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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0125f2e | all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e4c983c | I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c83c067 | The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 6dc11b6 | Then I felt like having a piss and I did that | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 1395c2c | my only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 9949418 | I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 8e2cd8a | It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 5bac01b | The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| f374591 | she wasn't a feminist. She was an "equalist." | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| b862108 | Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 628e05f | didn't seem to be the nickname sort. Beautiful people rarely were. 'Let's | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 1cf5c3b | He believed there was nothing essentially unAmerican about greed or lust--hey, those qualities were encouraged everywhere from Wall Street to Capitol Hill. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| ffa4fcb | Time transcends morality | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| bb1c062 | The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 17dcfcb | Family is about love and affection but about friction and separation, too. Yet, with work and luck, the distances--geographic and emotional--can be shrunk, even made to vanish. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| c5fb2f5 | People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| a85c9e4 | The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 1ea3f12 | eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 20edca7 | If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?" | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 75bfc67 | You know what he was telling me just the other day?" "What?" "Korea, right, you'd think it was tea, tea, tea. Like China and Japan. But the last emperor of Korea, his name was Sunjong, the nineteen twenties, he loved the West and always had coffee at the palace. He and his father would sit around drinking coffee and talking about world affairs. Word got around and the citizens began to drink coffee. They liked to do what their emperor does... | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 34db5fa | It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day." | life-lesson little-things | Jeffery Deaver | |
| 6b37934 | You know, Lincoln, my father always said you can never trust anybody when they answer a question with a question. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 0907fbb | Islands--of times when you're content, you don't think about the loss. Now it's like your world's underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water'll be there always but you'll find dry land | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 54b25a8 | Love, Colter Shaw had learned, could be an endlessly refillable prescription of madness. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| bab9581 | George Williams, the revered evolutionary biologist, describes the natural world as "grossly immoral." Having no foresight or compassion, natural selection "can honestly be described as a process for maximizing short-sighted selfishness." On top of all the miseries inflicted by predators and parasites, the members of a species show no pity to their own kind. Infanticide, siblicide, and rape can be observed in many kinds of animals; infideli.. | idyllic-view natural-selection predation wild-animal-suffering | Steven Pinker | |
| 14f61d0 | and do you know what?" "What?" "People don't talk about anything." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7f8e032 | You who walk the earth know only the moment, which is whisked away with your next exhalation. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e9b3589 | She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2464daa | More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and super organize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3b74989 | His destiny is in his genes. He can no more ignore this call, this summons, than he can ignore the beating of his heart. So it is with Man's becoming more than he now is. Not Superman, assuredly, for that name has been contaminated with misuse. But a creature with a superb destiny. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b38efef | I think of her hands but I don't see them doing anything at all. They just hang there at her sides or they lay there on her lap or there's a cigarette in them, but that's all. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7fc6502 | The girl? She was a time bomb. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| be219bb | This is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes we take what we value for granted. There | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1d30f8a | It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b9107a1 | And we lived in a world that was evil. A world that was like a great black ship pulling away from the shore of sanity and civilization, roaring its black horn in the night, taking two billion people with it, whether they wanted to go or not, to death, to fall over the edge of the earth and the sea into radioactive flame and madness. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0197261 | You are all there, the people in the city. I can't believe I was ever among you. When you are away from a city it becomes a fantasy. Any town, New York, Chicago, with its people, becomes improbable with distance. Just as I am improbable here, in Illinois, in a small town by a quiet lake. All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another. And it is so good to hear the sounds, and know that Mexico City is still the.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 124cef5 | It flourished on the air softly in vapors of cobalt light, whispering and sighing. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 095cc5f | People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person. | depression | Ray Bradbury | |
| 3a02118 | Books were only a receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we would forget. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d65c8ec | Vendran lluvias suaves y olores de la tierra, y golondrinas que giraran con brillante sonido; y ranas que cantaran de noche en los estanques y ciruelos de tembloroso blanco, y petirrojos que vestiran plumas de fuego y silbaran en los alambres de las cercas; y nadie sabra nada de la guerra, a nadie le interesara que haya terminado. A nadie le importara, ni a los pajaros ni a los arboles, si la humanidad se destruye totalmente; y la misma pri.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ce37ce0 | Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 744ea2f | Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think--the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered?" The Martian was silent, but then he looked on ahead. "But there they are. I see them. Isn't that enough for me? They wait for me now, no matter what you say." And" | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 5afa690 | That's the good part about dying; when you've got nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b75c51d | I buoni scrittori toccano spesso la vita. I mediocri la sfiorano con una mano fuggevole. I cattivi scrittori la sforzano e l'abbandonano. Capite ora perche i libri sono odiati e temuti? Perche rivelano i pori sulla faccia della vita. La gente comoda vuole soltanto facce di luna piena, di cera, facce senza pori, senza peli, inespressive. | Ray Bradbury |