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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fa800f9 | You still think love can save us. It's more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With hate, you just keep hitting back. You hit until they stop hitting back. With love... they never stop." ~ (Frank)" | hit killing love | Colleen McCullough | |
| 8b09d5f |
Starost' - samoe zhestokoe mshchenie, kotoroe na nas obrushivaet mstitel'nyi bog. Pochemu on zaodno ne starit nashi dushi? (< |
душа soul старость | Colleen McCullough | |
| e546c10 | Tat nhien, nguoi ta cho rang khan gia van thay ro toan canh cua mot vo dien hon la dien vien | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 0f091c1 | Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more damage was done them, then she began picking among the grass blades where she thought the pearls might have fallen. Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for. | girls | Colleen McCullough | |
| 3ae8665 | He said, "No one else can ever feel your pain." One corner of her mouth lifted in a stern smile. "Yes. That's a comfort, isn't it? It may not be enviable, but my pain is mine." | Colleen McCullough | ||
| caa4558 | Gazala, | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 1c559eb | Stargazing is one of the oldest human pastimes and there's good reason for it. Gazing at the stars reminds us that there's more than we'll ever realize and that every day is another chance to follow the clues. Find a star to wish upon. * | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 95c1847 | I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself," [Jean Arthur] later conjectured." | Eve Golden | ||
| 7628fd5 | Eu nunca procuro derrotar o homem que estou a combater - explicou ele - procuro derrotar a confianca que ele tem em si proprio. Uma mente perturbada pela duvida nao se pode concentrar no curso em direccao a vitoria. Dois homens sao iguais, verdadeiramente iguais, so quando tem ambos uma autoconfianca igual | Arthur Golden | ||
| 926aa25 | People in the village often said she ought to have been extremely attractive, because her parents had been. Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together; this was the terrible trick nature had played on her. | Arthur Golden | ||
| f10ee9c | I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't. | Arthur Golden | ||
| e5b44e4 | I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 58dec57 | I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me. When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 86b6f76 | When I was in the street throwing a beanbag with the other children and Mr. Tanaka happened to stroll out of the seafood company, I always stopped what I was doing to watch him. I lay there on that slimy table while Mr. Tanaka examined my lip, pulling it down with his fingers and tipping my head this way and that. All at once he caught sight of my gray eyes, which were fixed on his face with such fascination, I couldn't pretend I hadn't bee.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 57cff2f | Because I'd lived through adversity once before, what I learned about myself was like a reminder of something I'd once known but had nearly forgotten-namely, that beneath the elegant clothing, and the accomplished dancing, and the clever conversation, my life had no complexity at all, but was as simple as a stone falling toward the ground. My whole purpose in everything during the past ten years had been to win the affections of the Chairma.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 2ee85e5 | I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from h.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 274b47e | I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 4c857cb | Estava a viver apenas metade em Gion, a outra metade de mim vivia nos meus sonhos de regressar a casa. E por isso que os sonhos podem ser coisas tao perigosas; continuam acesos mesmo sem chama, e as vezes consomem-nos completamente | Arthur Golden | ||
| 82f9d7d | Tuga je vrlo neobican osjecaj, tako smo bespomocni kad se s njome suocimo. To je nesto poput prozora koji se otvara po vlastitoj volji. Soba se hladi, a mi mozemo samo bespomocno drhtati. | Arthur Golden | ||
| f9cf5fb | Taka eden den, pred mnogu godini, mu turav sake na eden chovek koj, taka patem, sluchajno, spomena deka pred edna nedela bil vo Joroido. Bozhe, se pochustvuvav kako ptitsa koga kje go preleta okeanot i kje sretne sushtestvo shto go znae nejzinoto gnezdo. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 89c8d22 | Far from birds, from flocks and village girls, What did I drink, on my knees in the heather Surrounded by a sweet wood of hazel trees, In the warm and green mist of the afternoon? What could I drink from that young Oise, - Voiceless elms, flowerless grass, an overcast sky! - Drinking from these yellow gourds, far from the hut I loved? Some golden spirit that made me sweat. I would have made a dubious sign for an inn. - A storm came to chase.. | Arthur Rimbaud | ||
