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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ef963ad | Her eyelashes lay still; her heart was still. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 35bf1ce | When Union litter-bearers climbed out of their trenches, four days after the assault, they found only two men still alive amongst the piles of stinking corpses. One burial party discovered a dead Yankee with a diary in his pocket, the last entry of which read: "June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed." | Tony Horwitz | ||
| de9958f | Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don't disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it.. | media-studies optimism revolution | Henry Jenkins | |
| 81d7274 | Te quiero -dijo- Nada de lo que hagas o digas podra cambiarlo. Si me pidieras que enterrase un cadaver, o que me cargase a alguien, lo haria sin pestanear. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5c39d69 | Fiji, I'm betting you don't drink a lot," he said, trying to suppress a smile. "I don't," she confessed. "How did you know?" "Just a lucky guess." "You think he'd like my phone number?" "Feej, that guy is tough as nails, and he's not only been around the block, he's run a marathon. He could eat you for breakfast," Olivia said, half smiling. "And wouldn't that be a great way to wake up?" Fiji said, with a broad wink. Manfred laughed; he.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 173f66f | Look. This room is the Seal Room. See the big picture of the seal? And that room is the Pony Room.|| --Is there a pony?|| Hunter was an optimist. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d63007d | You have a nice day, you hear? | deadlocked dermot humor | Charlaine Harris | |
| 93791c1 | Especially something as boring as law," Ben added." | Anna Adams | ||
| 6b7abfd | Vampires often turn on those who trust them. We don't have human values, you know." "A lot of humans turn on those who trust them," I pointed out. I can be practical. "I'm not a total fool." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 40f7a94 | Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the enemy plan of the day might be. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d02efcb | Buddy of yours?" Manfred asked, when he was sure his voice would be even. "I don't think snake-shifters have buddies," Lemuel said. "They just know people they haven't tried to eat yet." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b2158fb | Sometimes life just hands you more than you take. Then you just accept. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2035bef | His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune. "I don't know much," I confessed, my voice barely audible. "Don't worry. I know a lot." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b4a8e13 | Sabia que algo no iba bien en Sookielandia. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ada9b22 | His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0f17f60 | La soledad es mucho mas divertida si es opcional. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c367bee | Al parecer, era la epoca de "abrazar a Sookie" y nadie me habia avisado." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 319ee1d | You can get more skilled, Sookie, but can't get any better. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c535458 | Amelia was sitting on the pavement in her lawn chair, a glass of wine in her hand. | sookie sookie-stackhouse stackhouse true-blood witch | Charlaine Harris | |
| 1edb957 | I would know your scent anywhere. Even in the darkest night in the darkest room with a hundred other people." His voice dropped to a husky whisper. "Yes, Camille. I would know it. Always, I would know...you." | Liz Carlyle | ||
| dbfe81f | Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?" | romance | Liz Carlyle | |
| 73b2440 | Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized. | law society | Robin Wasserman | |
| e4993dd | They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade . It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 6faa058 | My research was stimulating but solitary | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 4ebfbdf | How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing." | perspective rhetoric | Alison Bechdel | |
| 6771491 | Every one' of the psychoanalytic trainees she [Alice Miller] has supervised has the same history: An insecure parent who did not appear to be insecure, but who depended on the child behaving in a particular way. And an 'amazing ability' on the part of the child to perceive this and take on the assigned role. "This role secured 'love' for the child-that is, his parents' narcissistic cathexis. He could sense he was needed and this, he felt, g.. | insecure-parent narcissism psychoanalytic | Alison Bechdel | |
| 35e10d8 | To visualize this dance, the transparent components of the cell had to be coloured using a stain. As it happened, the stains that were best able to colour the chromosomes were acidic. Unfortunately, these stains tended to dissolve the mitochondria; their obsession with the nucleus meant that cytologists were simply dissolving the evidence. Other stains were ambivalent, colouring mitochondria only transiently, for the mitochondria themselves.. | Nick Lane | ||
| 41b4b46 | I shall argue that the distinction between a 'living planet' - one that is geologically active - and a living cell is only a matter of definition. There is no hard and fast dividing line. Geochemistry gives rise seamlessly to biochemistry. From this point of view, the fact that we can't distinguish between geology and biology in these old rocks is fitting. Here is a living planet giving rise to life, and the two can't be separated without s.. | Nick Lane | ||
| 9b9528a | We should not be too quick to dismiss our own [ocular] arrangement. As so often in biology, the situation is more complex.....we have the advantage that our own light-sensitive cells are embedded directly in their support cells (the retinal pigment epithelium) with an excellent blood supply immediately underneath. Such an arrangement supports the continuous turnover of photosensitive pigments. The human retina consumes even more oxygen than.. | evolution science | nick lane | |
| 755b72a | If all these considerations are correct, then the appearance of eyes really could have ignited the Cambrian explosion. And if that's the case, then the evolution of the eye must certainly number among the most dramatic and important events in the whole history of life on earth. | Nick Lane | ||
| 63de9bc | Radical feminists and evolutionists agree that males are a serious cost to society. | Nick Lane | ||
| 64b2c44 | I'm a real bastard without him," Jace apologized, and Nick gulped some water and nodded. "Yeah, I hear that. Why?" Jace looked at him in outrage because the question was... was self-explanatory. "Because! Because he's... he's Quent!" | Amy Lane | ||
| 975a562 | Without programmed cell death, the bonds that bind cells in complex multicellular organisms might never have evolved. | Nick Lane | ||
| ca18556 | What's amazing is that we have largely contained these urges to the point of successfully checking out of a crowded Whole Foods without decapitating that crunchy, granola-haired hustler dude trying to squeak fourteen items through the express lane WHEN THE SIGN CLEARLY STATES "TWELVE ITEMS OR LESS." YOU THINK WE AREN'T ALL GOING TO BE COUNTING YOUR FUCKING ITEMS, BRO?!" | Nick Offerman | ||
| db4f042 | You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in. | inspirational life-changing self-help | Brian Tracy | |
| 95b08d7 | Governor Bradford is said to have attributed the plague to "the good hand of God," which "favored our beginnings" by "sweeping away great multitudes of the natives ... that he might make room for us." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 26d07ee | As it does today, malaria played a huge role in the past--a role unlike that of other diseases, and arguably larger. When Europeans brought smallpox and influenza to the Americas, they set off epidemics: sudden outbursts that shot through Indian towns and villages, then faded. Malaria, by contrast, became endemic, an ever-present, debilitating presence in the landscape. Socially speaking, malaria--along with another mosquito-borne disease, .. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 463d027 | all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy; populist, in which government is viewed as an expression of the people's will; "great beast," in which the rulers' power depends on using force to keep the populace cowed; and "great fraud," in which the elite uses smoke and mirrors to convince the people of its inherent authority." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 69f5a54 | Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear." --MARK TWAIN" | Brian Tracy | ||
| 22067be | They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| df2a56b | Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; rather, seek what they sought.1 --Gautama Buddha | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| a6c163c | More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart - more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi - more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton. | child-psychology children fairy-tales fiction-fantasy parenthood parenting parenting-101 parenting-advice parenting-children parenting-teenagers parents parents-advice parents-and-children parents-and-responsibility parents-and-teenagers parents-quotes parents-responsibility raising-kids | Abhijit Naskar | |
| ffe76b5 | We have loved each other well, dear Willie, but now, for reasons we cannot understand, that bond has been broken. But our bond can never be broken. As long as I live, you will always be with me, child. | George Saunders | ||
| 5919694 | Don't you love that phrase, | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child |