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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7607817 | Not since the dark days of the Twilight franchise had it been so trendy to be dead. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 47e1d3c | if you live next door to an apex predator, you shouldn't go around poking him with a stick. Fiji | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 31c8b65 | grip on consciousness slipped as easily and completely as had his hand. "No . . ." he said once more, very weakly. The canopy of trees above" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 781c9f3 | Weirdly, strangely--wonderfully--he knew this was the moment he was touching the bottom, and he understood that from now on, however gradually, he would begin to heal. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c6e3542 | If he had two thoughts at one time, they'd throw a surprise party, | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 80451fe | Weird doesn't equal morally bankrupt. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d8ac74c | Mack and Denise had been in jail for vampire draining. Deeply upset, I nevertheless automatically carried a pitcher of beer and some glasses to a raucous table of four. Since vampire blood was supposed to temporarily relieve symptoms of illness and increase sexual potency, kind of like prednisone and Viagra rolled into one, there was a huge black market for genuine, undiluted vampire blood. Where there's a market there are suppliers; in thi.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 96b09b6 | That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky... | sky | Nigella Lawson | |
| a9b1e11 | Given that my first crush was a mythical centaur hybrid of Garrison Keillor and Ted Danson, you won't be surprised to learn that I was a late bloomer. There were other indicators, too, like my troll doll earring collection and the fact that I was naturally drawn to gorgeous best friends who transformed me, by comparison, into the homely sidekick (in troll doll earrings | Una LaMarche | ||
| f7da0c1 | smake saa god vaer saa god du er saa snille mange takk mange mange takk. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 52ae739 | Good old Norwegian cooking: you don't read much about that, or about good old Norwegian hospitality. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 067e5a1 | He (coach) looks for size, speed being rare among Norwegians and Germans, and for malleability or what he calls attitude. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| ce7bf33 | A peels an apple, while B kneels to God, C telephones to D, who has a hand On E's knee, F coughs, G turns up the sod For H's grave, I do not understand But J is bringing one clay pigeon down While K brings down a nightstick on L's head, And M takes mustard, N drives to town, O goes to bed with P, and Q drops dead, R lies to S, but happens to be heard By T, who tells U not to fire V For having to give W the word That X is now deceiving Y wi.. | garrison-keillor good-poems | Howard Nemerov | |
| cfbf03a | There are few things that cannot be put right by love, and there is no shortage of that here. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 5dfbf47 | The sunlight lying on an acre of farm land weighs several tons, believe it or not. | Jack Finney | ||
| 03b907f | I read in a book that they cut off the workers' hands if they hadn't collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. Could this be true of civilized white Christians? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 398ac55 | My heart had grown older, with more in it to break. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 545dc1e | There are authorities to choose from," Tharkay said, "to suit any action, if you like; I prefer to keep the choice a little closer." | conscience | Naomi Novik | |
| 5981747 | Cooking is the great divide between good eating and bad. The gains are quantifiable. Cooking and eating at home - even with quality ingredients - costs pennies on the dollar compared with meals prepared by a restaurant or factory. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e2dbf73 | Borders crumble; they won't hold together on their own; we have to shore them up constantly. They are fortified and patrolled by armed guards, these fences that divide a party of elegant diners on one side from the children on the other whose thin legs curve like wishbones, whose large eyes peer through the barbed wire at so much food--there is no wall high enough to make good in such a neighborhood. For this, of course, is what the fences .. | trump | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 6e71063 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that current food production can sustain world food needs even for the 8 billion people who are projected to inhabit the planet in 2030. This will hold even with anticipated increases in meat consumption, and without adding genetically modified crops. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9b87ea5 | Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c86244d | was after they discovered the world was round. I'm not scared of big words." "I didn't say you were." "You did, too! 'I realize you're no scientist, Miss Rawley," | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0887e58 | I didn't wish to be comforted. "You can't replace people you love with other people," I said. "They're not like old shoes or something." "No. But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b58a3be | Religion has no place in the science classroom, where it may abridge students' opportunities to learn the methods, discoveries, and explanatory hypotheses of science. Rather, its place is in the hearts of the men and women who study and then practice scientific exploration. Ethics can't influence the outcome of an experiment, but they can serve as a useful adjunct to the questions that get asked in the first place, and to the applications t.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8b0b334 | I don't see why you're not just going for this.' Dovey looked her in the eyes, in the mirror. 'You a rocket. You go for thing, Dellarobia. That is you. When did you ever not?' | gender inequality woman women women-things work | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 3477545 | Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho. | friends human-connection internet online social-media | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| b7430b2 | One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs... | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| fca15eb | The backs of his hands remind him of paper burning in the fireplace, the moment the taut membrane goes slack into a thousand wrinkles, just before it withers to ash and air. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 60f4fa9 | She's got a mean streak in her," I told him. "If you're unlucky enough to get ahold of a dog like that, you give it away to somebody with a big farm. I don't know what you do about a neighbor." Estevan shrugged. "I understand," he said. "Really, I don't think she knew what she was saying, about how the woman and kid who got shot must have been drug dealers or whatever." "Oh, I believe she did. This is how Americans think." He was looking at.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 18e4b7e | A mother's body remembers her babies--the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has its own entreaties to body and soul. It's the last one, though, that overtakes you. I can't dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. The twins came just as Rachel was learning to walk. What came next I hardly remember, whole years when I battled thro.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| cae76d8 | Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittlebush in a dry wind. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b141c32 | There will never be another Frida. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 723988d | Michael Pollan: "The industrialization--and dehumanization--of American animal farming is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: no other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do." U.S. consumers may take our pick of reasons to be wary of the resulting product: growth hormones, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, unhealthy cholesterol composition, deadly E. coli strains, fuel consumpt.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 349178a | you always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 681087d | Twenty pounds of tomatoes will cook down into a pot of tomato sauce that fits into five one-quart freezer boxes, good for one family meal each. (Be warned, the fragrance of your kitchen will cause innocent bystanders to want to marry you.) | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f0ec5d9 | My "Kentucky NCAA Champions" shirt was by now so bloodstained, you would think I had worn it to a North Carolina game. Also, I had feathers sticking to my hair." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a2cc18d | What we suffered in our lives we went through together, but somehow we came out different doors, on different ground levels. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 314b2f2 | Engineered genes don't play by the rules that have organized life for three billion years (or, if you prefer, 4,004). And in this case, winning means loser takes all. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3249d0f | from an entry by her daughter Camille] Organic produce actually delivers more nutritional bang for the buck. These fruits and vegetables are tougher creatures than those labeled "conventional," precisely because they've had to fight off predators themselves." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e1962dd | from an entry by her daughter Camille] If nobody is spritzing chemicals on the predators, all a plant can do is toughen up by manufacturing its own disease/pest-fighting compounds. That's why organic produce shows significantly higher levels of antioxidants than conventional--these nutritious compounds evolved in the plant not for our health, but for the plant's. Several studies, including research done by Allison Byrum of the American Chem.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| af495d4 | I don't know," Magda says, "Seems like that's just how it is with you and me. We're like islands on the moon." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ece73a7 | A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 094ad23 | Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day. | Barbara Kingsolver |