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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b19e1a5 | You can't let the apocalypse rule your life. | Michelle Tea | ||
| db25865 | There's nothing I want to relive--certainly not youth--and as for what's to come, I'm in no hurry. I watch my dogs. They throw themselves into everything they do; even their sleeping is wholehearted. They aren't waiting for a better tomorrow, or looking back at their glory days. Following their example, I'm trying to stick to the present. I'm not stranded here, I know where I've been; I can conjure up details of old haunts, even former stat.. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 5d1bfdc | A friend's mother ate nothing but clams for six months. Morning, noon, and night, nothing but clams. 'I don't know what it is - I can't seem to get enough of them' she told her son. He shakes his head, but I understand. I eat nothing but broccoli for a month, then yogurt for six days, then (for one glorious week) lamb chops. One day I roasted a chicken and had seven chicken sandwiches before nightfall. If I like something, I like it a lot. .. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 2059c6c | This would account for those moments of Oh! there you are! After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 5aa37e0 | What can come? This was a brilliant question. Can is scarier than will. What will come limits itself. What can come has no boundaries. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 8f509ef | I WAS ON A SMALL ISLAND ONCE, IN THE MIDDLE OF a great big lake, mountains all over the place, and as I watched the floating dock the wind kicked up, the waves rose from nowhere, and I imagined myself lying there and the dock suddenly breaking loose, carried away by the storm. I wondered if I could lie still and enjoy the sensation of rocking, after all I wouldn't be dead yet, I wouldn't be drowning, just carried off somewhere that wasn't p.. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 7b4dea4 | The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| c437da6 | I used to get upset if somebody I didn't like loved a book I loved. That's MY book, I'd think. | books humor | Abigail Thomas | |
| b0d368d | SIX MONTHS AGO A FRIEND WAS ANGRY WITH ME and I with her. I had written about something someone said many years ago, but it was she who heard the words, not me, a fact I had completely forgotten. Her experience was precious, and she accused me of stealing her memory. Not only that, but what she remembered with grief I had somehow transmuted to gratitude, so besides stealing her memory, I also got it wrong. We argued, but there was no meetin.. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 7c7e908 | The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: "one of the choice ones of the earth." -- | Jon Meacham | ||
| 98e971a | THERE ARE ENORMOUS HOLES IN MY EDUCATION. I left college in March of my freshman year and never went back. I've never read Moby-Dick and it's probably too late now. I know nothing about the history of music or the history of art except what I've learned through osmosis. But Outsider Art is its own context. I don't have to know all about the Impressionists or the Abstract Expressionists. I don't have to be able to fit this art into any histo.. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| 81bf600 | For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others--the only way to heal broken humanity. | nonviolence | James H. Cone | |
| d83461c | And I'm afraid it really is a jungle too," pursued the Consul, "in fact I expect Rousseau to come riding out of it at any moment on a tiger." "What's that?" Mr Quincey said, frowning in a manner that might have meant: And God never drinks before breakfast either. "On a tiger," the Consul repeated. The other gazed at him a moment with the cold sardonic eye of the material world. "I expect so," he said sourly. "Plenty tigers. Plenty elephants.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 1dce754 | Mira, Frijolillo -el Consul oia sus propias palabras-, tener en tu contra a Franco o a Hitler es una cosa, pero tener a Actinio, Argon, Berilio, Disprosio, Niobio, Paladio, Praseodimio... -Mira, Geoff... -...Rutenio, Samario, Silicon, Tantalo, Telurio, Terbio, Torio... -Mira... -Tulio, Titanio, Uranio, Vanadio, Virginio, Zenon, Iterbio, Circonio, por no hablar de Europio y Germanio... !Hip!... !Y Columbio!... Contra ti y contra todos los de.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 18c8dd1 | Please let me make her happy, deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self. I have sunk low. Let me sink lower still, that I may know the truth. Teach me to love again, to love life." That wouldn't do either ... "Where is love? Let me truly suffer. Give me back my purity, the knowledge of the Mysteries, that I have betrayed and lost.--Let me be truly lonely, that I may honestly pray. Let us be happy again somewhere, if it's only together, .. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 26a22f8 | Our expectancies are rewarded by substances. | Malcolm Godwin | ||
| a6d0b0e | Knowing how to see, that is the most important gift from God. | Karen Harper | ||
