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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4d09354 | Sometimes you've got to go up to a very high floor to see what the past has done to the present. | Colum McCann | ||
| e18f608 | It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. We bring home with us when we leave. Sometimes it becomes more acute for the fact of having left. | Colum McCann | ||
| 6acb116 | And what is it we give our children anyway, except the ability to not become us? | Colum McCann | ||
| 288ca02 | We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice. | writing | Colum McCann | |
| 66b1b6e | As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing. | Colum McCann | ||
| d197b89 | There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar. | Colum McCann | ||
| 1408877 | If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all? | Colum McCann | ||
| 60f5c61 | He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence of all existents. The excluded middle ground. The surpassing of personality. The vanity of cultural superiority. The tension between individual conscience and collective responsibility. The need to proclaim again and again what has already been said. | Colum McCann | ||
| 2184ed0 | They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs. | Colum McCann | ||
| 35987c8 | Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities imply. So the sweetness of the moment loses something of its sweetness later on when you're reminded of the odds these children face and of the ways injustice slowly soils innocence. You wish you could eternalize these times of early glory. You wish that Elio and Ariel and Pineapple could stay here .. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 2da93df | They've really begun the war," he said to himself. "And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!" | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| b45ca5c | now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book? | Dan Savage | ||
| 9d5247f | The proper response to religious opposition to choice or love or death can be reduced to a series of bumper stickers: Don't approve of abortion? Don't have one. Don't approve of gay marriage? Don't have one. Don't approve of physician-assisted suicide? For Christ's sake, don't have one. But don't tell me I can't have one - each and every one - because it offends your God. | Dan Savage | ||
| b01eccf | For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married. | Dan Savage | ||
| 9aba572 | Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through life following a script that others wrote for them. | Dan Savage | ||
| 21b1af4 | Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not." | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| cf01207 | He isn't a - well...eh." She made a face. "Well, yeah." | Molly McAdams | ||
| 6d86c04 | Someone else's success is not your failure. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 0cee9ea | If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed against each other. I would just be her roommate's brother who pisses her off. But when it came to this girl, I was no longer in control of anything. She consumed me in every way possible. My brain was telling me to run from her, to keep her safe, to keep her from someone like me, but she had my heart completely, and that was winning out. I .. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 345d092 | Harper, te amo mucho mas de lo que puedo explicar. Conocerte cambio mi mundo. Incluso cuando pense que nunca serias mia, no podia seguir viviendo una vida que sabia que odiabas. La noche que me dijiste que me amabas fue la mejor noche de mi vida, hasta esta noche. Nunca te dejare ir otra vez, quiero estar contigo por el resto de mi vida. Quiero casarme contigo algun dia Harper. --Hizo una pausa y busco mis ojos--. Haria cualquier cosa por t.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 154d017 | You need someone who will cherish you, protect you and take care of you. Someone that realizes they'd never be able to find another you in the world, no matter how hard they looked. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 81385c7 | don't think I won't come after you with a wooden spoon, | Molly McAdams | ||
| 997a16c | There are still times when I stop dead in my tracks when I see you, and wonder how you're mine. You're beautiful; and your fire for life, and strength after everything you've been through, amazes me. So if anyone leaves the other speechless, it's you. | Molly McAdams | ||
| ec3f511 | I went to kindergarten, I learned how to share with others. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 9711d4d | Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology. | perception | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 795541a | Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 6a97a42 | Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself. | Martha Grimes | ||
| 04c0ba6 | And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas." | tea | Martha Grimes | |
| 5b8b597 | What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you? | heartbreak | Craig Thompson | |
| 035a70e | I wonder if it's suffering." "What, our generation?" "The baby!" | life | Kenzaburō Ōe | |
| 8b40517 | Bird had hoped at least to achieve a little humor in his vomiting style, but his actual performance was anything but funny. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 32e3503 | Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that," Himiko said, elaborating her friend's terrific prophecy; " You won't get a divorce Bird. You'll justify yourself like crazy, and try to salvage your married life by confusing the real issues. A decision like divorce is beyond you now, Bird, the poison has gone to work. And you know how the story ends ? Not even your own wife will.. | divorce existentialism | Kenzaburō Ōe | |
| 0ac5de9 | Kafka, you know, wrote in a letter to his father, the only thing a parent can do for a child is to welcome it when it arrives. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| b3005f6 | You're trying to make something relative out of the irrevocability of your husband's death by assuming another universe where he is still alive. But you can't make the absoluteness of death relative, no matter what psychological tricks you use. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 9f22a4a | 'He's black, you see that! I thought he would be all along.' Harelip's voice trembled with excitement. 'He's a real black man, you see!' 'What are they going to do with him, shoot him?' 'Shoot him!' Harelip shouted, gasping with surprise. 'Shoot a real live black man!' Because he's the enemy,' I asserted without confidence. 'Enemy! You call him an enemy!' Harelip seized my shirt and railed at me hoarsely, spraying my face with saliva throug.. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 7a2e384 | The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude. There was no doubt about it. This was a sound audible only on evenings such as this. | solitude | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 4a3df85 | I tell you the truth - for a long, long time these farmers have worked like horses and cattle; and like horses and cattle they have died. The reason our religion has penetrated this territory like water flowing into dry earth is that it has given this group of people a human warmth they never previously knew. For the first time they have met men who treated them like human beings. It was the human kindness and charity of the fathers that to.. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| a4ca514 | kn dhlk hw lbHr ldh~ ktsH dwn hwd@ jtht~ mwkysh~ w yshyzw lbHr ldh~ 'btl`hm lbHr ldh~ 'mtd `qb Htfhm bl nth bmlmH lm t`rf ltGyyr sh'n lbHr kn llh Smt, tTwl Smth | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| e73b373 | That is life's talent. To accept new things. | life | Hiroki Endo | |
| 38bcaca | I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know but something interesting - something that's all mine something that would make some kind of difference in the world. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| cc558da | You can't have living without dying. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 906d28a | You Don't have to live forever you just have to live. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 3503c0a | A halal az orok korforgas resze, akarcsak a parja, a szuletes. Nem lehet kivalogatni a nekunk tetszo darabokat, es a tobbit felredobni. A nagy egesz reszenek lenni aldas. De minket, a Tuck csaladot kihagytak ebbol. Az elet kemeny munka, de felredobva elni, ugy, ahogy mi, felesleges. (...) A halal nelkul nincs elet. Ugyhogy azt, ami nekunk jutott nem lehet eletnek nevezni. Mi csak vagyunk, mint a kovek az ut menten. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| a70732c | Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short, | Natalie Babbitt |