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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7140b46 | What crannies of untouched perception can you explore? What autumn was it that moon entered your life? When was it that you picked blueberries at their quintessential moment? How long did you wait for your first true bike? Who were your angels? What are you thinking of? Not thinking of? Writing can give you confidence, can train you to wake up. | natalie-goldberg writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| d8a94b8 | We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water; we don't drink a glass once and never have to drink one again. We don't finish one poem or novel and never have to write one again. Over and over, we begin. This is good. This is kindness. We don't forget our roots. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 5776a37 | Writing, too, is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you wrote, it pours out of you. If you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else. You don't only listen to the air, the chair, and the door. And go beyond the door. Take in the sound of the season, the sound of the color coming in through the windows. Listen to the past, future, and present right where y.. | memoir natalie-goldberg writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| f91fbf6 | Tibetan Buddhists say that a person should never get rid of their negative energy, that negative energy transformed is the energy of enlightenment, and that the only difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle. If we stop struggling and open up and accept what is, that neurotic energy naturally arises as wisdom, naturally informs us and becomes our teacher. | neurosis wisdom | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 4357ebe | He knew the sound of an AK-47. It made a high-pitched, more mechanical crack than the American rifle, the M16, which made a deeper, rounder sort of pop. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 7ff74f1 | In the world's most dangerous country, the job of going after Pablo was the most dangerous position of all. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 1497305 | They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 8e72294 | They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America ... they knew each other better than most brothers did. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 7c167bc | The United States had a long bipartisan tradition of negotiating with even its worst enemies, from John Kennedy--'Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"--to Richard Nixon's opening with China, to Ronald Reagan's famous 'walk in the woods' with MIkhail Gorbachev. Obama's position was firmly in line with longstanding diplomatic practice. George W. Bush's post-9/11 policy--'You are either for us or against us'-.. | international-policy obama | Mark Bowden | |
| 3db1734 | For a country to have a great writer is like having another government, | Mark Bowden | ||
| b11d425 | Never had a general so effectively willed away the facts. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 3572565 | The city was shredding them block by block. No place was safe. The air was alive with hurtling chunks of hot metal. They heard the awful slap of bullets into flesh and heard the screams and saw the insides of men's bodies spill out and watched the gray blank parlor rise in the faces of their friends, and the best of the men fought back despair. They were America's elite fighters and the were going to die here, outnumbered by this determined.. | Mark Bowden | ||
| e40103c | Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 43b6ba0 | John Updike once said that he was confused by the very concept of "antiwar," which he felt, and I'm paraphrasing him here, was like being "anti-food" or "anti-sex," since war was such an essential element of human experience." | Mark Bowden | ||
| b77289b | Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 900954d | But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. This is Walter Cronkite. Good night. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 57be50a | As students, we took all of this for granted, like oxygen in a lecture hall, and we heaped harsh judgment on the Christian West," John recalled. "But we rarely asked, 'Compared to what?' The 'what' was always some form of utopian ideal. But utopian ideals have not fared so well. In the twentieth century, secular utopian idealists presided over the extermination of a hundred million people, killed for 'a higher good' by the apostles of Darwi.. | Nancy Pearcey | ||
| 993bd00 | Operation Nancy Drew Goes To Hex Hall starts today! | Rachel Hawkins | ||
| 5944436 | No, no!" Nancy cried out. She then gave a quick but complete resume of what had taken place at the Tophams' cottage. Jeff Tucker added his account. Nancy reported what had taken place at the Tophams' cottage The police officer needed no further urging. Immediately he summoned four men and issued orders." | Carolyn Keene | ||
| a18000f | Ada and Isabel had been unpopular in high school. They had talked incessantly of money and social position, making themselves very obnoxious to the other students. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 1e6deff | Then she began to quote from Shakespeare: 'But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. | nancy-drew | Carolyn Keene | |
| 2473deb | Nancy drove to Twin Elms as fast as the law allowed. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 898ae14 | What's in your backpack, Bess?" Nancy Drew asked" | Carolyn Keene | ||
| a3ab135 | When Miss Carter came back to the table she reported that laboratory tests had shown that the "sleepy" kitten had indeed been drugged." | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 9589665 | She touched her forehead with the back of her | Carolyn Keene | ||
| ec198c9 | agencies | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 2793992 | You haven't lived until you've seen an Irish wolfhound parading around in rhinestone-studded gold lame. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 9c017de | The future is a many-forked path," she said, "and only you can choose which one to follow." "I know that. What I don't know is what waits at the end of those paths." "Victory or death. Choose well." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| dbfaf47 | We arrived someplace where the ground was as blue as the sky. Startled by our sudden appearance, blue pheasants erupted out of the blue grass and shat blue shit. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ddd134b | The danger of growing old is growing comfortable and complacent at the same time. We should seek out the new and strange and applaud it and throw wild fecking parties whenever it walks into our lives. We should be building roads in and out of our own wee heads rather than erecting walls around them. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| bec3722 | Do you think I'm some sort of sex-starved loser?" "Well, you are American." "What!" Great festering tapir tits, that was a stupid thing to say." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5d6c61d | Vampires inspire screams, not squees. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ea0f6a3 | You, sir," I said, "have all the dignity of a badger with the clap. Shark shit has more fiber than you. I'm going to tie you nuts-first to a monkey's cage and make a mix tape of the resulting noise. Then I'm going to take a bag of marshmallows and a pair of granny panties and--" Coyote" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6489cc3 | His eyes were glowing egg yolks, burning Scut Farkus eyes to make your kidneys cringe. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e2d00ea | misbegotten cockwaffle. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c399e3d | And the Morrigan, I noted, had been right about thrice-cursed trickster gods. They were torrential fucksluices spraying their happy juices on the innocent and the damned alike. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 372053a | They say, 'You know nothing, Jon Snow. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 21b8eae | Better to ask forgiveness than permission and to answer their shenanigans with even better shenanigans. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b20f3fe | When you're driving, you don't focus on everything at once, but you have peripheral awareness of it, right? You focus on what you need to at any given moment, whether it's the car in front of you, the jackass in the lifted truck passing you, or the sirens behind you, whatever. Everything exists, everything is there, but you don't have to see it all at once. Does that help? You don't have to see all the bindings you're seeing right now. Just.. | focus | Kevin Hearne | |
| e688d49 | wooden plaque hangs from a nail, reading THE MASTER IS OUT, and I shake my head and flip it around. The other side also says THE MASTER IS OUT. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 15343ac | not complaining. I'm lobbying. It's this whole other word.> | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a54bd63 | this is weird, I feel like I should be telling you a story right now." Oberon" | inside-jokes | Kevin Hearne | |
| c375df6 | The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life ... / All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 670bf21 | Oberon Atticus "Gods below, I think you're right. Quick, to the Geekmobile!" | Kevin Hearne |