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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b5fcbc | Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 7b598aa | Mendanbar wondered idly whether a bucket of soapy water plus lemon juice plus dishes would be as good for melting a wizard as one without dishes, and what effect the dishes would have on the process. Being melted was probably not very comfortable, but being melted while cups and plates and forks were falling on your head was likely to be even less so. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 808bfe8 | Seriously, if you really, truly don't understand basic terminology (which was at least half my problem with the adult-level "beginner" books), the children's section is the place to go." | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 08e0909 | I keep forgetting that you're not as empty headed as most princesses. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 6ac36f3 | Ogniqualvolta si trovava in viaggio da un luogo all'altro, era in grado di valutare la propria vita con un po' piu di obiettivita del solito. Spesso, proprio durante un viaggio i suoi pensieri divenivano particolarmente lucidi, e prendeva decisioni cui non poteva arrivare quand'era fermo in un luogo. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 7361060 | They bear down upon Westminster, the ghost-consecrated Abbey, and the history-crammed Hall, through the arches of the bridge with a rush as the tide swelters round them; the city is buried in a dusky gloom save where the lights begin to gleam and trail with lurid reflections past black velvety- looking hulls - a dusky city of golden gleams. St. Paul's looms up like an immense bowl reversed, squat, un-English, and undignified in spite of its.. | london st-paul-s st-paul-s-cathedral thames tower-of-london wapping westminster westminster-abbey westminster-hall | Hume Nisbet | |
| d1458c0 | When they had gone the Moungari fell silent, to wait through the cold hours for the sun that would bring first warmth, then heat, thirst, fire, visions. The next night he did not know where he was, did not feel the cold. The wind blew dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 0e51b0b | Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it's pure accident. So many people have had the whole course of their lives changed by something perfectly simple like, let's say, crossing the street at one point instead of another." "Yes, yes, yes, I know," Stenham said with exaggerated weariness. "As far as I'm concerned that's just as boring, and a lot more false, by the way. The point I'm trying to make i.. | culture french-morocco imperialism koran modernism modernity morocco relativism way-of-life western-civilization western-dominion | Paul Bowles | |
| 46f2874 | Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga'a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 9b28ecc | The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous, with its own necessities and patterns. The message they were beating out, over and over, was for her; it was saying, not precisely that she did not exist but rather that it did not matter whether she existed or not, that her presence was of no consequence to the rest of the cosmos. It was a sensation that suddenly paralyzed her with dread. T.. | drums existentialism meaning-of-life message observer subjectivity the-other | Paul Bowles | |
| 2ec7b90 | Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing. | Paul Bowles | ||
| f8cfbb3 | There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at this rate." (But it's hard to feign innocence if you've eaten the apple, he reflected.) "And it looks to me as if it is going to go on, because the French aren't going to give in, and certainly the Arabs aren't, because they can't. They're fighting with their backs the the wall." "I thought maybe you meant you expected a new world war," he lied.. | eden french independence innocence judgment-day morocco paradise-lost revolution unrest uprising | Paul Bowles | |
| c180902 | Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to this liking. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 4d6c171 | The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that he had elected to command. But to Stenham that seemed a shallow reply. To him wisdom consisted in the conscious and joyous obedience to natural laws, yet when he had said that to Moss, Moss had laughed pityingly. 'My dear man, wisdom is a primiti.. | dominion francis-bacon knowledge nature primitive tao wisdom | Paul Bowles | |
| 421a818 | There have been times, what with this and that, when the whisper of words was not enough. On some shelf of memory lies a misplaced summer, one not stored away for later savoring. Surely it ended early, with unexpected fogs, with the wind sliding past through unmeasured darkness. | Paul Bowles | ||
| b21be8e | La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ?Que interes puede tener para nadie? | Paul Bowles | ||
| d2d72b5 | Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential. | Paul Bowles | ||
| 2d0669b | Hispanics are half as likely to enlist in the military as either whites or blacks. The recruit-to-population ratio for whites is 1.06. For blacks it is 1.08. For Hispanics, it's only 0.65. The media not only neglect to highlight this particular underrepresentation, they lie about it. An article published by the Population Reference Bureau--subsidized by taxpayers--is titled: "Latinos Claim Larger Share of U.S. Military Personnel." To the un.. | Ann Coulter | ||
| f29ca98 | According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers and administrators at Mercer High, which Dunham attended, whose classrooms formed part of what was called "anarchy alley." What sounds strange is that this avante-garde, supposedly idealistic communist-thinking student of the left met a major oi.. | big-oil cia communism conspiracy-theories stanley-ann-dunham | Mondo Frazier | |
