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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4fcbe55 | The seventh guitar was a nervous person, because he was nearly blind. He'd been able to see reasonably well with an extremely thick pair of glasses, but he'd lost these six years ago and since then he'd lived in a confusing landscape distilled to pure color according to season--summer mostly green, winter mostly gray and white--in which blurred figures swam into view and then receded before he could figure out who they were. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 3e497a0 | He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon .. | bullet conflagration designer dictator frank-chaudhary functional jeevan-chaudhary libya paraplegic patterns pieces reuters snow snow-cream spinal-cord the-fullness-of-time tongue vanilla wondrous | Emily St. John Mandel | |
| 9f786f6 | If the dreams of the last speaker of Chamicuro won't survive the passage into another language, then what else has been lost? What else that was expressible in that language cannot be said in another? | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| f01e7a5 | They acted because they loved acting, but also, let's be honest here, to be noticed. All they wanted was to be seen. I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the faces of long-dead actors on the screen, and I think about how they'll never truly die. I know that's a cliche but it happens to b.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 2656730 | I'm like a man in a wheelchair watching other people run. I can see what good acting is but I can't quite reach it but I'm so close sometimes, V. I'm really trying. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 90cde7d | I believe when you're speaking English, you're allowed to refer to it as Prague. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| df22eb6 | She watched his gaze flicker over her suit, her gleaming shoes, and realized he was performing the same reconciliations she was, adjusting a mental image of a long-ago spouse to match the changed person sitting before him. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 597570d | There were a number of impractical shoes, stilettos mostly, beautiful and strange. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 53d0309 | At moments when other people could only stare, he wanted to be the one to step forward. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 22c0bbe | There seemed to be a limitless number of objects in the world that had no practical use but that people wanted to preserve: cell phones with their delicate buttons, iPads, Tyler's Nintendo console, a selection of laptops. There were a number of impractical shoes, stilettos mostly, beautiful and strange. There were three car engines in a row, cleaned and polished, a motorcycle composed mostly of gleaming chrome. Traders brought things for Cl.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 0edf387 | If you write literary fiction that's set partly in the future, you're apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives. | sci-fi | Emily St. John Mandel | |
| f7e9dc3 | Garrett had had a wife and four-year-old twins in Halifax, but the last call he'd ever made was to his boss. The last words he'd spoken into a telephone were a bouquet of corporate cliches, seared horribly into memory. "Let's touch base with Nancy," he remembered saying, "and then we should reach out to Bob and circle back next week. I'll shoot Larry an email." | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 97e6c13 | But what made It bearable were the friendships, of course, the camaraderie and the music and the Shakespeare, the moments of transcendent beauty and joy when it didn't matter who'd used the last of the rosin on their bow or who anyone had slept with, although someone - probably Sayid - had written "Sartre: Hell is other people" in pen inside one of the caravans, and someone else had scratched out "other people' and substituted "flutes"." | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| bbc1be6 | I think people like him think work is supposed to be drudgery punctuated by very occasional moments of happiness, but when I say happiness, I mostly mean distraction. You know what I mean?" "No, please elaborate." "Okay, say you go into the break room," she said, "and a couple people you like are there, say someone's telling a funny story, you laugh a little, you feel included, everyone's so funny, you go back to your desk with a sort of, .. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 6a93faa | Being alive is a risk. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| e91fed3 | the more you remember, the more you've lost. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| b6b842c | That evening they broke into the Mexican restaurant and cooked an enormous dinner of ground meat and tortilla chips and cheese with sauces splashed over it. Some people had mixed feelings about this--they'd obviously been abandoned here, everyone was hungry and 911 wasn't even operational; on the other hand, no one wants to be a thief--but then a business traveller named Max said, "Look, everyone just chill the fuck out, I'll cover it on my.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| b5232c7 | A tired king at the end of his reign, perhaps not as sharp as he had been, contemplating a disastrous division of his kingdom. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 6fdbf14 | He was the second violin and a secret poet, which is to say that no one in the Symphony knew he wrote poetry except Kirsten and the seventh guitar. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| c1a3344 | A quote crossed her mind, from a 'The Way of the Peaceful Warrior,' a book she had found solace in while going through her numerous troubles over the last few years. It stated, "Stress happens when your mind resists what is. The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds." | Nikki Sex | ||
