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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aa9245b | Sometimes in life you meet one person that changes the way you think, alters your perception of life and nothing else matters apart from them. I call them 'bada bing people'. | Emma Hart | ||
| cd122bf | you never know. You never know you have it until you don't anymore. You can hold true love in the palm of your hand and wrap your fingers around it in a stealth grip, and you know what? It'll still slip through. It's invisible yet tangible. Dreamed of yet so very real. Heart pounding yet heartbreaking. | Emma Hart | ||
| d6c4d85 | best love is the one you don't know you have. It's the one that creeps over you and takes hold of your heart. Your body. Your soul. It's the one you believe in with everything you have and hold on to tighter than you've ever held on to anything. | Emma Hart | ||
| 4c04856 | Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It's real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get shocked when they do dumb stuff. I yell at their bad choices and the bad guys, and sometimes, I even cry. If a book can elicit such real emotion from somebody, if a story can be so powerful you feel everything the characters are feeling, then reading can't ever be boring. | Emma Hart | ||
| 9dbdc95 | Truth of life is that no matter what it is - loss, heartbreak, happiness, love - those emotions are so damn strong they'll follow you no matter where you go. | Emma Hart | ||
| ed59f8e | Aim for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. | Emma Hart | ||
| 691e70e | Belief is relative. Religion is optional. Here is the thing, Noelle--no one can make you believe anything your heart isn't fully into. No one can dictate to you your feelings or dreams. And that means no one can offer you any more or less than your heart declares, as long as your heart is strong. | Emma Hart | ||
| 60be103 | Life is, most of all, about love - follow your heart, live out your dreams, smile, be happy, see the good in everyone you meet and rise above those who try to make you feel low. Fill your heart and fill your soul - love, no matter what, is always the answer. | importance-of-love life-lessons live-your-dreams love-yourself self-confidence | Emma Heatherington | |
| e4a7ebf | I think he has my clitoris on speed dial. | Emma Hart | ||
| 5d34233 | there's nothing more perfect than imperfection. | Emma Hart | ||
| f55d665 | Sei cosi fottutamente bello che fa male." He" | Emma Hart | ||
| f4c67b7 | There isn't a price I wouldn't pay for you, Dayton. Money has no value when the thing you desire is priceless. | Emma Hart | ||
| b5871e0 | I'm helpless to my pleasure. I breathe out a series of moans as he fucks me right. | Emma Hart | ||
| f7dddae | Love is beautiful, it's free from judgment and it never condemns. It enlightens, it embraces, and it makes even the hardest day worth living through. | Emma Hart | ||
| e79f90e | DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| 7d585e3 | Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| e9d16e9 | And thus, from too little sleep and too much reading, his brain dried up and he completely lost his judgment. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| d0d04f9 | Young'uns!" Mrs. P. interrupted. "No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table!" -- | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 448e377 | Night is Done-- Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of the night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is First Black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| fc818d1 | If that animal claims not to be frightened, then that animal is a liar. The real hero is the animal who fights even though scared. That is courage. There can be no courage without fear. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 8790972 | Death bears with it a stain that seeps into the hollow and fills the mind. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 2930a82 | Look at the people of Briancon! | Hugo Victor | ||
| 21e44c7 | How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment? | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 206fa9d | Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day. The | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| b3e5f04 | If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 90fefab | Forgiveness was never easy, but Mma Ramotswe believed in it because she knew that without forgiveness we cluttered our lives with old business. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| ce9d125 | A change of oil...yes, that was what we all needed from time to time, whether we were an engine or a person. And there were other similarities to be explored. Engines had to be handled gently, as did people. Forward gears were better than reverse gears--for people as well as engines. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 0533440 | She had, Emma decided, a very particular beauty about her, a quality that required more than the possession of conventionally attractive features. Good looks could be a cliche, which meant that those who satisfied the normal criteria of beauty could fail its more subtle tests. Thus it was that those with very regular features could just miss being beautiful because they lacked some tiny human imperfection, some irregularity that imparted to.. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 696bc70 | The mention of God made Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni frown. In his experience, people were always claiming that God agreed with them even when there was little or no evidence that this was the case. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 71f5d63 | And now, sitting in the van with Charlie, who was looking ahead of them and not really paying much attention to where they currently were, she reflected on the possibility that young men were a completely alien breed, and that however much you tried to get them to see things the way you saw them, you were destined to fail. And that perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or compla.. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 2c3431d | To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or bold simply because they used such language; each time they opened their mouths they proclaimed I am a person who is poor in words. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 77996ae | The Americans were very clever; they sent rockets into space and invented machines which could think more quickly than any human being alive, but all this cleverness could also make them blind. They did not understand other people. They thought that everyone looked at things in the same way as Americans did, but they were wrong. Science was only part of the truth. There were also many other things that made the world what it was, and the Am.. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 5d0d0e7 | So what is this love that comes with being married?" ... "Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go away? ... the line struck me with its poetic force. I didn't want you to go away... It was certainly powerful, and perhaps it was as good a definition of love as any other." | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 32a9207 | She had always believed that people who were nasty or unkind to others were only like that because there was something wrong in their lives, and that people who had something wrong in their lives were not to be despised or hated, but were to be pitied. So | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| e96d7dd | I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want! | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 2f7f3b2 | Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout these islands--in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. Emotional turmoil, danger, even disaster could be faced with far greater equanimity if the kettle was switched on. War has been declared! There's been a major earthquake! The stock market has collapsed! Oh really? Let me put the kettle on.... | crises crises-solution crisis tea | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 4727ed5 | It was, he thought, his gesture against the whole pro-euthanasia movement that talked so glibly of choice without realising the fire with which one played when tinkering with fragile taboos against killing others. Yes, he thought, Mrs Bates's life did not seem to amount to much, but to her it was all she had. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| cc7891e | To be cut down to size is good for all of us, but particularly so for those who forget how transient are our cultures and institutions, how pointless and cruel our divisions, how vain our claims to special status for our practices and beliefs above those of others. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 8e2f94f | People talk of the wrench of parting, and that, he felt, was exactly what it was. Take a metal object off a magnet and one would experience that - there was the draw, the tug, the flow of the bond even through the air, and then the sudden detaching as separation occurred. That was what it was like. That was human parting. You felt it; you felt the separation, just as you would feel the rending of tissue being pulled apart. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| f0d7aba | And she lowered her eyes at the gentle reproach, for she had learned her lesson, even if there would be occasional, but only very occasional, relapses; for none of us is perfect, except, of course, the ones we love, the things of home, our much appreciated dogs and cats, our favourites of one sort or another. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 205f428 | Artists were allowed to do that - to look, to gaze at others and try to find out what it was that they were feeling - but we, who were not artists, were not. If one looked too hard that would be considered voyeurism, or nosienss, which is what Cat, her neice, had accused her of more than once. Jamie - the boyfriend rejected by Cat but kept on by Isabel as a friend - had done the same althought more tactfully. He had said that she needed to .. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 9e2391a | Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl. He sounded rather a nice man to Bertie. Any why should he not dress up in feathers and live in the forests if that was what he wanted to do? It was typical of his mother to try to spoil Grey Owl's fun. | mothers | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 4063491 | Mma Ramotswe did not like lying, but sometimes it was necessary, particularly when faced with people who were promoted beyond their talents. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 7bbb915 | Saying sorry does not make you look small--it makes you look big. | Alexander McCall Smith |