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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d59e20 | Zach Palmer, who was half human and half--we weren't really sure what, including the possibility that the other half might be human as well. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 4ef0f10 | I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or later. | recklessness | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 2062fdf | He asked if we were really ghost hunting, and I said we were. "What, like officially?" "Officially secret," I said because discretion is supposed to be, if not our middle name, at least a nickname we occasionally answer to when we remember." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| d130343 | Even in the 1980s your average young archaeologist would have had difficulty raising capital for a house. I knew this because it's one of the things archaeologists will tell you about, at length, at the slightest provocation. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0aaf9c6 | I nodded absently as I made a note of the pub. The Rising Sun drinking establishment exists right on the fringes of the demi-monde - not being nearly as antique or mysterious as it pretends to be. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ddc7a72 | When dealing with the excessively rich and privileged, you've got your two basic approaches. One is to go in hard and deliberately working class. A regional accent is always a plus in this. Seawoll has been known to deploy a Mancunian dialect so impenetrable that members of Oasis would have needed subtitles, and graduate entries with double firsts from Oxford practise a credible Estuary in the mirror and drop their glottals with gay abandon.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| e5b1726 | The word 'bollocks' is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| c4771b5 | I sighed and went back to my book, in which Morgoth nicked the eponymous jewels and had away with them back to Angbad. Sorry mate, I thought, not my jurisdiction. Did you have them insured? Whereupon Feanor gets a crime number and a leaflet about being on guard against theft and the wiles of the personification of evil. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 697e615 | I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity. | courage recklessness | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 6c00b72 | And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all. | contradictory contrasting henry-and-cato images inspiration iris-murdoch juxtaposition suffering | Iris Murdoch | |
| 08976dc | It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| e7daf64 | The men responsible were charged with grand theft. Their original defense, that dolphins are persons (humans in dolphin suits, one defendant said), was quickly thrown out by the judge. I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 621cc30 | I'm being careful with here," Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| eb25b88 | Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what she'd always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girl's dream, if she can't have a vampire. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| e346892 | The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. --FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy" | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 110b7ea | I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. A | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| faec308 | Hathos," I offered finally and then thoughtfully provided the definition. "The pleasure you get from hating something." -- | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 144ed30 | No one with real integrity tries to sell their integrity to you. People with real integrity hardly notice they have it. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 2584a33 | Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| a5423af | Nor did I respond with the obvious, that my brother might very well go to jail, probably would someday, but he would never ever call. Three words were scratched in ballpoint blue on the wall above the phone. Think a head. I thought how that was good advice, but maybe a bit late for anyone using that phone. I thought how it would be a good name for a beauty salon. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 32ce203 | I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. As if I were looking in a mirror. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| ecc24c3 | I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 1e732ab | At five of five, I called the airline number--800-FUCK-YOU--and was told I had to speak directly to lost luggage at the Sacramento Airport. No one answered in Sacramento, though my call was important to them. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 81fa928 | Sylvia's first impression of Allegra was that no one had ever before had such a beautiful baby. Jocelyn's first impression of Grigg was that he had nice eyelashes and a funny name, and didn't interest her in the slightest. Prudie's first impression of Bernadette was that she was startling to look at and dull if you listened, which you hardly ever had to do. Bernadette's first impression of Prudie was that, in all her long years, she had rar.. | childbirth first-impressions joy | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| fdebf6b | I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt. | karen joy fowler | ||
| d4a4aca | I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. Freak or fake, I'd been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both. | vigor | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 712ac4b | Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they so carefully impress on sheets of paper. | Sally Smith O'Rourke | ||
| 9132bac | Robert and I decided last night that we are going to fight this thing with every ounce of strength that we have, she declared. We will not give in to it as long as the Lord gives us breath. We will fight it minute by minute and hour by hour, Meteor. But we will never give up. Our love and faith will get us through this dark time. | Sally Smith O'Rourke | ||
| 36261b7 | I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil. | devil enemy first-impression iris-murdoch the-green-knight underestimated | Iris Murdoch | |
| d1cf6e8 | Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime. | art enduring great-works-of-art iris-murdoch lifetime the-black-prince works-of-art | Iris Murdoch | |
| b5e3676 | Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons. | demons internal-struggle iris-murdoch possessed the-message-to-the-planet tormented | Iris Murdoch | |
| 804a793 | Idei prikhodiat v golovu otdel'nym lichnostiam. V etom vsegda byla beda chelovechestva | Iris Murdoch | ||
| e8b0e40 | Izvechnoe protivorechie mezhdu poznaniem samogo sebia, kotoroe daetsia nam v ob'ektivnykh samonabliudeniiakh, i oshchushcheniem svoego "ia", priobretaemym sub'ektivno; protivorechie, iz-za kotorogo, naverno, dostizhenie istiny voobshche neosushchestvimo. Samopoznanie slishkom abstraktno, samooshchushchenie slishkom lichno, obmorochno, zamorochenno." | Iris Murdoch | ||
| fa38057 | There are things which are appalling to young people because young people think life should be happy and free. But life is never really happy and free in any beautiful sense. Happiness is a weak and paltry thing and perhaps"freedom" has no meaning. There are great patterns in which we are involved, and destinies which belong to us and which we love even in the moment when they destroy us." | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 07ad351 | Statements made by distant church bells remind me it is Sunday. Today the sky has become cloudy. I have been watching the clouds and it occurs to me that I have never done this in my life before, simply sit and watch clouds. As a child I would have been far too anxious to 'waste time' in this way. And my mother would have stopped me. As I write this I am sitting on my plot of grass behind the house where I have put a chair, cushions, rugs. .. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 217cbb0 | We may love our chains and our stripes too. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 998795a | We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 02d7546 | Cel ce venereaza,confera obiectului venerat putere,o putere reala,nu una imaginara,aceasta este sensul dovezii ontologice,una dintre ideie cele mai ambigue pe care le-a faurit inteligenta omeeneasca vreodata.Dar aceasta putere este infioratoare.Dorintele si atasamentele noastre creeaza zeii.Si in momentul in care te eliberezi de un atasament,vine un altul si ii ia locul in chip de consolare.Niciodata nu renuntam total la o placere,nu facem .. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 9038d1a | Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.' 'Yours is a melancholy sort of religion, Dennis. I'm afraid I don't believe in God.' 'Ah, you do. But you do not know His name. And I who know His name am only the better of you by one little word. Here is the salmon pool. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 8454dcd | Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| dcd599e | I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 2c10cc4 | I saw her simplicity, her ignorance, her childish unkindness, her unpretty anxious little face. She was not beautiful or brilliantly clever. How false it is to say that love is blind. I could even judge her, I could even condemn her, I could even, in some possible galactic loop of thought, make her suffer. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 7e9e619 | I had better spend the day quietly, sleep in the afternoon perhaps, and then start again hunting for Hugo. I would have much preferred to look for Anna. But I had no idea now where to start looking. Also I wanted to lay quickly to rest the terrible suspicion that where I found Hugo now I would also find Anna. This idea didn't bear thinking about and so I didn't think about it. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 2ada254 | She tells so many different stories and they are all false. | Iris Murdoch |