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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce39673 | All defectors have a complex relationship with truth. | spy truth | David Mitchell | |
| d6ee314 | Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right words existed the music wouldn't need to. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2f5a133 | The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the clock, shelves of handsome books nobody ever reads, and one certainty: that whatever I do with my life, however much power, wealth, experience, knowledge, or beauty I'll accrue, I, too, will end up like this vulnerable old man. When I look at Brigadier Reginald Philby, I'm looking down time's telescope at myself. M | David Mitchell | ||
| 38f56c4 | Music leaks out of the Walkman, and a saxophone from long ago circles in the air, so sad it could barely leave the ground. | David Mitchell | ||
| 40d696d | You imagine blank verse is a liberation, but no. Discard rhyme, you discard a parachute... | David Mitchell | ||
| 2981408 | I s'pose if some man's been inside you often enough, it'll take a while to get rid of him. Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. | David Mitchell | ||
| 75ead42 | When watching the news, it's so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don't want rows, we want a quiet life. We feel inadequate because we don't protest and argue more - we don't stand up for ourselves. And, in feeling that, we forget that the sort of people who do stand up for themselves are cut from the same cloth as the sort of people you have to stand up to. | David Mitchell | ||
| 57b0ec5 | Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror. | David Mitchell | ||
| 17de748 | The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven | David Mitchell | ||
| 51dbb93 | She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests. | David Baldacci | ||
| 9528ee6 | The rivers that sprang from Hvergelmir streamed into the void. The yeasty venom in them thickened and congealed like slag, and the rivers turned into ice. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| b33237a | That's where the raiders would come from, and where Wales begins. That's where the world starts to turn blue. | past raiders stories | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| d1ac890 | No Viking believed he could change his destiny, ordained as it was by the Norns who wove the fates of gods and men alike (Note 4) but, for all that, the way in which he lived his life was up to him. This sentiment is perfectly expressed by Skirnir in 'Skirnir's Journey': 'Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago. | fate vikings | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| 699e431 | Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. | artists compassion detachment involvement | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 2c0ae00 | Every revolution is a revolution of ideas-yet to innovate is not reform. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 4e8b7da | Wherever I am, in wood or field, By dawn or evening light, Without cease my heart feels The pain of one who is not here... | Rosalind Miles | ||
| c1dbfda | Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu zenskih duznosti buduci da je taj zadatak odrzavao pleme na zivotu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne zene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane. | inspirational life man women-s-rights women-s-strength | Rosalind Miles | |
| a3e5c46 | How true it is that 'God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| ef50c94 | From a young age, Lincoln experienced psychological pain and distress, to the point that he believed himself temperamentally inclined to suffer to an unusual degree. He learned how to articulate his suffering, find succor, endure, and adapt. Finally, he forged meaning from his affliction so that it became not merely an obstacle | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 9a33492 | Enter Madeleine. Here was a Christian author who could function quite unperturbedly from inside paradox, who dared to question the assumption that all things must be either/or. Why can't it be both/and? What is this nonsense about "secular"? Why can't God use those things if God wants to? Why can't God speak through this or that person (if God can speak through a donkey, for instance)? Who says?" | Sarah Arthur | ||
| 6b3935d | If the conversation is about one partner's jealousy or other intense feelings, your first goal should be to listen. Reassure her of your commitment to the relationship. At the moment when a partner is having intense feelings such as hurt, insecurity, jealousy, or betrayal, acknowledge those feelings, validate and respect them, even if you don't understand them. Don't try to talk anyone out of how they're feeling with rational arguments; tel.. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 535a81e | Hotel-Room Coffee Tables I'll admit to this one. They're just not as sturdy as they look. It's really hard to find wood glue at 9 a.m., before checkout. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| b3e9cd3 | I don't disagree with all of what you do," he said, "but I think it's entirely unjust that you receive checks from the government for your homosexuality." I stared at him with my mouth full of fries. "Oh, it's not that bad," I said, "I only get half as much because I'm bisexual." -- | Tristan Taormino | ||
