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| f460f9a | Not that this let me off the hook. My younger self had come back to shock my older self with what that self had been, or was, or was sometimes capable of being. And only recently I'd been going on about how the witnesses to our lives decrease, and with them our essential corroboration. Now I had some all too unwelcome corroboration of what I was, or had been. If only this had been the document Veronica had set light to. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 4091a10 | I'd ban coincidences, if I were a dictator of fiction. Well, perhaps not entirely. Coincidences would be permitted in the picaresque; that's where they belong. Go on, take them: let | Julian Barnes | ||
| 8854adb | But he would never join their number, never be a member of the smiling retinue of former lovers. He considered that sort of behavior rather beastly, in fact immoral. He refused to be turned from a lover into a dear friend. He was uninterested in that transition. | Julian Barnes | ||
| dc4813d | That's what it feels like, anyway. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. | Julian Barnes | ||
| face1e7 | Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 6e26479 | as for knowing your own mind, this seemed a bewildering process. How could you know your own mind without using your mind to discover your mind in the first place? | Julian Barnes | ||
| 7c11e41 | An English silence--one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties--prevailed. I got into my bed and wept. The matter was never referred to again. | Julian Barnes | ||
| c2d65c4 | One feeling at least grows stronger in me with each year that passes--a longing to see the cranes. At this time of year I stand on a hill and watch the sky. Today they did not come. There were only wild geese. Geese would be beautiful if cranes did not exist. | Julian Barnes | ||
| c0398c5 | She sees only what's gone, I see only what's stayed the same. Her hair is no longer halfway down her back or pulled up in a French pleat; nowadays it is cut close to her skull and the grey is allowed to show. Those peasanty frocks she used to wear have given way to cardigans and well-cut trousers. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other pe.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| d5cba66 | But the moment I realized that Pomiane was not just sympathetic but deeply on my side came in his recipe for Boeuf a la Ficelle (top rump suspended in boiling water by a string). When it is done, you are told to: 'Lift the beef from the saucepan and remove the string. The meat is grey outside and not very appetizing. At this moment you may feel a little depressed.' Isn't that one of the most cheering and pedant-friendly lines a cook ever wr.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9a71be4 | Until I met Annick I'd always been certain that the edgy cynicism and disbelief in which I dealt, plus a cowed trust in the word of any imaginative writer, were the only tools for the painful, wrenching extraction of truths from the surrounding quartz of hypocrisy and deceit. The pursuit of truth had always seemed something combative. Now, not exactly in a flash, but over a few weeks, I wondered if it weren't something both higher - above t.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| ccebaa2 | You realize that tough love is also tough on the lover. | Julian Barnes | ||
| a41de80 | Do you have nicknames for any of your other brothers?" The youngster squinted his dark gray eyes in concentration. "Well, Tristan is Dare, and sometimes he's Tris; and Bradshaw is Shaw; and sometimes we call Andrew, Drew, but he doesn't like that very much." "Why not?" "He says it's a girls' name, and then Shaw calls him Drusilla." | hilarious | Suzanne Enoch | |
| 3ede2d7 | Talking to yourself?" Her father turned the corner of the house to join her amid the rows of roses. Sneaking was evil, she decided. "No. I was... just conversing with the new rosebush," she stammered, feeling her cheeks warm. "Ah. And did it answer?" "I believe it to be shy." "If it everdoesanswer, you will inform me, won't you ?" "Very amusing." | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| 7762709 | Blue eyes held hers. "I have the oddest desire to learn what you want from life," he continued." -- | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| 1d159b1 | Don't cry,nyonda," he murmured. Phillipa took a deep breath. "What does that mean, anyway? Nyonda?" His green gaze held hers. "It's Swahili. It means 'beloved.'" A small smile touched his mouth, and he brushed her cheek again. "You do know I love you, Phillipa. To an alarming degree." | love | Suzanne Enoch | |
| 813252b | He had no breath, no being, but in hers, she was his voice; he did not speak to her. But trembled on her words; She was his sight, For his eye followed hers, and saw hers, Which colored all his objects-he had crease to live within himself; She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts... | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| bea0345 | To his surprise and suspicion, she smiled. | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| 9143559 | Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate. | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| 69b6777 | There are rules," he interrupted, scowling. Before she could move, he had both her hands in his, their faces inches apart. "Don't put me off, Phillipa. I've given you my one warning; I am after you. If you wish me to proceed your way, I will. To a point. But if you continue throwing up that damned--blasted--'you can't do that' protest and still look at me with that same...passion in your eyes, I will put you back in that phaeton and not sto.. | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| 37d6d8f | Reg: Furth's in London. And yes, I know, it's my fault. But as long as I'ver roused the lion, I was going to ask you to speak to him on my behalf. Alex: You wish me to speak to Furth. Reg: Well, yes. He's always like you. Just tell him what a noble, upright fellow I am, and how I have always upheld my position with dignity and respect. Alex: Lie, you mean. REg: Whatever it takes. | romance | Suzanne Enoch | |
