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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cd73db2 | There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go. | George Saunders | ||
| cdf1b28 | Yet it has 58 uses as a noun, 126 as a verb, and 10 as a participial adjective. Its meanings are so various and scattered that it takes the OED 60,000 words--the length of a short novel--to discuss them all. A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1af97fe | She felt an unexpected pang of homesickness (or was it some physical complaint?) and suddenly remembered that it was her mother's birthday today or tomorrow or sometime last week. | Stephen Wright | ||
| f133c77 | Failing at everything except his fear of success. Passed over yet again. Archivist of slights. Everyone else's good fortune is food out of your mouth or a hug you never got from someone who should have loved you better. Halfway through lunch she realized glass ceilings allow glimpses up into another person's hell. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 8529a5b | What did you get for that, for knowing the day you were born into the white man's world? It didn't seem like the thing | Colson Whitehead | ||
| d611853 | How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties-so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 10f6906 | To see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be any moment. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| dd99905 | I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 84bc7a4 | No ne po-dobroto or'zhie, nito p'k svr'khestestvenata mu lovkost uzhasiavashe i otbl'skvashe kuchetata. Onova, koeto gi nakara da pobiagnat panicheski i da zarezhat dvete m'rtvi pseta s puknati cherepi, beshe, che toi be vliaz'l v bitka s tiakh -- toi napadashe, dokato nie se zashchitavakhme. Toi be siguren v pobedata si, a nie prosto se borekhme, za da otseleem. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9b4b2c0 | it's a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 34a4406 | The clue to everything a man should love and fear in her was there, right from the start, in the ironic smile that primed and swelled the archery of her full lips. There was pride in that smile, and confidence in the set of her fine nose. Without understanding why, I knew beyond question that a lot of people would mistake her pride for arrogance, and confuse her confidence with impassivity. I didn't make that mistake. My eyes were lost, swi.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| bfd184e | Baskalarinin kalplerinde buldugun gercegi sev. Ve kendi kalbindeki sevginin sesine daima kulak ver. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 336d26f | Ask, kader ve yaptigimiz secimler hakkinda bildiklerimi ogrenmem cok uzun surdu, dunyanin pek cok yerini dolasmam gerekti ama hepsinin ozunu bir anda, bir duvara zincirlenmis halde iskence gorurken kavradim. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| fabdc1f | Trevogata se taeshe v g'rdite mi, stiskashe s'rtseto mi i chesto nab'bvashe do takava groteskna m'ka, che useshchakh kak se zadaviam, kak tia me dushi. Vinata e dr'zhkata na nozha, s koito sami se probozhdame, a liubovta chesto e ostrieto; no trevogata e tazi, koiato tochi ostrieto, i v kraia na kraishchata tia ubiva povecheto ot nas. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 034836d | Ia liubliu tebia s toi samoi sekundy, kogda vpervye uvidel tebia. Mne kazhetsia, ia vsegda liubil tebia - stol'ko, skol'ko sushchestvuet na svete liubov'. Ia liubliu tvoi golos. Ia liubliu tvoe litso. Ia liubliu tvoi ruki. Ia liubliu vse, chto ty delaesh', i to, kak ty eto delaesh'. Kogda ty prikasaesh'sia ko mne, mne kazhetsia, chto eto volshebnaia palochka. Ia liubliu sledit' za tem, kak ty dumaesh', i slushat' to, chto ty govorish'. Ia c.. | love people shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 61d7c8e | People always hurt us with their trust, Karla said to me once. The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| abfcad2 | Niama obektivno i universalno priemlivo opredelenie za dobroto i zloto. I dokato ne se sdobiem s nego, shche prod'lzhavame da opravdavame sobstvenite si deistviia i da zakleimiavame deistviiata na drugite. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a81ce4d | Wherever you go in the world, in any society, it is always the same when it comes to questions of justice - We concentrate our laws, investigations, prosecutions, and punishments on how much crime is in the sin, rather than how much sin is in the crime. " - Abdul Khader" | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9271b2f | It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c8727ad | But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5e8f883 | And while a small measure of bitterness might've protected me from time to time, as it sometimes does, I've learned that sweet memories don't walk through cynical doors. