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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6674431 | Can't do this." There were tears in her voice now, her throat clogged with emotion." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 9ee731f | AMOR TOWLES, | Blake Crouch | ||
| 4e7bb36 | Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. --RAY CUMMINGS | Blake Crouch | ||
| 0778948 | Is this what you want? To drop yourself into a still-life painting of a memory because life has broken your heart? | Blake Crouch | ||
| e9b7e4c | Each day is a revelation, every moment a gift. The simple act of sitting across the dinner table from his daughter and listening to her talk about her day feels like a pardon. How could he ever have taken even one second of it for granted? | Blake Crouch | ||
| 5a090d0 | But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the beach, put a ring on Eleanor's finger instead. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ab43127 | Here he comes," Blake said. When Kaidan climbed the steps to the deck he came straight for me, his hair slicked back with sweat from running. He took my face in his hands, breathing hard, lips tight, eyes like blue blazes. "Don't ever do that again," he ground out. It took a second to process his words and remember what exactly I wasn't supposed to do again. Then I recalled interfering. "I know it was dangerous," I admitted, "but there were.. | Wendy Higgins | ||
| 52c9463 | It will be destructive at first, like all progress. Just as the industrial age ushered in two world wars. Just as Homo sapiens supplanted the Neanderthal. But would you turn back the clock on all that comes with it? Could you? Progress is inevitable. And it's a force for good. | inevitable progress | Blake Crouch | |
| 08ca3e0 | There is no decent place to stand in a massacre. Leonard Cohen | Blake Crouch | ||
| 67e14c8 | You made me in your image, and now I will remake you in mine. | Blake Crouch | ||
| b1e8f12 | Is deja vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality? | memories reality science-fictionce time time-travel timelines | Blake Crouch | |
| 5219345 | what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 85997f8 | A good relationship has a pattern like a dance ... The joy of such a pattern is not only the joy of creation or the joy of participation, it is also the joy of living in the moment. Lightness of touch and living in the moment are intertwined. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 924f858 | A day out of season, stopping the monotonous count of summer days. Stopping, too, one's own summer routine, so that, looking out on the gray skies, one says not only, 'What time of year is it?' but, 'What time of life am I in? Where am I? What am I doing? | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 43b7aaa | When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| f90fa82 | Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belonds to that natural order of giving that seems to renew iself even in the act of depletion. The more one gives, the more one has to give - like milk in the breast... Even purposeful giving must have some source that refills it. The milk in the breast must be replenished by food taken into the body. If it is [our] function to give, [we] must be replenished too. But how? Every.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| dfa9261 | This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. And | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| a773c26 | These values are signposts toward another way of living: simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life; balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life; work without pressure; space for significance and beauty; time for solitude and sharing; closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| d090ff3 | When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| b55ea4e | Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of ego. Perhaps one can shed at this stage in life as one sheds in beach living; one's pride, one's false ambitions, one's mask, one's armor. Was that armor not put on to protect one from the competitive world? If one ceases to compete, does one need it? Perhaps one can at last in middle age.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 75180b3 | No man is an island," said John Donne. I feel we are all islands--in a common sea." | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 9b55083 | The only real security is not in owning or possessing, no in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. | love relationships | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| e916916 | I shall ask into my shell only those friends with whom I can be completely honest. I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| f454049 | Clothes, first. Of course, one needs less in the sun. But one needs less anyway, one finds suddenly. One does not need a closet-full, only a small suitcase-full. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 88f896d | How wonderful are islands! Islands in space, like this one I have come to, ringed about by miles of water, linked by no bridges, no cables, no telephones. An island from the world and the world's life. Islands in time, like this short vacation of mine. The past and the future are cut off; only the present remains. Existence in the present gives island living an extreme vividness and purity. One lives like a child or a saint in the immediacy.