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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3119094 | Y despues el sollozo. Otra vez el llanto suave pero agudo, y la pena haciendo retroceder su cuerpo. --Han matado a tu padre. --?Y a ti quien te mato, madre? | muerte pena | Juan Rulfo | |
| 050f4ca | mn l`syr 'n tnmw w'nt tdrk 'n lshy' ldh~ ymkn 'n ttshbth bh jdhwrk qd mt | Juan Rulfo | ||
| f0114c0 | Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que aca vivia mi padre, un tal Pedro Paramo ... | méxico pedro-paramo | Juan Rulfo | |
| abd2e8c | Estoy comenzando a pagar. Mas vale empezar temprano, para terminar pronto. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 5f054f2 | What's taking you so long in the privy, son?" "Nothing, mama." "If you stay in there much longer, a snake will come and bite you" "Yes, mama." I was thinking of you, Susana of the green hills. Of when we used to fly kites in the windy season. We could hear the sounds of life from the town below; we were high above on the hill, playing out string to the wind. "Help me, Susana." And soft hands would tighten on mine. "Let out more string." The.. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 033833e | If there was an overriding message in his journals, it was that people, the world over, were alike in their essential nature--even if they ate their enemies, made love in public, worshipped idols, or, like Aborigines, cared not at all for material goods. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| e31f9b8 | When politicians like Sen. Joseph Lieberman target video game violence, perhaps it is to distract attention from the material conditions that give rise to a culture of domestic violence, the economic policies that make it harder for most of us to own our own homes, and the development practices which pave over the old grasslands and forests. Video games did not make backyard play spaces disappear; rather, they offer children some way to res.. | Henry Jenkins | ||
| a23a436 | Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider. | Henry Jenkins | ||
| 78454a3 | His gaze moved from her face to the gun, then back to her face, an annoyingly smug expression creeping across his features. "I don't think so. You ain't got the first notion how to shoot that thing. Can't even find the trigger, can you." He took a menacing step toward her. Nicole raised her left brow. "You mean this trigger?" She cocked the hammer of the Colt Paterson revolver and released the folding trigger mechanism. Will stopped. "You f.. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 788962f | Evelyn Waugh was an illustrator. Poe was a deft portraitist. Hermann Hesse was a skilled painter, as was Strindberg. Emily and Charlotte Bronte drew, as did Goethe, Dostoevsky, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Ruskin, Dos Passos, Blake, Pushkin... | Peter Mendelsund | ||
| 1968c1e | I love you, Emily. You'll always be my best friend. You'll always be my...Molly. You're the mother of my child. You and Noah have brought color to my empty canvas, light into my darkened life. Let's paint the full picture together and light up the sky sweets. I love you both more than anything. I believe in forever, and that's what you and I are. We define eternity. This may sound cheese, but you make me go there. You give me butterflies, E.. | gavin-blake proposal pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| 5528960 | And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone. | John Irving | ||
| 5fd180e | we'll drown our sorrows in buckets of ice cream, | Anna Adams | ||
| 97f976b | Tearing down is always easier than building up, | Charlaine Harris | ||
| be8d3c2 | Would Eric enjoy being a Sooner? As I navigated through Shreveport, I wondered if Oklahoma vampires wore cowboy boots and knew all the songs from the musical. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1d69a31 | It's my partner," he said, smiling. It didn't look easy for him, that smile, but it transformed him from a thin-faced freckled man with a blade of a nose to a man with sexiness to spare." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| acb99e0 | Sookie, you really are smarter than anyone gives you credit for being. | Charlaine Harris (Author) | ||
| a68bcee | No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| e64eb82 | That was the strange thing about translation, speaking someone else's words in a voice that somehow was and wasn't your own. You could fool yourself into believing you understood the meaning behind the words, but-as my father had explained long before I was old enough to get it-words and meaning were inseparable. Language shapes thought; I speak, therefore I think, therefor I am. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 50afece | As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen -- the last day I deserved -- would have involved more chocolate. | humor | Robin Wasserman | |
| 55cc3e2 | Which is to say, I'd been lonely for so long, I'd forgotten that I was. That feeling of disconnection, of grief for something I'd never had, of screaming into a void and knowing no one would hear me---I'd forgotten that was anything other than the basic condition of life. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| d506ce6 | Impossible not to see them, not to remember what it was like, when it was like that. To sit there, shivering, as the sun dips toward the horizon and the wind blows cold over the waves, as the sky blazes red and darkness gathers around the girls, neither of them knowing how little time they have left before the fire goes out. Remember how good it felt to burn. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 82982ca | That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| ce80c04 | She felt, at times, that what had seemed like an infinity of choice turned out to be a funnel, life narrowing itself one bad decision at a time, each mistake cutting the options by half, spiraling her ever downward until there was nowhere left to fall but into a small, dark hole that had no bottom. Choosing | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 1407efc | I envied Elizabeth- but I admired Groot. Because if you truly believed in the lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 0e6555f | There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother. There is a lack, a gap, a void. "How's that?" But in it's place, she has given me something else. Something, I would argue, that is far more valuable. "I think I can get up now." She has given me the way out." | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 9d7fd08 | Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves." --Alison Bechdel" | Austin Kleon | ||