| b5c41c6 | Kakvito i da sa bitkite i pobedite ni, kakto i da gi prezhiviavame, mnogo skoro te izbledniavat kato vodnisto mastilo v'rkhu khartiia. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 8b21d03 | I must tell you something about necks in Japan, if you don't know it; namely, that Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs. This is why geisha wear the collars of their kimono so low in the back that the first few bumps of the spine are visible; I suppose it's like a woman in Paris wearing a short skirt. Auntie painted onto the back of Hatsumomo's neck a.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| a86fd2c | Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about-the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, w.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 96e148b | I found myself wondering if she'd started life much as I had. It made no difference that she was a mean old woman and I was just a struggling little girl. Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 6cccf01 | Todos sabemos que una escena invernal de arboles cubiertos con mantos de nieve seria irreconocible a la primavera siguiente. No me podia imaginar, sin embargo, que algo asi podia suceder dentro de nosotros mismos. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7d81ef2 | Could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them? "Go back to the okiya, Sayuri," Mameha told me. "Prepare for the evening ahead of you. There's nothing like work for getting over a disappointment." -- | Arthur Golden | ||
| 1cd55d8 | At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of melancholy. | Arthur Golden | ||
| eaeb2b4 | That night she dreamed about the King again. She stood in a riverside meadow between greenwood and castle. Overhead the sun shone gilt in a sky like powdered lapis and struck golden sparks from the King's blood-red dragon banner. | fantasy king-arthur legend mythology pendragon-s-heir | Suzannah Rowntree | |
| d07ff6d | I'm the Saint praying on a balcony - like peaceful beasts grazing along the Sea of Palestine. I'm the scholar in a plain reading chair. Branches and rain beat the library windows. I'm the pedestrian on the high road through the stunted woods; the sound of floodgates drowns out my footsteps. I stare at the melancholy wash of another golden sunset... The path is harsh. The hillocks are weed. The air is still. How far we are from birds and s.. | Arthur Rimbaud | ||
| feaa359 | When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged. | Arthur Golden | ||
| ef60405 | My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 2c0e38c | Every man has his destiny. But who needs to to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?" Nobu" | Arthur Golden | ||
| 99c9878 | We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone otherwise. And if we think of the same example but with ourselves in the role of the insect, and the larger universe in the role we've just played, it's perfectly clear that we're affected every day by forces over which we have no more control than t.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| ff27db7 | Incluso las rocas terminan erosionandose con la lluvia. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 071f0fa | This was what we Japanese called the "onion life"--peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while." | Arthur Golden | ||
| 9df0714 | Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, mas o menos en una direccion, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 9e698cf | This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 0269d81 | We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab, everything in shades of gray. It was my first look at the world outside Yoroido, and I didn't think I'd missed much. I could see the thatched roofs of the town around an inlet, amid dull hills, and beyond them the metal-colored sea, broken with shards of white. Inland, the landscape might have been attractive but for the train tracks .. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 2e1e179 | ich so sehr eine Konkurrenz fur Dich, wie eine Pfutze als Meer gilt | Arthur Golden | ||
| 3c78909 | Talking films revealed [Jean Arthur]'s quirky, remarkable voice: nasal, raspy, querulous-- an odd, expressive voice which somehow fit her intense, funny and very smart screen persona. | Eve Golden | ||
| 6244b1e | Make no mistake, when you start on the path to authenticity, Love will change you, transforming your life into countless ways. Your family and friends might not notice the changes in the beginning because they're so small. but you will, and you'll know that miracles are taking place. Love will dissolve your fears by creating opportunities you couldn't have imagined before you begin the search to discover and recover your authentic self. A.. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 9002f5e | Offer grace for the bounty of goodness. Raise the song of harvest home, the glass of good cheer, the heart overflowing with joy. We have so much for which to be thankful. So much about which to smile, so much to share. So much, that in this season of plenty, we can embrace the season of relinquishment. All we have is all we need. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 8f3d677 | Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least. | Roger Zelazny |