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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 909a324 | This way she could feel the rush of warm air, blowing back her hair as if she were a plant. She could go out into the night and become a part of it and forget who she was. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| e327f28 | Spun sugar clouds and extraterrestrial crystal vintage T-birds flying through space, morning-glory girls swinging from star-hung vines in cosmic gardens. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 870973b | Take my eye," I say. "I have another." | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5d4d9bb | I am not a hero, I am not Odysseus, there are no gods or goddesses guiding me. All I have is myself. And Hex's sword. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 2d470d3 | I close my eyes. I am the visionary, the one-eyed seer, the storyteller. I am Pen. I can fight with the power of images and words. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 3d57865 | Be love because you are. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| fefb4f4 | I still can't talk about it," he said "Duck." Dirk touched his cheek "I remember, later, my mom trying to run into the water and I'm trying to hold her back and her hair and my tears are so bright that I'm blind. I knew she would have walked right into the ocean after him and kept going. In a way I wanted to go too." | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 52a517d | So the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin, not smart, too smart, not beautiful, not a woman not not not. All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts .. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 1144e16 | And then--with the curse, or, in this case, blessing, of the unpopular, the unathletic, the overweight, the strange--they vanished like shadows into the spring night. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 79d9dd7 | my love wants to change the world she thinks she has so much to give not realizing how much she takes from others my love is loyal until she senses rejection of any kind then she flies like a bird but has less memory of where she came from i would like to protect you from my love | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| ebf9133 | Max asked, 'Why death, do you think?' 'The Iroquois say that the world was too full, so the men and women got together, separately, to find an answer. The men came up with the idea of not having any more children. But the women refused to give up having babies. Death was their answer.' Max nodded. He took a deep breath. It felt like he hadn't breathed like that in month, maybe years. | native-american-legends | Francesca Lia Block | |
| b262ce7 | If we don't write our stories, how will we truly know who we are? How will we define the world? How will we touch the mysteries of life? | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| caa92d5 | When Cherokee and Raphael got back to the canyon house, they set up the tepee on the grass and crept inside it. They lay on their backs, not touching, looking at the leaf shadows flickering on their canvas, and trying to identify the flowers they smelled in the warm air. "Honeysuckle." "Orange blossom." "Rose." "The Sea." "The Sea! That doesn't count!" "I smell it like it's growing in the yard." They giggled the way they used to when th.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 29022bb | If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, .. | la-quote los-angeles new-york new-york-city nyc | Francesca Lia Block | |
| f6cd4cd | What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem? | francesca-lia-block similie violet-claire | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 390cd46 | You said it wasn't fair. Over and over again you kept saying that. You said, There are so many kids that want to die. She's probably the one that wanted to live the most. I thought, no, I want to live as much as she did. But only if... and then I realized how much it sucked for me to think that. Think about myself like that, complain. I was here and I could go dancing and sweat all night and eat donuts and go roller-skating and take bubble .. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 40a3651 | I climb through the rubble toward the door. It takes a long time, time enough for a Giant to see me from the blood-red stained-glass eye window and reach out to crush me in his hand the size of a tractor. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 639422d | She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there--you can't see or smell or hear, touch, or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 8080e5c | Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had driven away in the smashed yellow T-bird, leaving her mother Brandy-Lynn clutching her flowered robe with one hand and an empty glass in the other, and leaving Weetzie holding her arms crossed over her chest that was taking its time to develope into anything | different ducky offbeat weird wild witchy | Francesca Lia Block | |
| c9250a1 | what would it be like if i thought i was pretty what would it be like if i carried that knowledge around like i do the knowledge that i am a writer pretty like peonies pretty like satin pretty like the child i was would i speak to you differently would i be healthier less stressed less worried would i buy more shoes or fewer would i be more or less afraid of death would i find something else to hate about myself would i get this jealous whe.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 101b2ba | like pretty what would it be like if i thought i was pretty what would it be like if i carried that knowledge around like i do the knowledge that i am a writer pretty like peonies pretty like satin pretty like the child i was would i speak to you differently would i be healthier less stressed less worried would i buy more shoes or fewer would i be more or less afraid of death would i find something else to hate about myself would i get this.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 7b24c32 | I can arrange words on a page but I can't seem to organize books on a shelf. Over the years, My Secret has shelved thousands and thousands, held each one in his hands. He thinks they might have seeped into him, through his skin, as much as the books he's read. At night and on his days off we spend hours talking about writing. He reads three or four books at a time. When he's not working at the bookstore he goes to other bookstores around th.. | book-sellers books francesca-lia-block the-thorn-necklace words writing | Francesca Lia Block | |
