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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c606405 | And this is one of the final things I learn about love: it's found in its purest form, on this imperfect earth, between mothers and young children, because there's nothing they want except to make each other happy. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| d18b5ad | Like many Indian children, I grew up on the vast, varied, and fascinating tales of the Mahabharat. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 1480233 | Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. I | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| d21f689 | Some things can't be spoken. The body alone knows them. It holds them patiently, in its silent, intelligent cells, until you are ready to see. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 2b8a1c6 | That's how love stops us when it might be healthier to speak out, to not let frustration and rage build up until it explodes. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| f46cb9b | Motherhood taught me something new about love. It was the one relationship where you gave everything you had and then wished you had more to give. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0d4366c | And the mother, who through all the years of her hardship had never shed a tear, wept at his trust and her deception. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 81211b2 | Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him- into the very earth and air and water- until there's nothing else. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 6e0d0f9 | Forgive me, Sister, I said silently, you who are the unsung heroine of this tale, the one who has the tougher role: to wait and to worry. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| f52f309 | I learned a new fact about love that day: it could kill. Sometimes it could kill instantaneously. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 1c3c693 | it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| b334b96 | Such is the ancient law of the universe. Of karma and its fruit. The idea of motive is irrelevant to it. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 77bd91f | The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| db29193 | Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c2e18f0 | Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 3dcdfe4 | no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 990c13d | continually amazed at just how many skills and crafts could go into making "a lovely home"--the patchwork quilts you could sew, the curtains you could ruffle, the cucumbers you could pickle, the rhubarb you could make into jam, the icing-sugar decorations you could create for your Christmas cake--which you were supposed to make in September at the latest (for heaven's sake)--and at the same time remember to plant your indoor bulbs so they w.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 04f6d59 | Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving. " 'Sacrifice,' " he remembered" | Kate Atkinson | ||
| baedaf4 | A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| eaa6096 | Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit where once they must have been bursting toward the light- | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 8e521d8 | The Knights' Code," which he had learned by heart from Scouting for Boys, a book he frequently turned to in times of uncertainty, even now in his self-exile from the movement, demanded that "Chivalry requireth that youth should be trained to perform the most laborious and humble offices with cheerfulness and grace." He supposed entertaining Izzie was one of those occasions. It was certainly laborious." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c5a0ceb | All the men in the family" went to the school, his Hampstead grandmother said (his only grandmother, Sylvie's mother having died long ago), as if it were a law, written down in ancient times. Teddy supposed his own son would have to go there too, although this boy existed in a future that Teddy couldn't even begin to imagine. He didn't need to, of course, for in that future he had no sons, only a daughter, Viola, something which would be a .. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 8e1dacd | He caught the look on her face, a mixture of distaste and confusion which eventually resolved into something more cryptic. Women usually needed to be acquainted with him a little longer before he saw that expression on their faces. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 21143f9 | There is a Hindu legend that tells us that there was once a time when all men were gods, but they abused their divinity. Brahma, the god of creation, concluded that people had lost the right to their divinity and decided to take it away from them. Wanting to hide it somewhere where they wouldn't be able to find it, he called a council of all the gods to advise him. Some suggested that they bury it deep in the earth, others that they sink it.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ed723e4 | And she could be depressed if she wanted to be, she could sit and watch Dogs with Jobs on the National Geographic Channel and eat her way through a packet of chocolate bourbon biscuits if she felt like it because nobody cared about her. In fact, she could sit there all day, from Barney and Friends to Porn Babes Laid Bare, with hours of the Landscape Channel in between, and eat the contents of an entire biscuit factory until she was an obese.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a1491ad | Seven million German dead, including the five hundred thousand killed by the Allied bombing campaign. The sixty million dead overall of the Second World War, including eleven million murdered in the Holocaust. The sixteen million of the First World War, over four million in Vietnam, forty million to the Mongol conquests, three and a half million to the Hundred Years War, the fall of Rome took seven million, the Napoleonic Wars took four mil.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 96f72fa | There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening, | Kate Atkinson | ||
| da598d0 | Viola could start again--there are no second chances, life's not a rehearsal, blah, blah, blah--yes, but if she could, if she could retake the journey that wasn't really a journey, what would she do? She would learn how to love. Learning to Love, a painful but ultimately redemptive journey, displaying warmth and compassion as the author learns how to overcome loneliness and despair. The steps she takes to mend her relationship with her chil.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 05b8f38 | A van drew up in the centre of St. Helen's Square and disgorged several people dressed as zombies. The zombies proceeded to chase the men who were dressed as condoms. The condom men didn't seem very surprised, as if they were expecting to be chased by zombies. ("They pay for it," Bertie said.) Was this fun? Viola despaired. It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviousl.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 58b3866 | One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| ba2fe68 | I don't think I'd mind working on a cheese counter. It would leave my mind free to do whatever it wanted - which is nothing in particular, it's true, but I like being alone in my head, I'm used to it. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| e764f1c | Vinny rarely leaves the house so when she does it's an occasion of some importance to her. She spends a lot of time looking forward to a glimpse of the outside world and then, when she returns, even more time complaining about it. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 74e2894 | royal blue frock coat covered in gold braid and, even more ridiculously, a top hat. Howell had such an imposing presence that rather than losing dignity in this flunky's outfit he actually made it seem strangely distinguished. Howell | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 5b3f137 | They had been awestruck not only at the sight of the Alps by moonlight but by the depthless inky-black skies, pricked with thousands upon thousands of stars--bright seed broadcast by some generous god, Teddy thought, drifting dangerously close to the forsaken realm of poetry. There were sunsets and dawns of thrilling grandeur and once, on a run to Bochum, a spectacular show that the Northern Lights put on for them--a vibrating curtain of co.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 9766d65 | her proficiency in the Classics would somehow stand her in better stead when opening and closing filing-cabinet drawers and conducting endless searches among a sea of buff-coloured folders. It wasn't quite the 'interesting job' she had envisaged but it kept her attention and over the next ten years she rose slowly through the ranks, in the bridled way that women did. ('One day a woman will be Prime Minister,' Pamela said. 'Maybe even in our.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a65ec17 | After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete. | videos | Kate Atkinson | |
| 9586116 | That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) - one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 27dc226 | She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 2bb2a17 | Nor, says Nora, do we want commonplace tales of hausfrau Angst, of the woman heroically making over her life with a handsome new lover, a beautiful child, a happy ending. Instead, we shall have murder and mayhem, plots and sub-plots, a mad woman in the attic, purloined diamonds, lost birthrights, heroic dogs, a soupcon of sex, a suspicion of philosophy. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 818df21 | You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?) | eva-braun | Kate Atkinson | |
| fd8a5cd | The plot thickens," he said, and wished he hadn't said that because it sounded like something from a bad detective novel. "I think we have a suspect." That didn't sound much better. "My house has just exploded, by the way." At least that was novel." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 459ff94 | Afterwards--because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy--he resolved that he would try always to be kind. It was the best he could do. It was all that he could do. And it might be love, after all. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 960a072 | Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 7230eb8 | She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a bowl of strawberries on the table, the happy baby hitched on her hip while she threw corn to the chickens. It would be like a Hardy novel before it all goes wrong. | Kate Atkinson |