| d073319 | Above the three coffins, a family of four stared down from a blown-up photograph. Their static smiles were overlarge and pixelated. Falk recognised the picture from the news. It had been used a lot. Beneath, the names of the dead were spelled out in native flowers. Luke. Karen. Billy. | Jane Harper | ||
| 7689624 | Levi's gaze sought out Miss Spencer. Eden. All she had to do was smile to release those little frissons of lightning in him. As that thought crossed his mind, she glanced up, and Levi realized he was wrong. She didn't have to smile. All she had to do was look at him. Heaven help him. He was in bad. | clean feelings happiness historical-romance love romance romantic | Karen Witemeyer | |
| 6eb2d06 | I dreamed o' ye, lass, down in that pit. I dreamed . . . and I promised meself that if the Almighty saw fit to spare me sorry hide, that I'd be asking a favor of ye the moment I saw yer bonny face." Chloe lifted Duncan's filthy hand to her lips and pressed a kiss to his knuckles. "I'd do anything for you, Duncan. Anything." "Are ye sure, lass?" He paused, staring up at her. "I'm sure." "Good. 'Cause I want ye to let me give ye a last name. .. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 6c91378 | I had a long talk with my husband last night. And he made me realize that I have to choose which voices to believe. I can believe the ones that tell me I'm not good enough or brave enough or pretty enough and let them skew my perception of events, or I can push aside that clamor and seek out the voice that tells me I am fearfully and wonderfully made. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 46a3842 | God always provides other options for His people when they are tempted to take an unrighteous path. But if we depend only on ourselves to solve our problems, we narrow our vision and see none of those options. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 88e7e43 | No matter how many people reject or betray you, if you have even one person in your life you can count on--really, truly count on--you can overcome any obstacle. Trusting the wrong person might lead to temporary heartache, but trusting the right one provides a strength that can fuel you for a lifetime.~ page 56 | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 0c43ff0 | fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 7f6866f | She shocked me. Truly rocked the ground beneath my feet. Made the air shimmer with her power and grace. The woman had slipped free the prison of rules that governed us all and met me halfway to paradise. | romeo-and-juliet true-love | Robin Maxwell | |
| 7723526 | Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious. | danger dangerous-people | Robin Maxwell | |
| 407a982 | Romans 10:9-10. It says, 'If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| d9d7a32 | Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming." Matthew 24:38-42" | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 544a5af | The farther we go from God, the less we know of peace. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 4f36747 | All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders. | burdens faith god love relationships strength | Tim LaHaye | |
| d444711 | We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality. | reality truth | Tim LaHaye | |
| f6d1b0b | Don't apologize for catching fire. I like it. But I want to give you more. So much more. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 108a64a | This was the joy that the world sought-- sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| b7485a7 | It was not a sack, but rather a circle of denim that would spread itself flat with the cord fully unlaced. Seven deep pockets, each holding one color, pinwheeled from a center humped with plain cuttings of flannel, buckram, and the like. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 9fc9884 | Why does everyone have to be so cool all the time? And also why do white people always have to act like black people to avoid looking like dorks? | life | Sarah Miller | |
| fde2213 | Incredible that the best route to winning friends is not necessarily kindness or flattery, but letting them know you won't tolerate their bullshit. | life | Sarah Miller | |
| e4ce93f | How many miles had they come? Less than halfway, and already Caroline had the sense that a separation such as this could put more than miles between folks, could right this minute be working changes she might not be entirely conscious of and might never realize at all unless she and Eliza saw each other again. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 7f6b799 | Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained. | Sarah Miller | ||
| d4e031c | A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner, she recited to herself as she waited for the flare of temper to ebb. Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 7a08e20 | I don't see how sugar could make that cornbread any sweeter than the prints of your hands already have. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 7b6bc3f | it was as if she believed the special things they'd so enjoyed together should not be enjoyed apart. | Sarah Miller | ||
| b247644 | Tu amor me vuelve valiente. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 2e37977 | The only way to deal with bullies is to confront them. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| cde3a8c | When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people's problems as our own. | Harriet Lerner |