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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35fbd33 | Me pase la manana luchando con la sensacion de volutas descarriadas de un mundo intentando filtrarse por las grietas de otro. ?Conoceis la sensacion de empezar un libro nuevo antes de que el recuerdo del ultimo haya tenido tiempo de cerrarse detras de vosotros? Deja uno el libro anterior con ideas y temas --personajes incluso-- atrapados en las fibras de la ropa y cuando abre el libro nuevo siguen ahi. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 827f228 | Miracle" was the word Jonathan had pronounced, and they tested it on their own tongues. They were used to it in the Bible, where it meant impossible things that happened an impossibly long time ago in places so far away from here that they might as well not exist. Here in the inn it applied to the laughably improbable chance that the boat mender would ever pay his slate in full: now that would be a miracle all right. But tonight, at winter .. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 204118d | So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side of passion, without ever living the passion itself. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 867f7da | Le damos tanta importancia a nuestra propia vida que tendemos a creer que su historia comienza con nuestro nacimiento. Primero no habia nada, entonces naci yo... Pero no es asi. Las vidas humanas no son pedazos de cuerda que podemos separar del nudo que forman con otros pedazos de cuerda para enderezarnos. Las familias son tejidos. Resulta imposible tocar una parte sin hacer vibrar el resto. Resulta imposible comprender una parte sin posee.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| bf53817 | Un nacimiento no es, en realidad, una introduccion. Nuestra vida, cuando empieza, no es realmente nuestra, sino la continuacion de la historia de otro. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 074882f | And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. For it must be very lonely being dead. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 7b189af | Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. It must be allowed to decay. That's why I couldn't have journalists and biographers rummaging around in my past, retrieving bits and pieces of it, preserving it in their words. To write my books, I needed my past le.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 85e22e6 | I pushed my pile of papers to one side, stroked Shadow and stared into the fire, longing for the comfort of a story where everything had been planned well in advance, where the confusion of the middle was invented only for my enjoyment, and where I could measure how far away the solution was by feeling the thickness of pages still to come. I had no idea how many pages it would take to complete the story of Emmeline and Adeline, nor even whe.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 4341079 | He couldn't go on. He went on. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 9cc1a1d | Of course I recognized it. How could I not, for I had read it goodness knows how many times. 'Jane Eyre,' I said wonderingly. 'You recognized it? Yes, it is. I asked a man in a library. It's by Charlotte someone. She had a lot of sisters, apparently. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 7182f63 | Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. | politeness | Diane Setterfield | |
| f05dc88 | People are sheep, Ringil raged. Moronic fucking sheep. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 824f506 | In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 6c3ad51 | Rage at injustice is a forest fire -- it jumps all divides, even those between generations. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 63eead2 | We Ringil grinned fiercely up at the Kiriath clan captain. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 49b46c1 | Wealth, in his experience, was not something the people who had it were at all keen to see trickling anywhere. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 116582f | From a legal point of view--" He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it suits them, ignore it where it doesn't. They're clerics, Archeth. They spend their whole fucking lives selectively interpreting textual authority to advantage." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 050c983 | Humans, short-lived and locked out of the gray places for life, do not do well with uncertainty. If they cannot have what might, what could, what should, and perhaps most awful of all what should have been, then they will dream it up instead, imagine it into being in whatever twisted or beautiful form suits, and then drive their fellows to their knees in chains by the thousand and million to pretend in chorus that it is so. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 796d26b | Men were like blades, they would all break sooner or later, you included. But you looked around at the men you led, and in their eyes you saw what kind of steel you had to hand, how it had been forged and tempered, what blows, if any, it would take. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| d375a9c | You know nothing of me." Through clenched teeth. " . You've fucked me, that's all. Well, that's a crowded hole you're in, darling. And us humans, we're a lying, dissembling bunch, remember. Doesn't pay to trust us between the sheets any more than anywhere else." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 42e46ac | Well." Ringil gave the Throne Eternal captain another brittle little smile. "You know, the thing about fucking is, it's a lot less wear and tear than trying to kill each other with bits of steel. And it's the sort of thing that does tend to lead to confidences and favours if you play it right. Ask any woman, she'll tell you that. Unless of course your experiences in that direction are limited, as, come to think of it, yours probably are, to.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 08b2f82 | Face the facts. Then act on them. It's the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it's harder than you'd think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don't pray, don't wish, don't buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don't give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of . . . whatever. Face the facts. Then act. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| d6ecc12 | It was like resolution. The circling antagonisms collapsed inward like orbitals crashing and burning, surrendering to a mutual gravity that had dragged like chains while it endured but in release was a streak of fire through the nerves. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 00d987c | It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly. | psychology | Richard K. Morgan | |
| f29e7ed | Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| b9bcdeb | Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas. --CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Florence of Arabia | Nicholas D. Kristof | ||
| 484b921 | Justices look solemn in their formal black robes, but every so often they like to have a little fun by taking on a strange case, or overturning a presidential election, that sort of thing. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 82664b0 | It is remarkable that circumcision, which is invariably practiced by thE Mahometans, and forms a distinguishing rite of their faith, to which all proselytes must conform, is neither mentioned in the Koran nor the Sonna. It seems to have been a general usage in Arabia, tacitly adopted from the Jews, and is even said to have been prevalent throughout the East before the time of Moses. It is said that the Koran forbids the making likenes.. | Washington Irving | ||
| a6e3866 | It was to complete his marriage with Maimuna, the daughter of Al Hareth, the Helalite. He had become betrothed to her on his arrival at Mecca, but had post-poned the nuptials until after he had concluded the rites of pilgrimage. This was doubtless another marriage of policy, for Maimuna was fifty-one years of age, and a widow, but the connection gained him two powerful proselytes. One was Khaled Ibn al Waled, a nephew of the widow, an intre.. | Washington Irving | ||
| f9a11f5 | We are all are cripples in some way. [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] | Irving Stone | ||
| 1b7cbcf | Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy. | Irving Stone | ||
| 7fd0a54 | A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help. | humor medicine | Irving Stone | |
| f4efc0e | From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born? | frustration life | Irving Stone | |
| d358cbc | Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books. | Irving Stone | ||
| 96fe6b7 | All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature. | Irving Stone | ||
| 12413eb | Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed. | order right | Richard Llewellyn | |
| 3b18625 | F]or there are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had, and that was one of them. | peace | Richard Llewellyn | |
| 8e1a9aa | May I consent to and delight in thy law after the inner man, never complain over the strictness of thy demands, but mourn over my want of conformity to them; never question thy commandments, but esteem them to be right. By thy spirit within me, may my practice spring from principle, and my dispositions be conformable with duty. | Arthur Bennett | ||
| 0c49359 | O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him. | god prayer | Arthur Bennett | |
| ba38179 | THOU RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY SOVEREIGN, In whose hand is my life and whose are all my ways, Keep me from fluttering about religion; fix me firm in it, for I am irresolute; my decisions are smoke and vapour, and I do not glorify thee, or behave according to thy will; Cut me not off before my thoughts grow to responses, and the budding of my soul into full flower, for thou art forbearing and good, patient and kind. Save me from myself, from the a.. | Arthur Bennett | ||
| bb11644 | For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help. | help misery pain-of-the-misery | Richard Llewellyn | |
| db771ec | And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too. | Richard Llewellyn | ||
| 96d6a00 | The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice. | rights-of-man | Richard Llewellyn | |
| 04db7ad | Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal. | respect | Richard Llewellyn |