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 8628c88 | remind me that I must try to be alone for part of each year, even a week or a few days; and for part of each day, even for an hour or a few minutes in order to keep my core, my center, my island-quality. You will remind me that unless I keep the island-quality intact somewhere within me, I will have little to give my husband, my children, my friends or the world at large. You will remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 244bfa4 | What has made the day so perfect ? To begin with , it is a pattern of freedom. It's setting has not been cramped in space or time. An island, curiously enough, gives a limitless feeling or both. Nor has the day been limited in kinds of activity. It has a natural balance of physical, intellectual and social life. It has an easy unforced rhythm. Work is not deformed by pressure. Relationship is not strangled by claims. Intimacy is tempered by.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| db17003 | For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values - a sense of values I have become more aware of here. Island precepts, I might call them if I could define them, signposts toward another way of living. Simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life. Balance of physical, intellectual and spiritual life. Work without pressure. Space for .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 3d500ca | I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going "down the drain." We do not see the results of our giving as concretely as man does in his work. In the job of home-keeping there is no raise from the boss, and seldom praise from others to show us we have hit the mark. Except .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| b87f888 | I felt a kind of impersonal kinship with them and a joy in that kinship. Beauty of earth and sea and air meant more to me. I was in harmony with it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral. 'Praise ye the Lord, all ye fishes of the sea - all ye birds of the air - all ye children of men - Praise ye the Lord!' Yes, I felt closer to my fellow men too, even in m.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 94d1f90 | We are asked today to feel compassionately for everyone in the world; to digest intellectually all the information spread out in public print; and to implement in action every ethical impulse aroused by our hearts and minds. The interrelatedness of the world links us constantly with more people than our hearts can hold. Or rather--for I believe the heart is infinite--modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| fdb61a1 | am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from the Phaedrus when he said, "May the outward and inward man be at one." | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 409d626 | But I want first of all--in fact, as an end to these other desires--to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact--to borrow from the language of the saints--to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean a.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 2da83e1 | Growth in awareness has always been painful [...] But it does lead to greater independence and, eventually, cooperation in action. For the enormous problems that face the world today, in both the private and public sphere, cannot be solved by women - and men - alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side. | awareness-quotes cooperation men-and-women men-and-women-quote | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| a415fd9 | It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid. | korean-war war | Pat Frank | |
| 510f610 | Cook with butter in the North, olive oil in the South. | culture culture-identity france french-culture olive-oil | Alain Bremond-Torrent | |
| bf315bc | The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech, aphasia, consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 59e7ba3 | POMMAROLA Tomato Sauce 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 small onion, minced 1 28-ounce can of whole tomatoes, or 6-8 firm fresh tomatoes, peeled 1/2 cup basil leaves, chopped Salt and pepper Heat oil and add onion. After 5 minutes over medium heat, add tomatoes and break them up with a spoon. Add basil and salt and pepper to taste. Cook for 10 minutes on high heat, uncovered, to reduce it. Makes 3 cups. | Frances Mayes | ||
| dbac892 | Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside for a ball. His tight-fitting house dress was bunched up high on his chubby thighs, exposing olive drab underwear. I see London, I see France, I see a crazy dictator's underpants! Chase's thoughts raced. | espionage fiction literary panama spy thriller | Cole Alpaugh | |
| ca0f6c6 | Were you and Hope the only ones at that school to have normal names? What was with those people--Buffy, Kiki, Dede, Muffin?' 'Well, dear, they'd already used up the good names for the dogs,' Faith countered archly, and turned off the light. | names nicknames wealthy | Katherine Hall Page | |
| 18b1642 | And you punched him in the restaurant?" I grinned. "No, I punched him when he told me my only purpose was to bear his children and then stuck a hand up my shirt." Patrick grinned. "You land the punch?" "Broke his nose." "Good" | Chloe Neill | ||
| cd0012b | How are you finding vampiredom?" "If it were a house," I answered after some serious consideration, "I'd call it a fixer-upper." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 1d0c504 | He wasn't supposed to know at all, but he certainly shouldn't find out from her. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 363a7bb | As we left the kitchen, I asked, "Can I hold your sword today?" Catcher glanced back over his shoulder and lifted a brow. "The sword," I corrected. "The sword." | Chloe Neill |