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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6ba5258 | They touch life with gloves on. They're pretending about something all the time. Pretending quite nice and decent things, of course. But still...' 'Everybody pretends,' Marya was thinking. 'French people pretend every bit as much, only about different things and not so obviously. She'll know that when she's been here as long as I have. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 7c1d378 | she had ignored the Heidlers because she realized that she could afford to display coldness, and that no good ever comes from being too polite. | Jean Rhys | ||
| bb45edc | She watched through a slight mist a party of people who had just come into the restaurant, the movements of arms taking off overcoats, of legs in light-coloured stockings and fee in low-heeled shoes walking over the wooden floor to hide themselves under the tablecloths. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 183167d | My father old Cosway, with his white marble tablet in the English church at Spanish Town for all to see. It have a crest on it and a motto in Latin and words in big black letters. I never know such lies. [...] "Pious", they write up. "Beloved by all." Not a word about the people he buy and sell like cattle. "Merciful to the weak", they write up. Mercy! [...] I can still see that tablet before my eye because I go to look at it often. I know .. | english-prose | Jean Rhys | |
| ba2299a | When we are in a corner with a coffee and a fine each he says: 'Do you know what I feel about you? I think you are very lonely. I know, because for a long time I was lonely myself. I hated people, I didn't want to see anyone. And one day I thought: "No, this isn't the way." And now I go about a lot. I force myself to. I have a lot of friends; I'm never alone. Now I'm much happier.' That sounds pretty simple. I must try it when I get back to.. | Jean Rhys | ||
| b643035 | Better not I tell you. You want to know what I do? I say , if you have trouble you are right to come to me. And I kiss her. It's when I kiss her she cry - not before. | english-prose | Jean Rhys | |
| 58e45a5 | Nothing left but hopelessness.' Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 89a1197 | Is it true,' she said, 'that England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who married an Englishman wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.' 'Well', I answered annoyed, 'that is precisely how your beautiful island seems to me, quite unreal and like a dream.' 'But how can rivers and mountains and the sea be unreal?' 'And how can millions of people, their houses and their .. | dreams | Jean Rhys | |
| f8cba60 | her waist goes in , her hips come out, her long black hair is coiled into a smooth bun on the top of her round head. She is very restful to the tired eye. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 40aa5c0 | THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of the furniture shrank away into corners, battered and apologetic. | Jean Rhys | ||
| a2ae856 | Mistakes happen. Learn from the past, but concentrate on the present and the future. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2c9cff8 | I'm a little old-fashioned in some ways, and that carries over to this arrangement. Call it outdated chivalry, but there are some places I don't feel women should go. Not because they aren't intelligent or able. I just feel there is a certain respect with which a lady should be treated." "Are you saying there are places you'd take" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 6119734 | Rachel showed Ulani how to work the camera. Jason explained that the device would capture and preserve the image, along with their souls. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 8e543c9 | Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?" "I thought if I stayed" | Brandon Mull | ||
| bcb9e70 | Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 14354f4 | Telling that guy a secret is like writing it across the sky | Brandon Mull | ||
| 9b500ee | One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception. | loremaster truth | Brandon Mull | |
| 6f94fba | have to get to Shoreless Isle? You'll have to go back in time from there, right? | Brandon Mull | ||
| 1b8c173 | Before Five Kingdoms is complete, I will begin work on the sequel series to my Fablehaven books. It will be called Dragonwatch. I'm excited to share more stories about the characters of Fablehaven including Kendra, Seth, Newel, Doren, Warren, Bracken, Vanessa, Raxtus, etc. If you're liking Five Kingdoms but haven't tried Fablehaven, you should get to know those people! If you'd like to connect | Brandon Mull | ||