| 5ef3a02 | Oh dear...I've never really liked the Yanks. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| 157b5d4 | You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away," she said to him once, when he asked her why she had to be so upbeat the whole time. Apparently some monk called Francis had written as much in one of her books." | Fredrik Backman | ||
| eb818d1 | Seeing that I would never manage to fall asleep, I arose, lit a candle, and after dressing went outside. Beneath the dull glow of the winter moon the snow glowed like pale blue china. The sidewalks sparkled weakly beneath the rays of the flickering street lamps; the benumbed streets slumbered forlornly. I walked, passing one corner after the other, and suddenly found myself on the edge of town. Further, beyond the square, an endless expanse.. | city-at-night graveyard night russian-literature snow volga | Boris Sadovskoy | |
| d378c9b | Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough. | Ray Monk | ||
| fb020f7 | For Grant, as time passed, it was all about balance. He worked to balance the mind and the heart; reason and emotion; and the desire to know and understand more with the humility to accept the mysteries of God and faith. | Ray Keating | ||
| b6f73c3 | my awakening had shown me new truths about my religion, my life, and the lives of women. I had survived a landslide of awareness. But I didn't know if I could act on them. When you can't go forward and you can't go backward and you can't stay where you are without killing off what is deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0ec72dd | Which end of the needle are you going to be- the side held by string or the point that pierces the cloth? | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 3dbb7fe | Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn't have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| c270eac | Ich hatte schon oft gehoert wie Augusta gesagt hatte: Wenn du etwas vom jemanden brauchst dann bau dem anderen eine Bruecke auf der ihr euch begegnen koennt. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 99fb9d1 | People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. My | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 3ce588b | She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing. That day, our hearts were pure as they ever would get. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 6a4a174 | Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of it. Rather the opposite, she was like someone who'd risen to her full measure. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0deddbf | If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren't they taught to read the Bible for themselves? | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| e103742 | Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: "History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own." | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 4bf1c63 | When I was being forgiving, I said that my mother was simply exhausted. I suspected, though, she was simply mean. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 4f7b3d1 | I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous masses, but in the concrete, intimate flesh of the girl beside me, I'd lost the ability to be repulsed by it. I'd grown comfortable with the particulars of evil. There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 8b538dd | Ich beneidete die Schildkroeten um ihre Panzer in denen sie jederzeit verschwinden konnten. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 3a64c29 | For always, always, we are waking up and then waking up some more. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 704a64c | Aber sie sagte immer dass Frauen einfach die besseren Imkerinen seien weil ihnen die besondere Faehigkeit angeboren sei Kreaturen zu lieben die ihnen wehtun. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 8c8a8f4 | If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 6f75657 | You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside.' She held out her hand to me. 'Give me your hand.' I lifted my left hand and placed it in hers. She took it and pressed the flat of my palm up against my chest, over my beating heart. 'You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things w.. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| ce3fb8e | A woman in Deep Sleep is one who goes about in an unconscious state. She seems unaware or unfazed by the truth of her own female life, the truth about women in general, the way women and the feminine have been wounded, devalued, and limited within culture, churches, and families. She cannot see the wound or feel the pain. She has never acknowledged, much less confronted, sexism within the church, biblical interpretations, or Christian doctr.. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 4979ee2 | The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff--just like a joke. The | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9a429f8 | I love to be, and so often am, right. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 443c150 | What mattered to me in my dispeopled kingdom, that in regard to which the disposition of my carcass was the merest and most futile of accidents, was supineness in the mind, the dulling of the self and of that residue of execrable frippery known as the non-self and even the world, for short. But man is still today, at the age of twenty-five, at the mercy of an erection, physically too, from time to time, it's the common lot, even I was not i.. | existential first-love-last-love | Samuel Beckett |