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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ee6048f | Skuta var topptung som en middagslos student med hodet fullt av Aristoteles. | Herman Melville | ||
| c9fdd03 | It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me. Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But somehow I grew merry again. Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems--aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet. Yes, there is death i.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1b2d5ae | He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world's terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense. | failure genius | Raymond Weaver | |
| 6d8d182 | Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 4283464 | part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having spent ten years with the wolves behind some farmhouse, living off scraps and reveling in the pure air like a half-girl Mowgli, half-woman Thoreau. | Aimee Bender | ||
| d8edc01 | He said, I always thought the woman I'd marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain. | marriage woman | Aimee Bender | |
| 1ac1d3c | In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that would make Buddhists sit up in envy and then breathe through their envy and then move past their envy. | patience tea tea-lovers zen | Aimee Bender | |
| 3295039 | But truthfully? Let me tell you what I honestly think. I think, maybe he hasn't even noticed that I'm gone. But. I have. | life missing | Aimee Bender | |
| 886ed56 | One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life. | live-your-own-life living-in-the-present | Aimee Bender | |
| 6fd4d51 | I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too. | language | Aimee Bender | |
| ac830bd | when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it. | eyes longing love | Aimee Bender | |
| ca569ab | We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 4d492e2 | I'd stopped waving to passengers in cars by then- I'd grown suspicious of people and all the complications of interior lives- so I sat and watched and rode and thought, and as soon as the bus doors opened, we all rolled out the doorand split apart like billiard balls. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 1407efd | 1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more. | Steve Erickson | ||
| ba973b2 | The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to last forever, that was supposed to be the heart's burden into eternity, only for that burden to be laid down by too much time and, worse, too much banality, too much of everything that's beneath love, not good enough for love. | Steve Erickson | ||
| f94c09f | Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 614a6e0 | Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it. | injured | Robert Ludlum | |
| 18b593e | She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field. | counsel wives | Robert Ludlum | |
| 1dbbb6c | I remember arriving by train in a small Swiss town. I had walked up a steep, cobblestoned street that offered a sweeping view of the village below and a lake, which, in the late afternoon light, was like a great cloudy opal. And I remember thinking, with a sense of mounting joy, that not a single soul knew where I was at that moment. No one could find me. No one could phone me. No one could see me who knew me by name. For someone whose chil.. | loneliness writing writing-life | Lucy Taylor | |
| 28f243b | Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 41924d7 | She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| debdc3d | We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion. Danny was touched. "But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car?" "You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny," Leslie replied. "I think you're overlooking the biggest point here," said Danny. "I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL." -- | dating | Orson Scott Card | |
| 68d79ef | Paciencia: Hay gente que hace cosas por miedo al latigo. Hay gente que hace cosas por temor a perder sus familias o sus vidas. Hay gente a la cual es posible comprar y vender. ?Acaso no son esclavos? - Voluntad: Son esclavos de sus pasiones. Su miedo les gobierna. ?Que poder tienes sobre mi si tu latigo no me da miedo? ?Soy tu esclavo si no temo perder a mi familia? Te obedezco de forma completa y fiel porque asi lo he escogido: ?soy tu esc.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8cf6827 | We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ed02c0d | We're an ecological disaster." "Exactly," said the expendable." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c16383c | Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 13792f8 | You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more. | leadership | Orson Scott Card | |
| 06edd97 | He did what he thought was right, | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 6d01566 | In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action." | russia | Orson Scott Card | |
| de5865f | Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear--their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e038782 | Rigg," said Father, "you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b4a8ace | And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2955657 | Do you think we're making a mistake?" snapped the Bishop. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8564ae9 | History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 78faf74 | What could go wrong... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition. | drowthers | orson scott card | |
| b25dc1c | Lo ves? Eso es lo que hacen los historiadores, hacen juegos con la causa y el efecto, cuando el asunto es que hay periodos en los que el mundo cambia, y la voz precisa en el lugar preciso puede mover al mundo | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e3ef608 | You lied to us | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3384c1e | I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you?" "If you really try," said Loaf, grinning, "you might not die." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8cd1173 | I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind. | individuality memory mind | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8badf34 | I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now. | humor xenology | Orson Scott Card | |
| c43769d | But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know me, live with me in the world of my mind. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e312826 | Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7f811f5 | Human beings remain grubs all the lives. | xenocide | Orson Scott Card | |
| a4a4f0a | When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker--ever since I first learned Stark and read , I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you .. | ender honor | Orson Scott Card |