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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d05e475 | To move forward, you have to accept the truth of a situation. Not persist in myth-making. | Val McDermid | ||
| 641b590 | If you want to last more than five minutes as a private investigator, you've got to have the instincts of a chameleon. Gumshoes that stand out in the crowd are as much use to the client as a chocolate chip pan. | Val McDermid | ||
| e5863a4 | She'd cook like an angel and fuck like a whore | Val McDermid | ||
| 020c944 | You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian. | Val McDermid | ||
| e4bc9ac | They both possessed a victimhood that had been conferred because they'd both been guilty of being female in a world where some men believed they deserved never to feel powerless. | Val McDermid | ||
| ede881d | The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch. | Val McDermid | ||
| c2678fc | These tribal wars, like the practice of circumcision, are brought about by the ego, selfishness, and aggression of men. I hate to say that, but it's true. Both acts stem from their obsession with their territory--their possessions--and women fall into that category both culturally and legally. Perhaps if we cut their balls off, my country would become paradise. The men would calm down and be more sensitive to the world. Without that constan.. | female-genital-mutilation feminism genital-mutilation machismo tribal-wars | Waris Dirie | |
| 5e5c6f9 | We can never make sense of death,' I said. 'It doesn't obey any laws or follow any rules. Death is an intractable anarchist. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 6c452c4 | Pogledna r'chniia si chasovnik. Vremeto li otminavashe ili zhivot't mu? | Henning Mankell | ||
| 58df873 | I intend to die with a bottle of champagne by my bed. I'll drink a toast to the fact that, despite everything, I was able to experience the singular adventure of being born, living and one day disappearing into the darkness once again. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 513898b | Sam s'm si maika. | Henning Mankell | ||
| a887e24 | Na tozi sviat malko neshcha sa pozvoleni. Ne se razreshava da khodish s razlichni obuvki, da zhiveesh v stara kovachnitsa i da gledash v'tre kokoshki. I v'preki tova az go pravia. Na nikogo ne precha. A i nali s'm lud. | Henning Mankell | ||
| e1ac593 | There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending. | Henning Mankell | ||
| b8c9a2d | A historia nao e so o que deixamos para tras, mas e tambem algo que nos vai acompanhando ao longo da vida. | Henning Mankell | ||
| e012d31 | Unlike Tania, who was so slim, Rykoff looked as if he'd been given an order to get fat--an order he had been delighted to obey. | Henning Mankell | ||
| bd5033c | You can't interrupt the process of making a key once you've started. It lets a kind of hesitation into the iron. That happens and the key will never sit well in its lock. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 48fb40e | Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 90bae0c | If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 4f18ef9 | Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 6e21c11 | I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every genuine work of art contains a small fragment of glass from a mirror. | Henning Mankell | ||
| f5267e2 | Someone must lead the way. | Henning Mankell | ||
| a1885ef | No doubt you thought I was dead. I sometimes think I am myself. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 5a310ab | He wondered if he was simply starting to crumble under the weight of all the responsibility and was now on a downward trajectory to a point where only fear remained. He | Henning Mankell | ||
| 11a1ddb | It's strange, because you can put up with all manner of nonsense in your life, all sorts of sadness, and you manage to keep everything on board and march through it, then someone is kind to you and it's the kindness that makes you cry. It's the tiny act of goodness that opens a door somewhere and lets all the misery escape. | Joanna Cannon | ||
| b32c34b | arcane, adj. It was Joanna who noticed it first. We were over at her house for dinner, and she said something about being able to see the woman across the street doing yoga in the mornings, and how strange it looked when you were watching it from afar. "So how is Miss Torso doing?" you asked. And I said, "Perhaps we should ask the pianist." | David Levithan | ||
| 3a41135 | I don't think it's irrational or too conservative of me to think, Is it? | Joanna Gaines | ||
| a68f21b | The reality is that old houses that were built a hundred years ago were built by actual craftsmen, people who were the best in the world at what they did. The little nuances in the woodwork, the framing of the doors, the built-in nooks, the windows--all had been done by smart, talented people, and I quickly found that uncovering those details and all of that character made the house more inviting and more attractive and more alive. | craftsmanship old-houses | Joanna Gaines | |
