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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 97f45fb | I told her [...] that I would bow down before her suffering with compassion, that she could control her life, that I understood that pain is sometimes psychic, not only physical, that she wanted nothing more than to end it and to sleep forever, that for her life was over but that for me it was still ongoing and that an aspect of it was trying to save her, that the notion of saving her was one that we didn't agree on, that I was willing to d.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 706f9f4 | By leaving, we are not necessarily disobeying the men according to the Bible, because we, the women, do not know exactly what is in the Bible, being unable to read it. Furthermore, the only reason why we feel we need to submit to our husbands is because our husbands have told us that the Bible decrees it. | feminism women | Miriam Toews | |
| f030f51 | suffering, even though it may have happened a long time ago, is something that is passed from one generation to the next to the next, like flexibility or grace or dyslexia. My grandfather had big green eyes, and dimly lit scenes of slaughter, blood on snow, played out behind them all the time, even when he smiled. | Miriam Toews | ||
| cfb8be9 | the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty. | women-talking | Miriam Toews | |
| 4100760 | Course they wouldn't have all the details, like whether or not they played in squares of sunlight on their walls, if they wore spiders on their hats, if they ate hamburger every other day, if they had ever made love in a yellow canola field tenderly or passionately or awkwardly. If they preferred dresses or pants, if they shaved their legs or didn't, or if they preferred red peppers to green. Stuff was happening. Even in Half-a-Life. Little.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 5ca085d | I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve me, God or a parent or my husband or any of those things or people or ideas or words that by their definition promised love. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 5d5315e | You always say oh, that's so unprofessional as though there's some definition of professional that's also a moral imperative for how to behave. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 2503fdf | My mother was so confident of being rescued in life, one way or another or another. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 8308054 | Yolandi, the central character in the book "All My Puny Sorrows" says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222)." | Miriam Toews | ||
| 1d40ab1 | Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her and begging the wind to obliterate her voice. She wanted to live with me. She missed me. She wanted me to come back home. She wanted to run away. She was yelling all this stuff and I wanted so badly for her to shut up. She was quiet for a second and I stopped running and turned aro.. | fiction funny inspirational literature novel | Miriam Toews | |
| 87eeb55 | When we got back to the house Logan grabbed his basketball, threw it really hard against the hallway wall, knocked the framed family photo to the floor-it didn't break, he didn't pick it up-and left with a couple of his friends. Thebes picked up the photo, hung it back on the wall, sighed heavily like she'd travelled to every corner of the world, on her knees, with a knife in her back and a boa constrictor wrapped around her chest, and then.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 011055e | Later that evening I lay down in Min's empty bed upstairs and pulled her white sheet up over my head. I felt for my kneecaps and hip bones. I lay perfectly still, arms down, palms up. I closed my eyes and pretended I was floating in space, then at sea, then not floating at all.I hummed an old Beach Boys tune. In my room... Min had taught me how to play it on her guitar when we were kids. | Miriam Toews | ||
| eb1842e | We were making good time now, barrelling through the bodacious curves of southeastern Utah and ignoring all impending signs of trouble with the van. At least I was. "You guys happy?" I said. The kids smiled at me like I was a dog chasing my tail, sweet but stupid, and looked away." | Miriam Toews | ||
| 6e4bb18 | I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| da430e6 | I decided to forgive you after reading The Little Flowers of Saint Francis," Maria began. "You remember the wolf I talked about? Well, he was a monster who terrorized everybody until Saint Francis gave him a talking-to. He was sweet as a lamb and never ate anything but vegetables after that." "I didn't know wolves could digest vegetables," said Matt, who had studied biology. "That's not the point." | Nancy Farmer | ||
| fb0cd19 | Matt discovered that no matter how terrified he'd been at first, it wasn't possible to stay terrified. It was as though his brain said, Okay. That's enough. Let's find something else to do. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 2c3aa68 | Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn't make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren't afraid to look at the truth. You weren't afraid to ask questions or do the right thing. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 3423a04 | When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 1e5f813 | I am one for whom dangers are play- things One who empties men of their strength as a nut from its shell The charms you use I chop up for relish on my porridge Beware! I am a deadly mamba Wrestler of legends A hive of hornets A man among men | Nancy Farmer | ||
