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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8faf79c | yrnyh hmyshh swy'ys r wj mdnyt tSwr khrdhnd: khshwry khwchkh w tmyz khh lzm nyst rnndgn twbws blyth r khntrl khnnd chwn hmh mrdm drstkhr hstnd. bh `lwh swy'ys hych wqt z yrnyh stqbl nkhrdh khh yn hm jdhbhy myszd mthl bqy chyzhy skhtyb | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 1a0bf16 | If I had one son and one daughter and could only educate one of them, I would educate my daughter. You know why? A girl without an education has no power; she is always at the mercy of others. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 12c2d87 | All so-called 'quantitative' data, when scrutinized, turn out to be composites of 'qualitative' - i.e., contextually located and indexical - interpretations produced by situated researchers, coders, government officials and others. The | Anthony Giddens | ||
| 48737b7 | We can learn only in the expectation of life. Europe is too preoccupied with its destruction to concern itself with such things. A condemned man is interested only in himself, the passage of hours and such intimations of immortality as he can conjure from the recesses of his mind. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 3d98f13 | A man's features, the bone structure and the tissue which covers it, are the product of a biological process; but his face he creates for himself. It is a statement of his habitual emotional attitude; the attitude which his desires need for fulfilment and which his fears demand for their protection of prying eyes. He wears it like a devil mask; a device to evoke in others the emotions complementary to his own. If he is afraid, then he must .. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 282fc9e | He says that it was people who were safe and well fed who invented good and evil so that they would not have to worry about the people who were hungry and unsafe. What a man does depends on what he needs. It is simple. You are not a murderer. You say that murder is evil. Jose would say that you are as much a murderer as Landru or Weidmann and that it is just that fortune has not made it necessary for you to murder anyone. Someone once told .. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 1b516cd | I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him. Special sorts of conditions must exist for the creation of the special sort of criminal that he typified...all I do know is that while might is right, while chaos and anarchy masquerade as order and enlightenment, those conditions will obtain.. | psychology war | Eric Ambler | |
| df29b8f | It's amazing, isn't it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we've accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live...and die. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 91a49df | For about five minutes, as I tried to get the Vespa to start, I fell in love with her. The oversized raincoat made her look about eight, as though she should have had matching Wellies with ladybugs on them, and inside the red hood were huge brown eyes and rain-spiked lashes and a face like a kitten's. I wanted to dry her gently with a big fluffy towel, in front of a roaring fire. But then she said, "Here, let me--you have to know how to twi.. | Tana French | ||
| 7b3be2b | She could envision Shakespeare's sister. But she imagined a violent, an apocalyptic end for Shakespeare's sister, whereas I know that isn't what happened. You see, it isn't necessary. I know that lots of Chinese women, given in marriage to men they abhorred and lives they despised, killed themselves by throwing themselves down the family well. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm only saying that isn't what usually happens. It it were, we .. | Marilyn French | ||
| e7954f3 | All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes. | rape rape-culture rapists | Marilyn French | |
| 7183432 | neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain and The Male Brain, which point out that a man has two and a half times as much brain space devoted to sexual pursuit as a woman, while the female brain's empathy system is considerably more active than the male's.3) | Marilyn Yalom | ||
| 08e5487 | Jesli zmarli zyja dalej, to tylko w naszych umyslach i sercach. | Simon Beckett | ||
| c737ea4 | Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 519f79a | We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended. --Francois Mauriac, The Desert of Love | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| 7b94a87 | Estoy cansada de sentirme mal, cansada de defenderlo o justiciar su comportamiento porque su madre lo abandono, cansada de necesitar un chico para ser feliz, cansada de este estupido apodo de Sabbie, simplemente cansada. Quiero ser feliz sola. Quiero divertirme. Quiero ser segura de nuevo y superarlo. Seguir adelante. | Laura Bowers | ||
| e08a1eb | What doesn't kill you will eventually turn you on | humor | Erika Lopez | |
| 5ba54c7 | Due to some mental hiccup I can't explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 54e615e | And as the room starts to fill with the first somber-faced neighbors coming to pay their respects, it becomes clear to me that the reason for filling the shiva house with visitors is most likely to prevent the mourners from tearing each other limb from limb. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| cf09e2e | Nothing doesn't happen all at once. It starts slow, so slow that you don't even notice it. And then, when you do, you banish it to the back of your mind in a hail of rationalizations and resolutions. You get busy, you bury yourself in your meaningless work, and for a while you keep the consciousness of Nothing at bay. But then something happens and you're forced to face the fact that Nothing is happening to you right now, and has been for s.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 8e9bec8 | Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15 | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 77e7bce | The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 96a4f36 | If they're letting her cry anyway, I don't really see the point of the baby monitor, but that's one of those questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll just get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| ec3f392 | Love made us partners in narcissism | lovers partners | Jonathan Tropper | |
| b87dcf7 | I'm not a fan of country music, but there's no better music to drive to. Turn the right song up loud enough on the Porsche's sound system and it will swallow you whole. The past is prelude and the future is a black hole, but right now, hurtling north across state lines for no particular reason, I have to say, it feels pretty good to be me. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a311bf8 | It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d2bfcf2 | The point is, people become possessive of their grief, almost proud of it. They want to believe it's like no one else's. But it is. It's exactly like everybody else's. Grief is like a shark. It's been around forever, and in that time there's been just about no evolution. You know why?" "Why?" "Because it's perfect just the way it is." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 502ded8 | And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim. | father grudge rencor | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 77b0560 | Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked. Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 8de668d | The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it. With his long white beard and stout build, he has to know the effect of wearing a red and white anorak and how inappropriate the whole getup looks in the Mount Zion Cemetery. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 417d668 | arms stop me from crumpling like a rag doll. Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 2f31bb4 | Bllod will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a1bc0f7 | What would you like to do today?" he says. She gives him a funny look. "What are my options?" "Sky's the limit." She considers it for a moment. "Brunch?" "I say the sky's the limit and all you can come up with is brunch?" "I'm just not sure we live under the same sky." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| ffac23f | Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white pus" chap 22." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 9f9444f | I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there. | funny-humor god | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 768c021 | But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you. | insurance joke | Jonathan Tropper | |
| e1b74d8 | In high school, if you can find a girl who will kiss you and maybe let you touch her breasts and a guy who likes the same movies as you, your world is pretty much complete. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 20c4ac2 | People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 86bf72e | The really good liars, the true grandmasters of bullshit, are so damn convincing because they actually believe their own lies. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 009eb3f | But someday I'll fall in love again, right? I'll start over with someone, and maybe we'll buy a big old house with all this new money I have, and we'll have kids, and I'll be a professional writer, maybe even write some books. I'll have this whole great life, and it will be thanks to Hailey dying in a plane crash. And I don't know exactly at what point it will happen, but the time will come when I'll have crossed this line where maybe I wou.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 6571591 | The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 2dd48d6 | Someone should sing, Silver thinks, and then someone does-a low, somewhat hoarse man's voice singing "Amazing Grace" quietly but with great sincerity. Ruben's eyes grow wide, and almost in the same instant that it occurs to Silver that "Amazing Grace" is not sung at Jewish funerals, he recognizes the singing voice as his own. But Mrs. Zeiring is looking at him, not with anger or surprise, but a strange half-smile, and he decides that the on.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| e95c4c4 | It must be tough," I said sincerely. "Having no clear line between your reality and your bullshit." "There's a line," Jack said. "It just moves around a lot." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| c22f76a | He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at this propensity as a gift, then a curse, and now understands it to be just another way in which he is broken. | Jonathan Tropper |