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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da0041f | And what if it's a trap?" asked Mallinson, but Barnard supplied an answer. "A nice warm trap," he said, "with a piece of cheese in it, would suit me down to the ground." | James Hilton | ||
| b37e35d | CIGARS HAD BURNED LOW, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had. | James Hilton | ||
| d62df2b | Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice. | James Hilton | ||
| 7ca76b4 | Tit-Bits. | James Hilton | ||
| 9796f5d | Then, my son, when the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall inherit the earth. | meek strong war | James Hilton | |
| a57c848 | For the first time in his life he felt necessary--and necessary to something that was nearest his heart. There is no sublimer feeling in the world, and it was his at last. | James Hilton | ||
| 1824755 | It did not require a great deal of imagination to picture a world in which power had passed into the hands of Al Capones with their private bombing squadrons. | James Hilton | ||
| de13e17 | I thought I heard you--one of you--saying it was a pity--umph--a pity I never had--any children ... eh? ... But I have, you know ... I have ..." The others smiled without answering, and after a pause Chips began a faint and palpitating chuckle. "Yes--umph--I have," he added, with quavering merriment. "Thousands of 'em ... thousands of 'em... and all boys." | James Hilton | ||
| 97d9761 | Aunt Viney (short for 'Lavinia'), viewed in the grey daylight that came in through the dining-room window, was always a rather imposing spectacle. She was fifty-one years of age, and had large staring eyes, quick bustling movements, more than a tendency to stoutness, a menacing optimism that was not quite matched by a sense of humour, and the most decided opinions upon everything. She was an excellent 'manager', and for more than a decade h.. | James Hilton | ||
| 8738edb | explained Conway, "is a slang word meaning a lazy fellow, a good-for-nothing." | James Hilton | ||
| 17ecfad | she really did possess a love for humanity, and the further removed humanity was, both in space and time, the more she loved it. | James Hilton | ||
| 421aab6 | He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do very nicely as a background to his satisfying emotions | James Hilton | ||
| b379cf1 | A woman cannot give a man his sense of maleness. He can desire her, but not identify with her. At best, she can give him a negative identification: This can be very thrilling, but still leaves him deprived of an object of positive identification. (..) other men are brought in to fill the void. They provide contact with an element the inventor, consciously or not, knows he needs to assert himself as fully male. (..) By joining in their sex.. | Nancy Friday | ||
| 3f83e5a | The whole of Christ's life was a continual passion; others die martyrs, but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha, where he was crucified, even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as the cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas Day and his Good Friday are but the evening and the m.. | Nancy Guthrie | ||
| 76a6065 | When the Wicked Queen calls for Snow White's heart, because her mir- ror has informed her that she has been outstripped in beauty, the fairy tale warns little girls, even today, that there is danger in beauty. Fairy tales carry the wisdom of the ages; that is why they last and are passed down from generation to generation. So long as the most beautiful woman got the most powerful man and men were women's only source of power, the role of be.. | Nancy Friday | ||
| 7c2cfc9 | The Freudian fetishist is defined by the fact that his desire is not primarily for the woman. (..) fetish is a "transitional object" - helping the toddler bridge his fear and loneliness. Having this unconsciously remembered evidence of mother's warmth and reassurance with him, he is encouraged to go forward into sexual pleasures. (..) Another fascinating aspect of fetishistic thinking is the extraordinary amount of detail connected to the o.. | Nancy Friday | ||
| 02df542 | Voyeurism is a general term for people who get sensual satisfaction from looking, often with the knowledge, consent, and even full participation of the sexual object. (..) the eye is one of the organs of love. (..) Voyeuristic fantasies reverse the woman's power, it passes from her to the eye of the man. By keeping himself hidden or invisible, the voyeur imposes his will on the woman. She has lost her ability to say no; has been unknowingly.. | Nancy Friday | ||
| 8c1fba9 | Rape does for a woman's sexual fantasy what the first martini does for her in reality: both relieve her of responsibility and guilt. | Nancy Friday | ||
| db50881 | The image of women making love to women grips the male imagination because it expresses one of the dominant themes of male fantasy: the sexually insatiable woman. Women who masturbate, who make love to other women, (..) who not only initiate sexual action but overpower the man (..) release the man from his earliest inhibitions. He need no longer fear making his proposition, need not fear he may not perform well: The sexually enflamed woman .. | Nancy Friday | ||
| 62df5cf | You've always been stone solid until now, like Joe Friday with no Y chromosome. Now you're Nancy Drew on a sugar rush. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 291ff12 | The primary rule is always that a mother can't go wrong, ever, by encouraging her child after age one and a half to be as individuated and separated as possible. If she was not as good a mother before as she would like to have been, she must get over her guilty desires to overcompensate, and place herself on the side of the child's developing | Nancy Friday | ||
| a7af8a6 | And that is best of all, Ceddie,--it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived--even ever so little better, dearest. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0cd92e7 | When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 28d9a60 | She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2746703 | Of course there must be lots of magic in the world but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. | classic magic | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| a059553 | Everything is made out of Magic, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ed20d3b | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4626684 | She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked! | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 55fa0bf | Oh! to think that he should actually let her come as near to him as that! He knew nothing in the world would make her put out her hand toward him or startle him in the least tiniest way. He knew it because he was a real person--only nicer than any other person in the world. She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe. The flower-bed was not quite bare. It was bare of flowers because the perennial plants had been cut down for their w.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5c5705a | The streets are shining, and there are fields and fields of lilies, and everybody gathers them. Sara tells me when she puts me to bed." "You wicked thing," said Lavinia, turning on Sara; "making fairy stories about heaven." "There are much more splendid stories in Revelation," returned Sara. "Just look and see! How do you know mine are fairy stories? But I can tell you" -- with a fine bit of unheavenly temper-- "you will never find out whet.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| fb8092a | To hear this pretty childish voice speaking his own language so simply and charmingly made him feel almost as if he were in his native land -- which in dark, foggy days in London sometimes seemed worlds away. When she had finished, he took the phrase-book from her, with a look almost affectionate. But he spoke to Miss Minchin. "Ah, madame," he said, "there is not much I can teach her. She has not learned French; she is French. Her accent is.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 792a1d9 | When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round. But don't you--none o' you--think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it out without hard knocks. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 14a415c | Sara sat upon the hearth-rug and told her strange things. She sat rather huddled up, and her green eyes shone and her cheeks flushed. She told stories of the voyage, and stories of India; but what fascinated Ermengarde the most was her fancy about the dolls who walked and talked, and who could do anything they chose when the human beings were out of the room, but who must keep their powers a secret and so flew back to their places "like lig.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| dddb4bd | Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary--she actually looked almost pretty for a moment. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a8cc01b | wqty drnd bh adm twhyn my khnnd hych chyz bhtr z skhwt nyst. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0af101e | her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 540c67f | In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders wh.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5e5e4cc | The magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw me and make me strong. I don't know how to do it, but I think that if you keep thinking about it and calling it perhaps it will come. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 81b671e | One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| dd2511b | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ac95f34 | Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for some one. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2374af6 | How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without making a sound, to another soul. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 851c9f3 | Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the count.. | commitment enjoyment faithfulness interesting life love marriage partners | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| db80cb8 | He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence. | Frances Hodgson Burnett |