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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16382e9 | english autumn mornings are often like mornings nowhere else in the world. The air is cold. The floorboards are cold. It is perhaps this coldness which sharpens the tang of the hot cup of tea. Outside, steps on the gravel crunch a little more loudly than a month ago because of the very slight frost | John Berger | ||
| 04f4335 | If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past. | John Berger | ||
| 1b6e848 | Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!" -- | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | ||
| 2c534a8 | Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD! | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | ||
| 1ec2f0b | there they laugh: they understand me not; I am not the mouth for these ears. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | ||
| 4bd0035 | The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick--how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however--is truth produced! | Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm | ||
| 5cf3a7a | This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image--an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:--thus did the world once seem to me. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | ||
| cfb270f | Alli, en su lugar secreto, sus sentimientos hervian dentro de el como un guisado en la lumbre; algunos eran tristes por su soledad, pero tambien habia rastros de felicidad. Poder ser su unico amigo en el mundo como ella lo era para el, le llenaba de satisfaccion. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| e617325 | The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 56135f7 | The moral, of course, is that you must always try to see other people's Point of View before you criticize anybody. Histories are crammed full of unkind things, silly things, and untrue things--why? Because so often the people who write them will not try to see or feel any Point of View but their own...So mind that you always look out for the Point of View and help people to see yours, too, if you want them to understand you. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| cd52d7e | Thinking about myself as a crazy, independent old woman made me feel almost happy. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 5f03242 | If you wanted to greet him or get his attention, you had to say: "Oh, Mr. Forest-Ranger-who-stands-in-the-tower-watching-out-for-forest fires!" If you abbreviated it, or, heaven help us, addressed him simply as "David," you would get no response." | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 298fbdc | Cows...weren't like people, with feelings of lonesomeness and worrying about what might happen next. That was just people, wasn't it? Sure, you could scare a cow, but wouldn't they get over it as soon as you let them be? They didn't stand around fretting about the next scare and the next and the next. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 0cf31b4 | Corre um boato por ai, que a linda menina que vem hoje, pode ser a rainha que eles estao esperando. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| ac6f0d5 |
Corria como si para ella fuera algo natural. Recordo el vuelo de los patos salvajes en otono. Igual de fluido y uniforme. Le vino a la cabeza la palabra < |
Katherine Paterson | ||
| 2b823e6 | You might not be aware of this, but it takes more than bright lights to damage a Marine. We've been highly trained to deal with loud noises, too. | Tanya Huff | ||
| d175e37 | Why is it the big, fukkin', friendly ones who die, Staff?" "They're not the only ones who die, Werst, it's just we miss them more than the short, fukkin', cranky ones." | Tanya Huff | ||
| e8ef458 | If she lost it, the whole house of cards could come tumbling down. Fortunately, she had no intention of losing it; it would take too damned long to find it again, and she didn't have that kind of time. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 98e15d7 | Fitzroy, what is this shit?" "Henry, please, not Fitzroy." | Tanya Huff | ||
| a84e241 | She'd followed him from the door to the condo into the tiny office even though he'd requested that she wait a minute in the living room. If he was going back to close his coffin, she had to see it. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 05e5f7d | Do we expect a fight, Gunnery Sergeant?" "We always expect a fight, Private Kichar. We're Marines; it's what we do." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 3dcd8dc | Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us." | identity power-in-a-name who-you-are | Tanya Huff | |
| bf73665 | In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence. | telephone | Ian Fleming | |
| d258fc1 | There is no need to fear," he said, "for you are here with me." | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| c7033a8 | married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. "I have my own fossils," -- | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 7a7fb0d | spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person's perspective. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 3f31a33 | Era un pensiero doloroso ma la verita lo e sovente. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 8a2506a | If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England. | trees | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 336f137 | nprsydm t chh Hd bry grftn yn Tl`t khwdsh r bh khTr ndkhth. zyr lb gftm, << mtshkhrm pytr. >> bry nkhstyn br bwd khh nmsh r br zbn awrdh bwdm. bh chshmnsh ngrystm w mhrbny r dr an h dydm. dr `yn Hl chyzy r tshkhyS ddm khh z an wHsht dshtm - twq`. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| cc03d06 | Life itself was far messier and didn't end so tidily with the heroine making the right match. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| f7b793d | While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 7076c42 | Oh, I was lucky, you know, to get anyone. I was what they called an old bride of twenty-six. Of course I married him. Everyone needs to keep something private from their family. Like a shutter in a rainstorm, banging against the window, I venture forth, retreat back, try afresh, retreat again. Nothing changes in my life and yet nothing is the same. That did not help, Ed knew as the words hung between them and he had that all-too-familiar se.. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| aba87dc | I leaned agains the warm brick wall and gazed up. It was a bright, cloudless day, the sky a mocking blue. It was the kind of day when children ran up and down the streets and shouted, when couples walked out through the town gates, past the windmills and along the canals, when old women sat in the sun and closed their eyes. My father was probably sitting on the bench in front of the house, his face turned towards the warmth. Tomorrow night .. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| bc8f63e | I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone's life so and did not easily carry its weight, as a man might have done. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 52e1e32 | The second he was gone the women began chattering like chickens at the sight of a fox. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 6855b57 | Yes, Mary Anning, you are different from all the rocks on the beach. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 770f1d6 | A firefly landed on Honor's sleeve and began walking up her shoulder, its tail still blinking. As she craned her neck to look down at it, Jack chuckled. "Don't be scared. It's just a lightning bug." He placed his finger in its path. Honor tried not to think about the pressure of his touch. When the firefly crawled onto his finger, he lifted it up and let it fly off, signaling its escape route with sparks of light." | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 7329115 | He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| a148253 | It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you. | unforgivable | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 907de11 | A person can do practically anything for a short time if he doesn't think he has to do it for life. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| d6b6302 | He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now. The plane gone, his family gone, all of it gone. They would not come. He was alone and there was nothing for him. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 069aa22 | He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The | Gary Paulsen | ||
| a0cca78 | about four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then because he knew. It had been a turtle. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 693db45 | It must have been a snapper | Gary Paulsen |