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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 168c555 | They will put that on my gravestone. 'Here lies Tinker, her heart was in the right place, but her foot was in her mouth and god knows where her brain went. | Wen Spencer | ||
| b98ceb3 | Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. | Wen Spencer | ||
| 04eb147 | Jillian had chosen their cutest dresses that made grown woman start talking in abnormally high voices. ("Oh, just look at you! Aren't you just so cute!" This wouldn't be so worrisome if it wasn't the same voice that women used with puppies.)" | Wen Spencer | ||
| 9ab7d3a | I do not let other people define me. I am who I am, and that is an intelligent and gracious human being. And as such, I do not drop to the level of bullies and trade insult for insult. | Wen Spencer | ||
| 87479a3 | In the nineteenth century, cholera struck the most modern, prosperous cities in the world, killing rich and poor alike, from Paris and London to New York City and New Orleans. In 1836, it felled King Charles X in Italy; in 1849, President James Polk in New Orleans; in 1893, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg. | Sonia Shah | ||
| 66d5794 | Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very luky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening. Tony Parsons, Man and Boy. | Benjamin Brooks-Dutton | ||
| 2d39c86 | Rouz je bila na mojoj strani onako kako niko nikada nije bio na mojoj strani. Rouz je bila dobrovoljac. Bilo joj je stalo do mene. Voleci me, ona me je oslobodila. Bio sam slobodan da budem ono sto jesam. Nije u meni videla samo coveka kakav jesam, nego i coveka kakav bi mogao da budem. Voleci me, ucinila je da poverujem da bi moji snovi mogli da postanu stvarnost. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 3699cf5 | Sometimes the fog in his eyes would clear, that fog caused by the pain and the killers of pain, and when it cleared, I saw regret and fear in those eyes swimming with tears and I was convinced that this was it, this was the end, this was surely the end. | dying illness | Tony Parsons | |
| 9859067 | What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever? And she told him. | Tony Parsons | ||
| d6d41c5 | Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?" | Tony Parsons | ||
| 261c21d | And it felt like every time I turned around, somebody was either dying or walking out. | Tony Parsons | ||
| bc01c37 | To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual abuse that occurred between the ages of 10 months and 12 years. Of those, 38 percent had forgotten the abuse. Of the remaining women who remembered, 16 percent reported that they had for a period of time forgotten but subsequently recovered their memories. [46] Thus, during that time a "false negative" .. | child-sexual-abuse elaine-showalter epidemics false-memories false-negatives feminists hysterical hysterics incest incestuous misleading pseudo-science pseudoscience recovered-memory repressed-memories repressed-memory sexual-abuse survivors trauma traumatic-stress women-survivors | Janet Walker | |
| 2bb2d5d | There is nothing in the entire American Psychological Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual that describes my shit. I have three degrees in psychology, and I still don't know what's wrong with me, other than the fact that I'm a bad psychologist, obviously. | B.B. Easton | ||
| 6f4b391 | American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior. | Peggy Orenstein | ||
| 6cb5df8 | Psychology's service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a "Faustian bargain." In this case, the price paid has been the American Psychological Association's collective silence, ethical "numbing," and, over time, historical amnesia. 3 Indeed, Lifton emphasizes that "the Nazis were not the only ones to involve doctors in evil"; in defense of this ar.. | cia cold-war collective-silence conspiracy-of-silence ethical-violations evil faustian-bargain human-rights-abuse human-rights-violations mind-control nazi-doctors psychological-manipulation selective-amnesia torture traumatic-amnesia unethical-treatment | Alfred W. McCoy | |
| afa2f04 | Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cousin. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 4fab3b8 | We did I think talk about your feeling of it's fun to be square, and while I'll go along with the Borges-like ramifications, I don't think I was the one who thought it up. In the past my justification for my self-conscious oddness of appearance (by now I figure this is the way I look, and it would not only be more self-conscious but also uncomfortable to change) was that people would think their impression of oddity came simply from the way.. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 0a2060d | I thought it was going to be different; It turned out to be(,) just the same. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 709091b | May I speak with his mother?" "Of course,follow me." The butler didn't go far,stopping at the door to the dining room to announce loftily, "Lady St. John has arrived, madam." Rebecca heard a testy tone, from inside the room. "Are you blind, Charles? I'm sitting right here." "The Lady St. John." | Johanna Lindsey | ||
| c2d64a2 | Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. | evolution | John Charles Chasteen | |
| c182ed8 | Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, part of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world... | Brian Froud | ||
