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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 10b245d | form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 40838aa | I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 27e8734 | The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy. . . . She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave. | love power | Mary Jo Putney | |
| 574b5d7 | I love you," he gasped. "For always." "And I love you," she whispered as tears filled her eyes. He rolled on his side and drew her close, his arms sheltering against the storm that pounded on London. The sky itself wept because they loved each other, and it wasn't enough. As" | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| b17aacb | Are you still afraid of me?" He touched her fallen hair with a butterfly's delicacy. She might not have noticed that touch, except that she noticed everything he did. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them and met his gaze steadily. "Aristophanes said that boys throw stones at frogs in jest, but the frogs, they die in earnest. You're going to break my life into splinters, then move on without a second thought. Yes, my lord, you .. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| fc5ed16 | Michael is easier to understand--he had to believe in Caroline. To betray a friend was despicable--to acknowledge that he had done so for a woman who was utterly unworthy | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| b019b82 | I think that marriage is always the triumph of hope over fear. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 62c2182 | What a pity that men couldn't find such satisfactions without killing so many of their fellows. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 08859f4 | Don't you care that your neighbors are suffering?" "In a word, no. The Bible says that the poor will always be with us, and if Jesus couldn't change that, I certainly can't." | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 400e937 | Has anyone ever pointed out that you're too clever by half?" "It's been mentioned. Why do you think I'm a spinster?" | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| d56a5aa | Gentlemen do not work. Since I do not work, therefore I must be a gentleman. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 561b658 | Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 8d86f3d | It's all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn't have this story to tell you. I wouldn't be the same person telling it. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 620f60a | Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She | Lisa Unger | ||
| 18f620a | When you hate women, you hate all the female elements of your own psychology. Jung believed that there were two primary anthropomorphic archetypes of the unconscious mind. The animus is the unconscious male, and the anima is the unconscious female. Because a man's anima, his more sensitive, feeling side, must so often be repressed, it forms the ultimate shadow self--a dark side that is hated and buried. Jung was a big believer in accepting .. | Lisa Unger | ||
| fcc4b25 | As parents, we must accept that our children are who they are. We can't make them into something we want, or be disappointed in them because they don't meet our artificial expectations. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 5027500 | It's never one thing that leads to a tragic accident, she was sure she'd read once--though she couldn't say where. It's usually seven things--seven mistakes, or errors in judgment, or acts of negligence. If you reverse engineer any major disaster--oil spill or train derailment or airplane crash--there are usually seven things that had to go wrong in order for them to occur. Claudia | Lisa Unger | ||
| b0ed322 | You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that? The | Lisa Unger | ||
| 74541f6 | Birdie wondered why that so often seemed to be the case--once you had what you wanted, it was a shadow of what you'd dreamed it to be. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 5224d45 | Fear holds on. Love lets go. | Lisa Unger | ||
| ad51bc2 | All she could think of was how pure and unblemished, how soft and pink his baby skin had been. How his wonderful body, small and pristine, used to feel in her arms, how she'd kiss every inch of him, marveling at his beauty. When she was a new mom, she'd felt like she couldn't pull her eyes away. Now she cast her eyes back at her catalog quickly, not wanting to look at her own son, at what he'd seen fit to do to his beautiful body.....Not a .. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 47c7822 | Honestly, it's the most you can ask of men sometimes. They're so wound up, so buried beneath layers of "boys don't cry," and "pussy," and "man up," that they don't even know how to feel about anything. I should know." | Lisa Unger | ||
| 359edf7 | Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 354422b | Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree? | Lisa Unger | ||
| 30d381b | there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn't how things went. | rule-for-life work-hard | Lisa Unger | |
| 3307185 | Didn't it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn't it seem like people always fawned over them even though they behaved badly? Why was that? | mean sense-of-entitlement | Lisa Unger | |
| 63847c5 | She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 0468779 | when we put on clothes, we're telling ourselves something, and we're communicating that something to every person we meet. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 63eedec | Dysfunction isn't a choice, it's a disease. | Lisa Unger | ||
| ad8a2f1 | We count so much on politeness, those of us who are hiding things. We count on people not staring too long, or asking too many questions. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 3b38ec5 | We hate our parents for having their own lives, don't we, for making decisions for themselves that don't seem to take us into account. They're not people, not really. They're parents; how dare they live and love and die without us? | Lisa Unger | ||
| 6bd2c13 | I couldn't leave there without carrying some of her sadness and loneliness with me like a cloak. There was a smell that I've come to think of as life rot. Where a life has spoiled, gone bad through lack of use. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 3c36de6 | In that moment,feeling my isolation in a way I never had before, I thought about calling her. But I didn't want to hear the fear and disappointment in her voice. I didn't want to to deal with her expectations of me. Maybe that's why we choose to isolate ourselves, those of us who do. Because in so many ways, it's just easier. | Lisa Unger | ||
| e138ca2 | The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people. | business consumption corporations marketing | Bill Maher | |
| b02e7eb | A dismal omen: ...this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue. | reluctant-cult-leader | Kathleen Maher | |
| 0a58279 | We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue-- ! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, win. We win! | consumption ignorance politics war-on-terror waste | Bill Maher | |
| 72855a7 | We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us. | patriotism unwilling war-on-terror | Bill Maher | |
| 58b0efd | New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit? | politics | Bill Maher | |
| 95f362b | We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism; it means telling unlike things apart. | racism | Bill Maher | |
| 598b9ac | New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.? | humor large-hadron-collider science | Bill Maher | |
| 35f8d6f | New Rule: Coal companies have to stop calling coal "energy." That's like a lumber company calling wood "fire." Or Budweiser calling beer "urine." Okay, that one kind of makes sense." | Bill Maher | ||
| d5964c3 | New Rule: You can't bum-rush the president for autographs after he just lectured you for an hour about how you have to grow up. Have some dignity, for Christ's sake. He's your coworker, not Hannah Montana. If you're this crazy about him now, what are you going to do if he turns the country around, ask him to sign your tit? | Bill Maher | ||
| 0c9e733 | New Rule: If one of your news organization's headlines is about who got kicked off last night, you're no longer a news organization. Sort of like, if you were on last night, you're no longer a star. | Bill Maher | ||
| 135f202 | Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock and they say "the kitchen is closed." For years I would hear this, and think, "damn, just a little too late, oh well, thank you, I guess it's Denny's again." And then one day it hit me: kitchens don't . Just as at home, at a certain point in the night, I stop the kitchen--but at three in the morning, if I want to, I s.. | analogy budget budget-cuts budgeting economy humor impossible possible | Bill Maher |