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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fd8dcde | It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bd6ffef | You don't get it, do you?" I said. "It's not a question of 'what then'. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?" | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 92efe89 | Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2d6c0af | The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the scientific method, the triumph of modern medicine over physical ailments, and the technological transformation of the very world itself, the self finds itself in the e.. | modernity recreation society technology the-self world-weariness | Walker Percy | |
| 39bae91 | An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e1f905a | My faceless neighbor spoke up: "Don't be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve." I exploded: "What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." | genocide germany history hitler holocaust jews | Elie Wiesel | |
| 51fd725 | Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me. | hate | Dave Pelzer | |
| bbfb48f | There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| eb1a8c8 | This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3a407cd | Interviewer: Didn't want to believe? Druyan: | astronomy atheism belief carl-sagan knowledge sagan science truth | Ann Druyan | |
| be37092 | Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you? | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 0c62cbb | I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| b07ac7b | The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 86eaaef | Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 6ba9c62 | Why did he kiss you?" she said." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 83a1c46 | There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 94fde14 | i was joking with isabelle about vampires right before it happened. just trying to make her laugh, you know? what freaks out jewish vanpires? silver stars of david? chopped liver? check for eighteen dollars? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c092917 | I dream a dream that dreams back at me | Toni Morrison | ||
| d86efe1 | When you stop being afraid you feel good | life | Spencer Johnson | |
| 1e0336a | Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them. | Christopher Pike | ||
| b7b75a2 | I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. | chuck-klosterman | Chuck Klosterman | |
| a6fdefc | Wrath: What the hell are you supposed to ask? Rhage: I know! Who do you like the most? It's me right?Come on, you know it is. Come oooooonnnnn- Butch: If its you,, I'll kill myself. V: No, that just means she's blind. Rhage: It has to be me. V: She said she didn't like you at first. Rhage: Ah, but I won her over, which is more than anyone else can say about you, hot stuff. J.R.: I don't like anyone the best Wrath: Right answer. Rhage: She's.. | humor rhage | J.R. Ward | |
| a19162c | Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 9486d6c | But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. | John Green | ||
| 503eaa2 | His hand reached for her boob over her shirt and pawed at it, his palm still while his fingers moved around. I wondered if that felt good. Didn't seem like it would, but I decided to forgive Isaac on the grounds that he was going blind. The senses must feast while there is yet hunger and whatever. "I think he's hurting her boob," I said. "Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam." | John Green | ||
| 565671d | I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure. | Craig Ferguson | ||
| bd7f3b5 | If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. | autism details intuition nerd nerdiness nerds poetry wisdom wisdom-vs-nerds | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 9975b3d | Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in. | birthday life | Lynsay Sands | |
| 0074f7b | The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him, is - in her own mere nature - least lovable. For the Church has not beauty but what the.. | church eros husband love marriage wife | C.S. Lewis | |
| 2be9c56 | Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country! | John Irving | ||
| 1531db1 | I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 08c263b | Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine. | Veronica Roth | ||
| dd461a3 | My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 54b8e92 | People don't want other people to be people. | people selfishness | Gene Wolfe | |
| 3f95759 | When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change wa.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5998062 | Great results, can be achieved with small forces. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| e408b16 | Hello," Newel said. "Look, Doren, we have visitors. Kendra, Seth, and ... Muriel's weirdo puppet."....Newel grabbed Seth's hand and shook it vigorously. "Congratulations. You just found yourself a secret entrance." "So seriously," Doren said. "What's with the puppet?" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 9acfe43 | Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell? | ya ya-paranormal | Rachel Hawkins | |
| e6f5e8a | I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d95dd7c | Karrin." She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow. "Remember what I said yesterday," I said. "You're hurt. But you'll get through it. You'll be okay." She closed her eyes tightly. "I'm scared. So scared I'm sick." "You'll get through it." "What if I don't?" I squeezed her fingers. "Then I will personally make fun of you every day for the rest of your life," I said. "I will call you a sissy girl in front of everyone you know, tie f.. | friendship harry-dresden karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| c96b4fe | I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good. | choices good guilt life | Holly Black | |
| c608bad | The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield. | Holly Black | ||
| 8a54278 | I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 3da6f5a | The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds. | cutting fear unknown | Caroline Kettlewell |