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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a1919bb | Children follow examples not advice | Jason King Godwise | ||
| c0c36cb | You have no right to remain ignorant | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 10218d7 | There is no safety in stupidity | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 917c236 | There is no refuge in ignorance | Jason King Godwise | ||
| c0c1817 | There is not beneath the sky an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted my mother who bore me into a myth; it shrouded my father in mystery, and left me without an intelligible beginning in the world. | David W. Blight | ||
| bccad1f | He [Lincoln] was preeminently the white man's president," Douglass continued in his forceful baritone, "entirely devoted to the welfare of the white man. He was ready and willing at any time during the first years of his administration to deny, postpone, and sacrifice the rights of humanity in the colored people to promote the welfare of the white people of the country."12" | David W. Blight | ||
| f51b3c2 | My poor mother," Douglass wrote, "like many other slave women, had many children, but NO FAMILY!"21" | David W. Blight | ||
| 4091ba0 | Everybody in the south," wrote Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else." | David W. Blight | ||
| 26cbccd | Then he defined patriotism: "The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins--and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them." | David W. Blight | ||
| 4dbcec2 | the silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured | Joan Aiken | ||
| 6fa5159 | They came to the high stone shaft with the face of Sul; they descended to the terrace below. And here Caradog waited, leaning on his silver-tipped rod and eying the horizon, until the delicate slip of the new moon moved out from behind the shoulder of Mount Damyake, with the mysterious, shadowy ghost of the old moon cradle inside it, like an egg inside its egg cup. "Now it is time," he said. "Blame it!" expostulated Dido. "It ain't for me.. | Joan Aiken | ||
| 167da1f | Make yourself someone Who you would like to know | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 60b4096 | The meaning of life is found In one's children | Jason King Godwise | ||
| d1eefa5 | You're right. I have no heart because I lost it to you. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c847466 | She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from the historical society. The building had a haunted history- it was the site of a crime of passion- but Tess didn't mind. She'd never been superstitious. The apartment was filled with items she'd collected through the years, simply because she liked them or was intrigued by them. There was a balance between heirloom and .. | apartment heirlooms history kitsch tess-delaney unusual | Susan Wiggs | |
| 620bf90 | Kyle Bohner, | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 6fe8feb | There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is--the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It's too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It's been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks--the expiration date on her childhood. | parenting | Susan Wiggs | |
| b95b89f | For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people--a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 8b44140 | Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul. | just-breathe | Susan Wiggs | |
| 062a9b4 | Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c9730b4 | Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they'll become your friends. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c34ef52 | There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn. | Susan Hill | ||
| a988125 | She had a ghostly pallor and a dreadful expression, she wore clothes that were out of keeping with the styles of the present-day; she had kept her distance from me and she had not spoken. Something emanating from her still, silent presence, in each case by a grave, had communicated itself to me so strongly that I had felt indescribable repulsion and fear. And she had appeared and then vanished in a way that surely no real, living, fleshly h.. | Susan Hill | ||
| f21f14a | czlowiek nie moze pozostawac bez konca w stanie wielkiego przerazenia. Albo emocje rosna do tego stopnia, ze pod naciskiem coraz okropniejszych wypadkow i skojarzen ono ogarnia go tak bardzo, ze ucieka badz popada w szalenstwo. Lu tez wewnetrzne poruszenie zacznie go stopniowo opuszczac, ustepujac miejsca rosnacemu opanowaniu. | kobieta-w-czerni przerażenie | Susan Hill | |
| 23f533c | he told me, married and with a child of his own. | Susan Hill | ||
| bfa6661 | Mozna oskarzyc czlowieka o tchorzostwo, jesli ucieka przed wszelkiego rodzaju fizycznymi zagrozeniami. Ale gdy juz nie tylko jego bezpieczenstwu i dobremu samopoczuciu, ale wrecz jego zdrowiu i jego najtajniejszemu jestestwu zaczynaja zagrazac zjawiska nadprzyrodzone, bezcielesne i niewytlumaczalne, wtedy odwrot jest oznaka nie slabosci, ale tego, ze wybral rozsadna linie postepowania. | zjawiska-paranormalne | Susan Hill | |
| 8de2a7d | It was nine-thirty on Christmas Eve. As I crossed the long entrance hall of Monk's Piece on my way from the dining room, where we had just enjoyed the first of the happy, festive meals, toward the drawing room and the fire around which my family were now assembled, I paused and then, as I often do in the course of an evening, went to the front door, opened it and stepped outside. | Susan Hill | ||
| 10633dd | Come ... | Susan Hill | ||
| a640170 | There was something about Great-Uncle Merry that was like the hills, or the sea, or the sky; something ancient, but without age or end. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 5804370 | I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence once lost, is lost forever. | Susan Hill | ||
| dac4075 | The Reverie of Poor Susan AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years: Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. 'Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. .. | William Wordsworth | ||
| eed908d | Zanpano~: What are your buddies in central Scheming?! Mini-Enzy: I don't know... | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 41f7e15 | For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern. | life patterns | Jane Gardam | |
| 5a6ac9f | She wanted to take his hand. Her hardest task now as she grew older in the Ministry was to deal with her longing to be touched - hugged, stroked by anyone, any human being - a friend, a lover, a child or even (and here she scented danger) a servant. Of either sex. She prayed about it, asking that God's encircling arms would bring comfort. They did not | Jane Gardam | ||
| aa171f0 | Judges live with shadows behind them. | Jane Gardam | ||
| 91b3956 | Thank you," he said. "I'm glad you enjoyed it. If there is anyone here this afternoon whom I have convinced that books are meant to be enjoyed, that English is nothing to do with duty, that it has nothing to do with school - with exercises and homework and ticks and crosses - then I am a happy man." He turned away but then he turned back again and he suddenly simply shouted, he bellowed "To hell with school," he cried. "To hell with school... | english reading school | Jane Gardam | |
| 58a60a9 | revealing Jane in all her blood-soaked glory, | Jeanne Birdsall | ||
| e52ff4b | We do not get lots of realizations in our lives as much as we get the same ones over and over. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 2206472 | Intimacy puts us in touch with fragility, he realized, and the acceptance of fragility opens us to intimacy. | Mark Epstein | ||
| c11e77b | To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all. | Mark Epstein | ||
| c2609de | The Buddha] is not dividing himself into worthy and unworthy pieces; he is one being, indivisible, immune from the tendency to double back and beat up on himself. He has seen the worst in himself and not been taken down. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 49da740 | the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always sounded a bit melodramatic, even if a careful reading of history seemed to support it. "Pervasive unsatisfactoriness" | Mark Epstein | ||
| d323921 | Painful or frightening affect becomes traumatic when the attunement that the child needs to assist in its tolerance, containment, and integration is profoundly absent,"8 writes Robert Stolorow, a philosopher, psychologist, and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, in his book about trauma. "One consequence of developmental trauma, relationally conceived, is that affect states take on enduring, crushing meanings. From recurring experienc.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 964ace7 | Much of what we think of as "relational knowing"--joking around, expressing affection, and making friends5--is based in this kind of memory. We know how to do it without thinking about it. It does not require deliberate attention or verbal processing, yet it is intrinsic to who we are." | Mark Epstein |