| 8b4677f | Mutti, ich fuhle mich so alt", sagte sie und weinte. "Ich fuhle mich beinahe wie sechzehn." | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 01ed6d2 | Jag ar sa radd att fa ett hjarta av sten, for jag tror att det skaver i brostet och gor ont. | mio | Astrid Lindgren | |
| d0e33f4 | The thing about a 'comfort zone' is that it sounds, well, just too comfortable - and when you are too comfortable you lose your edge. That's why I call it a comfort pit, because a pit is somewhere you want to get out of as fast as possible. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 63be37c | And one day, if I see your smile on her face, maybe that'll keep me from feeling I've left a piece of my heart behind. | kiernan love | Rysa Walker | |
| ad8ef5f | Archer no es lindo --ella me corrigio. --Los cachorritos son lindos. Los bebes son lindos. Yo soy linda. Archer Cross esta terriblemente bueno. Y ni siquiera me gustan los chicos | Rachel Hawkins | ||
| 8ff341c | The bathroom's down the hall if you want to take off your tights. I can throw 'em in the dryer for you if you want. Or, you can hang them on the shower curtain rod." He turned. "It's been a long time since I've had a woman's tights draped over my rod." A quick wink and he was gone before she could do anything more than gape." | entangled romance | Linda Morrisx | |
| c5eb9bd | You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God. Matthew 5, v.2 (The Message Version) | Bear Grylls | ||
| caa91c6 | Get what you get honestly. Use what you get frugally. That's the way to live comfortably And die honorably. | Mary Higgins Clark | ||
| 0032b1c | Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the police had thrown at her over and over seven years ago.....Where are the Children? | Mary Higgins Clark | ||
| d073a3c | On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition--not to determine who was right, but who was left. | world-war-i | Stanley Weintraub | |
| b22f8fa | The dream-state of the Archipelago, which is what we islanders most respond to, and least wish to see changed, seems likely to continue without interference for a long time to come. | Christopher Priest | ||
| 00253b9 | Yet, although many priests were extremely poor, the Church as an institution was not only very rich but also powerful. It paid no taxes, voluntarily contributing instead a grant to the state every five years, and, as the amount of this grant was decided in the quinquennial Church Assemblies, the clergy were able to exercise a considerable influence over the policies of the Government. | Christopher Hibbert | ||
| 1c9f90f | an incomplete listing of anything reveals that a selection has been made, and any act of selection is of course political. | Christopher Priest | ||
| dec88f0 | So what actually goes on with all this religion business? Does it really matter whether you're a Gnostic, a Christian, a Muslim, a Shi'ite, a Hindu, a Taoist, a Rosicrucian, a Jew, a Witch or a Jehovah's Witness? Not in the slightest. (Well, it might matter if you're a Jehovah's Witness). Does it matter if you follow the teachings of Confucius, Buddha, Ramakrishna or Mary Baker Eddy? Of course not. Does it matter if your ritual object or ta.. | religion religion-and-philosophy religion-quotations religion-quotes | Karl Wiggins | |
| a4d6d00 | I forgot to mention," Father Christopher said, smiling seraphically at Sir Martin, "that I am also a priest. So let me offer you a blessing." He pulled out a golden crucifix that had been hidden beneath his shirt and held it toward Lord Slayton's men. "May the peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ," he said, "comfort and sustain you while you take your farting mouths and your turd-reeking presence out of our sight." He waved a sketchy cro.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 3fb1d5d | You are wonderfully and powerfully made. In other words: it is no accident you are good at certain things! | Bear Grylls | ||
| 8f06cf1 | ik`neb sinamdvileshi es qvelap`eri cignebshi ceria, - t`k`va kalem. - shen ra, sheishale? - gaioc`a andersma. - ik`neb ch`ven sulac` ar varsebobt`, - oc`nebit` ganagrz'o kalem, - aramed mxolod da mxolod bavshvebi vart` cignidan, romelic` vig'ac`am shek`mna. - ho, shen sheiz'leba mart`lac` cignidan xar, - gagulisda andersi, - da sulac` ar gamikvirdeba, t`u shec`domit`a xar dabechdili, magram me ki - ara, daimaxsovre. - shen ar gesmis... - t`.. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| d8ca885 | Yes, she was lonely, but she missed no one in particular. Whom could she miss? Her days were full of life and pleasure, but they passed so quickly. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 22e5885 | Es war einer von jenen Abenden, wo man sich nach etwas sehnt, und man weiss nicht, wonach. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| f8ca294 | Nar man er ekstra staerk, har man en saerlig forpligtelse til at vaere sod ved andre | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 2d216b6 | Tudo o que desejava era que as coisas fossem agradaveis e bonitas, como eram nas cancoes. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 962e5b2 | The Father made men curious, some say to test our faith. It is my own abiding sin that whenever I come upon a door I must needs see what lies upon the farther side, but certain doors are best left unopened. | curious doors faith fire-and-blood knowledge sin unknown unopened | George R.R. Martin | |
| 97b1668 | The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy." | George R.R. Martin |