| e25ed8e | Being butchered by monkeys is pretty low on my list of ways to go. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 9cd63d6 | rumors. I'll not say more on the subject. Cheese in your eggs?" "Yes, please." * * * With Kendra gone, Seth got out the equipment he had bundled in his towel, including his emergency kit and the jar he had smuggled from the pantry. The jar was now empty, washed clean in the bathroom sink. Taking out his pocket knife, Seth used the awl to punch holes in the lid. Unscrewing the top, he gathered bits of grass, flower petals, a twig, and a pebb.. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 90ab0e1 | Laughing, Bracken threw his sword aside and extended a hand towards the wizard. "To me," he said...The unicorn horn lept from the wizard's hand and streaked to Bracken, who caught it effortlessly. In his grasp the horn immediately transformed into a sword..." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 34ad71a | Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day? | fantasy-fiction fantasy-series fiction young-adult | Brandon Mull | |
| 4a3b323 | The stupidest word Jason could have imagined. Utter nonsense. Supposedly it would unmake Maldor. He repeated the odd syllables in his mind, varying the inflection. If it failed, he could always try "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 92bf803 | Early to bed, early to rise," Ziggy said. "Early or late, sleep is sleep," Victor grunted" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 8664dc8 | Look, my terrible childhood is all I've got! Don't you dare try to top it. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 7ea7a0e | Mira admitted. "This is my risk to take. Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed." "Technically, you can't live if you get killed," Jace pointed out." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 60bc76b | The first step in becoming a leader, then, is to recognize the context for what it is--a breaker, not a maker; a trap, not a launching pad; an end, not a beginning--and declare your independence. | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| e161b59 | A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations. | Robert Bringhurst | ||
| 9a79ddc | Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. | Robert Bringhurst | ||
| c4ea890 | You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble. | image image-about-yourself projection self-esteem self-image | Victoria Holt | |
| 6a8a9eb | When one grows older one learns that happiness--complete and unadulterated happiness--comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present. | joy life | Victoria Holt | |
| 54650e4 | On my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight from London reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the Prime Minister, Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. This seemed doubly astounding to me - first that Australia could just lose a.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| cae8da2 | Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square . . . | Tom Holt | ||
| ea9bebd | You persuade yourself that all is well even though you are feeling bored or unfulfilled and you are not sure if your husband or wife is your Soul mate. You have tried your best and you have created a pretty good life for yourself despite your circumstances. 'At least you are safe' your damaged self whispers. 'At least no one suspects how wounded you are. In fact, I do not even think you are damaged anymore. Look at your nice home, your spou.. | Victoria Holt | ||
| 56f6af7 | nqsh: " tstTy` 'n t`rf 'n 'Tflk kbrw `ndm ytwqfwn `n sw'lk `n kyfy@ mjyy'hm l~ lHy@ wyrfDwn khbrk l~ 'yn hm dhhbwn !! | P.J. O-Rourke | ||
| 460b3d3 | Anybody who's having fun at an Elk Lodge meeting has the fun thing figured out. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| a757a65 | Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. | government | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| bc78487 | solipsism of adolescence with its wild enthusiasms, | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 0b93571 | As P. J. O'Rourke once observed, no woman daydreams about being swept off her feet by a liberal. | Greg Gutfeld | ||
| 471e309 | Capitalism, so called, is when free people accumulate capital of their own free will for use on freely determined projects. The fact of the matter is that most of these projects flop. Donald Trump, for example. Every property he touches seems to go to hell. "Fat Cat" would be the wrong epithet for Trump. If someone other than paroled former Enron accountants were keeping his books, he'd probably be shown to have a net worth less than that o.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 20c4988 | To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again." -- | Maxine Swann | ||
| ecbd416 | A good way to learn is to find a book that seems to be dealing with the problems that you're now dealing with. That will certainly give you some clues. in my own life I took my instruction from reading Thomas Mann and James Joyce, both of whom had applied basic mythological themes to the interpretation of the problems, questions, realizations, and concerns of young men growing up in the modern world. You can discover your own guiding-myth m.. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 1a61a7d | Myths and dreams," according to Joseph Campbell, "are manifestations in image form (metaphors) of all of the energies of the body, moved by the organs, in conflict with each other." | James Bonnet |