| c2edb57 | It isn't healthy to care for someone who can never love you back. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 589a006 | For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 7557a42 | If you squat on a path, you'll get boils on your backside. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| a24c63b | Tais-toi. Your glove. Madame Erskine, procure me a large pin,' said the Queen Dowager of Scotland. 'I have yet to meet a man who can lay hands on a pin when there is need for it. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| bd6bd73 | Lymond, released, flung his head back and, viewing his winnings, gave them solemn dispensation to descend for the space of the dance. He asked for and obtained some chalk, and set to marking his and Mat's property where the cross was most obvious and the whim most appreciated. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 1f13208 | To the Frenchmen risking their lives to drive the English from Scotland, such a feud seemed no doubt an ill-timed indulgence. To Buccleuch, any comment from a foreigner was a piece of damnable impertinence, no less. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 218ab7a | Scott, deaf and enchanted in the gallery, and the whole row of pretty heads at his side saw the concerted rush on Lymond: his assailants downed him without malice and eighteen stones of Molly planted themselves on his chest. "A throw!" said Molly, and Lymond, half buried, gave a choked whoop of laughter and raised a defeated hand in signal to Tammas." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b2c4a2f | Kiaya Khatun is of the happy family circle.' 'You didn't marry her!' said Richard sharply. 'No! No,' said Lymond soothingly. 'All but the ceremony. We hope to have the four children legitimized.' For a moment, with sinking heart, Richard believed him. Then he saw the look on Lymond's face, and found he could bear it even less. He got to his feet, stiff and unslept, with all the weariness of the night suddenly upon him. 'At least,' he said, .. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b934748 | My God, he must be a good man with his fists.' 'Lymond?' said Danny sweetly. 'Lord Culter. I assume,' Ludovic said. 'At least, he was the last person up the stairs before Yeroffia. What did they quarrel about?' 'Can you remember,' Daniel Hislop said, 'how many times you have wanted to do that in the last two or three years, and the occasion each time?' 'Once a day,' d'Harcourt said. 'Sometimes twice. And for as many different reasons. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 693bcb1 | Don't be so sensitive,' he said, faintly chiding. 'It makes everyday commerce most trying. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 0cd49dd | My name is Francis Crawford, and my brother and I studied at St Barbe.' 'I know that,' said Moses. He took the ring, and stood, the broad grin stamped on his features. 'It is true what you did to all the Professors' boots?' Lymond stared at him. 'Oh,' he said. 'Yes. I'm afraid it is.' 'Is it true about the mathematical proposition you placed before Orontius Finnaeus that spelt ...' 'I don't know how you heard about it,' said M. de Sevigny. .. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e0bd1f3 | If you will excuse us?' 'Go to Sir Henry's room,' Lady Mary called after her. 'And if you use weapons, be sure to call witnesses. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b8afd86 | A smile, bracketing his still mouth, spread like bane over Lymond's pale face. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a931696 | Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 2019ab8 | And a capable feminine voice, directed past Austin Grey's ear to his opponent, said baldly, 'Hit him.' Lymond, already balanced on the upswing to hurl himself forward, dropped his arm and said, with dawning reproof, 'I was going to.' 'I know,' said Philippa. 'And it'll take half an hour and end with an audience. Hit him.' Under her hands, Austin Grey suddenly struggled. 'Hit him!' said Philippa sharply. 'It's the only way he can stop now, w.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e7cb10a | Some day, I must take my own prolific advice and contrive to drop dead. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 52e4173 | I don't change from minute to minute. I don't change at all. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ba9d39c | You've changed the metre,' said Philippa. 'I reserve the right,' said Lymond, 'to change the metre. Don't interrupt. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ee475c9 | Age can mellow, they say.' 'They say wrong,' said Diccon Chancellor. 'I have known Mistress Philippa these two months, and I have aged while she has grown daily less mellow. Why else am I fleeing the country? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 999d94a | Unwanted, unasked, unwelcome as ever, here I am.' 'Again,' said Lymond. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 538be31 | Meanwhile, until the snow comes, we had better keep Master Chancellor and his party entertained.' 'Tartar women?' said Fergie helpfully. 'Danny Hislop ...' 'Healthy physical exercise,' said Lymond tartly. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 7ab3e36 | You called me Alec just now,' Guthrie said. 'If I have dispensation to do the same, let me say it. Francis Crawford, I wish you away from this country; and if I had the hearing of a friend, and not that of the Voevoda Bolshoia, I would tell you never to come back.' Abandoned by artifice, Lymond's face exposed, for an instant, his astonishment. 'Of course you may speak,' he said. 'At this moment ... but why? I cannot see why?' 'I know you ca.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a38af07 | I have said the intellect is all that can matter. I haven't said it is easy--or painless ... to rid oneself of all that is left. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| cbcd25e | Mariotta listened to it all, sitting judicially in a whirl of velvet with all the Culter jewels and the emerald necklace for moral support. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 1a9d9a0 | You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul. | Dorothy Dunnett |