| ef7b4a4 | ONE BY ONE I HAD WATCHED THEM ALL DIE. | Mikal Gilmore | ||
| 9aa2fb4 | Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. --OSCAR WILDE, | Mikal Gilmore | ||
| 52adf50 | According to our Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, people do not write well when they are happy. If you are content with life, you simply want to enjoy it. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 1208157 | Mientras pensamos en el presente, se esta convirtiendo en pasado. | presente | Qiu Xiaolong | |
| 12fd7a2 | No son las personas las que hacen las interpretaciones sino las interpretaciones las que hacen a las personas. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| a74a5e0 | Eine Rose gebrochen, ehe der Sturm sie entblattert. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| 6e67d4f | Ein ehrlicher Mann mag stecken, in welchem Kleide er will, man muss ihn lieben. | humanism hyacinth-bridgerton | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| b030b3e | Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe! | humanism | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| b7e276d | Dasjenige aber nur allein ist fruchtbar, was der Einbildungskraft freies Spiel lasst. Je mehr wir sehen, desto mehr mussen wir hinzu denken konnen. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| d3e147e | Ich will doch sehen, wer mich halt, - wer mich zwingt, - wer der Mensch ist, der einen Menschen zwingen kann. | freedom liberation | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| d74e103 | Nicht die Kinder bloss, speist man mit Marchen ab. | children fairytales | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| a4a741f | Ist dieses Land die Welt? Geht hier allein die Sonne auf? | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| 64e91bf | Hier kommt eine Nahrung, bei der man eher Grillen machen kann. Der liebe melancholische Kaffee! | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| e0f335c | Wer uberlegt, der sucht Bewegungsgrunde, nicht zu durfen. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| 2f875b9 | Except for Christianity, the Nazis reject as Jewish everything which stems from Jewish authors. This condemnation includes the writings of those Jews who, like Stahl, Lassalle, Gumplowicz, and Rathenau, have contributed many essential ideas to the system of Nazism. But the Jewish mind is, as the Nazis say, not limited to the Jews and their offspring only. Many "Aryans" have been imbued with Jewish mentality--for instance the poet, writer, a.. | jews national-socialism nazis | Ludwig von Mises | |
| 1b8f259 | At the same time that he was devising a response to the Afghanistan incursion, Carter had to confront a much more acute crisis in Iran, where he had brought the greatest disaster of his presidency down upon himself. In November 1977, he welcomed the shah of Iran to the White House, and on New Year's Eve in Tehran, raising his glass, he toasted the ruler. Though the shah was sustained in power by a vicious secret police force, Carter praised.. | William E. Leuchtenburg | ||
| 2df67a3 | The one thought Conan had on the spot about the half hour at 11:35 was that it would likely exacerbate the problem he already had with Leno. 'So at least now, Jay does his show, but there's the break of the news, and that's kind of the reset button,' Conan said to Gaspin and Graboff. 'At 11:35 Jay's going to come out and do twenty jokes. And then what's he going to do?' When they replied that it seemed likely he would have only one guest, C.. | Bill Carter | ||
| 0e2d49c | Why do we rely almost exclusively on markets and commercial firms to produce cars, steel, and wheat, but much less so for the most critical information our advanced societies depend on? | Yochai Benkler | ||
| edd9d49 | I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy's universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way. "Hey!" | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 6d4d853 | There was a parallel universe that ran alongside the normal world, and if you went through the wrong door, or turned left instead of right, ran up the street instead of down it, you could accidentally push the curtain aside and end up in that other place, where everything was different and everything was wrong. That | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 254f776 | Back then, I didn't understand that what was happening in my house was not happening in everyone's house at night, when the doors were shut and the blinds were drawn. It took me just as long to sort out my physical self--how to dress in a way that flattered my shape, how to do my hair and makeup (or pay professionals to do it), how to be in a body, in the world. It took time before I could take all that pain and use it; transform all that l.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 39f8285 | There is no magic weight, no magic size, no magic number on the scale where, as soon as you hit it, confetti rains down and a band starts to play and hidden doors slide open and Daniel Craig walks through them to lift you in his arms (because, thin as you are, he totally can) and carry you into the life of uninterrupted bliss that you just know could be yours, if you only wore a size two dress. | Jennifer Weiner |