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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c85b4e | Sometimes you see everything so clearly and other times you can't even see yourself, but then, isn't that all of us? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 880e847 | I've come a long way. But I've a distance to go. My dream? My dream is to soar happily into my future. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ebfe32e | As women, we dress to please ourselves, to hide our imperfections, to accentuate our best features. Our clothing is an extension of who we are, a reflection of what we are thinking and feeling. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bd6a7e7 | You can celebrate the love you had instead of hiding from it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 92d3401 | Our thoughts are ever-changing, because we put them there. Once you grasp the difference between suicidal thoughts and your feelings, you will start to understand your emotions. You can separate your suicidal thoughts from your feelings. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4c920c5 | She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live. But what was the point in living when there was no life in it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 6c9ab70 | But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all. | down-syndrome family garden-leave life love neighbour | Cecelia Ahern | |
| d4ed986 | Age is only a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behavior. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 6d8d303 | She felt disgusting and used and like she could never trust anyone ever again, and the last thing she wanted was food. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8a77f2e | There was so much time wasted not spending it together. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 98839b3 | I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ddc8ebe | People didn't always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 93aa33a | I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7f47aa3 | Apart from them, Kitty had never been able to keep friends, not because she was disloyal in any way, she just felt that she hadn't connected with anyone deeply since her school friends and so it was easy to drift away as life moved on, as college finished and as she found new jobs and created new friendships that lasted as long as the jobs had. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2a96469 | I never believed in God. Not even at school when my priestly teacher drummed the fear and the guilt into us. I believed that he believed it, all right, but I thought he was mad. Delusional. I thought if somebody had to force you that much to believe in something then it wasn't worth believing, that it wasn't natural, you know? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bfc2f44 | Love can soften people, I believe that. But in me, now, love riles up an anger, a red-hot rage that crawls on my skin, seeps into my blood and brings out the worst in me. That's why everyone I love is better off loving me from afar. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| de6224e | It's not easy, I suppose, but it's not all bad... I usen't to believe in marriage. My mum and dad separated when I was young, it was nasty and so I didn't have a good example of marriage, but a lot of my friends are getting married now mostly I do their hair. All brides are nervous for different reasons, whether they're sick or not. You just have to judge if they want to chat or not. Some don't. The main difference is my friends are panicki.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 26a5832 | And that's what the problem was - Kitty had finally nailed it. In the six months of Etcetera stories that Kitty had pored over, she now realised she hadn't written a single article that had been an idea of her own. Each story had been proposed by Pete or Cheryl or by somebody else who had enough on their own plate and was unable to write it. She hadn't noticed it happening because she hadn't minded. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c89cf32 | We're not in this life just to work, we're in it to live. | life-lesson love second-chance workaholic | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 71e9389 | sometimes the only way we can discover our true power is by living through the crisis we feared. As | Chris Gardner | ||
| 71c818b | Cualquiera que crea que el dinero lo salva todo, no ha tenido nunca dinero... como yo en aquel tiempo. | Chris Gardner | ||
| 8f11624 | I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 070022e | Most of the travel was purposeless, carried out in exactly the desperate spirit of fleeing from pursuers. It was romantic, in a certain sense. Especially if you're not the one doing it. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 3a6cc28 | All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren. | Charles Frazier | ||
| f3330ce | It is tempting to look back at Bear's people from the perspective of this modern world and see them as changeless and pure, authentic people in ways impossible for anybody to be anymore. We need Noble Savages for our own purposes. Our happy imaginings about them and the pure world they occupied do us good when incoherent change overwhelms us. But even in those early days when I was first getting to know Bear and his people, I could see that.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 4dd8e4f | They did not talk much while they ate, other than for Ada to say that the Georgia boy did not seem like much of a one as far as men went. Ruby said she found him not particularly worse than the general order of men, which is to say that he would greatly benefit from having someone's foot in his back every waking minute. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 07e1c24 | and all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy. | Charles Frazier | ||
| ded6a36 | So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage? | humor nightwoods | Charles Frazier | |
| 4aed0eb | many of Bear's stories and comments shared a general drift. They advised against fearing all of creation. But not because it is always benign, for it is not. It will, with certainty, consume us all. We are made to be destroyed. We are kindling for the fire, and our lives will stand as naught against the onrush of time. Bear's position, if I understood it, was that refusal to fear these general terms of existence is an honorable act of defia.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 5453276 | To Ada, Ruby's monologues seemed composed mainly of verbs, all of them tiring. Plow, plant, hoe, cut, can, feed, kill. | Charles Frazier | ||
| a3f8774 | deep belief that your moment in time is the pinnacle, the only standard of judgment extending from the creation of light until the black apocalypse, that what you believe right now is eternal truth because you believe it so fervently--those deep beliefs so crucial at the moment but none of them more permanent than a puff of air across a palmful of dry talcum | Charles Frazier | ||
| 65d695c | And she [Ada] thought momentarily that she ought to worry about losing her beauty, about having become brown and stringy and rough. And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. | beauty-fades-away different-self | Charles Frazier | |
| 62b652f | He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the los.. | hope war | Charles Frazier | |
| b60d833 | And they did what lovers often do when they think the future stretches out endless before them as bright as on the noon of creation day: they talked ceaselessly of the past, as if each must be caught up on the other's previous doings before they can move forward paired. | happiness love | Charles Frazier | |
| ad3bef9 | than appreciating the calm voice of Charleston during an evening walk along the Battery with Fort Sumter off in the distance, the great white houses at one's back, palmettos rattling their leaves in a sea breeze. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 691ce61 | V has finally learned that sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice. And even when it's not, those around you become uncomfortable because they think you are wise. | waiting wisdom | Charles Frazier | |
| 8a2236b | I don't know facts, and probably there aren't any to know. Whatever crazy thing people want to believe, that's what they call it, a fact. | facts | Charles Frazier | |
| e3ac618 | After years of loss and reflection, your old deluded decisions click together like the works of a watch packed tight within its case--many tiny, turning, interlocking wheels....the force of every decision transferring gear to gear, wheel to wheel, each one motivating a larger energy going in no direction but steep downward to darkness at an increasing pitch. And then one morning the world resembles Noah's flood, stretching unrecognizable to.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 08a3001 | Identity, though, is a difficult matter to tease out, especially in a time of flux. How to tell a spaniel from a retriever when all dogs have become middle-sized and brown? Should we go by some arbitrary blood quantum wherein half makes an Indian and forty-nine percent makes something else? Certainly forty-nine percent does not a whiteman make, at least not by the laws then prevailing in our state and most others. Or do we go by the old way.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 15b9f40 | He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging over the girl like the deadfall to a trap, ready to drop and crush. | love-quotes what-if-quote | Charles Frazier | |
| 2b3d1b6 | Had she been an old woman who long ago in her youth sang beautifully, one might have said that she had learned to use the diminished nature of her voice to maximum effect, that it was a lesson in how to live with damage, how to make peace with it and use it for what it can do. But she was not an old woman. | singing-voice voice-quotes | Charles Frazier | |
| 989bd3b | Leave now and live, or stay here and die. Your choice. | crime law mystery philip-margolin robin-lockwood the-perfect-alibi | Phillip Margolin | |
| 12827ec | Within the substandard construction of the Charlevoix church, literally upon a shaky foundation, I was baptized into the Orthodox faith; a faith that had existed long before Protestantism had anything to protest and before Catholicism called itself catholic; a faith that stretched back to the beginnings of Christianity, when it was Greek and not Latin, and which, without an Aquinas to reify it, had remained shrouded in the smoke of traditio.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 6b9a951 | But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant ...) Spring | Jeffrey Eugenides |