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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ada4573 | fight for me. Prove to me that you're worthy of all the faith I have in you. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 947399c | Christmas is a condition of the heart," she continued, and as she spoke she planted a hand over her chest. "It's being open and sincere, generous and kind to those with less, or showing our love to those we cherish." | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 2ee76dc | Love doesn't die. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 8731d98 | His heart wanted Mary. And then it wanted Merry. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| bd8287e | John had said McKindless would be revealed through his library, but John was a bookseller; he formed his opinion of everyone through their books. | Louise Welsh | ||
| 6d1e02d | All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 15da339 | Grief was just the moment before you tied off the thread and began the next one. That was when you made your choice about what you were going to sew next. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| ac16556 | She never knew from one moment to the next how he was going to behave toward her and therefore she constantly had to adjust her balance. It was exhausting. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| ca2c852 | There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| bb0040a | Jesus'] resurrection is therefore God's promise of new creation for the whole of the godforsaken reality which the crucified Jesus represents. It is therefore an event of dialectical promise: it opens up a qualitatively new future, which negates all the negatives of present experience. It opens up a future which is not simply drawn out of the immanent possibilities of present reality, but radically contradicts present reality. It promises l.. | resurrection | Richard Bauckham | |
| e037f07 | For me at least, genderqueer includes an aspect of questioning," Sasha explains. "The fact that I was questioning my gender meant that I was genderqueer." | Dashka Slater | ||
| 5eee9c8 | Anais Nin noted in her diary: "The same thing which makes Henry indestructible is what makes me indestructible: It is that at the core of us is a writer, not a human being." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 9964464 | I guess I am disturbed only because so little strains through the meshes and I am thinking in such violent floods. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| f0584cd | The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially. | women | Elizabeth Ironside | |
| 9d17407 | All this may seem like a terrible tangle. But since partnership is designed to resurface feelings from childhood, it means that most of the upset that gets triggered in us during our relationship is from our past. Yes! About 90 percent of the frustrations your partner has with you are really about their issues from childhood. That means only 10 percent or so is about each of you right now. Doesn't that make you feel better? | Harville Hendrix | ||
| ef84c65 | Back home, my favorite part of Mass was during communion, when I'd stand at the rail and hold a little gold platter under people's chins. The pretty girls would line up for communion (I confess to Almighty God). They'd kneel (and to you my brothers and sisters), cast their eyes demurely down (I have sinned through my own fault), and stick out their tongues (in my thoughts and in my words). Their tongues would shine, reflected in the gold pl.. | religion | Rob Sheffield | |
| 080c6aa | At work she became instant best friends with the Clinique girl, Susan, a Waynesboro muscle-car aficionado. She was fond of dispensinf wisdom along the lines or: "The bullshit stops when the green light pops!" I'd go to the mall to pick up Renee. take them both a couple of coffees, and hang out while they chattered in their hot white coats. Susan would take Renee to hot-rod shows and run-what-ya-brung drag races. She brought out sides of Ren.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 93c71c5 | Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 0300e57 | He said 'My kingdom is not of this world.' So did Bowie. It tapped into the whole Catholic idea of creating your own saints, finding icons of divinity in the mundane. As a religion, Bowieism didn't seem so different from Catholicism - the hemlines were just a little higher. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 5909551 | Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| c31c268 | I was too scared to talk, but I was more scared to not talk. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 9ec6548 | I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 29d7ed4 | You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 7021d62 | is a relic from - when else? - the '70s. This is a tape I made for the eight-grade dance. The tape still plays, even if the cogs are a little creaky and the sound quality is dismal. It's a ninety-minute TDK Compact Cassette, and like everything else made in the '70s, it's beige. It takes me back to the fall of 1979, when I was a shy, spastic, corduroy-clad Catholic kid from the suburbs of Boston, grief-stricken over the '78 Red Sox. The wor.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| fa63d88 | For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes on the car radio, I find myself pounding my fist on the dashboard, screaming, "Pearl JAM! Pearl JAM! Now this is rock and roll! Jeremy's SPO-ken! But he's still al-LIIIIIVE!" | music nostalgia pearl-jam | Rob Sheffield | |