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c412a04 | Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f12df8a | Salman i ostanalite si v'obraziavakha ne po-malko ot Chukha i ubiitsite Sapna, che tekhnite malki tsarstva gi praviat tsare, che borbite za nadmoshchie gi praviat mog'shchi. A ne beshe taka. Tova ne be v'zmozhno i togava go os'znakh tolkova iasno, kato che za pr'v p't proumiavakh matematicheska teorema. Edinstvenoto tsarstvo, koeto pravi choveka tsar, e tsarstvoto na sobstvenata mu dusha. Edinstvenoto mog'shchestvo, koeto naistina imashe st.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9355616 | The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 00ab8c7 | Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong--that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b0c8196 | Non diventi uomo finche non doni il tuo amore sincero e disinteressato ad un bambino. Ma non sei un vero uomo finche non ricevi in cambio l'amore sincero e disinteressato di un bambino. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 22662a8 | Esiste una diversita fra dolore e sofferenza: cio che impariamo dal dolore - per esempio, che il fuoco scotta ed e pericoloso - e sempre individuale, mentre cio che impariamo dalla sofferenza ci affratella, ci fa sentire parte della razza umana. Se sperimentiamo solo dolore, senza sofferenza, cio che impariamo serve solo a noi stessi. Il dolore senza sofferenza e come una vittoria senza battaglia | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4947487 | Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 83a6c20 | Vyras turi susirasti gera moteri, o kai susiranda - laimeti jos meile. Paskui jis turi pelnyti jos pagarba. Tada puoseleti pasitikejima. O paskui jis turi taip daryti, kol juodu gyvi. Kol abu mirsta. Stai kas yra prasme. Tai svarbiausias dalykas pasaulyje. Stai kas yra vyras, jar. Vyras tampa tikru vyru, kai laimi geros moters meile, pelno jos pagarba ir nepraranda jos pasitikejimo. Kol to nepadarei, nesi vyras. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 626e3b9 | The drums staggered toward the distant street. Moving away from us, the dancers romped and rolled on the rhythm, their swaying heads like a field of wildflowers weaving back and forth on waves of wind. As the music dwindled to an echo in our minds, the day-to-day and minute-to-minute of slum life slowly reclaimed the lanes. We gave ourselves to our routines, our needs, and our harmless, hopeful scheming. And for a while, a little while, our.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c214be9 | The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 961eb5f | If you know bikes at all, you can tell a lot about a man by how he rides. Abdullah rode from reflex rather than concentration. His control of the bike in motion was as natural as his control of his legs in walking. He read the traffic with a mix of skill and intuition. Several times, he slowed before there was an obvious need, and avoided the hard braking that other, less instinctive riders were forced to make. Sometimes he accelerated into.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 14e327c | E' sempre un errore molto sciocco rimanere soli con qualcuno di cui non avresti mai dovuto innamorarti | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b3ebb8e | Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out--your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8d1e00f | I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future,' she said slowly. 'I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, if we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is--a way of earning the future. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| cd82c88 | She was a river, not a stone, and every day was another curve in tomorrow's plain. She was pulled from a family she loved, and that loved her, she thought, until they took the word of a man, a friend and neighbour, who raped her. Years later, when she killed the rapist and went on the run, she severed every connection to her own life. She was runaway tough, a dancing cat, a green witch, and safe from everything but herself, like me. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6aa7e14 | The size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7a1a833 | Silence is the tortured man's revenge. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6ae42e9 | Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanati.. | extremism fanaticism religious-fanaticism tollerance understanding | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 1d888d4 | Lies we tell ourselves are the ghosts that haunt the empty house of midnight. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9c6b8f4 | good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 64923b7 | The weeks I'd spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side--that most characteristic of Indian expressive gestures--was the equivalent of a forward nod of the head, meaning Yes. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3101b8d | eats most of his meals | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f991599 | I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.' She | Gregory David Roberts |