| 519d254 | Several days later I decided to go on a good long jog, trusting that Chip would not leave Drake again. As I was on my way back I saw Chip coming down the road in his truck with the trailer on it. He rolled up to me with his window down and said, "Baby, you're doing so good. I'm heading to work now. I've got to go." I looked in the back, thinking, But I didn't see a car seat. "Chip, where's Drake?" she said, and I was like, "Oh, shoot!" Sh.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 7b88566 | Several days later I decided to go on a good long jog, trusting that Chip would not leave Drake again. As I was on my way back I saw Chip coming down the road in his truck with the trailer on it. He rolled up to me with his window down and said, "Baby, you're doing so good. I'm heading to work now. I've got to go." I looked in the back, thinking, But I didn't see a car seat. "Chip, where's Drake?" she said, and I was like, "Oh, shoot!" Sh.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| f7c3ad7 | She cried. Again. That was sort of her thing during year one. If we ever write a marriage book, chapter 1 will be called, "She cried." | Joanna Gaines | ||
| a94e2e1 | It's hard to describe the feeling that comes with starting your own business. It really is so much work in the beginning that you lose yourself in it. You lose your sense of time, and you can't believe how quickly the days go by because there's no time to focus on much of anything else. But then you open the doors, and it's like you've given birth to this new thing that didn't exist before. Then when it starts to flourish, well, that's just.. | opening-a-business | Joanna Gaines | |
| bd1cd9a | Is Joanna Gaines here? We have a warrant here for her arrest," the officer said. It was the tickets. I knew it. And I panicked. I picked up my son and I hid in the closet. I literally didn't know what to do. I'd never even had a speeding ticket, and all of a sudden I'm thinking, I heard Chip say, "She's not here." Thankfully, Drake didn't make a peep, and the officer believed him. He said, "Well, just let her know we're looking for her," a.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| d8d97a6 | Even locked doors can be unlocked in time. | opportunity | Joanna Gaines | |
| b0df149 | You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to even talk to me. 'Yeah... Has Keaty told you not to eat the Stew?' 'Richard!' I frowned 'What?' 'You are not listening to me!' '... Oh. Well I'm sorry. I've got a lot on my mind.' 'Not me.' 'Huh?' 'I am not on your mind.' 'Uh... of course you are.' 'I am not' she poked me in the ribs. 'I think you do not love me anymore.' I .. | flirting sexual-tension | Alex Garland | |
| a1bba42 | There was nothing strange about it. Jed and i were on a covert mission. We had dinoculars, jungle, a quarry, a threat, the hidden presence of AK-47s and slanted eyes. The only missing element was a Doors soundtrack. | mystery-and-thriller-books the-beach | Alex Garland | |
| 6dd5878 | I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away. | Alex Garland | ||
| 9e1fa63 | The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love... | Alex Garland | ||
| 6134656 | The sense of "having a goal in your life "will put you in the side of "giving" instead of "getting" ...... most of people focus "more" on what they want from their lives and that could lead to thinking in a (victim-of-life) way ... when you start to play the role of a person who's having a meaning and a goal for his/her life, you will get back the self-esteem you deserve." | selfesteem | Susan Jeffers | |
| 7f0426c | I learned an amazing way to demonstrate the effectiveness of positive versus negative thinking from Jack Canfield, President of Self-Esteem Seminars, which I now use in my workshops. I ask someone to come up and stand facing the rest of the class. After making sure the person has no problems with her (or his) arms, I ask my volunteer to make a fist and extend either arm out to the side. I then tell her to resist, with as much strength as sh.. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 6fb72dc | As I began to do things on my own, I began to taste the deliciousness of an emerging self-confidence. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 71e483c | We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS | Julia Cameron | ||
| 052c19c | Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| caf28ad | Audiences did not exactly clamour for their money back, but they wondered why Kubrick left out the denouement. People wrote to me about this--indeed much of my later life has been expended on Xeroxing statements of intention and the frustration of intention--while both Kubrick and my New York publisher coolly bask in the rewards of their misdemeanour. Life is, of course, terrible. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| c395fe1 | But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do. | Anthony Burgess |