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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62fcad5 | for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| bfc1277 | I am lonely, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 53900c0 | Virtue was its own reward. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e87fad1 | By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 913e6c7 | Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands. ~ Mr.s March | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c112e3b | The least of of us have some influence in this big world; and perhaps my little girl can do some good by showing others that a contented heart and a happy face are better ornaments than any Paris can give her. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e3cf226 | I agree not to expect anything | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ea42c28 | Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 4544a5f | He danced like a grasshopper on fire, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c159f1c | Our burdens are here, our road is before us, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| adab133 | You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 1f3a487 | take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7b2f2d9 | My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 35086b6 | Native Americans had tricksters--creatures full of cunning--like Coyote and Raven in their mythologies, but they didn't have technology yet, and so they hadn't coupled the Trickster with Crafts to generate this hybrid Technologist-god. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f513fdd | The entire country of Finland (to hear Otto tell it) has been plunged into an endless night of existential despair and suicidal depression. The usual antidotes have been exhausted: self-flagellation with steeped birch twigs, mordant humor, week-long drinking bouts. The only thing to save Finland now is coffee. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 65626d0 | Notice that if , then and , whereas if , then and . (a) If is absolutely convergent, show that both of the series and are convergent. (b) If is conditionally convergent, show that both of the series and are divergent. 44. Prove that if is a conditionally convergent series and is any real number, then there is a rearrangement of whose sum is . [Hints: Use the notation of Exercise 43. an an 0 a n an 0 an an 0 an 0 an an an a n an.. | James Stewart | ||
| 9d6863d | I looked at her without replying. For me it had been more like being a passenger in a car that was going out of control. For three months we'd been swerving across the road, missing light poles and oncoming vehicles. Now the car was under control again, | Jane Smiley | ||
| e593c12 | It's not proper, Julia. Why can't you understand that? I'm not going to buy it." "So you will only buy me a dress that you like even if I hate it?" I should've known shopping with Ama would be a mistake. "Yes, that's right." "I can't believe this. Why do you always do this? Why can't I wear what I want? It's not like I'm wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes and a see-through tube top." "Remember, you're not the boss here. Why are you always making.. | Erika L. Sánchez | ||
| 37551b9 | Nerul passed Tashi a cup of hot kava. "I have given thought overnight to your travels and have some suggestions to make. The first is that you should take one of my people with you as a guide, at least for the part of the road that lies through Kandar. Melletin has volunteered. He says he owes you for the lesson you taught him on your first meeting." Tashi furrowed her brow. "What lesson was that?" Melletin grinned and touched his forehead... | Julia Golding | ||
| 7488aa7 | Sorry about that," Ramil said awkwardly, gesturing to himself and then into the hall. "The messenger made it sound as if I had to come at once." "A wise king never hurries without knowing to what he goes," said Lagan, quoting from the Book of Monarchs,one of Ramil's least favorite texts from his days in the schoolroom. "Yes, but the wise son jumps when his father whistles," Ramil countered." | Julia Golding | ||
| dd1c69d | At the very least, I hope it means I will get my Briony back again. I know, I'll hold a party for her--and take her on a pony ride--I think that will be quite in order, if I can be spared from my official duties for the afternoon." "You're the King," Taris reminded him with a smile. "But you're my conscience, Taris, you know that." "Then your conscience says we should keep his highness's current location secret, but an announcement of his e.. | Julia Golding | ||
| 154b2bd | Something had shifted between us, faintly, but the change was almost palpable. Our friendship had sat lightly between us, an ephemeral thing, without weight or gravity. Once, in the Boboli Gardens, under the shadow of a cypress tree on an achingly beautiful October afternoon, he had kissed me, a solemnly sweet and respectful kiss. But weeks had passed and we had not spoken of it. I had attributed it to the sunlight, shimmering gold like Dan.. | deanna-raybourn description friends-to-lovers friendship kiss lady-julia-grey relationship romantic silent-in-the-sanctuary | Deanna Raybourn | |
