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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c2a28d | Don't smile," he said." | Aimee Bender | ||
| a3214d0 | It can feel so lonely, to see strangers out in the day, shopping, on a day that is not a good one. On this one: the day I returned from the emergency room after having a fit about wanting to remove my mouth. Not an easy day to look at people in their vivid clothes, in their shining hair, pointing and smiling at colorful woven sweaters. I wanted to erase them all. But I also wanted to be them all, and I could not erase them and want to be th.. | Aimee Bender | ||
| c8400af | After the incident in the ER, Ino longer wanted to advertise my experience to anyone. You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground. There's a kind of show a kid can do, for a parent - a show of pain, to try to announce something, and in my crying, in the desperate, blabbering, awful mouth-clawing, I had hoped to get something across. Had it come across, any of it? Nope. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 929dfe7 | YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH. | change parents relationships | Aimee Bender | |
| fc37f45 | The afternoons were getting longer again, stretching. I stayed too long at a stoplight because the sunlight was so pretty, sifting through all the leaves on the sycamore trees lining Sierra Bonita, turning each a pale jade green. The jacaranda trees preparing for their burst of true lavender blue come May. Go, said Dad. Sorry, I said. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 3d3041f | Sono innamorata dello smettere. A suo modo e un'arte, se ci pensate. Smettere bene richiede un innato senso della bellezza; bisogna saper sentire il momento della svolta, proprio quando il desiderio fa la sua comparsa, quello e il momento di darci un taglio, giu deciso, l'istante in cui lo smettere e maturo come una pesca che si fa dolce sull'albero: crack, si spacca il picciolo, la pesca cade per terra, nera e argento di mosche. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 5f2aa4a | Un tempo pensavo che la morte potesse essere nascosta da qualche parte sul nostro corpo. Acquattata dietro la pupilla come una moneta, infilata sotto un'unghia, allacciata attorno a un polso. Una scheggia scura, affilata; una pallottola pallida, libera. Una cosa diversa per ogni persona. La durata di ogni vita predefinita. Il giorno della morte, ti si scioglie dentro a tutto il corpo, calda pallina rotta di sali da bagno. Fino a quel moment.. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 6d39dde | Il mondo puo anche chiederti di partecipare, ma la decisione di accettare la proposta viene presa di giorno in giorno. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 53d2281 | She was tired these days because she was having job trouble too; her trouble meant she did not know how she could be useful in her life. Dad's job trouble was he had too much to do with his life. Sometimes I just wanted them to even it out but I couldn't think of how. | job-trouble | Aimee Bender | |
| 69520e6 | Nothing...They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book...I found the book and inside were these flowers...They were in the book when I bought it... I bought it used...Because they meant something." 'To someone else.' 'To someone." | books flowers | Aimee Bender | |
| ff84650 | The best way I can think to describe it, she said, ' is the way, when you're driving on the freeway at night how everyone can see the moon in their window. Every car on the road. Every car feels the moon is following that car, even in the other direction, right? Everyone in that entire hemisphere can see the moon and think it is there for them, is following where they go. | faith god moon religion the-doctor-and-the-rabbi | Aimee Bender | |
| 99a4720 | You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think. | parenting raising-children | Aimee Bender | |
| 52c16f1 | Last day I saw him human, he was sad about the world. | life sadness | Aimee Bender | |
| 4ce43ed | She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones. | fake smile | Aimee Bender | |
| 0e5bdb0 | I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles. | fruit | Aimee Bender | |
| 634e150 | The room filled with the smell of warming butter and sugar and lemon and eggs, and at five, the timer buzzed and I pulled out the cake and placed it on the stovetop. The house was quiet. The bowl of icing was right there on the counter, ready to go, and cakes are best when just out of the oven, and I really couldn't possibly wait, so I reached out to the side of the cake pan, to the least obvious part, and pulled off a warm spongy chunk of .. | ingredients lemon-cake rose-edelstein smell | Aimee Bender | |
| 42e5748 | A tattoo is an energy exchange that can be addictive for both client and practitioner, and those two tattoos with ashes carried wild energy--lightning crackling and popping on clear-skied days--and made Mike's hands wobble in a way they hadn't wobbled in twenty years. His breath was high and greedy in his chest, and just the emotion, the connection of it, was unreal. | Aric Davis | ||