| 7d95aa5 | Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 7d84c87 | Colonel Shoup, who wore a mask of dust and dirt like every other marine on the island, summed up the situation that afternoon: "Well, I think we're winning, but the bastards have got a lot of bullets left. I think we'll clean up tomorrow."57 He was plainly exhausted, having slept not at all the previous night. He was still bleeding through his bandage. His report to General Julian Smith would enter Marine Corps lore: "Casualties many; perce.. | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 020bf24 | On the qualities required of naval officers, Roosevelt was outspoken: "They must have skill in handling the ships, skill in tactics, skill in strategy . . . the dogged ability to bear punishment, the power and desire to inflict it, the daring, the resolution, the willingness to take risks and incur responsibilities which have been possessed by the great captains of all ages, and without which no man can ever hope to stand in the front rank .. | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 60fe80c | Stoddert named Joshua Humphreys Chief Naval Constructor of the United States, and authorized him to oversee naval shipbuilding operations throughout the country. But Humphreys's efforts to impose his authority on shipwrights in other cities met with strong resistance. Different techniques, styles, and designs prevailed in the various seaports, and much of the terminology had evolved into regional dialects that outsiders found unintelligible.. | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 28100b9 | The Japanese people were rapidly succumbing to what would later be called shoribyo, or "victory disease"--a faith that Japan was invincible, and could afford to treat its enemies with contempt. Its symptoms were overconfidence, a failure to weigh risks properly, and a basic misunderstanding of the enemy." | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 0a9a1ad | It seems that all eukaryotic cells either have, or once had (and then lost) mitochondria. In other words, possession of mitochondria is a sine qua non of the eukaryotic condition | mitochondria science | Nick Lane | |
| 651503f | Life itself turned our planet blue and green, as tiny photosynthetic bacteria cleansed the oceans of air and sea, and filled them with oxygen. Powered by this new and potent source of energy, life erupted. Flowers bloom and beckon, intricate corals hide darting gold fish, vast monsters lurk in black depths, trees reach for the sky, animals buzz and lumber and see. And in the midst of it all, we are moved by the untold mysteries of this crea.. | Nick Lane | ||
| 3d1851c | Deaner ran down to the barrier separating the crowd from the pitch, and eventually persuaded the stewards that he had a part to play in the unfolding drama. (Anyone who has ever attempted to talk to a steward at a Premiership football ground will recognize that, whatever else during the afternoon required divine intervention, Deaner's success in getting on to the White Hart Lane turf really was a miracle.) | Nick Hornby | ||
| 4e287b1 | This was difficult to prove as most hydrogenosomes have lost their entire genome, but it is now established with some certainty.1 In other words, whatever bacteria entered into a symbiotic relationship in the first eukaryotic cell, its descendents numbered among them both mitochondria and hydrogenosomes. | Nick Lane | ||
| ee709df | Rather surprisingly, to anyone who is most familiar with textbook mitochondria, many simple single-celled eukaryotes have mitochondria that operate in the absence of oxygen. Instead of using oxygen to burn up food, these 'anaerobic' mitochondria use other simple compounds like nitrate or nitrite. In most other respects, they operate in a very similar fashion to our own mitochondria, and are unquestionably related. So the spectrum stretches .. | Nick Lane | ||
| 78a7a37 | The myosin in our own skeletal muscles is more closely related to the myosin driving the flight muscles of that irritating housefly buzzing around your head than it is to the myosin in the muscles of your own sphincters | evolution muscle science | Nick Lane | |
| 1bf5fc0 | Men are even worse: a hundred rounds of cell division are needed to make sperm, with each round linked inexorably to more mutations. Because sperm production goes on throughout life, round after round of cell division, the older the man, the worse it gets. As the geneticist James Crow put it, the greatest mutational health hazard in the population is fertile old men. | Nick Lane | ||
| 55570ce | The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck, yet nonetheless survived in niche environments. Similarly, on a larger scale, it is rare for the loser to disappear completely, or for the latecomers never to gain at least a precarious foothold. The fact that flight had already evolved among birds did not preclude its later evolution in bats, which became the most numerous mammalian sp.. | common-ancestry common-descent evolution extinction | Nick Lane | |
| 7358dfc | At the level of their biochemistry, the barrier between bacteria and complex cells barely exists. | Nick Lane | ||
| c4b67ca | There's no greater insult in science than to say that an argument is 'not even wrong', that it is invulnerable to disproof. | Nick Lane | ||
| 7865536 | To doubt that life evolved, even if some of the details described in this book may yet prove wrong, is to doubt the convergence of evidence, from molecules to men, from bacteria to planetary systems. It is to doubt the evidence of biology, and its concordance with physics and chemistry, geology and astronomy. It is to doubt the veracity of experiment and observation, to doubt the testing in reality. It is, in the end, to doubt reality. | Nick Lane | ||
| 2d06fc3 | Thermodynamics is one of those words best avoided in a book with any pretence to be popular, but it is more engaging if seen for what it is: the science of 'desire'. The existence of atoms and molecules is dominated by 'attractions', 'repulsions', 'wants' and 'discharges', to the point that it becomes virtually impossible to write about chemistry without giving in to some sort of randy anthromorphism. Molecules 'want' to lose or gain electr.. | Nick Lane |