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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9957a6c | Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 47183b6 | We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn't reveal. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0f33153 | Curiously, she is not afraid, knowing as she does that love is mostly the avoidance of hurt, and furthermore, she is accustomed to obstacles, and how they can be overcome by readjusting her glance or crowding her concerns into a shadowy corner. | Carol Shields | ||
| 3a49b1a | He observed how his feet chose each wrong turning, working against his navigational instincts, circling and repeating, and bringing on a feverish detachment. Someone older than himself paced inside his body, someone stronger too, cut loose from the common bonds of sex, of responsibility. Looking back he would remember a brief moment when time felt mute and motionless. This hour of solitary wandering seemed a gift, and part of the gift was a.. | Carol Shields | ||
| 87fca17 | And here you come | Carol Ann Duffy | ||
| 5a6c1a4 | Behind the mask Jackaroo wore, there could be a face of bone, its flesh long since eaten away. Jackaroo could fight as a trained soldier, with swords and shield; he could ride a horse like a Lord; and he had the knowledge of letters which only the Lords held. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 43ba374 | Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| d0e2cd5 | Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, wheere love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| bc9121c | Oriel didn't move. But inside of his head, all was movement, like a river running over rapids, searching for the way through, trying routes around rocks and over shallows, a turbulence of thought more rapid than he could follow. Griff, he knew, would do and say nothing until he heard Oriel's choice. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 1dc1863 | When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 2caf269 | all work is worth doing well. And there are things to be enjoyed about most jobs... | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 5e5c29e | real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring." Beyond" | William Styron | ||
| 081f478 | At the age of fifty he was beginning to discover, with a sense of panic, that his whole life had been in the nature of a hangover, with faintly unpleasant pleasures being atoned for by the dull unalleviated pain of guilt. Had he the solace of knowing that he was an alcoholic, things would have been brighter, because he had read somewhere that alcoholism was a disease; but he was not, he assured himself, alcoholic, only self-indulgent, and h.. | William Styron | ||
| 0cf823d | AN EXQUISITELY SHARPENED HATRED FOR the white man is of course an emotion not difficult for Negroes to harbor. Yet if truth be known, this hatred does not abound in every Negro's soul; it relies upon too many mysterious and hidden patterns of life and chance to flourish luxuriantly everywhere. Real hatred of the sort of which I speak--hatred so pure and obdurate that no sympathy, no human warmth, no flicker of compassion can make the fainte.. | William Styron | ||
| 4a59946 | Tamtej jesieni, kiedy moj organizm stopniowo ulegal coraz wiekszemu rozregulowaniu, zaczalem rozumiec, ze moj umysl jest jak archaiczna reczna centrala telefoniczna w malym miasteczku zalewana stopniowo przez fale powodzi: wtyczki przewodow jedna po drugiej wypadaja z gniazd, przerywajac kolejne lacza - w rezultacie niektore funkcje fizjologiczne mojego ciala i prawie wszystkie funkcje psychiczne - zarowno instynktowne, jak i intelektualne .. | William Styron | ||
| 6c18e2b | Dress is important. It's part of being human. It might as well be a thing of beauty, something you take real pleasure in doing. And maybe in the process, give other people pleasure. Though that's secondary. | William Styron | ||
| 138f23e | I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time--I mean, ever since I've had these fantasies about those generals, those gorgeous young Southern generals with their tawny mustaches and beards, and hair in ringlets, on horseback. And those beautiful girls in crinoline and pantalettes. You would never know that they ever fucked, from all you're able to read." She paused and squeezed my hand. "I mean, doesn't.. | history past sex war | William Styron | |
| fc2af24 | bet gal nedera vienos meiles lyginti su kita | William Styron | ||
| 34bae20 | depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer. | William Styron | ||
| 2948e70 | the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no .. | William Styron | ||
| e54cf85 | An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead... | William Styron | ||
| 724102a | And when white men in they hate an' wrath an' meanness fetches blood from that beautiful black skin then, oh then, my brothers, it is time not fo' laughing but fo' weeping an' rage an' lamentation! Pride!" I cried after a pause, and let my arms descend. "Pride, pride, everlasting pride, pride will make you free!" | William Styron | ||
| a8a8a2e | Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home. | William Styron | ||