| 5211530 | On hearing the jingle of harness behind them, they turned. Melletin and Yelena were fast catching up, both grinning broadly. "How did it go?" Ramil called. "Would you believe it: he threatened to lock me up in his mother's house if I didn't behave!" exclaimed Yelena, sticking her tongue out at Melletin. "I threw a roll at him and he clipped me around the ear. The soldiers were all about to beat him up when I burst into tears and begged his .. | Julia Golding | ||
| 3ce4732 | We'll stick close together, but make no sign we are acquainted. The girls should go ahead so that they get through first. We'll follow close behind to be there for any trouble." "Don't worry, my dears," said the professor gallantly, "I'll rescue you from any difficulties." Yelena laughed and kissed the old man on the cheek. "Of course you will. I don't know why we bother with these other men, do you, Tashi?" "But they are decorative, aren't.. | Julia Golding | ||
| d93ee0e | Tashi, you know I love you, don't you?" he said sofly in her ear. She smiled: trust the son of a Horse Follower to woo in the saddle. "I thought we were already betrothed." "You broke it off, remember." He kissed the top of her head. "Oh yes, I suppose I did. I'm sorry about that." "I didn't deserve you. I don't deserve you now." "Well, as long as you know that." She turned and gave him a mischievous smile." | Julia Golding | ||
| 119b239 | Send out the whisper," Ramil told Melletin, "starting with all Brigardians in the pens. Tell them the Dark Prince who escaped Fergox has come to lead them--" "But you're in the cage with them," Melletin pointed out. Ramil shrugged. "They don't need to know that. Keep it vague and majestic." | Julia Golding | ||
| 8d9f2bc | Congress displayed contempt for the city's residents, yet it retained a fondness for buildings and parks. In 1900, the centennial of the federal government's move to Washington, many congressmen expressed frustration that the proud nation did not have a capital to rival London, Paris, and Berlin. The following year, Senator James McMillan of Michigan, chairman of the Senate District Committee, recruited architects Daniel Burnham and Charles.. | Zachary M. Schrag | ||
| 3b951ef | Suppose you are bold, however; with a call, instead of merely leaving your card, you inquired if the lady were "at home." She was free to peer out of her drawing-room window on the second floor, see you and then whisper an emphatic "no" to her servant. This was perfectly acceptable, and it was understood that many people were physically at home when they were not socially "at home," although it was crass if they got caught." | Daniel Pool | ||
| e78778a | If you lived in the same place long enough, everything reminded you of everything else. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 0dbe771 | When your parents don't like you, then you are free. | Jane Smiley | ||
| be06267 | I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 66da172 | They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 8878f87 | not to borrow trouble by worrying about it. | Jane Smiley | ||
| aaa5d28 | He trusted only Devers, and why was that? Devers said, "We're going here," and they went there. Devers said, "Expect this and that," and this and that came to pass. But the rumor was that Ike didn't like Devers, and Frank figured this was the reason--Devers didn't have his head up his ass, and everyone else did." | Jane Smiley | ||
| 5d8fda4 | The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness. | Jane Smiley | ||
| e5b88bd | The state fair was all very well, but it shouldn't be the last thing you saw in your life. At first you thought of people like Eloise and Frank and Lillian as runaways, and then, after a bit, you knew they were really scouts. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 79195bd | said, looking for a job on Broadway. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 1049ed8 | I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective. | perspective | Jane Smiley | |
| 23d91f9 | At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 6397c55 | Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It's all very nice to say you're an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make sure we do what you say, think how you think, and remember you're the boss. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 95b3c87 | After he got back to his apartment that evening, Arthur remembered how completely he'd thought he'd solved the problem of his own childhood once he'd claimed Lillian and enveloped her in his dream--no one idle, no one beset by solitude, everyone laughing. The problem he had not solved, or even known existed, was how quickly it passed, every joke, every embrace, every babyhood and childhood, every moment of thinking that he had things figure.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 4ad5e1f | eidetic memory. What else any of it meant to | Jane Smiley | ||
| 77e611d | rain or snow. Mama worried and Papa was impressed; | Jane Smiley | ||
| c6e58aa | What you saw was what you got, and she did not believe, as some of the other girls said, that the boys at the parties were separate from some sober incarnation of the same boys. | Jane Smiley |