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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 82960d7 | the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. "After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles," he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2db6f22 | Edith Wharton novels for two Henry James novels, Lucia Berlin's short stories for John Cheever's, Elaine Dundy's The Dud Avocado for Dany Laferriere's I Am a Japanese Writer, Dubravka Ugresic's Lend Me Your Character for Gogol's How the Two Ivans Quarreled and Other Stories, Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder for Capote's In Cold Blood, Lisa Tuttle's The Pillow Friend for The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James. | Helen Oyeyemi | ||
| 14c3737 | and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7ea0fef | He took [the book] up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5ef0c58 | It seems so to me," said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought." | society | Edith Wharton | |
| 9dc77a7 | Odbacila sam par dobrih prilika na samom pocetku - pretpostavljam da to svaka devojka uradi, a znate da sam vrlo siromasna - i vrlo skupa. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ad2f057 | Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes" | marriage | S.T. Joshi | |
| 4f607db | But I've caught it already. I am dead -- I've been dead for months and months. | Edith Wharton | ||
| eaedd6a | James, at the beginning of his friendship with Edith Wharton. | Hanya Yanagihara | ||
| ca78aa8 | Here were two people who had penetrated farther than she into the labyrinth of the wedded state, and struggled through some of its thorniest passages; and yet both, one consciously, the other half-unaware, testified to the mysterious fact which was already dawning on her: that the influence of a marriage begun in mutual understanding is too deep not to reassert itself even in the moment of flight and denial. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 78d360a | Archer, through all his deeper feelings, tasted the pleasurable excitement of being in a world where action followed on emotion with such Olympian speed. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0280030 | There was no sense of guilt in her now, but only a desperate desire to defend her secret from irreverent eyes, and begin life again among people to whom the harsh code of the village was unknown. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 103108a | The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. | Edith Wharton | ||
| cc8d9d0 | the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding. | Edith Wharton | ||
| d7f0e09 | The instinctive posture of grief is a shuffling compromise between defiance and prostration; and pride feels the need of striking a worthier attitude in face of such a foe. | grief-and-loss grieving | Edith Wharton | |
| c398701 | The longing was with him day and night, an incessant undefinable craving, like the sudden whim of a sick man for food and drink once tasted and long since forgotten. He could not see beyond the craving, or picture what it might lead to, for he was not conscious of any wish to speak to Madame Olenska or to hear her voice. He simply felt that if he could carry the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7751129 | Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 64f512c | For the first time he was face to face with his hovering dread: he was judging where he still adored. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ca778ee | Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. | true-to-life truth | Yann Martel | |
| 18a5af0 | As time passed and Harry flew and flew and flew, he forgot all about the fog, the city below him, and just about everything. Nothing in the world seemed to matter but wings, and sky, and motion. The free and endless kind of motion that people are always looking for in a hundred different ways. Flying was the way a swing swoops up; and the glide down a slide. It was the shoot of a sled downhill without the long climb back up. It was the very.. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 20dc7fd | Just looking at the outside of the library made Robin lose herself for a minute, remembering the feel of libraries. There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books. Libraries had always seemed almost too good to be true. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| a12e7f9 | Something's going to happen! | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 536833b | My dear child...fault is an empty word. It is a coin with only one side. It is not a reason or an excuse. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 6dbeaee | When World War II found his son Christopher in the R.A.F., Tolkien wrote to him that he couldn't be more horrified if a hobbit had learned to ride a Nazgul in order to liberate the Shire. | Wyatt North | ||
| b75d5b6 | And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven. | nature | Bryce Courtenay | |
| ce5f3db | You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 8ca2c80 | A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger. | runaway | Bryce Courtenay | |
| 8d586cc | Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 97156cc | Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| ecb1e9c | God don't give out certain. | fiction thriller | Jeffery Deaver | |
| cbe6391 | His rules were unencumbered by my constraints--the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still, | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 819dbfc | I'm really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 5ecc2d1 | Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your .. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| e2c4176 | Henry Loving stimulates the amnesia gene. But it's also true most people are simply extremely unobservant. Freddy | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| bfa8b02 | I was disappointed. Voice analysis can tell a lot about the caller: gender, most of the time, national and regional roots, illnesses, even reasonable morphological deductions can be made about the shape of the nose, mouth and throat. But at least we had a confirmed spelling of the principal's name, which was a plus. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 6a1626a | I pressed the ignition button and the engine came to life. Our cars have special mufflers to deaden the exhaust sound but there's nothing you can do about a starter. Carter | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 6cf26f1 | The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 6a5a597 | Rhyme couldn't remember what he looked like. From his voice he sounded fit and athletic, but then Rhyme supposed he himself might seem like an Olympian to someone who couldn't see his destroyed body. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 4366e25 | Pulaski said, "Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it's not related to the case." | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 089af1e | Boys groped, boys dissed, boys put you down. But it was the girls who made you bleed | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| a069328 | The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| cf88515 | Where did phobias come from? Sachs wondered. Some childhood trauma, some genetic imprinting | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 5c61998 | But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were bargaining over--me--might be a player in the game too. As | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| fa6b1b4 | nemesis is American citizens who've gone overseas | Jeffery Deaver |