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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a4e836 | Oh, to be a Chinaman, wished Francie, and have such a pretty toy to count on; oh, to eat all the lichee nuts she wanted and to know the mystery of the iron that was ever hot and yet never stood on a stove. Oh, to paint those symbols with a slight brush and a quick turn of the wrist and to make a clear black mark as fragile as a piece of a butterfly wing! That was the mystery of the Orient in Brooklyn. | Betty Smith | ||
| b74f5f0 | had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. | Betty Smith | ||
| bf52847 | The parents were too American, too aware of the rights granted them by their Constitution to accept injustices meekly. They could not be bulldozed and exploited as could the immigrants and the second-generation Americans. | Betty Smith | ||
| 6cb36fb | time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow. | Betty Smith | ||
| 018c1ef | Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5b3a306 | An answer came to Katie. It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt. | Betty Smith | ||
| 3a955d1 | People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind. | Betty Smith | ||
| c7a22f0 | In the winter, when the first snow was too delicate to last on the sidewalks, it clung to the rough surface of the brick and was like fairy lace. | Betty Smith | ||
| 8e8a254 | She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. She was puzzled and hurt by teacher's attitude. Obviously the teacher hated her and others like her for no other reason than that they were what they were. Teacher acted as though they had no right to be in the school but that she was forced to accept them and was doing so with as little grace as possible. She begrudged them the few crumbs of learning she threw at them. Like the doctor a.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 7b99e6a | There was a special Nolan idea about the coffee. It was their one great luxury. Mama made a big potful each morning and reheated it for dinner and supper and it got stronger as the day wore on. It was an awful lot of water and very little coffee but mama put a lump of chicory in it which made it taste strong and bitter. Each one was allowed three cups a day with milk. Other times you could help yourself to a cup of black coffee anytime you .. | Betty Smith | ||
| b8b8757 | Francie loved the smell of coffee and the way it was hot. As she ate her bread and meat, she kept one hand curved about the cup enjoying its warmth. From time to time, she'd smell the bitter sweetness of it. That was better than drinking it. At the end of the meal, it went downt the sink. | Betty Smith | ||
| 8a8c51f | In his business, he observed human nature and came to certain conclusions about it. The conclusions lacked wisdom and originality; in fact, they were tiresome. But they were important to McGarrity because he had figured them out for himself. In the first years of their marriage, he had tried to tell Mae about these conclusions, but all she said was, "I can imagine." Sometimes she varied by saying, "I can just imagine." Gradually then, becau.. | marriage married-life | Betty Smith | |
| a30ee03 | Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw his job, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. (...) He said he was going to stay in bed and never get up as long as he lived. | men | Betty Smith | |
| b476e66 | He'd get lost if he tried to find his way back to New York from her neighborhood. Brooklyn was tricky that way. You had to live there in order to find your way about. | Betty Smith | ||
| 0aa2453 | She was a blameless sinless woman, yet she understood who how it was with people who sinned. Inflexibly rigid in her own moral conduct, she condoned weaknesses in others. She revered God and loved Jesus, but she understood why people often turned away from these Two. | religion sin | Betty Smith | |
| e0a18d4 | Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. | education school social-class | Betty Smith | |
| 5768a8a | But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might. | Edward Albee | ||
| 18b56cb | Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end. | Edward Albee | ||
| 3e462a3 | Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief. | relief | Edward Albee | |
| 53d0e4e | MARTIN (Serious) Am I too young for Alzheimer's? STEVIE Probably. Isn't it nice to be too young for something? | Edward Albee | ||
| 1311994 | The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke. | Edward Albee | ||
