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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3554444 | Perhaps she was more like him than he'd thought: Her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer's ink. She probably felt as lost as he did in the real world. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| bd36cc0 | Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return, they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| b223d5f | It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| acc6ece | I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six." Of" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 5404a02 | Abenteuer kann man doch nicht planen wie Ballett oder so was. Die warten um die Ecke und - zack! - plotzlich sind sie da! | diewildenhühner kinderbuch | Cornelia Funke | |
| 6bf3b20 | In books I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come ... All things decay and pass with time ... all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 06609d0 | Was waren sie doch alle fur Schauspieler! Alle, wie sie dastanden. Aber was spielten sie? Das, was die anderen sehen wollten? Das, was sie selbst gern sein wollten? | die-wilden-hühner-und-die-liebe | Cornelia Funke | |
| a18a3f7 | More daunting for those who hope for scientific and social progress, the genetic argument is easily used to justify all kinds of inequalities and injustices that are otherwise hard to defend. It serves a deeply conservative function: if a phenomenon like addiction is determined mostly by biological heredity, we are spared from having to look at how our social environment supports, or does not support, the parents of young children and at ho.. | Gabor Maté | ||
| 3a5562c | Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown. | Louis Menand | ||
| bd2bb38 | Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 7b957a0 | When you leave a job, one of the hardest decisions you have to make on cleaning out your desk is what to do with the coffinlike cardboard tray holding 958 fresh-smelling business cards. You can't throw them out-- they and the nameplate and a few sample payroll stubs are proof to yourself that you once showed up at that building every day and solved complicated, utterly absorbing problems there; unfortunately, the problems themselves, though.. | work | Nicholson Baker | |
| 5fd4656 | Gerard Manley Hopkins somewhere describes how he mesmerized a duck by drawing a line of chalk out in front of it. Think of me as the duck; the chalk, softly wearing itself away against the tiny pebbles embedded in the corporate concrete, is Joyce's forward-luring rough-smooth voice on the cassettes she gives me. Or, to substitute another image, since one is hardly sufficient in Joyce's case, when I let myself really enter her tape, when I l.. | gerard-manley-hopkins mesmerism transcription | Nicholson Baker | |
| 0b458f2 | The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together up the hill and into the yard. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 561c5ca | Ambassador Noyes had another trait I had noticed in many slow-witted people: he was tremendously interested in philosophy. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 479b359 | Death rephrases the life of everyone who's near. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 32e1109 | sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 1d87e95 | Drunk people, loud people, obvious and angry people, people stammering and stumbling, spilling drinks and scarfing small burned sausages and cheese cubes on toothpicks. They had surrendered all power and direction, they they were yelling and gasping. They strengthened me. I did not want to be that way. I stood calmer, observing them. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 2b97a8f | We all know that a vast proportion of travel is accumulated nuisance; but if boredom or awfulness is handled with skill and concrete detail, it is funnier and truer than the sunniest prose. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 30d8df8 | In elk land tonen de treinen de essentiele kenmerken van de cultuur: Thaise treinen hebben de badkruik met de geglazuurde draak op de zijkant, de Ceylonese een wagen die gereserveerd is voor boeddhistische monniken, de Indiase een vegetarische keuken en zes klassen. De Iraanse hun bidmatjes, de Maleisische een noedelstalletje, de Vietnamese kogelvrij glas op de locomotief en in elk rijtuig van de Russische Spoorwegen staat een samovar. De s.. | reizen treinen treinreizen | Paul Theroux | |
| cdd5797 | Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it. | concentration gratitude travel | Paul Theroux | |
| 208ecc6 | It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot. --PAUL THEROUX, To the Ends of the Earth | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3696983 | Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said." | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f4e8bf7 | The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship. | Paul Theroux | ||
| c4d4e64 | A reader meeting another reader is an encounter of kindred spirits. The pleasure of such a joyous event is impossible to describe to a nonreader, and why would I bother? But you, with this book in your hand, are familiar with the phenomenon, and so it is not necessary. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 58254b7 | That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and bankers, however idealistic, were simply agents of subversion. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 985b2ab | I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird | Paul Theroux | ||
| 1d5ea78 | The dubious achievement in travel these days is enduring the persistent nuisance of a succession of airports in order to arrive at a distant place for a brief interlude of the exotic, | Paul Theroux | ||
| cae43ee | One of my luckiest instincts lay in being able to tell when I was happy-- at the time, not afterwards. Most people don't realize until long afterwards that they have passed through a period of happiness. Their enjoyment takes the form of reminiscence, and it is always tinged with regret that they had not known at the time how happy they were. But I knew, and my memory (of bad times too) was detailed and intense. | self-knowledge time | Paul Theroux | |
| aa1de33 | It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| c631cff | Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not. | the-magicians-apprentice trudi-canavan | Trudi Canavan | |
| 383fe13 | Our army is retreating. The Sachakans are following. They will be here soon. We must be ready. The servants are bringing horses." He paused and frowned at one of the apprentices. "Stop wating time asking stupid questions and see if your horse is here!" he snapped. He turned and pointed. "You! Arelenin. I can see someone bringing your horse. Yes, I'd hardly miss that ugly beast if it were on the other side of the country. Go and get it." | the-magicians-apprentice trudi-canavan | Trudi Canavan | |
| e71f4a5 | No solo mantengo conversaciones conmigo misma, sino que me niego a hablar conmigo. Deben de ser los primeros sintomas de la locura. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| d0c969f | There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly. | tessia trudi-canavan | Trudi Canavan | |
| db73e17 | It always seems easier to do nothing, when the harm is don elsewhere," Dakon said. "They know their young ones will either learn a lesson and limp home - or die and stop being a problem - or prove successful. The worst that could happen is a bit of a diplomatic hiccup in history." | the-magicians-apprentice trudi-canavan | Trudi Canavan | |
| 9eca07e | We have more in common than I thought, he mused wryly. He liked the idea that, if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support. It's always easier to become friends with someone you have something in common with. I just hope it doesn't take some socially disastrous fall before she'll consider the possibility I might be a friend. | the-magicians-apprentice trudi-canavan | Trudi Canavan | |
| bba74bf | The healers' university looked exactly as Tessia had imagined. Her father had described it as an 'old but strange building that has adopted and absorbed surrounding houses as opportunity and funds allowed'. It sounded confusing and intriguing, and it was. | the-magicians-apprentice trudi-canavan | Trudi Canavan | |
| 2f189fb | A friend. Cery's shoulders drooped. Closing his eyes, he let out a long sigh. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 9b3e6de | Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it--life begins in slime and ends in intelligence--whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." --HUSTON SMITH16 Some philosophers hold" | Ray Kurzweil | ||
| d11a7a8 | The rhythm of sunrise, the rhythm of sunset, filled her life. | Bessie Head | ||
| dc25632 | Because that's what privilege is-the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 02101bf | These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection. | erection jerk zombie | Tom Perrotta | |
| 115c73b | In the far corner of the yard, two squirrels raced up a tree trunk, their little feet scrabbling frantically on the bark. He couldn't tell if they were having a good time or trying to kill each other. | killing squirrells tree-trunk | Tom Perrotta | |
| a8c2d6b | Actually, he hadn't just complained; she'd come home from school one afternoon and found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters that he sometimes had trouble pulling it out. When she asked him what he was doing, he explained in a calm and serious voice that he was trying to kill the book before it killed him. | kill-the-book paperback-edition steak-knife | Tom Perrotta | |
| a27c469 | Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical. | Tom Perrotta |