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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e54b76 | I tapped a forefinger to my temple and raised my glass of single-vineyard Foxen Pinot. "Between here and here lies the Rubicon of the imagination." | Rex Pickett | ||
| 026b16a | Miles, it's only morning and you're already drunk." "No, I'm not," I weakly protested. "I'm just thirsty." | Rex Pickett | ||
| f63d362 | In tasting rooms I can never tell how tipsy I am. But once I'm outside, the awareness factor of my inebriation is greatly magnified. Everything looks and feels different. The surrounding flora seems to quiver. Colors are riotously iridescent. Sounds are louder; birds in the trees seem to mock you. All sense of reality is swamped. Anything out of the norm might happen! | Rex Pickett | ||
| 10d227d | Polypharmacology and curmudgeonliness were keeping her alive. | Rex Pickett | ||
| 6dc7470 | I snapped to consciousness with the incandescent realization that somewhere, deep in our dreams, or deep in unconsciousness, or deep in the afterlife, all conflicts and acrimonies are resolved. That it was consciousness that so unrelentingly afflicted us with suffering. | Rex Pickett | ||
| ef344e4 | I can't save a boy from a burning building. Instead he must save me from the attempt; he must jump to earth. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 4c22178 | Like the moon, I want to touch places just by looking. To tell new things at three in the morning, when we're | Anne Michaels | ||
| 2d03fe6 | I wish you hadn't told her. If you must know, I could have done without your telling her I commited statutory rape on the living room couch with her cousin." - Michael Curry" | Anne Rice | ||
| 76b5b6e | Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 65e67e9 | When you are alone -- at sea, in the polar dark -- an absence can keep you alive. | Anne Michaels | ||
| d1ee40a | automated voices and the bells from the row of testing machines in the back. The walls were white cinder block, the floors speckled linoleum. At the front desk were four large black ladies. Leigh Anne handed all the documents over to one of them, who took one look at them and said in a slow drawl, "Uh-uh. This school" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 38bdb21 | The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime. | wickedness | Gregory Maguire | |
| fd0c7e0 | What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get--the more specificity you harvest--the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0a793ff | from the short story The Honorary Shepherds)...you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5483d1b | Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine, he thought, and the nuances to be teased from its pages are nearly infinite in their variety and coquettish appeal. And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e4197cf | When have we required anything of you? Except to survive? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e6851ab | But the pinkness and whiteness of underskirts and camisoles, the frilliness of foundation garments, the rustle about the bustle and the fuss about the bust. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| c9173d6 | Death might be the only way forward for someone. Or it might seem so at the time | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 610ce95 | Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind." | history memories memory past thoughts words | Gregory Maguire | |
| d238469 | but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 79b3382 | Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3ff5c84 | Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?" he asked. "I have already learned not to speak to strangers." "Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond." "I am disinclined to know you." | sarcasm | Gregory Maguire | |
| 43313b1 | You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie!" | glinda help | Gregory Maguire | |
| 6100197 | Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| afbba13 | They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this." She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other." | glinda | Gregory Maguire | |
| d36b769 | Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?" | glinda good | Gregory Maguire | |
| 4d06a05 | I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 29fd8a4 | Die Wahrheit lasst sich nach Geschmack gestalten Denn Wahrheit ist, was alle dafur halten! | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 641e068 | We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 48138bb | Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| d6e436c | Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3d2bedc | Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 8dc7e7e | The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. Even a bowed mirror works primarily by engaging the eyes, and she who centers herself in its surface is unlikely to notice anyone in the background who lacks a certain status, distinction. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 4b0ead0 | but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?" the girl asked her. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 857a9ae | In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place. | sense-of-self | Gregory Maguire | |
| 9aae6f0 | Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone. | love move-on | Gregory Maguire | |
| 46ff6b5 | A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child--but what child isn't? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| c9a9d2f | Not everyone can fly by bubble ! | Gregory Maguire | ||
| dd3b919 | Oyle insansever, hayirsever gibi sozcukler kullanmam ben. Bence insan olmak demek tabiatta islenebilecek en igrenc cinayetleri islemeye muktedir olmak demektir. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| a6d2914 | Dogustan bir yetenegin varsa ya da dogustan iyilige egilimin varsa... Sonunda aklini kaciriyorsun. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| c1dc897 | The mister days that letters are the key, but even when you know the whole family, there's so many combinations you can make. And they break their word. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 72f78c1 | You have your own life to live, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 04d7085 | The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| be5dd39 | The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. | Gregory Maguire |