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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0cbd942 | I followed her out the door and watched her walk down the road towards home, hers, and the bright yard light, and her own bed, and our parents, and I stood there for a long time because I didn't know where else to go. | miriam-toews | Miriam Toews | |
| 2d8657a | That's me! Elf had said. I reminded her that she had her sight, she could see, she'd always been able to see but she told me she'd never adjusted to the light, she'd just never developed a tolerance for the world, her inoculation hadn't taken. Reality was a rusty leg trap. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 82186c8 | I sat on my Dad's bed and flipped through the page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black and white photo which if it where used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful | Miriam Toews | ||
| b487e6a | She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named--when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? | Miriam Toews | ||
| 9f1dca4 | Everytime I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really. - Nomi | Miriam Toews | ||
| 1bca6d4 | The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 875cb55 | I don't know now why I let her believe otherwise, but someday, perhaps, it will be clear. | Miriam Toews | ||
| e28bc31 | We are not members, . . . we are commodities. . . . When our men have used us up so that we look sixty when we're thirty and our wombs have literally dropped out of our bodies onto our spotless kitchen floors, finished, they turn to our daughters. | feminism women | Miriam Toews | |
| 6ebfc58 | Between 2005-2009, more than 300 girls and women of Molotschna were made unconscious and attacked in their own beds. On average, an attack occurred every three or four days. Finally, Leisl Neustandter forced herself to stay awake night after night until she caught a young man prying open her bedroom window, holding a jug of belladonna spray in one hand. Leisl and her adult daughter wrestled the man to the ground and tied him up with baler t.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| dea1230 | Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 8a34170 | She told me that the brain is built to forget things as we continue to live, that memories are meant to fade and disintegrate, that skin, so protective in the beginning because it has to be to protect our organs, sags eventually - because the organs aren't so hot anymore either - and sharp edges become blunt, that the pain of letting go of grief is just as painful or even more painful then the grief itself. It means goodbye, it means going .. | Miriam Toews | ||
| b988b31 | The sun is setting, Ona reminds us, and our light is fading. We should light the kerosene lamp. But what of your question? asks Greta. Should we consider asking the men to leave? None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agatha states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand o.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| cefe861 | All we women have are our dreams - so of course we are dreamers. | inspirational women | Miriam Toews | |
| 07a2ba4 | We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn't do this. We mustn't play Hot Potato with our pain. Let's absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let's inhale it, let's digest it, let's process it into fuel. | feminism pain power | Miriam Toews | |
| 33fff6e | As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| e83f6d2 | He had no more control over his life than a dog on a chain, but caring for Lucy made him feel...well...strong. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 1d99d99 | Scar tissue had formed a knot on the bottom of his foot. He inspected the writing frequently--PROPERTY OF THE ALACRAN ESTATE--but the scar had sliced through the tiny lettering. It was more difficult to make out the words. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 49910de | You get used to being evil. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| d9c6865 | Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap," declared Listen. "You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met." "Both of you be quiet," | humor | Nancy Farmer | |
| 9b774c2 | I could do it," Listen boasted. "Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet." "You can't even reach the on button," said Cienfuegos." | Nancy Farmer | ||
| c4093d8 | humans are endlessly stupid and greedy. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 8323b04 | On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a successful coup that overthrew the elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Ruling in the name of economic liberty, the Pinochet junta became one of the most notorious authoritarian regimes in recent history. With mass killings, widespread torture, and systematic intimidation, Pinochet's forces crushed the trade union movement, vanquished the rural farmers see.. | Nancy MacLean | ||
| 0c3c08e | Often the women are burned, so that the death can be passed off as an accident. The killer usually becomes a local hero: a man who has done what was necessary to clear his family name. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 468e48b | We're seeing a rise in the school dropout rate for girls because their families' incomes are falling and girls' schooling is the first place they economize," she sighed. The" | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| ff6387f | West Bank women's groups argued that the time wasn't right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before questions of women's rights could be raised. The | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| bbca04c | This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone? | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 4a94fa1 | Sexul e consolarea care-ti mai ramane cand nu-ti ajunge dragostea. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8acb5e8 | Until Islam's articulate spokeswomen such as Rana Kabbani target their misguided coreligionists with the fervor they expend on outside critics, the grave mistake of conflating Islam with clitoridectomy and honor killings will continue. And much more importantly, so will the practices themselves, at the cost of so many Muslim women's health and happiness. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 193651b | I am too far away now from it all,' Lymond said. 'And if we are going to be metaphysical, I have no sea card, or compass, or star. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ccca8d4 | There is a Russian proverb,' Nepeja said. There was a brief silence, while his hearers considered the analogy. 'Beat your brother and he shall be deader?' at length Danny said. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f14446c | Terror," said Lymond, "is our daily bread in the Wuthenheer. We eat it, we live by it and we disseminate it; and not only between Christmas and Epiphany: there is no close season for fright." -- | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 443c43e | In Muslim societies men's bodies just weren't seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women's. Getting | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 622d4c9 | She would have had to keep her headscarf on, never laugh, never smile--if she smiles at a man he will think, 'Ah, she loves me,' " Mohamed explained. As" | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 840efcb | Speak for yourself,' said Danny Hislop. 'I'm held together by intellectual curiosity. So are we all. We were wonderfully specious at Novgorod--Best will remember--about our reasons for staying in Russia. No one gave the correct one. You can hate a man and stay in his company because of his sheer, God-given, irresistible powers to stimulate. We all liked fighting, and we liked talking about fighting. With Lymond you don't talk about fighting.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6dbed78 | I should hesitate to attribute anything to him at the moment, even principles,' said Lord Culter, smiling. 'But you are free to try. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a22b976 | I suppose that was just something you ate; or are you bloody well pregnant as well? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| db62a8a | Which reminds me -' 'The new ladies have arrived,' said Adam grimly. 'Guaranteed of clean stock, and inured to Russian practices. Osep has announced himself suited.' 'For the time being,' said Danny, open-eyed. 'That's ten since Pitsligo. Do you think it is a subversive attempt at colonization, or the long Russian nights that ought to be setting in about now in Vologda?' 'We shall have to wait till the spring,' Adam said, 'to find out. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 724ed14 | This,' said Lymond, 'is by no means a game I will play, or consider playing. Move. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 9a2609e | It was less symmetrical, in the sheen of the rain, than he remembered it. Then he saw that a man rested there on its steps, his head turned on the rim. One coatless arm, lying loose, pillowed it. The arcade lanterns, dimly exploring, found the darkened blond of soaked hair; the fixed flame of strung jewels and the line of wide brow and closed lid and turned cheekbone whose twin he saw, night after night, on his pillow. The rain fell. For a .. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c475709 | Acrostics in French or acrostics in Hebrew were still Greek to him. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 16b60ea | They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b0cc49a | Put him, blindfold, into a closed room anywhere in the world, and he could tell if Sybilla was with him. It had to do, perhaps, with her scent. To him, it was more: a breath from the sweetness and peace of his childhood; a sense of light; of understanding; of loving amusement; an air from the flower-filled walls of pairidza. Nothing, even now, took from him that first moment as he stood on her threshold. Until the second moment came, and wi.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ee995d0 | I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f335fdf | The guiding hand at one's pony; the voice at one's porridge bowl; the splendid athlete one watched from one's books in the cold tower window, while outside in the sunshine he rode at the ring, threw his spears, matched his sword with the master-at-arms. The brother who had cared for him, a grown man in illness, and defended him against calumny, and who at length, heartbroken at his defection, had turned his back on him a year ago in Scotlan.. | Dorothy Dunnett |