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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| defac1c | Family is never really gone. | Beth Revis | ||
| 7dcc401 | I half believe him, but I can't risk being wrong based on a gut feeling. [...] "What do you want me to do?" Jack throws up his hands. "If I could crack open my skull and let you read my brain like a book, I would!" My breath catches in my throat. Because I... I could read his brain like a book." | reading-mind reverie reverie-mental-spa | Beth Revis | |
| f483ea3 | I wish you were here," I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination. I hear his voice again, so real that I'm worried I'm about to fall into another hallucination. Maybe that's what I really want. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?" | hallucination insanity sanity | Beth Revis | |
| 8714c67 | It's not selfish to be yourself and pursue your dreams. | Beth Revis | ||
| 526d6a3 | Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don't. | Beth Revis | ||
| 405ad83 | The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow. | Beth Revis | ||
| 4870169 | FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it's also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It's 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that--every hero must fall at least once. But it's also 100% true that some people neve.. | Beth Revis | ||
| 7d06026 | Failure makes the success worth it. | Beth Revis | ||
| b756fb6 | The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end. | Beth Revis | ||
| 353364c | I feel the darkness inside me like a creature curled up in my chest, breathing smoke and fire. It is always there. It weighs on me. It's not contained by anything but my own skin. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it doesn't. | Beth Revis | ||
| b5d300f | You always think that drowning is loud. In the movies, if someone drowns they scream, they churn water. Everyone notices a drowning person in movies." Sofia looked down, and I though she was crying, but when she looked up at me again, I realized her eyes were dry. "Real drowning is quiet. It doesn't announce itself. It just... it just happens. And then you're gone." I didn't understand what she was saying before, but now I think I do. We're.. | Beth Revis | ||
| bf27a13 | The simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. | Beth Revis | ||
| 50e556a | Que pasaria si estuviese en la Tierra y no en esta dichosa nave? Si hubiese conocido a Elder en el instituto, en un bar o en una cita a ciegas; si hubiese podido elegir entre Elder y cualquier otro chico del mundo... ?lo querria? ?Me querria el a mi? El amor sin posibilidad de eleccion no es amor. | Beth Revis | ||
| 4d377f7 | I lean closer to him, so close I can smell his skin, and when I speak, I can see how the little hairs near his ear move with my breath. "I also want you to know that I won't kill you right away. But that you'll wish I had." | Beth Revis | ||
| e43ad82 | I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body. | Beth Revis | ||
| 5c9e8d9 | It wasn't that he called me a freak. It was the way he said it. Like he really meant it. Like he believed it. | Beth Revis | ||
| 5009070 | Because I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best. | Beth Revis | ||
| d3f5a64 | She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has. | Beth Revis | ||
| 1863f33 | We keep sending colonies up into space," Akilah says, "and we don't even know what's at the bottom of the sea." "Yeah, we do," I counter. "Fish and stuff." Akilah laughs. "We've barely explored the sea. There are places where the water is so deep that it has never seen light." She sighs. "I would like to go to those places. I would like to sink down and down and down and see what's hidden at the bottom." The sea is a dangerous place because.. | below-the-sea dangerous death earth ella-shepard ground life sea waves | Beth Revis | |
| 42668c4 | I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was. | Beth Revis | ||
| c0d7da3 | There's a war going on, that much is clear. And I'm no longer sure I'm on the right side. | Beth Revis | ||
| 71ee5d1 | If you love someone - deeply, in as true a way as you can - you will get hurt. People leave us and love falls apart, and when it does, it hurts. It should hurt. How can you not hurt when what you love is gone? | Beth Revis | ||
| bf11ccc | But, really, grief left a hole in you, and while you healed around the hole, you never didn't have it. A piece of you was gone. You couldn't heal something that wasn't there. | Beth Revis | ||
| 3323c78 | You are not one person. You are a different person in each moment in time. Your name means nothing. Go see a person with the same name in a different time, and it's someone else entirely. | time-travel | Beth Revis | |
| b0b30d4 | Perhaps the only thing worse than fear is apathy. Fear makes us do horrible things to people. Apathy makes us allow horrible things to happen to them. | Beth Revis | ||
| f0d8e76 | Nor were the intellectuals of the 1920s a vanguard of a new outlook, as they themselves supposed, but the exhausted rearguard of Victorian romanticism. They sought refuge from an industrialised and ugly world. Some, like Virginia Woolf, found it in polishing up an exquisite sensibility. Others, like her husband Leonard Woolf and of course Gilbert Murray, found escape in designing an ideal society...It was a sheltered world, this of the inte.. | intelligentsia | Correlli Barnett | |
