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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf186fb | And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal | wish-you-well | David Baldacci | |
| 4863f81 | They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0f95cda | Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head. | wish-you-well | David Baldacci | |
| 17d74e0 | It was not known precisely how many labor camps there were in North Korea, although the international consensus was six. The fact that they were numbered and those numbers reached at least as high as twenty-two was an indicator of their pervasiveness. At least two hundred thousand North Koreans, or nearly one percent of the entire population, called these labor camps home. | David Baldacci | ||
| 2996dca | Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. | David Baldacci | ||
| c8913aa | In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone. | bad good | David Baldacci | |
| 8871408 | What grade does she teach?" "Eighth. Where kids make the jump from nice, innocent kids to something a lot more complicated and emotional drama runs deep and hormones are out of control. Some days she comes home looking like she got hit by a bus." "In my book, all teachers are underpaid," said Decker." | David Baldacci | ||
| 0a99e29 | You fought for the flag and country you represented. But you really fought for the guy beside you. | David Baldacci | ||
| bf5ee6a | Justice. It wasn't about the greater good. It was about what was right and wrong on an individual basis. Person by person. Because if you neglected the people, the idea of a greater good was a pipe dream created by those whose idea of the "greater good" almost always tended to favor themselves and people like them." | David Baldacci | ||
| 4cb26e3 | They were not rich. They were not powerful. They were truly the forgotten. | David Baldacci | ||
| dcac207 | No, a nightmare is what's coming for the rest of these assholes. | David Baldacci | ||
| 44121b7 | Lying caused a physiological reaction that cut the flow of blood to the capillaries located at the end of the nose. It caused a tingling feeling that usually made the liar rub at the spot. | David Baldacci | ||
| 6aa7411 | That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past. Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future. | king-maxwell michelle-maxwell sean-king the-future the-past | David Baldacci | |
| 4ee74f1 | for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities. | David Baldacci | ||
| 36b215d | Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison. | David Baldacci | ||
| 4d2ecc7 | An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. | Betty Smith | ||
| 217fbe5 | Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt. | Betty Smith | ||
| 675089f | But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things - or as a compromise, re-live rather than reminisce. | betty-smith francie | Betty Smith | |
| 982e9bf | But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again. | betty-smith francie | Betty Smith | |
| a982183 | The tears stood in her eyes. | betty-smith | Betty Smith | |
| 153668b | She had born a child but two hours ago. She was so weak that she couldn't lift her head an inch from the pillow, yet it was she who comforted him and told him not to worry, that she would take care of him. | Betty Smith | ||
| e695bd2 | I don't know," Miss Lizzie said. "Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be...safe." She waited until the next scream died away. "At least she knows she's living." -- | Betty Smith | ||
| f07b6a4 | Johnny had been on earth for thirty-four years. Less than a week ago, he walked on those streets. And now the cup, the ring and two unironed waiter's aprons at home were the only concrete objects left to connote that a man had once lived. There were no other physical reminders of Johnny, as he had been buried in all the clothes he owned with his studs and his fourteen-carat gold collar button. | Betty Smith | ||
| 0cb08d3 | Gently, Teacher explained the difference between a lie and a story. A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was; you told it like you thought it should have been. | Betty Smith | ||
| 95ab755 | the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2e4c28d | She did not hate Miss Garnder anymore. She didn't like her, but she felt sorry for her. Miss Garnder had nothing in all the world excepting a sureness about how right she was. | Betty Smith | ||
| cc07141 | They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel. | inspirational women | Betty Smith | |
| b653109 | Flossie was always running after men and they were always running away from her. Francie's Aunt Sissy ran after men, too. But somehow they ran to meet her halfway. | Betty Smith | ||
| 8c7164e | Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man any more and they are waiting for him to die. But he don't want to die. He wants to keep on living even though he's so old and there's nothing to be happy about any more. | Betty Smith | ||
| 31251bb | Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that would be Socialism," concluded Johnny triumphantly, "and we don't want that over here." "Why?" "Because we got democracy and that's the best thing there is," clinched Johnny." | Betty Smith | ||
| f61e5b4 | I don't need to drink to get drunk. I can get drunk on things like the tulip---and this night. | Betty Smith | ||
| dab21ff | She looked at the nurse. To Francie, all women were mamas like her own mother and Aunt Sissy and Aunt Evy. She thought the nurse might say something like: "Maybe this little girl's mother works and didn't have time to wash her good this morning," or, "You know how it is, Doctor, children will play in dirt." But what the nurse actually said was, "I know. Isn't it terrible? I sympathize with you, Doctor. There is no excuse for these people li.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 1d3f963 | And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people... | fairytales legends | Betty Smith | |
| 650696c | Don't say that. It's not better to die. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there from the grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. | Betty Smith | ||
| 51a364a | The baby Francie crowed with delight as her grandmother held up the cruet and the sun shone through it and made a small fat rainbow on the opposite wall. Mary smiled with the child and made the rainbow dance. "Schon! Schon!" she said. "Shame! Shame!" repeated Francie and held out her two hands." | Betty Smith | ||
| c967d6c | Good-bye, Francie | Betty Smith | ||
| 1492cf0 | I wait for death with the courage I gained from living. | Betty Smith | ||
| 616cbfb | This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to came to this. Of course, some of these girls will marry; marry men who have the same kind of life. What will they gain? They'll gain someone to hold conversations within the few hours at night b.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 6e32804 | But there was no music in the children. Evy took the bull by the horns. They would have to love music whether they wanted to or not. If talent wasn't born in them, maybe it could be shoved in at so much per hour. | Betty Smith | ||
| c674fbf | the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge. | Betty Smith | ||
| 299d236 | Last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself | Betty Smith | ||
| 266ec6c | It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. | emotions rich-character suffering truth | Betty Smith | |
| 3c9e0d4 | Poor people have a great passion for huge quantities of things. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5b3d9ef | That is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child--even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and cannot sound the words properly. You must do this that the child will grow up knowing of what is great--knowing that these tenements of Williamsburg are not the whole world." "The Protestant Bible and Shakespeare." | Betty Smith |