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| 80685f8 | That was one of the troubles with the Istiqlal, with all politics: you talked about people as though they were not really people, as though they were only things, numbers, animals, perhaps, but not really people. | politics | Paul Bowles | |
| 9ec8f0c | nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know. | meaning | Paul Bowles | |
| d132a3b | If Moroccans are dying in Indo-China, if it rains too much or not enough, if there is no work, if one's wife is sick and penicillin is expensive, or if the French are still in Morocco, it is all the fault of America. She could change everything if she chose, but she does nothing because she does not love the Moslems. | Paul Bowles | ||
| b1c05ce | Just 'cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down. | Ann Major | ||
| 14ac01f | Para comprender el estado de la humanidad puede que baste con saber que la mayoria de los grandes triunfos y grandes catastrofes de la historia no se deben a que las personas son buenas en esencia o malas en esencia, sino a que las personas son en esencia personas. | español good-omens neil-gaiman spanish terry-pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0779950 | Crecemos leyendo cosas de piratas, de vaqueros, de naves espaciales y cosas asi, y cuando te crees que el mundo esta lleno de todo eso, van y te dicen que en verdad son todo ballenas muertas, bosques talados y residuos nucleares por ahi sueltos durante un millon de anos. Pues para eso no vale la pena crecer, mira tu por donde. | español good-omens neil-gaiman spanish terry-pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| d0d3925 | A los que Crowley no podia soportar era a esos que se llamaban a si mismos satanicos. No solo por lo que hacian, sino por la mania que tenian de achacarselo todo al Infierno. Se les ocurria alguna idea vomitiva que no se le pasaria a un demonio por la cabeza ni en un millon de anos, alguna atrocidad oscura y descerebrada que solo una mente humana hecha y derecha podria concebir, y luego gritaban: <>, y se qu.. | crowley good-omens neil-gaiman spanish terry-pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7f7e163 | The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come, and you never will outpace your grief. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| ca8ee1a | Drawing a breath, I flung myself across the door sill. That was the artless way I navigated the hurdles of girlhood. Everyone thought I was a plucky girl, but in truth, I wasn't as fearless as everyone assumed. I had the temperament of a tortoise. Whatever dread, fright, or bump appeared in my path, I wanted nothing more than to drop in my tracks and hide. If you must err, do so on the side of audacity. That was the little slogan I'd devise.. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0b438d6 | Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 1d13065 | Squeezing it in my palm, I prayed, Please, God, let this seed you planted in me bear fruit. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| cbe637f | As writer Isak Dinesen put it, "All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them." | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 06e2023 | there is a seed of light inside of us, a mysterious Inner Voice. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| a19cf8b | She say Fon people keep a spirit tree and it always be a Baybob. Your granny-mauma wrapped the trunk with thread she begged and stole. She took me out there and say, 'We gon put our spirits in the tree so they safe from harm.' We kneel on her quilt from Africa, nothing but a shred now, and we give our spirits to the tree. She say our spirits live in the tree with the birds, learning to fly. She told me, 'If you leave this place, go get your.. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| a31a13a | It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn't contentment, but survival. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 133dbdf | I heard mauma say, "I don't spec to get free. The only way I'm getting free is for you to get free." | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| d806906 | I want to tell you I'm strong and resolute, but in truth, I feel afraid and alone and uncertain. I feel as if he has died, and I suppose in some way it's true. I'm left with nothing but this strange beating in my heart that tells me I'm meant to do something in this world. I cannot apologize for it, or for loving this small beating as much as him. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| d4250b2 | For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the pale of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 1a4b240 | Water beaded across her shoulders, shining like drops of milk, and her breasts swayed in the currents. It was the kind of vision you never really get over. I couldn't help it, I wanted to go and lick the milk beads from her shoulders. I opened my mouth. I wanted something. Something, I didn't know what. Mother, forgive. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 65f6002 | Lily Owens: If your favorite color is blue, why did you paint the house pink? August Boatwright: [chuckles] That was May's doing. When we went to the paint shop, she latched on to a color called, "Caribbean Pink." She said it made her feel like dancing a Spanish Flamenco. I personally thought it was the tackiest color I had ever seen, but I figured if it could lift May's heart, it was good enough to live in. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| fceaf18 | women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back on. So they seek it by adopting and pleasing patriarchal standards. | patriarchy | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 41fac72 | This is a hard question. But as women we have a right to ask the hard questions. The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| a28d127 | Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 28385f3 | Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward's way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn't mean a thing. I had to side with him on that. | heaven-on-earth | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 64ddb47 | It'd been Lucy who ran tattling to Miss Mary about my lettering under the tree, and Miss Mary had run tattling to missus. I'd judged Lucy to be stupid, but she was only weak-willed and wanting to get in good with Miss Mary. I never did forgive her, and I don't know if Miss Sarah forgave her sister, cause what came from all that snitching turned the tide on Miss Sarah's life. Her studying was over and done. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 304b7cd | In the photograph by my bed my other is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 659d02c | I climbed into the honey wagon with my hair uncombed, with May handing me buttered toast and orange juice through the window and Rosaleen sticking in thermoses of water, both of them practically running alongside the truck while August rolled out of the driveway. I felt like the Red Cross springing to action to save the bee queendom. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 10c2683 | I only know there's something unsettling about a door that closes forever. I feel a vague lament about the changing of my body, the alterations in my appearance, the bleeding out of motherhood, the fear that I will not find the mysterious green fuse again. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| f82ba6f | One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality.....just be what ti is. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 7252b11 | I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even, and the impassive way I'd treated them | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| f933a3b | I didn't see why loving someone had to have so much agony attached to it. It felt like a series of fresh cuts in the skin of my heart | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 89e7dd9 | Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted around women's wrists. | patriarchy repression | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| bbc6a02 | I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was. | hometown leaving loving | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| abfe21b | People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. | life life-lessons | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| ec38e3c | If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| a25cee8 | You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it, they saw Mary, and so the spirit of Mary took it over. Really, her spirit is everywhere, Lily, just everywhere. Inside rocks and trees and even people, but sometimes it will get concentrated in certain places and just beam out at you in a special way. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 1a196bf | Every girl comes into the world with varying degrees of ambition," she said, "even if it's only the hope of not belonging body and soul to her husband." | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 5b36bf5 | You're looking for a reason," she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present." | moving-on | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 6334d28 | How one minute she was talking to you and the next she had slipped into a private world where she turned her thoughts over and over, digesting stuff most people would choke on. I wanted to say, Teach me how to do that. Teach me how to take all this in. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| ae419f0 | Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get? | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 10b697b | for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou longest, i will lodge; thy people will be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0ea1cad | There is nothing perfect, [...] there is only life. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0d52659 | There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old. She said, "Handful, your granny-mauma saw it for herself. She say they flew over trees and clouds. She say they flew like blackbirds. When we came here, we left that magic behind." She looked at my face, how it flowed with sorrow and doubt, and she said, "You don't believe me? Where you think these shoulder blades of yours come from, gir.. | hope inspirational magic slavery-quotes | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 2e532d4 | afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations. | Sue Monk Kidd |