| 3029717 | I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere. | Tim Gunn | ||
| f6491ac | But when (as will inevitably happen) mature women are again seen as sexy, it's likely that the maxi and midi will make their triumphant return as sexy garments. Fashion | Tim Gunn | ||
| c86a218 | Would I be more comfortable in a business meeting wearing my pajamas? No! It would feel, honestly, very weird. I would think, Where's my IV? When do I take my next meds? | pajamas | Tim Gunn | |
| f8e80f0 | I don't particularly like entertaining. I know I should, but I just don't. | Tim Gunn | ||
| af1184b | People use texting and e-mail for everything, but it's not appropriate for somber situations. If you win an Oscar, tweet away, but if you're talking about a death or an illness, you need to use more formal channels. For example: You can promote an employee via e-mail, but you can't fire him. You can ask someone out by e-mail, but you can't break up with her. Happy occasions can be casual. Sad or serious ones require a personal touch. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 3eb8e2a | I also have no problem if you want to find a cave and have someone roll a boulder in front of it. | cave | Tim Gunn | |
| 50c6572 | I'll give you some life advice," I said. "The first piece is: Listen and listen intently when you're being spoken to about something. The second: Take the high road. When presented with frustration or anger or discontentment with a situation or a person, don't reduce yourself to that level. Don't get into a conflict in that moment. You'll feel better about yourself for it." Well, to my surprise, this created a near frenzy in the room. The s.. | Tim Gunn | ||
| a73003c | In my typical way, I declined to respond, saying that I didn't want anyone to run to a store just because I endorsed a trend. Besides, a trend is good only if it works for you, your wardrobe, and your lifestyle. | trends | Tim Gunn | |
| a27b18d | Borrowing from cultures without understanding the fundamentals can yield some pretty weird and wholly illogical perversions. | Tim Gunn | ||
| fbf7d83 | Until the sixteenth century, men--priests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many others--wore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a 'sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,' writes Quentin Bell. This is still true for men in high positions. After all, can you imagine the Pope, or Professor Dumbledore, wearing trousers? Have you ever seen a depiction of God wearing pants? | gender skirts | Tim Gunn | |
| dd60a7b | They weren't Mission Impossible. They were Mission Make it Work. Tim Gunn would be so proud. | Carolyn McCray | ||
| fe08f20 | Although there are few things easier than throwing on a dress, something about them communicates that you have made an effort. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 7bc662c | We have also heard within the last few hours that Rubeus Hagrid"--all three of them gasped, and so nearly missed the rest of the sentence--"well-known gamekeeper at Hogwarts School, has narrowly escaped arrest within the grounds of Hogwarts, where he is rumored to have hosted a 'Support Harry Potter' party in his house. However, Hagrid was not taken into custody, and is, we believe, on the run." "I suppose it helps, when escaping from Death.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f51a50d | The belief in a definable, consistent self, an identity that develops through the course of a life-story and that can be conclusively described, breaks down, to a great extent, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at a time when psychoanalysis, scientific discoveries such as the theory of relativity, and experiments in art forms, are producing a more indeterminate approach to identity. Western biography from this time has more to say .. | Hermione Lee | ||
| c103282 | Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self, the extent to which a life can be lived according to a philosophical system, or the relation between acts and emotions. That is not their job - unless they are writing the Life of a philosopher. But biography is bound to reflect changing and conflicting concepts about | Hermione Lee | ||
| 8aba9b3 | And hell upon those who tell us to be twice as good and shoot us no matter. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| fcd0b7e | In Downhill All the Way, Leonard remembers them returning from an evening spent with Vanessa in her studio in Fitzroy Street. (This was in 1930.)A drunk woman was being abused by two passers-by and was then accosted by a policeman who seemed to Leonard to be 'deliberately trying to goad her into doing something which would justify an arrest'. He lost his temper, challenged the policeman in front of a small crowd, and made him let the woman .. | Hermione Lee | ||
| 51f24d6 | She had an absurd meeting, arranged by Violet Trefusis and Raymond Mortimer, with Violet's mother Mrs Keppel, the ex-mistress of Edward VII. Both had anticipated having nothing to say to each other, but (Violet remembered) they did find one congenial subject: 'Personally I've always been in favour of six cylinders though I know some people think four are less trouble.' 'My dear Mrs Keppel, you wouldn't hesitate if you saw the new Lanchester.. | Hermione Lee |