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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f806325 | Choices. That's what made a man. Wasn't it? | Libba Bray | ||
| 99e4926 | This is the first family dinner I ever had," she said. "The first of many," Evie promised." | theta-knight | Libba Bray | |
| 7b4bc81 | don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!" | Libba Bray | ||
| 7bfb78a | Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petits fours melting under the July sun. | Libba Bray | ||
| f9da697 | The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked. "You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd." | Libba Bray | ||
| bf3fab8 | It was late; I'd been sleeping. I woke up to the sound of him crying. The ward was dark, with only the light from the nurses' station bleeding in. 'Kid,' he said to me, and his voice... his voice was like a ghost. Like that part of him had already died and had come back for the rest. 'Kid, this is worse than Topeka.' He told me that once, in the war, he'd come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lyin.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 82ad938 | And farther still, in the vast prairies mythologized in the American mind, a figure stood shadowed in the dark, biding his time, a scarecrow awaiting harvest. | Libba Bray | ||
| 0cac3aa | I am a lot of things, not all of them noble. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8cdf185 | You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. | Libba Bray | ||
| 265b93c | You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really - taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a precious balance, it's a wonder we do it at all. | Libba Bray | ||
| be8ff54 | A bonfire billowed up. Some in the crowd tossed copies of Ladybird's book into the fire while a librarian pleaded with them not to do that and grabbed a fire extinguisher.* *Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize. | librarians | Libba Bray | |
| 1eb0cd3 | Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? | Libba Bray | ||
| fe03c8f | she was sure that all those things she'd been taught abut feeling shame were wrong. It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be. | Libba Bray | ||
| a8ac249 | I know because I read. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7c64888 | Nobody's killing any cats." Miss Lillian glowered. "It's what we've always done." "Yeah, well, I'm changing how things are done." Miss Lillian started to protest, but Miss Addie cut her off. "Very well. We could stand to change." | lillian-proctor theta-knight | Libba Bray | |
| 257083b | Imagine living each day and not being able to trust your own mind. Imagine having it lie to you, trick you, tell you you're worthless or that the world would be better off without you in it. It would be like... like always hearing an awful radio playing inside your head, one that you can't seem to turn off. | Libba Bray | ||
| cc180f1 | Evie yanked him to safety by the edge of his shirt, ripping it. "Thanks. You owe me a shirt," Sam said. "You owe me twenty dollars." | sam-lloyd | Libba Bray | |
| cec84d1 | inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4562129 | Theta sat next to Memphis and watched Mr. and Mrs. Chan laughing about some private joke. They were a mixed couple, and they were happy. No one seemed to be bothering them. But they were also here in the few blocks of Chinatown. What happened when they crossed Canal Street into the rest of the city? What happened when they went out into the rest of the country? | Libba Bray | ||
| c4f496f | Theta's hand slid just slightly toward Memphis's. He inched his forward, too, just grazing the tips of her fingers with his. | Libba Bray | ||
| 09ba824 | You see, Mr. Phillips, the truth of it is, I am so very American." She slapped the pen down on the onerous paper and slid them both toward her boss. "And that is precisely why I can't--no, why I refuse to sign this." | Libba Bray | ||
| 60a0838 | The citizens rise and wash, shave and brush. They don stockings and dresses, pants, shirts, and suspenders. They button up their need. Affix their aspirations. Tuck histories neatly inside drawers, creating themselves as they go, a rhapsody of reinvention. | Libba Bray | ||
| 88c8ef1 | Did she just say they'd drag the river for your body?" T. S. Woodhouse asked, his pencil poised above his open notebook. Sam sighed like a man deeply in love. "She did, the little bearcat. It's the only defense that poor, helpless girl's got against the animal pull of our love. Uh, you can quote me on that." | Libba Bray | ||
| 5227cb2 | You two must be very happy." "Over the moon. Who'd've thought a regular schmoe like me could land a gem like Baby Doll here," Sam said." | Libba Bray | ||
| 5592e2a | I am beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and teachers and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us. | Libba Bray | ||
| d7017ed | Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared. | Libba Bray | ||
| 509f8d6 | New York is a city short on patience, cleanliness, clement weather, and citizens who hold faint opinions. It is not a city short of people trying to make a career of being famous, no matter what the opportunity. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4bf5284 | People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7ee2e85 | Well, I mean, all the best people have a little beast in them. | Libba Bray | ||
| ea6d112 | It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8ac0647 | But this time she'd done everything right and they were leaving her anyway. You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7334e39 | It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be. | Libba Bray | ||
| 9fcea55 | I get it' Dani said, suprising me. 'When you watch one of these old movies in a place like this, you're connected to everybody else who's ever watched it. You can practically feel them around you.'" Libba Bray" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e8398f7 | For a man to know what he has when he has it, that is what makes him a fortunate man. Fyodorov | Ann Patchett | ||
| 3596dc7 | To be truly brave, I believe a person has to be more than a little stupid. If you knew how hard or how dangerous something was going to be at the onset, chances are you'd never do it, so if I went back I would never be able to leave again. Now that I knew what leaving meant. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 7698fa6 | The President's unwavering devotion to his television set was so potentially embarrassing his cabinet would gladly have traded it in for an indiscreet mistress. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 960308b | have never subscribed to the notion of "writing what you know," at least not for myself. I don't know enough interesting things." | Ann Patchett | ||
| 3d04fd7 | whenever possible, you need to go to the primary source to make your decisions. Regardless of whether or not you're a student, it is never enough to rely on other people's ideas. You have to look at the thing itself and make up your own mind. That's what it means to study and to learn. Some secondary sources proclaim their points of view so loudly and with such passion you might be tempted just to take their word for it. You might be tempte.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6216c93 | They were lined with the pelts of cast-off teddy bears. There was no vanity in winter. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 11d6237 | Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. --Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending | Megan Hart | ||
| 59fe072 | When Teresa was told that she had lost summers, she made a point to curse and weep, but she wondered silently if she hadn't just been handed the divorce equivalent of a Caribbean vacation. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 0f548aa | Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement. | running | Ann Patchett | |
| d9c0b64 | At home, the puppy Rose played with balls, struggled with the stairs, and slept behind my knees while we watched in adoration. It's not that I was unhappy in what I now think of as "the dogless years," but I suspected things could be better. What I never could have imagined was how much better they would be. Whatever holes I had in my life, in my character, were suddenly filled. I had entered into my first adult relationship of mutual, unco.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| b781546 | She caught herself then. Such babble! Teresa was shocked by the roaming idleness of her mind, as if she were sifting through trash on the side of the freeway and was stopped, enchanted, by every foil gum wrapper. She came back for a single breath but found herself reflecting on the bean salad they'd had for dinner, some kind of pink beans in there she hadn't seen since childhood. She couldn't remember what they were called. Her mother would.. | Ann Patchett |