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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fa8135f | Her big green eyes drove all conventional greetings clean out of his mind. Oh, what the hell? he thought savagely, and bent his head to kiss her. 'G-Giovanni!' The suitcase fell uselessly from her hand and her fingertips went straight up to his shoulders, biting into the sensually scented leather with an abandon which gathered momentum with each thrust of his tongue as he kissed her with shameless abandon. | Sharon Kendrick | ||
| 54a54f2 | In her mind's eye, they seemed to glimmer until the connections had so many ties that the world appeared to be brighter. It was a golden light in her mind. | light ocean summer sunset world | Sharon Brubaker | |
| 0f41a21 | were trying to tell the dumb blonde to close her mouth, but the woman clearly took her hair color very seriously. | humor | Sharon Green | |
| ccae563 | The Relics" I slipped them into my friend's palm -- the tiny crucifix, and dove, from off my mother's pendant watch -- and I asked her to walk them up through the brush toward timberline, and find a place to hurl them, for safekeeping. Now, she writes, "I walked up the canyon at dusk, warm, with a touch of fall blowing down the canyon, came to an outcrop, above a steep drop -- far below, a seasonal creek, green willows. I stood on a bould.. | Sharon Olds | ||
| 8d9b168 | You tried so hard to give your kid food that was healthy, she thought. The soy cheese pizza. The organic peas and broccoli and baby carrots. The smoothies. The hormone-free milk. The leafy greens. You kept processed food to a minimum, threw Halloween candy out after a week. Never let him eat the icies they sold in the park, because they had red and yellow dye in them. And then you gave him this? | psychiatric-drugs psychiatry psychotropic | Sharon Guskin | |
| a093b07 | Different groups in the [Middle East] drew two lessons from [return of the shah in Iran] - one, that Americans were willing to use both force and intrigue to install or restore their puppet rulers in Middle Eastern countries; the other, that they were not reliable patrons when these puppets were seriously attacked by their own people, and would simply abandon them. The one evoked hatred, the other contempt - a dangerous combination. Clearly.. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| d4e0f71 | Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily. For seventy-five years, from 1885 to 1960, Congo's population had marinated in humiliation. No malevolent witch-doctor could have devised a better preparation for the coming of a second Great Dictator. | Michela Wrong | ||
| cc02598 | As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself. | Philip Caputo | ||
| 2f7a8d4 | Nina said, "Have regular facial expressions." That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of bad moods." | Norman Rush | ||
| 053c798 | By the time James had dressed and made his way down to the Great Hall for breakfast, it was nearly ten o'clock. Less than a dozen students could be seen moving disconsolately among the detritus of the morning's earlier rush. At the far corner of the Slytherin table, Zane sat hunched and squinting under a beam of sunlight. Across from him was Ralph, who saw James enter and waved him over. | G. Norman Lippert | ||
| be0de84 | Now everything was going to be impossible, but better. | Norman Rush | ||
| 9d561ab | And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves--the subtle bodies inside--were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that ... that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of what they were to be ... | Norman Rush | ||
| 870811d | He was mixing up friendship with acts and atmospheres from the deluded matrix the boys had lived in for a heartbeat in the seventies. She thought, I am your friend, you idiot, and I let you into my perfect body, for Christ's sake. | Norman Rush | ||
| b9739ea | like the roses and begonias they seemed to take and hold the richly filtered evening light. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| f057bb9 | He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories. | memories | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 56a0d0f | And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in pale blue trunks that I rather liked the look of. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 6be3867 | 'Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 279ceb2 | There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism | conservatism politics | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 3c62a40 | Something happened when you looked in the mirror together. You asked it, as always, a question, and you asked each other something too; and the space, shadowy but glossy, the further room in which you found yourself, as if on a stage, vibrated with ironies and sentimental admissions. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 18426f8 | No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 1121f49 | I was glad that it rained. Not just a drizzle but big furious drops that lashed against us and danced at our feet. Our discomfort seemed somehow appropriate, all of us standing there with tears and rain washing down our taut faces, overcome by so many names. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 3d34b8c | From my bed I can see the moon tonight, so bright and ripe and salmon pink it looks as if it might drop from the sky. I imagine pirates on deck just before sunrise with the wood groaning and the moonlight streaking across the water in a straight line from the horizon. Did Caesar see the moon exactly so as he strode down the Roman Forum on the way to some debaucherous celebration? And what about Moses and Galileo and some wretched young Lond.. