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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b3095d | Twelve strangers," he interrupted, "twelve citizens picked off the street. In this world we're unfortunate to live in, and especially in this septic isle we live on,where squalid politicians conspire with the squalid press to feed a half-educated and wholly complacent public on a diet of meretricious trivia, I'm sure it would be possible to concoct enough evidence to persuade twelve strangers that Nelson Mandela was a cannibal." | Reginald Hill | ||
| 52968fb | Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on | Reginald Hill | ||
| 8f24b43 | the study of diversity is essential for understanding how and why America became what Walt Whitman called a "teeming nation of nations." | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 2154328 | Certain it is," he predicted in his book The Land of Gold, published in 1855, "that the greater the diversity of colors and qualities of men, the greater will be the strife and conflict of feeling." Helper insisted that America should be a homogeneous white society. Comparing the entry of the Chinese in the West to the existence of blacks in the East, he protested: "Our population was already too heterogeneous before the Chinese came. I sho.. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| e1f248f | Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the narcissistic aura are those in whom healthy childhood exhibitionism has been repressed. . . . If the parent puts the child to shame for showing off, the need for attention gets repressed into the unconscious. Repression means that the need is not satisfied and continues to press for expression in the adult wi.. | exhibitionism exploitation narcissism narcissistic narcissistic-abusers narcissistic-mothers narcissistic-personality repressed-emotions repression revictimization shame | Elan Golomb | |
| 8efdd77 | Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you're wearing? I hope not. | statue-of-liberty | Mitali Perkins | |
| 836903d | Ma comes to stand beside me, and our intruder makes a clucking sound of disapproval. "This one worries me, Ranee. She's very secretive." | Mitali Perkins | ||
| c5ae4aa | One Said, 'My grandfather once planted a Langra tree but, before he could eat the fruit, he had to marry it to another tree. A tamarind. Custom decreed it.' 'I know about that custom,' said a colleague. 'The jasmine is considered a suitable bride for a mango. | india | Alexander Frater | |
| bcbda3a | In part because Americans were fearful of enemies within, they went looking for enemies abroad. War and conquest have served to distract nations from their internal contradictions and conflict for as long as nations have existed. | Evan Thomas | ||
| e2df74e | according to Lodge, were guilty of far worse. The war lovers had exaggerated Spanish cruelty in order to get their war, and now they covered up the abuses of American troops. | Evan Thomas | ||
| 2f4c489 | It is remarkable how little concern men seem to have for logic, statistics, and even, indeed, survival: we live by emotion, prejudice, and pride."24" | Evan Thomas | ||
| 57ec0c6 | Miltiades was a Greek general who, flush with victory against the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC, led a punitive mission against an ally of Persia, a small island nation that was supposed to be a pushover. The mission was a fiasco and Miltiades was defeated and disgraced; he died of his wounds in prison. | Evan Thomas | ||
| f19eb6b | Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.' Robert Frost wrote that. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 3ca911f | He watched the stars go dark as the sun breathed fire into the sky, and when it finally cleared the ridge on the far side of the river, he bathed in the rays of gorgeous warmth streaming into his alcove and toasting the frozen stone. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d7e93c2 | I check the time on my drug-dealer flip phone, the one I bought to call Daniela in another Chicago. It won't make calls in this world---I guess minutes aren't transferable across the multiverse. | Blake Crouch | ||
| be2cd05 | A villager in Ca Lu said it to me, before I removed his intestines with a bayonet." "Was he talking about himself?" Donaldson asked. "Or you?" "You tell me. Did you feel alive when you killed your father, Donaldson?" Donaldson nodded. "And when you killed the owner of the Pinto?" Mr. K continued. "Goddamn piece of crap car. I wish I could kill that guy again." "How about someone else in his place?" Donaldson squinted at Mr. K. "What do you .. | Blake Crouch | ||
| bfb7dfd | Like the first day of any new thing, it has been a long one, and he's glad to see it end. | Blake Crouch | ||
