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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ca6f2a | From his heart, he thanks these young animals for their beauty. And they will never know what they have done to make this moment marvelous to him, and life itself less hateful.... | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 2c79c26 | there was terror in the Berlin air - the terror felt by many people with good reason - and Christopher found himself affected by it. Perhaps he was also affected by his own fantasies. He had always posed a little to his friends in England as an embattled fighter against the Nazis and some of them had encouraged him jokingly to do so. "Don't get killed before I come," Edward Upward had written, "I'll see you unless you've been shot by Hitler.. | nazis | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 9d8aab6 | They saw themselves as rear-guard individualists, making a last-ditch stand against the twentieth century. They gave thanks loudly from morn till eve that they had escaped the soul destroying commercialism of the city. They were tacky and cheerful and defiantly bohemian, tirelessly inquisitive about each other's doings, and boundlessly tolerant. When they fought, at least it was with fists and bottles and furniture, not lawyers. | soul | Christopher Isherwood | |
| a88664c | I took several long walks in the Wright and adjacent Taylor Valleys. I did not feel insignificant on these journeys, dwarfed or shrugged off by the land, but superfluous. It is a difficult landscape to enter, and to develop a rapport with. It is not inimical or hostile, but indifferent, utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof. | lanscape nature wisdom | Barry Lopez | |
| d82b8af | One emerging view of Homo sapiens among evolutionary biologists is that he has built a trap for himself by clinging to certain orthodoxies in a time of environmental emergency. A belief in cultural progress, for example, or in the propriety of a social animal's quest for individual material wealth is what has led people into the trap, or so goes the thinking. To cause the trap to implode, to disintegrate, humanity has to learn to navigate u.. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 2ab1f7e | To go in search of what once was is to postpone the difficulty of living with what is. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 1891d0c | We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes "the world" is something like a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics. Even if we .. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| f4f45ae | When people look at a dangerous violent criminal at the beginning of his developmental process rather than at the very end of it, they will see, perhaps unexpectedly, that the dangerous violent criminal began as a relatively benign human being for whom they would probably have more sympathy than antipathy. | criminals | Richard Rhodes | |
| 4fafa7f | During the same period Szilard wrote Michael Polanyi he would "stay in England until one year before the war, at which time I would shift my residence to New York City."896 The letter provoked comment, Szilard enjoyed recalling; it was "very funny, because how can anyone say what he will do one year before the war?" As it turned out, his prognostication was off by only four months: he arrived in the United States on January 2, 1938." | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 6101598 | Jesli chce pan wiedziec, to zlorzeczylem Bogu, ze mnie zostawil. Czyz nie modlilem sie zawsze, jak nalezy? Nie wierzylem w Niego? Gdzie wiec byl wtedy... kiedy naprawde Go potrzebowalem? | Graham Masterton | ||
| a4a45a1 | Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser | Graham Masterton | ||
| 6aeaee6 | It's bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don't be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all. | Graham Masterton | ||
| a8479fd | The way to avoid the tragedies of the past is not to let them happen to begin with. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 52b7fee | Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the life everlasting is true, why can it be achieved only through death, through grief, and through agony? What kind of God is it who gives us the world and everything in it, and the capabiliiy of loving so fiercely, and then takes it all away? | Graham Masterton | ||
| 9317964 | Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it silently locked up inside themselves. They sob because they realise, one day, that they were born on a planet of men, and that short of death or spinsterhood they can never escape. Effie's Aunt Rachel used to say, 'Even the slaves could run away, but where can women go? | sobbing women | Graham Masterton | |
| a249612 | she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give a shit for anything. | women women-s-strength | Graham Masterton | |
| a96fcc6 | It is much better to look for what I may never find than to find what I do not really want. | Norton Juster | ||
| 60d237c | mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly." "How do you see something that isn't there?"... "sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are"..." | sight vision | Norton Juster | |
| cf7b576 | they never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for | look seeing slowness | Norton Juster | |
| 5cd8006 | Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not. | Norton Juster | ||
| 28b6b22 | What kind of a place is Expectations?" inquired Milo,unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity. "Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not." | Norton Juster | ||
| 468f97c | I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me. | Norton Juster | ||
| 7acd7f2 | Very serious, very serious. You can't get in without a reason. | Norton Juster | ||
| 4635d2e | Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. | Norton Juster | ||
| 727ad11 | So many things are possible just as long as you know they aren't impossible. | Norton Juster | ||
| 133fdd6 | I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock." | Norton Juster | ||
| 093fec2 | Ali zar u buci nema i dobrih zvukova? | Norton Juster | ||
| 3f9690b | As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we'd never get nothing done." "You mean you'd never get anything done," corrected Milo. "We don't want to get anything done," snapped another angrily; "we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help." | Norton Juster | ||
| 1542d1b | Lord Sedgecroft--" "Ssh. It isn't polite to interrupt me when I'm kissing you." | Jillian Hunter | ||
| fcd1975 | Long live tomorrow's foolish whims. | Jillian Hunter | ||
| f258243 | A god in the hand is worth two on Olympus. | Jillian Hunter | ||
| acd72f1 | Heath slid two fingers beneath Adrian's white neckcloth to feel his pulse. "In that case, I can state with complete confidence that he shall be all right." "Then why isn't he moving?" she asked in a distraught voice. Heath smiled. "Ask him." She looked down into a pair of hazel eyes smoldering with unholy mirth. Adrian's lean cheek pressed into the curve of her breast. A wolf, indeed." | Jillian Hunter | ||
| 1c7b51b | All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything. Everyone was so full of crap. | drama girls society | Blake Nelson | |
| b1131fa | E o que tem os segredos, acabam por nos enlouquecer. Mas enlouquecem-nos mesmo. Isolam-nos dos outros. Separam-nos da nossa tribo. Acabam por nos destruir. A nao ser que uma pessoa seja forte. A nao ser que uma pessoa seja muito, muito forte. | Blake Nelson | ||
| ccfdcf0 | It's so weird being straight. You have no defenses. Shit happens and you have to feel it. You have no choice. | Blake Nelson | ||
| b2a9de1 | I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it turns out. Who knew? | Blake Nelson | ||
| 017e2b7 | She had no place on this earth. There was no place where she was comfortable, no place she could relax, no place where she felt safe. | Blake Nelson | ||
| 2baa764 | It's like we've entered a separate reality. Like now it's just the two of us, nothing else matters, no one exists. | Blake Nelson | ||
| dcce8d6 | But I let myself love him anyway. I let myself love him with all my heart. I give myself that. I tell myself I deserve it. | Blake Nelson | ||
| 3622727 | Boys shouldn't know what power they have. They would panic probably, or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents, or your teachers, or your "future." You give yourself to a boy. And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end." | Blake Nelson | ||
| b4654d8 | Those people who look so together. They're as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You're as smart as any of them. | Blake Nelson | ||
| 58f1181 | Funny," [Antryg] said, "if you're a mage, they always ask you to read the future, as if knowing it will help. I think three-fourths of all prayers prayed are for two and two not to equal four." | Barbara Hambly | ||
| d6e8577 | The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who'll see it on the screen. It's like the people who read and because it's in Russia they can say, 'Oh, that's not my pain they're talking about.' And Chris is tough. She goes from one thing to the next and doesn't worry about the past. When a cat sits mere purring on your lap, you know for a fact she isn't thinking about her form.. | fiction mystery suspense | Barbara Hambly | |
| fed2da0 | If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. | self-knowledge sense-of-self travel | James Baldwin |