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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aa08536 | He was the son of his son--he was here, he was left behind. | Colum McCann | ||
| 2ffd3a4 | Wenn wir gehen, nehmen wir unsere Heimat mit. | Colum McCann | ||
| 3c3cad4 | That he'd see the light and it'd still be in a tunnel. | Colum McCann | ||
| 05cb09b | It is, in the end, she thinks, the shallowest of confessions: all of the truth, none of the honesty. | Colum McCann | ||
| 770405b | m chh chyzy bh frzndnmn mydhym jz yn qblyt khh mthl m nshwnd? | Colum McCann | ||
| 2430cb4 | Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail? | Colum McCann | ||
| 8bad8eb | Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's there and it's all coming down, covering everything. You're breathing it in. You touch it. You drink it. You eat it. But it's so fine you don't notice it. But you're covered in it. It's everywhere. What I mean is, we're afraid. Just stand still for an instant and there it is, this fear, covering our faces and tongues. If we s.. | Colum McCann | ||
| 6b5d763 | The quiet lines matter as much as the noisy ones. | writing | Colum McCann | |
| a16f7a0 | I was a raw, quiet child, and God was already a bore to me. | Colum McCann | ||
| 8a2a1e2 | To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a hippie idea. Both of us always hated the hippies, their flowers, their poems, their one idea. We were the furthest thing from hippies. We were the edge, the definers. | Colum McCann | ||
| 8ea7176 | I'm not God. --Then find someone who is, man. | Colum McCann | ||
| 510990d | The only thing you need to know about war, son, is: Don't go. | Colum McCann | ||
| 04aefee | He could be in any mood or any place and, unbidden, it returned. | Colum McCann | ||
| 5c70b3c | I have nobody left to whom I can tell the story. | Colum McCann | ||
| cec5b6d | According to our textbook rhetoric, Americans abhor the notion of a social order in which economic privilege and political power are determined by hereditary class. Officially, we have a more enlightened goal in sight: namely, a society in which a family's wealth has no relation to the probability of future educational attainment and the wealth and station it affords. By this standard, education offered to poor children should be at least a.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 72889e2 | New York City manages expertly, and with marvelous predictability, whatever it considers humanly important. Fax machines, computers, automated telephones and even messengers on bikes convey a million bits of data through Manhattan every day to guarantee that Wall Street brokers get their orders placed, confirmed, delivered, at the moment they demand. But leaking roofs cannot be fixed and books cannot be gotten into Morris High in time to me.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 258d5c5 | Turning in his seat, he gestures at the street and shrugs. "If you don't, as an American, begin to give these kids the kind of education that you give the kids of Donald Trump, you're asking for disaster." | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 737c9af | I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican and black people would just die or go away. I thought it over and I changed my mind. I don't think they wish that we would die. I think they wish that we were never born. Now that we're here, I think they don't know what they ought to do. I think that that's the biggest problem in their minds about poor people.' She ad.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 7d26c79 | I can say it, but it doesn't seem convincing to most people. I can call it an 'injustice,' but that doesn't always sink in either. You have to understand the nature of the culture in New York. Words that are equal to the pain of the poor are pretty easily discredited. A quarter of the truth, stated with lots of indirection, is regarded as more seemly. Even when people do accept the idea of 'injustice,' there are ways to live with it without.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 30d3a1b | A caste society," wrote U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel 25 years ago, "violates the style of American democracy.... The nation in effect does not have a truly public school system in a large part of its communities; it has permitted what is in effect a private school system to develop under public auspices.... Equality of educational opportunity throughout the nation continues today for many to be more a myth than a reality." | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| c20fdce | Children long for this--a voice, a way of being heard--but many sense that there is no one in the world to hear their words, so they are drawn to ways of malice. If they cannot sing, they scream. They are vessels of the spirit but the spirit sometimes is entombed; it can't get out, and so they smash it! | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 69263df | The crowding of children into insufficient, often squalid spaces seems an inexplicable anomaly in the United States. Images of spaciousness and majesty, of endless plains and soaring mountains, fill our folklore and our music and the anthems that our children sing. "This land is your land," they are told; and, in one of the patriotic songs that children truly love because it summons up so well the goodness and the optimism of the nation at .. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| bf1e9c9 | The Ann Arbor superintendent ridicules what he describes as "simple-minded solutions [that attempt] to make things equal." But, of course, the need is not "to make things equal." He would be correct to call this "simple-minded." Funding and resources should be equal to the needs that children face. The children of Detroit have greater needs than those of children in Ann Arbor. They should get more than children in Ann Arbor, more than kids .. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 4192701 | There is a hickey on my forehead! | Molly McAdams | ||
