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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 795cfae | You are such a part of me that to stand alone leaves me dumb, without speech, without eyes. Life is valueless unless I can share everything with you - beauty, ugliness, pain. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 94f60e9 | We change from the awakening questing creatures we were once, afire with wonder, and expectancy, and doubt, to persons of opinion and authority, our habits formed, our characters moulded in a pattern | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 2e85797 | the inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 36636d1 | That's never been my life, nor ever will." "Why not? You'll wed a farmer one day, or small tradesman, and live respectably among your neighbours. Don't tell them you lived once at Jamaica Inn, and had love made to you by a horse-thief. They'd shut their doors against you. Good-bye, and here's prosperity to you." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 5dda70c | I loved you too much, wanted you too much, had for you too great a tenderness. Now all of this is like a twisted root in my heart, a deadly poison in my brain. You have made of me a madman. You fill me with a kind of horror, a devastating hate that is akin to love - a hunger that is nausea. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 48fc381 | Do you know so little about children, Monsieur Jean,' she asked, 'that you imagine, because they don't cry, therefore they feel nothing? If so, you're much mistaken. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 9472975 | That was yesterday. Today we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 2a55c88 | It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 3db8295 | I was aware of a sense of freedom, as though I had no responsibilities at all. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 512af62 | I have no great opinion of the human race. It is just as well, now and again, that we have wars, so that men know what it is to suffer pain. One day they will exterminate themselves, as they have exterminated the rabbits. So much the better. The world will be peaceful again, with nothing left but the forest over there, and the soil. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| f8b63c4 | She would have stood by Giles's side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 26158c6 | So death, Shelagh decided, was a moment for compliments, for everyone saying polite things about everybody else which they would not dream of saying at another time. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| adf02ac | I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 65dbc6b | If death came now, he would be an ally; existence was not a thing she welcomed anymore. Life had been crushed from her anyway, and the body lying on the bed did not belong to her. She had no wish to live | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| e457111 | Then men were not dependent upon women after all, as she had thought--women were dependent upon men. Boys were frail, boys cried, boys were tender, boys were helpless. Mary Anne knew this, because she was the eldest girl among her three young brothers, and the baby Isobel did not count at all. Men also were frail, men also cried, men also were tender, men also were helpless. Mary Anne knew this because her stepfather, Bob Farquhar, was all .. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 4af225e | If we killed women for their tongues all men would be murderers. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 513684f | Thank God nobody knew who he was, and he did not have to talk, but the sense of oppression was with him just the same. He was aware of a feeling of acute dislike, almost of hatred, towards all these unknown men and women who were filing past him to the stalls. They were like the spectators at an arena in ancient Rome. They had all dined well, and now they had come to watch Maria being torn to pieces by lions. Their eyes were avaricious, the.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| cc75529 | I feel it's all wrong to be nervous," said Maria. "I feel it's lack of confidence. One ought to go right ahead, never minding." "Some people do," he said, "but they're the duds. They are the ones that win prizes at school, and you never hear of them again. Go on. Be nervous. Be ill. Be sick down the lavatory pan. It's part of your life from now on. You've got to go through with it. Nothing's worth while if you don't fight for it first, if y.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 24f0fa5 | Why are you sitting here beside me, then?' 'Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 94b0b77 | Someday, somehow, I would repay my cousin Rachel. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 466cdc5 | In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain. | Monica Ali | ||
| 2e259a3 | Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel | earth-rotation science stars time | Dava Sobel | |
| f1ab565 | The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time. | longitude meridian | Dava Sobel | |
| 153d3cd | Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day. | invention jeremy-thacker longitude longitude-act | Dava Sobel | |
| e5d459e | Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies. | cartology france humorous king-louis-xiv longitude | Dava Sobel | |
| 7d7296d | In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible." | cartology longitude longitude-act | Dava Sobel | |
| bcef015 | Faultfinding is of little use and scant profit, for it is the mark of a shameless mind to prefer the role of the censorious critic to that of the creative poet. --FROM COPERNICUS'S Letter Against Werner, JUNE 3, 1524 | Dava Sobel | ||
| 331a9cb | I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered. | parenthood | Catherine Marshall | |
| 6cba718 | The worst thing,' she whispered to the cat as she stroked it, 'is not to be useful. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 9e62bae | He would not come again. This was good. No. This was bad. At least it was an end. | Monica Ali | ||
| eb44952 | An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazneen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly-her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly. | Monica Ali | ||
| a4a86a6 | Spreading rumours is our national past time | past-time waste-of-time | Monica Ali | |
| 71b98ee | while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together. | future life past present thought-provoking thoughts-on-life | Monica Ali | |
| 1b540f9 | In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took to the roofs, when marooned goats teetered on minuscule islands, when the women splashed across on the raised walkway to the cooking hut and found they could no longer kindle a dung-and-husk fire and looked to their reserves, when the rain rang louder than cow bells, rice was the means, the giver of life. | Monica Ali | ||
| d039b8a | All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essential thing. But he thought he could grab it from the outside and hold it against his chest like a shield... Where Nazneen turned in, he turned out; where she strove to accept, he was determined to struggle; where she attempted to dull her mind and nu.. | truth | Monica Ali | |
| 5e6b92d | I cried only once during the twenty-one-hour flight. I was looking out the window at the moon and thinking of the last long trip I took across the sky, and of the person who went with me and didn't come back. For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime against nature. Then the grief went back to sleep in my body. And it was again nature herself. Nature. Mother Nature. She .. | Ariel Levy | ||
| a8179f7 | A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 2df38af | It was fun. Sort of. The reason it was only sort of fun was that my life had collapsed. Unlike the people at the party, with their homes full of spouses and children, I was as alone and unmoored as I'd been twenty years ago, in these same suburbs, hanging out with the same boys. In the intervening decades, I'd thought I was going somewhere. But I had just been driving around. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 915e5a7 | Even if one life is manifest and the other is mostly hypothetical, the inability to occupy your own reality is torment, is torture. It is sin and punishment all in one. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 0cfa001 | John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 874a1e1 | Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood. | Ariel Levy | ||
| fef1879 | That night she heard the branches tapping against the house and the window frames rattle. She sat alone and thought of the geese, she could hear them out there. It had gotten cold. The wind was blowing their feathers. They lived a long time, ten or fifteen years, they said. The one they had seen on the lawn might still be alive, settled back into the fields with the others, in from the ocean where they went to be safe, the survivors of bloo.. | James Salter | ||
| a124f2f | His devotion is complete; he is beginning to sense the confusion that arises from the first fears of what life would be like without her. He knows there can be such a thing, but like the answer to a difficult problem, he cannot imagine it. | James Salter | ||
| 3a5c998 | There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone, the great, scarring thing you could not get your arms around, but it was there for him. | James Salter |