| 807a22c | I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have angry words to say, I need time to rehearse. I can't improvise when my head's dizzy with adrenaline; I have to cool down and then write out a script. I found this trait very difficult when I was trying to be a boyfriend, because in my experience, boyfriends and girlfriends often spend a lot of time fighting. Husbands and wives seem to spend a .. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 33abdb1 | When Renee and I talked about it years later, we agreed on one point: We were insane. Renee always said, "If any of our kids want to get married when they're twenty-five, we'll have to lock them in the attic." We were just kids, and everybody who came to the wedding party was guilty of shameful if not criminal negligence-- look at the shiny pretty toaster, isn't it cute to see the babies playing with it in the bathtub? Jesus, people!" | love mania | Rob Sheffield | |
| 742d276 | I had never gotten the hang of dating -- I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| a2c55d8 | The important thing isn't that we're freakazoidal about the same things--it's that she's as freakazoidal about her stuff as I am about mine, and that enthusiasm can't help but unite us, even if the object thereof doesn't. If two people are twisted enough to connect on a deep level, it's only natural there will be lots of angles where they don't connect at all. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 57d7e4a | They're never technically tapes, but they're always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 611b21b | you may not be the target audience for new music anymore. But that just means you have to scrounge a little harder to find it. You don't necessarily want to make a religion out of it; you just want to keep participating. Music isn't an accessory to a lifestyle--it's part of a life. It's not a youthful phase you go through. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| e00175c | It was only when I stopped pretending to be someone else that I found my real friends. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 422d5f4 | I stressed out trying to figure out what I could say. I ate licorice. I stressed some more. I ate Dots. I stressed out even more-and wiped out a bag of Swedish Fish. And then I wrote. | Maria Shriver | ||
| 1aa9999 | Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there. | inspirational learn lesson | Maria Shriver | |
| a3d4f00 | The benefit of appearing so young is I'm constantly underestimated | experience judgement zitora | Maria V. Snyder | |
| b763c0b | I may have discovered what those beans are." It was a weak opening. What I really wanted to say was, "What the hell's the matter with you?" But I thought a soft approach more prudent." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 8e515f6 | There's an arrest warrant out for her. Did you even consider taking her to the Commander?" "No." "Why not?" Valek didn't try to hide his disbelief. "Killing isn't the only solution to a problem. Or has that been yourformula?" " My formula! Excuse me, Mr. Assassin, while I laugh as I remember my history lessons on how to deal with a tyrannical monarch by killing him and his family." Valek flashed me a dangerous look." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| fdc9097 | Janco stepped between us. "Let's see if I have this right," he said to Cahil. "Yelena beats you, so you want a rematch, but you think she'll use her magic instead of her fighting skills to win. That's quite the quandary." Janco pulled at his goatee. "Since I taught her everything she knows, and I don't have any magic, thank fate, how about you fight me? Your long sword against my bow." " You taught her everything?" Ari asked. Janco waved aw.. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4790ed5 | I didn't know whether to feel smart for figuring out Kiki's advice, or feel like a simpleton for having a horse tell me the right thing to do | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 5e5b069 | There might be plenty of rainy days, but those perfect ones will make all the memories of rain disappear. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ca603ac | They were my family, yet they were strangers. | strangers | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 1ded1ad | I never laugh at a beautiful woman. I'd much rather laugh and dance with her. | yelena-zaltana | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 72341e2 | You know me, love.' 'I know. You crave a challenge and you're cocky. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| bc8c234 | Can you be an assassin without killing anyone?" Onora shot her an odd look. "I ... don't know. I don't think so." "Is there a name for people who have those skills?" Mara asked. "Yes. Dangerous," I said. Mara rubbed her hands together as a gleam lit her eyes. "Oh, I like that. I want to be dangerous." | chronicles-of-ixia leif mara onora sitia valek yelena | Maria V. Snyder |