| a7cd55c | Jealousy is really an umbrella term for a constellation of feelings including envy, competitiveness, insecurity, inadequacy, possessiveness, fear of abandonment, feeling unloved, and feeling left out. To say simply "I am jealous" is far too vague, since it means different things to different people and it manifests itself in so many diverse ways." | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 2405c61 | It would be unwise to agree to nonmonogamy for the following reasons or with these hidden motives: * You're so in love with the person that while your gut is telling you no, you decide to say yes and will deal with it later. * You believe your partner likes the idea as an abstract concept, but it won't actually happen. * You agree to it, but secretly know you'll be "enough" for your partner and she won't ever want anyone else. * Although yo.. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 92eba70 | As one southern-born antislavery activist later wrote, it was a "sad satire to call [the] States 'United,'" because in one-half of the country slavery was basic to its way of life while in the other it was fading or already gone. The founding fathers tried to stitch these two nations together with no idea how long the stitching would hold." -- | Andrew Delbanco | ||
| e423f3c | Fugitives from slavery ripped open the screen behind which America tried to conceal the reality of life for black Americans, most of whom lived in the South, out of sight and out of mind for most people in the North. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation putatively based on the principle of human equality was actually a prison house in which millions of.. | Andrew Delbanco | ||
| c864679 | Southerners who had insisted on states' rights now demanded federal intervention to enforce what they considered their property rights. | Andrew Delbanco | ||
| d2926d6 | A creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation from the healthy world will deepen and widen. "These fears are at least fifty percent of what it is to be melancholy," -- | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 83cc281 | His reason and his logic," said his friend James Matheny, "swallowed up all his being." | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 061cb41 | I close. We are not we must not be aliens or enemies but fellow countrymen and brethren. Although passion has strained our bonds of affection too hardly they must not I am sure they will not be broken. The mystic chords of memory which proceeding from so many battle fields and so many patriot graves pass through all the hearts and all the hearths in this broad continent of ours will yet again harmonize in their ancient music when breathed u.. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 0039ab5 | In 1779, Jefferson proposed, for his state of Virginia, a guarantee of equality for citizens of all beliefs, and nonbeliefs--"meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection," Jefferson wrote, "the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination." | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 1303443 | That solitude promotes insight as well as change," Storr continues, "has been recognized by the great religious leaders"--including the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed--"who have usually retreated from the world before returning to it to share what has been revealed to them." | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 48fa5a3 | Though major depression is often associated with lethargy to the point of being frozen, many people with chronic depression not only work well but devote more energy to their vocation than to any other endeavor. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| b79ec6b | Of all the paradoxes of Lincoln's life, none is more powerful than the fact that the man who would come to be known throughout the world--from American schoolrooms to the tribal councils of the Caucasus Mountains--was deeply mysterious to the people who knew him best. "Those who have spoken most confidently of their knowledge of his personal qualities," wrote the Pennsylvania Republican Alexander McClure, "are, as a rule, those who saw leas.. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 3e90cee | Lincoln was raised in the thick of Old School Calvinism. In Kentucky and Indiana, his parents belonged to a fire-breathing sect called Separate Baptism, in which congregants heard--in the tradition of Jonathan Edward's famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"--that they were bound for eternal hellfire, and nothing they could do or say or think would change their fate. Preachers did allow that a chosen few were ordained for grace.. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 1a8c4c3 | High-level creative exchange depends on both hierarchical and fluid power relationships. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 40c7ce6 | Word gets around." "You mean they communicate?" A third voice. "You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they'll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn't been bothered in years. They'd grown careless." | Robert C. O'Brien | ||
| 0ca8daa | Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8f0f3ad | Do you promise?" He demanded again. "I can't let you go, Alek." She said softly. "You...what?" | deryn | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 392fcec | Don't. Shoot. The air is full of hydrogen! | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 07c5b7c | That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what. | strength | Scott Westerfeld | |
| fffcaf9 | We don't have to look like everyone else...and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want...It's about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee thinks I should. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f5633fc | Maybe that is the price of loving someone: you lose your grasp of where they ended and you began. | Scott Westerfeld |