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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 65abb15 | As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions. | John Irving | ||
| 5d03c0c | why Edward Bonshaw had been so attached to it? "A glooming peace this morning with it brings"--well, yes, and why would such darkness ever depart? Who can happily think of what else happened to Juliet and her Romeo, and not dwell on what happened to them at the end of their story?" | John Irving | ||
| 0842a43 | SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY--NOT QUITE YOUNG ANYMORE, BUT NOT OLD EITHER; A LITTLE BREATHLESS, VERY BEAUTIFUL, MAYBE A LITTLE STUPID, MAYBE A LOT SMARTER THAN SHE SEEMED. AND SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING--I THINK SHE WANTED TO BE GOOD. LOOK AT THE MEN IN HER LIFE--JOE DIMAGGIO, ARTHUR MILLER, MAYBE THE KENNEDYS. LOOK AT HOW GOOD THEY SEEM! LOOK AT HOW DESIRABLE SHE WAS! THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS: SHE WAS DESIRABLE. SHE WAS FUNNY AND SEXY.. | John Irving | ||
| 9f04e09 | I think you're being selfish." "What do you mean, selfish?" Wally asked. "A war is for your country, it's serving your country!" "To you, it's an adventure," Candy said. "That's what's selfish about it." | John Irving | ||
| 1ca58a2 | If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. | teaching | John Irving | |
| f5517fa | Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! | John Irving | ||
| b960d6e | Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! | John Irving | ||
| 84455a8 | All this I knew, and yet it was a different thing, to learn it from Delaunay: not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. When I understood this, Delaunay said, I might begin to understand. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 7dc92ac | There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| e1dc6f5 | You're better off," d'Aiglemort said dryly. "Steel and faith are an unnatural mix." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 6f2f53f | The enemy of fear is not courage," Jahno translated for her. "The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| b73fda7 | if you want to live in the city you have to think ahead three turns, and look behind a lie to see the truth and then behind that truth to see the lie. | Vikram Chandra | ||
| 08767cd | When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though sometimes in ways she wished against" Lynnie p 228-229" | Rachel Simon | ||
| 0a1f1e7 | How many others are out there? How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love? | love | Rachel Simon | |
| 511e705 | He could not talk himself out of pain any longer. He had no one to be strong for. So finally, he cried. He cried with deep sobs, head bent to the ground, palms pressed to his eyes. He cried so hard that sorrow rushed out of his face. He cried until he felt like the sea. | Rachel Simon | ||
| b20d22a | So you never know when you can get through. p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who was an alcoholic | Rachel Simon | ||
| bd0c1e4 | But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292 | Rachel Simon | ||
| 0294a70 | Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 8403238 | I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phedre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would. I wasn't sure I wanted to, either. | mystery prediction spontaneity | Jacqueline Carey | |
| c498a15 | I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind. | truisms women women-s-minds | Karen Essex | |
| d3d0ee1 | There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation? | fate innermost-desires | Karen Essex | |
| a36e7b8 | it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men. | talented-women women women-s-strength | Karen Essex | |
| fad6bba | Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility. | perfection viewing-art viewing-nature | Karen Essex | |
| 1f0eed2 | I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted. | karen-essex telling-the-truth unburdening-oneself | Karen Essex | |
| 241dd6f | Time. What was time? Time is a river that flows both forward and backward. How could that be true? | karen-essex time-passing | Karen Essex | |
| b606526 | She was keen on the idea that a strong mind, enforced with a strong will, could overcome any difficulty. | mind-over-matter | Karen Essex | |
| eb98edc | Costis, I am speechless!" "Not noticeably, Your Majesty." | humor | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 2362853 | lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn't. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 8d19ed9 | The king's attendants remained, digesting the fact that their helpless, inept king had promised his wife to destroy the house of Erondites in six months and had done it in ninety-eight days. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| e797176 | Eugenides] looked from Eddis to the window, where the visible sky was already dark. He looked back, his gaze a little sharper, and said, "You forgot me." Eddis shoved her hands into the pockets of her trousers.. "Don't lie," Eugenides said, pressing her. "You charged off in a haze of glory to chase the vile Mede from our shore, and you never gave me a thought until they were gone." He twisted to address Attolia. "You forgot me, too," he acc.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 77edcb9 | It might have been preferable," Eddis admitted, dryly, "if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering." Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. "I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not su.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| ac7a9f7 | Faith did return in extremis | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 1f2353a | What would you do if you were King's Thief, Gen? Chew with your mouth open in the royal presence? Chat with the court ladies, dropping the h's at the beginning of your words and garbling the ends of most of them? Everything about you reveals your low birth. You'd never be comfortable at the court. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 4c4e5d4 | The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| dc00b10 | They always asked wistfully what the weather was like, and were not pleased with the answer. They consoled themselves by warning me about skin cancer and the addling effecr of sun on the brain. I didn't argue with them; they were probably right. But addled, wrinkled and potentially cancerous as I might have been, I had never felt better. | Peter Mayle | ||
| fd238d8 | We had to be up early in the morning. We had a goat race to go to... We asked the old man confident in the knowledge that he, like every Frenchman, would be an expert. "The goats who make the most droppings before the race are likely to do well. An empty goat is faster than a full goat. C'est logique." | Peter Mayle | ||
| 4640d9c | An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why." William Faulkner" | Paul Cronin | ||
| 6bd2a39 | In ancient Greek the word "chaos" means "gaping void" or "yawning emptiness." The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema." | Paul Cronin | ||
| 9d62dc3 | As our lawyer friend had noticed, men kiss other men. They squeeze shoulders, slap backs, pummel kidneys, pinch cheeks. When a Provencal man is truly pleased to see you, there is a real possibility of coming away from his clutches with superficial bruising. | Peter Mayle | ||
| de4bc1d | Even back in 1968, the first time I was at the Berlin Film Festival with one of my films, I found it ossified and suffocating. I felt the festival should be opened up to everyone and screen work in other cinemas around the city, so I took the initiative, got hold of some prints by young filmmakers and rented a cinema for a few days in Neukolln, a working-class suburb of Berlin, which at the time was populated largely by immigrants and stude.. | Paul Cronin | ||
| dd699be | During the Second World War, Goebbels gave an order to all cameramen at the front: "The German soldier always attacks from left to right." That was it, no further explanation. Sure enough, if you look at old newsreels, the Germans always advance from the left to the right of the screen." | Paul Cronin | ||
| 0d5f1e2 | He then expounded a remarkable theory, which had occurred to him while he was playing the clarinet during one of the power cuts that the French electricity board arranges at regular intervals. Electricity, he said, is a matter of science and logic. Classical music is a matter of art and logic. Vous voyez? Already one sees a common factor. And when you listen to the disciplined and logical progression of some of Mozart's work, the conclusion.. | Peter Mayle | ||
| dccce27 | It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you. | france | Peter Mayle | |
| ac9f1b9 | We had been here often before as tourists, desperate for our annual ration of two or three weeks of true heat and sharp light. Always when we left, with peeling noses and regret, we promised ourselves that one day we would live here. We had talked about it during the long gray winters and the damp green summers, looked with an addict's longing at photographs of village markets and vineyards, dreamed of being woken up by the sun slanting thr.. | Peter Mayle |