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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c40493b | There are things we can't change and we just have to accept that. And maybe that's some kind of grace. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 24418a1 | door slams open at 2:30am) | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 1423c7d | Those two make my mouth taste like throw up. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| b72bdd7 | That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity--when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other--it is then that we also recognize the face of God. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| c04fa8f | At the same moment when massive global institutions seem to rule the world, there is an equally strong countermovement among regular people to claim personal agency in our own lives. We grow food in backyards. We brew beer. We weave cloth and knit blankets. We shop local. We create our own playlists. We tailor delivery of news and entertainment. In every arena, we customize and personalize our lives, creating material environments to make m.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 2c10c4a | Sometimes critics decry spirituality as individualism, but they miss the point. Spirituality is personal, yes. To experience God's spirit, to be lost in wonder, is something profound that we can all know directly and inwardly. That is not a problem. The real problem is that, in the last two centuries, religion has actually allowed itself to become privatized. In the same way that our political and economic concerns contracted from "we" to ".. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 17aa47d | While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger. Unlike almost every other contested idea in early Christianity, including the nature of Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity, the unanimous witness of the ancient fathers and mothers was that hospitality was the primary Christian virtue. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 1e3ec38 | La nuit tombe, le jour se leve. Toujours. | Timothy Findley | ||
| a511d96 | Me?" said Bragg. "I'm not alive. Revived, from time to time - maybe. but not alive." Liar." Try me." You forget, Mister Bragg - Stu honey - Stuart darling - Bragg baby. I already have." They had almost reached their destination. Col said: "I don't have burn marks for nothing, my dear. I don't have these scars by chance. I'm covered with your fingerprints. Covered from head to toe and back again on the other side." You sound just like Minna,.. | Timothy Findley | ||
| b0da986 | Ede had been pregnant not quite the full term: eight months, two weeks, four days. She had lapsed into an extended silence - partly because she was still in mourning - still enraged and afraid of speech. And partly, too, because the child itself had taken up dreaming in her belly - dreaming and, Ede was certain, singing. Not singing songs a person knew, of course. Nothing Ede could recognize. But songs for certain. Music - with a tune to it.. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 0338a43 | Ima khora, chieto prezhiviavane na zhivota e tolkova razlichno ot nasheto sobstveno, che gi narichame ludi. Za chisto udobstvo. Narichame gi taka, za da se osvobodim ot poemaneto na otgovornost za tiakhnoto miasto v choveshkata obshchnost. I zatova gi izprashchame v priiuti, zatvariame gi, za da ne se vizhdat i chuvat, zad zakliucheni vrati. No za tiakh niama razlika mezhdu tova, koeto nie smiatame za s'nishcha i koshmari, i sveta, v koito .. | Timothy Findley | ||
| ce95bff | Ima stepeni na ludost, razbira se. Az otkrikh sledi v samiia sebe si, priznavam. - Toi makhna s r'ka. - No ludostta e silen zviar i ne mozhe da b'de ulovena v teorii. S vremeto se nauchikh ne samo da ne viarvam na teorii, no i aktivno da im se protivopostaviam. Faktite sa vazhni. I nie razpolagame samo s faktite za vsiaka individualna ludost. Obshchite teorii za ludostta se razkrivat kato se razkriva istinskata i priroda v'v vseki patsient,.. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 84cb421 | a beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade. * | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b71e1d0 | The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wondered whether she and Saeed had done anything by moving, whether the faces and buildings had changed but the basic reality of their predicament had not. | migration refugees violence | Mohsin Hamid | |
| b02ecd8 | Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent--admittedly in my own best interest--on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm. | memories relationships thoughts | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 21f1d57 | the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 8117098 | It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, (...), and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 74ac396 | Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops -- like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as . | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ba1ec1f | You have to have money these days. The roads are falling apart, so you need a Pajero or a Land Cruiser. The phone lines are erratic, so you need a mobile. The colleges are overrun with fundos who have no interest in getting an education, so you have to go abroad. And that's ten lakhs a year, mind you. Thanks to electricity theft there will always be shortages, so you have to have a generator. The police are corrupt and ineffective, so you n.. | earning money | Mohsin Hamid | |
| bd8d19a | Our coerced silence is the weapon that has been sharpened and brought to our throats. This is why Nawaz Sharif's statement in defence of Ahmadis met with such an angry response. Because the heart of the issue isn't whether Ahmadis are non-Muslims or not. The heart of the issue is whether Muslims can be silenced by fear. Because if we can be silenced when it comes to Ahmadis, then we can be silenced when it comes to Shias, we can be silenced.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 990c3ef | Wings that had been growing for years stretched and pushed and I found myself flying. | freedom | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 341df71 | and in any case Nadia had taken one look at Saeed's father and felt him like a father, for he was so gentle, and evoked in her a protective caring, as if for one's own child, or for a puppy, or for a beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 3d8a3c5 | Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 5e57170 | Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 911d968 | Sled obiad imakhme prakticheski uprazhneniia, prednaznacheni da ni zapoznaiat s kompiut'rni programi kato PowerPoint, Excel i Access. Za tozi kurs sediakhme v polukr'g okolo blag instruktor s vid na bibliotekar; Ueinrait tutaksi nareche meropriiatieto | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| a36a227 | Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ba629ab | Many parents were strict, and sometimes weeks would pass without us being able to meet those we thought of as our girlfriends. So we learned to savor the denial of gratification--that most un-American of pleasures!--and I for one could subsist quite happily on a diet of emails such as that which I have just described. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 9abde13 | Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians. Now our cities were largely unplanned, unsanitary affairs, and America had univ.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 61295fb | What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 0f4d07b | People often ask me if I am the book's Pakistani protagonist. I wonder why they never ask if I am his American listener. After all, a novel can often be a divided man's conversation with himself. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| f4796ee | He was drawn to people from their country, both in the labor camp and online. It seemed to Nadia that the farther they moved from the city of their birth, through space and through time, the more he sought to strengthen his connection to it, tying ropes to the air of an era that for her was unambiguously gone. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| cc4df43 | The privileged liberal position: "There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| fb668e9 | All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time. | home house life migrants migration people time | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 0aa81e7 | It's amazing what the gene pool will do to perpetuate itself. | life perpetuation procreation | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 3f6eaa5 | You learn a lot about your man when you become the mother of his child. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 0bd96cb | You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ca4023a | What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? | comebacks noir noir-fiction noir-style sam-spade witty | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 6911ac1 | Your playmates sent him?" I asked, nodding at the dead man. "I only talked to him with this," he said, patting the automatic on the bed, "but I reckon they did." "How did it happen?" "It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| bcd9912 | I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how. | Dashiell Hammet | ||
| 16d7026 | You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you? | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 6a8d985 | He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very. | red-harvest | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 024cee4 | She tilted her head to the right. "You didn't even tell me you had taken the case." "I had done what? Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I hadn't and haven't. My getting shot ought to prove I was an innocent bystander." "Does it hurt much?" "It itches. I forgot to have the dressing changed this afternoon." "Wasn't Nora utterly terrified?" "So was I and so was the guy that shot me. There's Halsey. I haven't spoken to him yet." | shot | Dashiell Hammett | |
| b1b7302 | What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow? | humor infidelity | Dashiell Hammett | |
| aad7166 | Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything? "She sent her love to you." Nora said: "Stop being nasty." | humor infidelity | Dashiell Hammett |