | Der kom en vederkvaegende ro, en dyb fred og fryd over mig, det var som nar en feber ophorer. "Her," taenkte jeg, "kan jeg blive." | quiet peace | Karen Blixen Isak Dinesen | |
| a18b027 | Before this trip he was my best friend... And now, well, do you realize how hot he is? I mean like wow. When did that happen?" "Seventh grade after he got the braces off." | Cassie Mae | ||
| 4b787e6 | I know you're pissed, and you have every right to be, I get it. And it's an ugly thing you threw at my face, but still... I thought, maybe, if you had it, you'd know I'm still here for you, even if you don't want me to be. | Cassie Mae | ||
| 33e5fc7 | I'm usually ashamed of my tears. Afraid they showed weakness. But I am unashamedly crying now, because they aren't showing my fragility. They're showing unconditional love for my best friend. | Cassie Mae | ||
| ff41438 | Josh grabs a handful of grass and shoves it in his pocket. I smile and rest my head on my palm. I used to do the same thing on a new field. Sort of like taking it with me wherever I go. But Josh could be just stuffing grass in his pocket cause he's six. | Cassie Mae | ||
| aa25933 | Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?" "Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences." - Corran and Jacen" | Troy Denning | ||
| 0de1b57 | Hello, Ben. I'm your cousin Jacen." "I know you." You went away when I was two. Did you find it? "Some of it" "So you're going back?" "No. What I haven't found, I doubt I ever will." --Jacen and Ben" | Troy Denning | ||
| 6366309 | There you have it. We go in General Celchu's shuttle." "Much as I personally want you to succeed in this, I sort of have to say no. Duty and officer's oaths and all that. You understand." "Oh, that's right." Luke turned to Wedge. "Could I trouble you to set your blaster on stun and point it at the other general?" "No, not really." "Please?" Wedge sighed. "I'm not going to point a blaster at my best friend. Plus, his pilot will be obliged to.. | Troy Denning | ||
| 76b212a | The New Republic? Are you blind? There is no New Republic! It died before the Yuuzhan Vong came!" Leia Organa Solo" | Troy Denning | ||
| 945fa58 | What was it like when your mother passed away?" I asked Mimi. "I was twenty-eight years old. I had just given birth to John when I found out Mother had died from a stomach ulcer. A sudden infection. She had just made plans to come from Washington, D.C. to see him." She paused. "I'll never forget the telegram my sister Marion sent. I couldn't believe it. It was so final. Suddenly, the world seemed very dark. I couldn't imagine how I was goin.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 23ac7d7 | words are much stronger than I am. | words voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| bfb7ea8 | I could not separate the Bird Refuge from my family. Devastation respects no boundaries. The landscape of my childhood and the landscape of my family, the two things I had always regarded as bedrock, were now subject to change. Quicksand. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 5a6eedd | Flocks of magpies have descended on our yard. I cannot sleep for all their raucous behavior. Perched on weathered fences, their green-black tales, long as rulers, wave up and down, reprimanding me for all I have not done. I have done nothing for weeks. I have no work. I don't want to see anyone much less talk. All I want to do is sleep. Monday, I hit rock-bottom, different from bedrock, which is solid, expansive, full of light and originali.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| b1e0518 | Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought--but refused to replace one dogma with another." | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| fed03a3 | Perhaps I am here because of last night's dream, when I stood on the frozen lake before a kayak made of sealskin. I walked on the ice toward the boat and picked up a handful of shredded hide and guts. An old Eskimo man said, "You have much to work with." Suddenly, the kayak was stripped of its skin. It was a rib cage of willow. It was the skeleton of a fish. I want to see it for myself, wild exposure, in January, when this desert is most se.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 3920c07 | There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer. | silence prayer secrets | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| ac67223 | Love at first sight makes perfect sense because we're all pressed for time. | Bob Smith | ||
| 739a5b6 | It took only three years for Jonathan Papelbon to surpass Bill Campbell, Lee Smith, Tom Gordon, Sparky Lyle, Derek Lowe, Jeff Reardon, Ellis Kinder, and Dick Radatz as he climbed the franchise leader board into second place all-time for saves. Papelbon closed out 2008 with 113 career saves--and on July 1, 2009, with his 20th save of the season he surpassed Bob Stanley to become the all-time franchise leader in saves. | boston-red-sox jonathan-papelbon | Tucker Elliot | |
| 3dfee47 | Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well. | sex-education incompetence | Bob Smith | |
| 4f3a576 | Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret. | smile | Bob Smith | |
| 58a0f8c | My American Dream has always been simple, and it's one I encourage you to adopt as your own: Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it. | Kevin Smith | ||
| 2fdc79c | Life is also, as George Carlin taught us, a zero-sum game. We all lose in the end. We all die screaming. If that's the case, we might as well make for ourselves a paradise in this world. Make yourself happy and comfortable as often as you can, because sooner or later, the infinite hands you a bill for all these goods and services. What | Kevin Smith | ||
| 08a9e6d | What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism. - Rufus, Dogma | humour rufus | Kevin Smith | |
| a26096d | Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith. I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. You could say I covered all the bases. I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC | Ernest Cline | ||
| 3440055 | I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me. | uncut knife | Lawrence Durrell |