| caecc6f | They haven't been unhappy these last few years, quite the opposite. But it's been a long, long time since she felt that sense of giddy love that effervesces in the pit of your stomach and spectacularly upends the world. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d3ee4a4 | Wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they're measured by their consequences. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d219b3f | When we numb our minds to sleep on all manner of screens and HD entertainment, the meaning of life, of our existence and purpose, becomes lost. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 424536b | She has a direct link hardwired from her heart to her mouth. No filter, no self-revision. She says what she feels, without a shred of guile or cunning. She works no angles. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 422da9f | Aren't we both lost in worlds that, for reasons beyond our control, no longer align with our identity? | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1ee044e | The worst moments of your life you never see coming. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d6c9c4d | Even right now, it's like I'm seeing you for the first time, and I have this nervous ache in my stomach. I think about you every second. I think about all the choices we've made that created this moment. Us sitting here together at this beautiful table. Then I think of all the possible events that could have stopped this moment from ever happening, and it all feels, I don't know..." "What?" "So fragile." Now he becomes thoughtful for a mome.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 8b7ce89 | I have good intentions, but... But what? But all the time I fail. I hurt the ones I love. | Blake Crouch | ||
| e856b37 | She took me in when I was lost. When the world stopped making sense. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 2258ab3 | You are one ugly motherfucker." Ethan chuckled. "Sorry. I couldn't resist. It's from a movie. Seriously, what the hell are you?" | Blake Crouch | ||
| d053495 | Sorry." The shard clinked." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 0b166ed | The sting and the shame of all he's put her through are still raw. He can't say for certain, but he suspects that if she'd done the same to him, he'd already be gone. | Blake Crouch | ||
| f873d98 | He dismounts his albino steed, the horse's pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice. | Blake Crouch | ||
| abc5ee4 | If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality. GIST) | phd-cell-biolo | Blake Crouch | |
| 17b8744 | Do you know how a gun works?" "They hurt you." "They can. I shot a bullet into the back of Molly's head so she wouldn't be sick or sad anymore." "Did it hurt her?" | Blake Crouch | ||
| 22d1612 | In the world we came from, our existence was so easy. And so full of discontent because it was so easy. How do you find meaning when you're one of seven billion? When food, clothing, everything you need is just one Walmart away? When we numb our minds to sleep on all manner of screens and HD entertainment, the meaning of life. | Blake Crouch | ||
| aa7602b | adrenaline-fueled nightmare, which moved so fast I had to hold onto the book with both hands. But underneath all that intensity beat the heart of a damn fine writer. Someone who could turn a phrase, slip in some subtext, make the reader really care. Desert Places will give you nightmares. But it will also move you in ways you didn't expect. How much do I admire his | Blake Crouch | ||
| edb9dd1 | There are no rights anymore. No laws. Just force and fear. | Blake Crouch | ||
| fa841d7 | No one tells you it's all about to change, to be taken away. There's no proximity alert, no indication that you're standing on the precipice. And maybe that's what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes to you out of nowhere, when you're least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d9eccf7 | Fifteen years ago, before we met, Daniela was a comer to Chicago's art scene. She had a studio in Bucktown, showed her work in half-dozen galleries, and had just lined up her first solo exhibition in New York. Then came life. Me. Charlie. A bout of crippling postpartum depression. Derailment. Now she teaches private art lessons to middle-grade students. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 9f37261 | It's terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches into a new world. | Blake Crouch | ||
| a560bbd | Knew she didn't need another thing for the rest of her life except to be with him. There was such a peace that accompanied that knowledge. | Blake Crouch | ||
| db0a6bd | Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs. Fixing things as an adult that hurt you as a child. Maybe it doesn't make sense at a surface level, but the subconscious marches to its own beat. I happen to think that world taught us a lot about how the box works. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ed145e9 | In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 061b493 | You know how a dream feels the farther you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 06b43af | You believe in God, Ethan?" "No." "Many did. Adopted moral codes. Created religions. Murdered in the names of gods they'd never seen or heard. You believe in the universe?" "Sure." "Oh, so you've been to space. Seen those distant galaxies firsthand?" "Point taken." | Blake Crouch | ||
| fd083ce | Stu, where you at?" "Up here in the library." "You hurt?" | Blake Crouch |