| 8f62754 | My gorgeous little rabbit," I say, in a voice that is low and husky with passion. "I may dominate you in the bedroom, Em, but you dominate my thoughts, my hopes and my dreams. I love you, Emily Jarman and I'm going to fall in love with you again and again, each and every day of our lives." | Nikki Sex | ||
| 31bac5b | Caring too much was a big a part of her nature. | Nikki Sex | ||
| 0b37648 | I may hide for a while - but I never run. | Nikki Sex | ||
| 24398e8 | Life' and 'Fair' were two words that just didn't belong in a sentence together - unless the word 'Not' was in there, too. | Nikki Sex | ||
| 787145f | Good sex requires further exposure than simply removing one's clothes. And as for a good relationship? Ah! For this one must be prepared to reveal even more." -- Andre Chevalier" | relationships secrets sex | Nikki Sex | |
| b6df8ef | I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. Andre Chevalier | depression giving-up humanity love trust trust-issues | Nikki Sex | |
| 5d7ef5b | Find one person to trust--there need only be one. With them, share every shame, every secret and listen to theirs... with love. Bare hearts and souls until there is understanding. Of a certainty, such honest exposure is the first step toward happiness. -- Andre Chevalier | happiness honesty secrets shame trust | Nikki Sex | |
| d96f8a9 | Sex is an act of pleasure and an expression of love. How better to communicate one's deepest feelings than without the clumsy use of words? -- Andre Chevalier | feelings-of-love love sex | Nikki Sex | |
| 8a5b186 | Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. Andre Chevalier | intimacy lies pretending relationships | Nikki Sex | |
| 2229a88 | He'd never been shy, but he'd always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn't believe they liked him. | funny humour romance | Robyn Carr | |
| 9aecf6b | Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." -Nelson Mandela (Pg. 80 of The Homecoming)" | nelson-mandela romance | Robyn Carr | |
| c27a37f | Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast. | Robyn Carr | ||
| bc48916 | I'll always be your friend," he said. "Your best friend, if you let me. But I want to be your lover, too." He groaned and shifted in his chair. "Soon. I want to be that soon." Then a look came over him. "Oh Gina...I didn't even court you! God, I should date you first before I beg you to take off your clothes!" | funny humour romance romantic | Robyn Carr | |
| 0eaa278 | Isn't he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour? | funny humour romance | Robyn Carr | |
| fc26306 | You've been treading water," she said. "You're marking the years, not living them." | Robyn Carr | ||
| bd62d58 | She shrugged."I always put in long hours. I really wanted a wife." He leaned toward her."Jilliam, honey, The whole world wants a wife. But we're gonna have to make do..." -- | Robyn Carr | ||
| 5d057ab | How's the family, Jack?" "Exceptional. Mel's exceptionally gorgeous and demanding, Emma's exceptionally beautiful and David is an exceptionally bad terrible two. We may not survive him." "Oh," | Robyn Carr | ||
| f923ca6 | In the end, where I live isn't going to be up to me. I'm not letting them get away. If Abby insists on living in some godforsaken place like London, I'll follow." Mel couldn't help it, she burst out laughing. "Godforsaken London? I'd give my eyeteeth to spend a year in London." "You know what I mean," he said. "I understand--you got your head wrapped around being a small-town doctor, living in the mountains, a low-stress lifestyle, and then.. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 2acae3b | Stop judging how everyone else treats their faith and study your own," George had counseled." | Robyn Carr | ||
| f2de08e | She lay on her back, her belly sticking up like a mountain on top of her little frame, and Jack couldn't keep his hands off of it. While there was a time he couldn't keep his hands off the rest of her--and she had no doubt they would be there again before long--right now it was the antics of his baby within her that occupied him thoroughly. He would let go a loud bellow when her entire abdomen shifted, caving in on one side and protruding e.. | Robyn Carr | ||
| b626f2c | Does still run fiction?" "I have absolutely no idea, Melinda," he said, grinning." | funny humour romance | Robyn Carr | |
| 448f20c | have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next. | Robyn Carr | ||
| fa6a0ae | Crying will release the sorrowful thoughts on the mind. | Robyn Carr | ||
| d48c331 | People tend to treat a miscarriage like a heavy period but it's a death. You lost your baby. You have to take time to grieve. | Robyn Carr |