| b33a0b8 | How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors." | Dan Savage | ||
| ae00388 | I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid. | Dan Savage | ||
| 28a58ef | Deceiving people was natural... It had been my job for so long that lying to protect myself, or those I loved, was as easy as breathing. I'd promise Rachel that there would be no more lies, forgiving or not. When it came to her, there hadn't been, and there wouldn't be when she came back. But all bets were off until I found her. I would deceive anyone, lie about everything, and do anything to get her back. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 7241fe3 | No. If I'm being honest, I love knowing that your firsts will all be with me. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 1c3ea6f | Princess, stop walking and just talk to me." "Why? So you can let me know again how much of a slut you think I am?" "I don't," he let out a half-growl, half-sigh, "I don't think you're a slut. You just caught me on a bad day." "Let me guess Chase, you hurt me because you were just so damn mad ... am I right?" I threw his line from a month ago back in his face and he paled. His hand came up and brushed my hair back, holding it away from my f.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| fc03a2b | Saying goodbye to everyone, I picked up my bag and began walking away as a deep husky voice called my name. I didn't stop walking, but looked over my shoulder in time to see Brandon walking around the table toward me, and Chase holding the brunette's head away from his as he watched us, she just continued onto his neck. Falling into step with me, he held out a hand, "We haven't met yet, I'm Brandon Taylor." Dear Lord that voice could warm m.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 4b8d48b | I loved him. I loved the man that was waiting for me somewhere in the house. I loved the way he loved me, and I loved all his faults. Including his quick reactions based solely on emotions rather than on facts. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 0159c89 | I can't marry you," I finally said. He nodded slowly. "I figured that out." His mouth opened, then shut quickly, and he went back to waiting. But I couldn't figure out where to begin, because I couldn't understand Declan. There was a sadness deep in his eyes, but he didn't look as if I'd just rejected his proposal. He didn't look like the girl he'd thought was his fiancee had just told him she couldn't marry him. He looked as if he had been.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 20ac64e | I loved my family, and I loved our life. Kash and I had gone through rough times at the beginning, but life was good and I prayed it would stay that way. There was never a dull moment--there were plenty of laughs, and plenty of happy and sad tears. He and I still fought like there was no tomorrow, and pancakes were made a few times a week . . . but we loved each other fiercely, and we helped each other through everything. Most importantly, .. | Molly McAdams | ||
| e432ec8 | The historian William Cronon explains that packing plants 'distanced their customers most of all from the act of killing.... The more people became accustomed to the attractively cut, carefully wrapped, cunningly displayed packages that Swift had introduced to the trade, the more easily they could fail to remember that their purchase had once pulsed and breathed with a life much like their own.... As time went on, fewer of those who ate mea.. | Steven Wise | ||
| 320183b | Are you okay?" "I'm tired. My knee is hurting again and I'm trying to teleport myself upstairs." "Um, Kate, you can't do that." "I know. But I'm trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8b2430b | But, actually, an affordance is neither an objective property nor a subjective property; or it is both if you like. An affordance cuts across the dichotomy of subjective-objective and helps us to understand its inadequacy. It is equally a fact of the environment and a fact of behavior. It is both physical and psychical, yet neither. An affordance points both ways, to the environment and to the observer. | James J. Gibson | ||
| 01c084e | We should begin thinking of events as the primary realities and of time as an abstraction from them--a concept derived mainly from regular repeating events, such as the ticking of clocks. Events are perceived, but time is not (Gibson, 1975). | James J. Gibson | ||
| 7f9e578 | Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted. | Martha Grimes | ||
| 9218da6 | When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact. | expectations life | Arthur Nersesian | |
| 3a26f72 | In the dark jaws, where all things tumble, where societies crumble and old men stumble, love is the air we breathe, the earth we walk on, the economy we function in. It's not a passion or a fixation or a desire or a guilt. Love should have been a conduct, a process of life, an axiom, a grandeur we evolve...Its connective nature, its transferal powers, make utter sense. | Arthur Nersesian | ||
| 0e4e81b | I had grazed along the surface of her actions and made deep judgments. Rejecting someone because you couldn't understand their love, that was a new one. The more I thought about it the longer the shadow of doubt stretched over all my conclusions. More often than not, things were as they seemed. But as I stared at her, she wasn't as bad looking as I had once thought. I realized how all this time I had seen her the wrong way, and how one's ch.. | love new-york-city | Arthur Nersesian | |
| c1e7660 | Once, as a teenager, I had believed that people could change themselves. Finally I realized that all one could ever hope was understanding one's filthy self better. | Arthur Nersesian | ||
| 0923f55 | If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students. | discipleship insecurity mentoring | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 9eb1928 | Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions. | Alexandra Robbins |