| f5cec23 | South Central Los Angeles, for example, is a data and media black hole, without local cable programming or links to major data systems. Just as it became a housing-and-jobs ghetto in the postwar period, it is now evolving into an off-net electronic ghetto. | Mike Davis | ||
| 822cdf2 | Let him get out on the front lines. Let him bring one slow freight through a snowstorm in the Rockies; let him drive one rivet to hold his apartment roof over his head. Let him keep his own electric light burning through one quiet, cosy winter evening when mist is freezing to the wires. Let him make, from seed to table, just one slice of bread, and we will hear no more from him about the human right to security. No man's security is any gre.. | Rose Wilder Lane | ||
| 0dc4e3f | Rose Wilder Lane, Ayn Rand, and Isabel Mary Paterson each published philosophical works early that year. Lane's The Discovery of Freedom appeared in January 1943; Rand's The Fountainhead followed in April; Paterson's The God of the Machine came out in May. Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation from what was happening around the.. | Caroline Fraser | ||
| 6dc4d33 | But of course the Western changed along with America's view of itself, from some sort of heroic country, where everybody's free, to the spiritually fucked-up defiled place it really is, and now you got jive Italians, if you can feature that, making the only Westerns worth seeing anymore because white America's just too fucking confused, can't figure out whether to embrace the myth or the anti-myth, so in a country where folks always figured.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| a30c232 | America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?" | Steve Erickson | ||
| b9887c1 | This was the day his life split in two. Her name was Kara. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 902107a | The Movies have always been here. The Movies were here before God. Time is round like a reel of film. God hates the Movies because the Movies are the evidence of what He's done. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 1e2ecbf | Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one. | Steve Erickson | ||
| aa4016b | Lets say from the first moment of my life, everything's always been about me and nothing else, including apocalypse and chaos; let's say even apocalypse and chaos have been conceits of my psyche and bad faith--this assumes I ever kept any kind of faith at all, bad or otherwise...Let's say I'm faithlessness made flesh, the modern age's leap of faith stopped dead in its tracks, fucking around with apocalypse and chaos only because in some bro.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| c861580 | You're in the lights and he thinks you're exposed, he's in the dark and he thinks he's hidden. But he's not hidden, he's dead, and you're not exposed, you're alive. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 8b7163d | He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes--with certain justification--that he was betrayed by his government. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 73ca50c | Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 17c78e8 | I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]" | hollywood humor movie-script-writing | Robert Ludlum | |
| 3524d09 | You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| ba3a101 | She nodded. "Always. I find that it saves time in the long run. Anyone who can't take the truth doesn't belong in my world." | Jamie Freveletti | ||
| 3f0b9e4 | there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons! | Robert Ludlum | ||
| f377386 | We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| b61764d | Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables -- with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card. | dice felt-table reputation | Robert Ludlum | |
| a0fbc78 | They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been--had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| a31c82e | Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 5167b26 | everything we knew, everything we felt!' 'Not quite everything,' he said, touching her cheek. 'I'm Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that's the name I was given, and have to use it because I don't have any other. But it's not mine. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 109d382 | Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 9e1fe24 | Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. That was back in the Cold War days when, "We learned Russian so you didn't have to," something he did at the Presidio of Monterey alongside Recon Marines and Navy SEALs. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim switched from espionage to arbitrage. Armed with a Wharton MBA rather than a Colt M16, he moved to Moscow in the midst of Peres.. | Tim Tigner | ||
| a060cd5 | What a lot of fun you could have if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 88bb1d7 | although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 7cae720 | the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day. | nerdbery newbery | Carol Ryrie Brink | |
| 75f7232 | To find yourself, think for yourself. --Socrates | Robyn Carr |