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 9f76051 | Maybe our relationships--love--can save us, at least enough so that our lives are finally worthwhile, even with all the rotten misery and dying. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 2a8fc51 | the best poems were like little vessels that carry messages that can't be transported in any other way; miniature worlds like tiny paintings or Faberge eggs. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 3557c1c | So can you say life is senseless and cruel or you can make a stand and try to impose your own meaning and values on it? | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 2456782 | Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think? | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 741df0e | Am avut intodeauna o proasta cenestezie:nu imi e bine in pielea mea.De unde si nevoia de euforizante sau de bautura... Sa te lasi in voia vietii.Sa te lasi purtat,sa te lasi ca pluta pe apele duratei,sa te lasi in voia vietii si astfel,poate,sa ajungi in stare a te lasa sa mori.Minima rezistenta. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| b4d9f81 | Totul e o povara.Oare ce nu ma impovareaza? | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 933a811 | Cel care scrie a doua oara Werther este un farseur care stie Werther pe dinafara si-l transcrie, din memorie. Asa si situatia literara a Romaniei: repeta, mai prost. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 133ece2 | Ei si?", citat din d. Nae Ionescu" | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 4b9e1cc | Un medecin consciencieux doit mourir avec le malade s'ils ne peuvent pas guerir ensemble. Le commandant d'un bateau perit avec le bateau, dans les vagues. Il ne lui survit pas. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 7f13757 | ANGELFOOD NNAA NNM NWNWNW V | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 80d9bf3 | I'm looking for a monophysite priest to marry our maid. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 689592d | Nefericire cel ce vrea sa-si pastreze originalitatea! Ei bine, asta e. Am sa ma apar impotriva tuturor! Pusca, unde mi-e pusca? (Se intoarce cu fata catre capetele de rinoceri din fundal si striga) Am sa ma apar impotriva lumii intregi, ma voi apara! Sunt ultimul om si voi ramine asa pina la cea din urma suflare! Nu ma dau batut! | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 659fd8d | JEAN: Visezi de-a-mpicioarelea! BERENGER: Dar eu stau jos. JEAN: Jos sau in picioare-i tot aia! BERENGER: Eh. nu... totusi e-o diferenta! JEAN: Nu-i vorba de asta. BERENGER: Pai tu ai spus ca-i totuna de-i jos sau in picioare... JEAN: Nu m-ai inteles. Atunci cind visezi e totuna daca visezi asezat sau in picioare!... BERENGER: Ei bine, da, visez... Viata e vis... | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 57e445b | Atunci, stimata doamna, cred ca nu mai incape nici o indoiala, ne-am mai vazut, iar dumneavoastra sunteti chiar sotia mea. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| da5a3f0 | MR. SMITH: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [Silence.] MR. MARTIN: Don't you feel well? [Silence.] MRS. SMITH: No, he's wet his pants. [Silence.] MRS. MARTIN: Oh, sir, at your age, you shouldn't. [Silence.] MR. SMITH: The heart is ageless. [Silence.] | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| a252424 | O critica ,,negativa" se realizeaza stralucitor pe luciditati marunte. Lucrul acesta il stia pana si Titu Maiorescu: cita cazul omului de bun-simt care s-a revoltat ca poetul compara ochii iubitei cu doua stele, caci este absurd sa gasesti o asemanare intre ochii mari, negri si stelele mici, argintii." | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 35c8ab7 | Vorbitul a tout propos si hors de propos dupa modelul lui Paul Sterian, Ion I. Cantacuzino sau Emil Cioran este foarte hazardat si trebuie neaparat sustinut de gratia primului, silueta impozanta a secundului sau de naivitatea teribila a celui de al treilea. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 7845924 | POMPIERUL: Nu vreti sa va spun niste povesti? DOAMNA SMITH: Vai, cum sa nu, sunteti o comoara. (il imbratiseaza.) DOMNUL SMITH, DOAMNA MARTIN, DOMNUL MARTIN: Da, da, povesti, bravo, bravo! (Aplauda.) POMPIERUL: Interesant e ca povestile pompierilor sunt toate adevarate si traite. POMPIERUL: Vorbesc despre lucruri pe care le-am trait pe pielea mea. Realitatea si numai realitatea. Nimic din carti. DOMNUL MARTIN: Asa e, nu in carti gasesti ade.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| fde6b1b | POMPIERUL: Hai sa va zic alta. Cocosul. ,,intr-o buna zi, un cocos a vrut sa faca pe cainele. Numai ca n-a avut noroc, a fost imediat recunoscut." DOAMNA SMITH: Da, dar cainele care a vrut sa faca pe cocosul n-a fost recunoscut niciodata." | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 6bba8a4 | cred ca marii poeti contimporani ai lui Homer il dispretuiau pe acesta si cred ca Iliada nu interesa atunci cum nu intereseaza (decat cu interesul estetic diminuat al d-lui Vianu) nici astazi. Marii poeti ai acelor vremuri au murit astazi. Chiar daca astazi am descoperi manuscrisele lor, semn al genialitatii lor, nu le-am putea intelege si reabilita, caci au murit, cu sensurile lor, cu ultimele lor vibrari. (...) Caci nu vedeti ca totul se .. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 3882105 | DOAMNA SMITH, Pompierului: Inca una, capitane. POMPIERUL: Oh, nu, e prea tarziu. DOMNUL MARTIN: Spuneti totusi. POMPIERUL: Sunt prea obosit. DOMNUL SMITH: Haideti, de dragul nostru. DOMNUL MARTIN: Va rog. POMPIERUL: Nu. DOAMNA MARTIN: Aveti o inima de gheata. Ne-ati pus pe jar. DOAMNA SMITH, cade la picioarele lui, plangand sau nu: Va implor. POMPIERUL: Fie. DOMNUL SMITH, la urechea Doamnei Martin: A acceptat! Iar o sa ne plictisim. DOAMNA .. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 099afd7 | Englezul si-n casa goala e ca la curtea regala. | Eugène Ionesco |