| 8d43624 | Not any more. Not according to Glory Goblin or Brontes the Cyclops. Imbri merely confirms that Hugo has perfected his talent, and is now a good deal smarter and handsomer than before. A woman has to be responsible. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 1c9e2bf | Suddenly I heard Virginia's voice calling to me from the sitting room window: "Hitler is making a speech." I shouted back, "I shan't come. I'm planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead." | hope perseverence | Leonard Woolf | |
| 7ade561 | Leonard Woolf's endurance of Virginia's famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn't remember but she knew she had been "sympathetic" from the age of two. Vita Sackville-West said ab.. | vanessa-bell virginia-woolf vita-sacksville-west | Elizabeth Hardwick | |
| 0ccd040 | Aber jede noch so kleine Verbesserung meines Zustandes entfernte mich weiter von George, und in Wahrheit war seine Gesellschaft die einzige, nach der mich verlangte. Ich empfand es als Verrat, dass ich lernte ohne ihn zu leben. | Kate Mosse | ||
| a89c0d9 | Aber nachdem so viele auf dieselbe Art gebrandmarkt worden waren, wurde es zum Symbol eines guten Charaktern. Ein Ehrenzeichen. Ja. | Kate Mosse | ||
| da9e12a | God is greater than anything man can comprehend. He sees all. Forgives all our sins. He expects no more than for us each to do our best to serve Him. | Kate Mosse | ||
| c2e6473 | Kate Moss famously said that "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." So I thought I'd put together a little list of things she's obviously never tried before that taste so much better than buying into an oppressive body ideal could ever feel: Pasta, pizza, mangoes, avocados, doughnuts, peanut butter, sushi, bacon, chocolate cake, lemon cake, any cake really, blueberries, garlic bread, smoked salmon, poached eggs, apples, roast dinners, co.. | Megan Jayne Crabbe | ||
| f24a50e | Dortchen was called the wild one because one day, when she was seven years old, she had got lost in the forest. She had wandered off to a far-distant glade where a willow tree trailed its branches in a pool of water. Dortchen crept within the shadowy tent of its branches and found a green palace. She wove herself a crown of willow tendrils and collected pebbles and flowers to be her jewels. At last, worn out, she lay down on a velvet bed of.. | wild-child willow-tree | Kate Forsyth | |
| bae1bf9 | Fiction: All vampires are beautiful and youthful. Fact: A Vampire will look like he or she did when they were turned, except that, given the strictly liquid diet, yes they eventually will in time appear unnaturally thin. Think Kate Moss on a diet. | J.C. Mells | ||
| 7557159 | whatever age you are, you will always be his daughter, his little girl. He cannot help but want to protect you. It is the way of things. | Kate Mosse | ||
| f41100c | The suffering of those we love is harder to bear than anything we feel on our own behalf. | Kate Mosse | ||
| c49ce11 | The thinnest shaft of light entered the empty chambers of my heart, just for a moment. Then it disappeared, extinguished by the weight of all that had gone before. | hope smile | Kate Mosse | |
| 775fd34 | It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 9c456ea | I want to touch you.' 'And if you did touch me, what then?' 'I would find a language of beginning. | lovers | Jeanette Winterson | |
| a86a403 | Die Toten hinterlassen ihre Schatten, einen Nachhall des Raumes, den sie einst bewohnten. Sie suchen uns heim, werden nie schwacher oder alter als wir. Wir betrauern nicht nur den Verlust ihrer Zukunft, sondern auch den der unseren. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 72bd5cb | Aber das hat dich krank gemacht, fuhr sie fort. Nicht sein Tod, sondern das danach. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 72b800e | Nahestehende zu uberleben erfordert eine besondere Art von Mut, sagte sie leise. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 5a6b2b6 | Aber ich wollte nicht genesen, wenn ich dafur das wenige, das mir von meinem Bruder geblieben war, aufgeben musste. | Kate Mosse | ||
| f5e1c1e | Wie sehr wollte ich sie vor dem Schmerz des Erinners bewahren. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 95c29bd | Ich vermochte kaum den Kopf hochzuhalten. Ich wollte mich befreien, dem Gefangnis meiner Erinnerung entfliehen. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 2f7237d | In meinem Krankenzimmer herrschte ein Kommen und Gehen. Arzte, die Stationsschwester und ihre Schar von Pflegerinnen in gestarkten Trachten und gummibesohlten Schuhen. Vordergrundig schien sich die Geschichte zu wiederholen. Ein Sanatorium in Sussex, ein Krankenhaus in Fois, ein Patient, der mit dem Leben nicht zurechtkam. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 180e963 | Die derzeitigen und fruheren Bewohner von Nulle wussten, wie abgrundige Trauer den Geist zerfrisst. | Kate Mosse | ||
| c7542fe | It is a tale that begins, as it will end, in a graveyard where the bones and the spiders and the worms inhabit the cold earth. | Kate Mosse |