| ea144da | Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special, but at least he was good-natured. | William Styron | ||
| 9551cd4 | depression, when it finally came to me, was in fact no stranger, not even a visitor totally unannounced; it had been tapping at my door for decades. | melancholia | William Styron | |
| 14c46fc | This memory of my relative indifference is important because such indifference demonstrates powerfully the outsider's inability to grasp the essence of the illness. | William Styron | ||
| db83e9e | Unfortunately, their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I had previously abandoned on the basis that the probability of success did not justify the effort and negative experiences. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 10294f9 | This was a doctor. Sworn to heal, not to judge. But judge she did, in the twist of her lips and the chill of her tone. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| aa80116 | If I'd known how many brownie points this daddy stuff could win me, I'd have talked you into kids years ago. Would have saved me a lot of trouble." "It would have." "Problem is, they're going to grow up." He paused. "We may need to have more." "We may." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 42db949 | Yep, Gin and Brandi. Call me crazy, but naming your daughters after alcoholic beverages is just asking for trouble. | brandi gin trouble | Kelley Armstrong | |
| d9663c4 | If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we'd still be wearing togas. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 6276898 | Tell me half a cup's worth of story and we'll call it a night. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| b0e0e2e | I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 3bce5a0 | Everyone had heard what happened and they were all so pleased, so very pleased. Which seems a little odd, but in Cainsville "a little odd" was the norm." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 2827ad6 | Mi stupisco che non ci abbia ancora mandato gli auguri di Natale", ha commentato Antonio. "Me li immagino, di buon gusto, stampati in rilievo su pergamena, le migliori cartoline che riesce a rubare. Un breve messaggio in perfetta calligrafia: 'Buone vacanze, spero che stiate tutti bene. Ho fatto a fettine Ethan Ritter a Miami e ho gettato i resti nell'Atlantico. Vi faccio i miei migliori auguri per l'anno nuovo. Karl'." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 442c531 | Take this. It's one of my gothics. The seventies were, sadly, not the time to include sex scenes of any satisfying nature. When the lights go out, you can imagine the hero and heroine are lying in bed, fully clothed, making shadow puppets on the wall. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| a209118 | If he knew one thing about life, it was this: look out for yourself. No one else would do it for you. If you were cheated or tricked, it was your own fault, and a lesson best learned before the world devoured you. | hard-life looking-out-for-yourself self-sufficency | Kelley Armstrong | |
| d0437b1 | Suona un po' strano pero. A malapena la conoscevi, e sei la prima a volerle telefonare?" "Si chiama premura. Ne hai mai sentito parlare?" con un colpo scaccio la mia mano dal quadrante "Scuri, acqua fredda. Oppure ti ritroverai con un carico di capi stinti." mi lancio un'occhiata. "Vedi? Sono premuroso." "Per forza, e quasi tutta roba tua li dentro." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 47262ae | Religion exists to instill false security and blind faith, | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 82c2337 | God, it's like talking to a cyborg sometimes. You pretend to listen, but really, you've just gone on pause, waiting for me to stop so you can reiterate your original point. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 2a69950 | Are you coming now?" Griffin snapped. Karl glanced over at him and smiled. "What's the magic word?" Griffin stalked off, muttering a word under his breath. "That's not it," Karl called after him." | karl magic-word | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 9b878d9 | This is not one of the bandits," she said. Gavril looked closer at the shadow-stalker-abandoned corpse. "You are correct," he said, as if with some surprise. She gave him a look. "Thank you. So it seems we are stuck in the middle--sorry, the edge of the steppes--with no horses and a useless wagon and a landscape populated by shadow stalkers. If they are indeed raised by some confederate of your father's, then we should be safe enough. We si.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 938039c | Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence. | brawn-over-brains chandler gabriel intelligence stereotype | Kelley Armstrong | |
| d0e6e2d | She dreamed she was back in that cell, fighting off the guard--Halmond--pulling back the knife to stab him. Only in the dream, he wrested it from her fingers and slammed it into her gut, and she gasped, her eyes closing and then opening to see, not Halmond holding the blade, but Gavril. Moria shot upright, screaming, still feeling the agony of the blade buried in her gut, and then she saw Gavril, right there, his hands on her shoulders, say.. | Kelley Armstrong |