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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 38598d3 | I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary." ~Renzo Leoni" | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| e6e323f | Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God.... And when the metaphors fail, we think it's God who's failed us! | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 2b8bfba | When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works. And the hundredth boy? We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one. | corporal-punishment | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 2588986 | It was just as well that neither Wyatt nor Morgan inquired about the provenance of the teeth themselves, for Wyatt's new ones were among the hundreds of thousands collected from battlegrounds, sorted by type and size, and made available for restorative dentistry for many years after the war. With John Henry's sketches and detailed measurements to go by, his cousin Robert had found a pair of upper centrals that matched Morgan's closely. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 4ac3feb | I honestly don't know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 47adf37 | It came to Morgan that Nicholas must have been a beaten boy, too, and that meant Grampa Earp was, as well. Which was no surprise, really, when Morg thought about that mean old man. How many sons were in that chain? Morgan wondered, and grief gave way to the pride he'd felt the day his brother Wyatt stood up to his first bully and put an end to a chain of vengeful, frightened, beaten boys. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 422965f | Jesus Christ," Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| b710d53 | Once I told Haanala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, Abraham should have taken the babies from the cities. The babies were innocent. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 43d65fc | The irony is that each new war begins in hope: hope of restoring lost honor, hope of redressing injustices and reclaiming tarnished glory, hope of a grand new world. Each war ends with the black seeds of the next war sown: honor newly lost, injustice freshly inflicted, a world more broken than before. Always, someone steps forward, ready to water and weed and harvest those black seeds, dreaming of the day when they will bring forth their bo.. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 606a9a4 | Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again. "Suppose . . ." he began. "Suppose . . ." Then he moved on, one last time." | wyatt-earp | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 195854b | The trick is not to care. I have a perfect indifference to winning. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| ec71ed1 | After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 137e034 | I would not have voted for the man," Doc admitted, "but this--" He lifted a fine-boned hand toward the street, where small groups of Cow Boys were now tearing down Allen on horseback, shooting at the sky and racing beyond the city limits before the police could do anything about the ruckus. "This is indecent." -- | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 71143cc | Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man -" | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| ed95a73 | I am damned if I will spend my time listenin' to ungrammatical, repetitious, imbecilic nonsense without a challenge! | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 27d903a | Every one of them [prostitutes] has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather who did. A brother who should have protected her. A beau who promised marriage and left when he got what he wanted, because he wouldn't marry a slut. If a girl like that has lost her way, it's because some worthless no-account so.. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 63dacc2 | He was aware of his agnosticism, and patient with it. Rather than deny the existence of something he couldn't perceive himself, he acknowledged the authenticity of his uncertainty and carried on, praying in the face of his doubt. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 7d388c2 | Deus vult, mes amis," Marc Robichaux called cheerfully from the galley. "God likes it that way." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| d22c702 | Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76) | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 4b4b2ac | Sometimes," he told her, leaning forward over the table, speaking without realizing how it would sound, "I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, songs of love for the present." He blushed when he heard what he'd said, making it worse, but she took no offense; indeed, she seemed to miss any connection that might have been taken wrongly.. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| ab3a6ec | Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 384faca | When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| de0c800 | Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life's normal condition. So, as the first weeks after the massacre passed, she simply counted herself lucky to be among others who did not weep and wail for the dead. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 82dce3d | How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?" He said nothing more that day, but Ha'anala spent hours considering his words. A soul, she decided, was the most real part of a person, and to discover what is real requires privacy." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 01edfe2 | The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They'd been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittance in terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industry that exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn't enough to keep me out of stores, there was this as well: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propagan.. | capitalism propaganda | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 13c234b | It was politicians saying, "Let's you and him fight!" | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 4637a85 | Religion--the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?" he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. "Random shit happens, and we turn it into stories and call it sacred scripture--" | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| ab6a6be | We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a mess we made of everything ... | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| eda6aa6 | In the case of acupuncture, the time period must also be considered. On a fine day, the sun shining, blood in the human body flows smoothly, saliva is free, breathing is easy. On days of chill and cloud, blood flows thick and slow, breathing is heavy, saliva is viscous. When the moon is waxing, blood and breath are full. When the moon wanes, blood and breath wane. Therefore acupuncture should be used only on fair warm days, when the moon is.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| b266ad7 | IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 0b7b5c0 | Old One," the tenant said apologetically. "It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation after you." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 7ce0dca | For this Mary's words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her mind, but not messengers of vague suggestion. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 40b65eb | No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene. Pearl S. Buck | Kerstin Gier | ||
| 9792d7d | U meni postoji mjesto gdje zivim posve sama; | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ef95698 | contempt for himself that a small piece of land should seem so important. Why, when he had poured out his silver proudly before the agent the man had scraped it up carelessly in his hands and said, "Here is enough for a few days of opium for the old lady, at any rate." And the wide difference that still lay between him and the great house seemed suddenly impassable as the moat full of" | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6b66e2b | The tears of the old come as easily as the tears of children, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9aa160e | he believed that to answer a child's question before it is asked is to destroy natural curiosity. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 2ddc0e7 | You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 91313b0 | and looked sharply across the street. There was only one house | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9102eeb | All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people, have been misled by our own sages through the last four thousand years. We are now over-civilized in a world of barbaric peoples. WE were taught centuries ago that war is not the pastime of a civilized people. We stopped the development of explosive weapons a thousand years ago, on the ground that it was.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ecaa0be | If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead, He goes astray. But if he follows, he finds guidance. It is favourable to find friends in the West and South, and quiet perseverance brings good fortune. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 5e60e86 | So to avoid the twin dangers of nostalgia and despairing bitterness, I'll just say that in Cartagena we'd spend a whole month of happiness, and sometimes even a month and a half, or even longer, going out in Uncle Rafa's motorboat, La Fiorella, to Bocachica to collect seashells and eat fried fish with plantain chips and cassava, and to the Rosary Islands, where I tried lobster, or to the beach at Bocagrande, or walking to the pool at the Ca.. | Héctor Abad Faciolince | ||
| b7b247c | Can one spit on a smiling face?" he inquired; or he said, "Vengeance cannot last a night's sleep." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9efb62b | but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children--she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal | Pearl S. Buck |