| 0d7be9f | I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then -- dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways more exciting. The downtown music scene was exploding -- punk and folk music were everywhere -- and it wasn't as expensive to live there then, so a lot of young artists, musicians, writers, etc. etc. were all living and doing crazy things in scruffy neighbo.. | bordertown fantasy urban-fantasy ya young-adult young-adult-urban-fantasy | Terri Windling | |
| 10014eb | I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new books by and come out. (And, of course, books by , and , and the rest of the Bordertown crew!) I'm impatiently looking forward to | favorites interests reading | Terri Windling | |
| 20e07eb | In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming new industry of books published just for children. Casting about for cheap story material, English publishers laid hands on the subtle, sensual adult fairy tales of the Continental tradition and revised them into simpler stories instilled with Victorian values. Although these simplified versions retained mu.. | fairy-tales-for-adults feminism magical-stories stories | Terri Windling | |
| 15050a6 | It's my latest," Goldy concluded, "my best, and the one which the New York Times recently described as 'thrilling, sad, heartbreaking' and 'packs a huge wallop.' Entitled The Goldilocks Syndrome, it's currently available in the lobby at a today-only discount of $21.95. And if you act now, I'll sign and date this sucker at no extra charge." | Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | ||
| 39e4818 | I only laid the cobbles for the streets of Bordertown; it took all of us, an entire community, to bring the city to life. And that's as it should be. Community, friendship, art: stirred together, they make a powerful magic. Used wisely, it can save your life. I know that it saved mine. | Terri Windling | ||
| 5ef4883 | You're daft,' she said. 'Doan matter what you think of me,' he said generously. 'I'll never think less of you. | Pat O'Shea | ||
| f6a56a1 | Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know that when I die, that which is important will live on. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| e9dac6a | I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| c9918ef | The world is not static, and if the roots of our perceptions, traditions, hold static, then we are doomed, I say, into destructive dogma. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ceff97b | Your hunger blurs your ability, | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| df8f8db | It is easy to miss the possibility that every person who crosses your path can become an event and a memory, good or bad, to fill in the hours with experience instead of tedium, to break the monotony of the passing moments. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| cd67263 | Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair? | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 5e007f6 | Sensual pleasures are, or should be, the culmination of physical desires combined with an intellectual and emotional decision, a giving of oneself, body and spirit, in a bond of trust and respect. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 1dca6b3 | We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally. --Drizzt Do'Urden | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 24a4c5b | Ever were the rich folk, the pashas of Calimport, praised for their philanthropy, when in fact, the gold they so charitably gave actually cost them nothing in terms of their own standard of living. A poor woman might take in an orphaned boy, without fanfare, though the proportional cost was surely much higher. But, heigh-ho, all must cheer for those philanthropists! | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 3267067 | here have been many times in my life when I have felt helpless. It is perhaps the most acute pain a person can know, founded in frustration and ventless rage. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 15bb826 | This is my fear, of a life wasted, of a cause misbegotten, of a belief that is, in the end, an empty and unattainable ideal, the foolish designs of an innocent child who believed there could be more. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ba28404 | Magic is neither good nor evil. It merely is. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 876c8fb | There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 05de649 | I don't desire glory. Glory brings fame, and fame brings jealousy, and jealousy brings danger. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 474f3d2 | When I die ... may there be friends who will grieve for me, who will carry our shared joys and pains, who will carry my memory. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 4ed012a | do you love her" Wulfgar asked suddenly, and the drow was off his guard. "Of course I do," Drizzt responded truthfully. "As I love you, and Bruenor, and Regis." "I would not interfere-" Wulfgar started to say, but he was stopped by Drizzt's chuckle. "The choice is neither mine nor yours," the drow explained, "but Catti-brie's. Remember, what you had, my friend, and remember what you, in your foolishness, nearly lost." | friendship love | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 50e61f5 | How long lived our memory of you when you are gone? Because in the end, that is the only measure. In the end, when life's last flickers fade, all that remains is memory. Richness, in the final measure, is not weighed in gold coins, but in the number of people you have touched, the tears of those who mourn your passing, and the fond remembrances of those who continue to celebrate your life. --Drizzt Do'Urden | R.A. Salvatore |