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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a9b13c7 | Boys, I decided, simply have a given amount of rudeness they must express. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6f809da | But all know that a woman cannot give her word to anyone, for women cannot possess honor. Women promise, and later they say, 'I did not understand, I did not mean it that way, I thought those words meant something else.' So a woman's word is without worth. She can break it, and always she does, for she has no honor to defile. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3ffb2fd | comes you close | George Harris | ||
| b17ddad | I]f you know what life is worth / You would look for yours on earth."266" | Dean MacNeil | ||
| 9942057 | I don't think they're coming. Why must I stand here in the wind and rain?' 'Because it pleases me', Kennit snapped at him. Wintrow thought to intervene. 'You can have my cloak, if you like'. he offered. The Satrap scowled. 'It's dripping wet. What good would that do me?' 'You could be wetter', Kennit snarled. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 08ccbe3 | I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.' 'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked. Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d7c8170 | As to the Dutch, he despised them. For that | Russell Shorto | ||
| 757e864 | Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to the quest for a northern passage to Asia, who, weaned from infancy on the legends of his predecessors, probably couldn't help but be obsessed by it. | hudson-river-expedition new-york-city | Russell Shorto | |
| 7c01b4d | devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 4fb6397 | You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that." Her hand was still on his cheek, her arm" | Russell Shorto | ||
| aaf23cf | You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that. | Russell Shorto | ||
| d3dab2b | No," he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was depriving Stanton of his labor. He would stay in chains. "Well then, I will send you to the West Indies or banish you," Stanton replied, "for I am resolved not to keep you." Conditions in a Caribbean plantation meant a virtual death sentence. Venture was ready for this. "I crossed the waters to come here," he shot back, "an.. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 154369c | The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c583fe2 | I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat. | brat cat chance charm court courtship glorious joke like love narcissim narcissistic narcissus poke-fun pursue remind reminiscence self-absorption spoled tease woo wooing | Robin Hobb | |
| d9b4deb | Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely. | compliment duck fat flattery lovely pregnancy pregnant waddle | Robin Hobb | |
| a443c12 | In Craig Blomberg's survey of the Mosaic laws of gleaning, releasing, tithing, and the Jubilee, he concludes that the Biblical attitude toward wealth and possessions does not fit into any of the normal categories of democratic capitalism, or of traditional monarchial feudalism, or of state socialism. The rules for the use of land in the Biblical laws challenge all major contemporary economic models. They "suggest a sharp critique of 1) the .. | Timothy Keller | ||
| e1a6efb | You would rather die than be a governess? It's not prostitution, for heaven's sake!" Charlotte gaped, and Emily, pale and stricken as she was, stifled a giggle. "I shudder to think where you learned of such things," Charlotte said, standing. "The Bible," Anne snapped. "Allow me to recommend it to you." Good" | Lena Coakley | ||
| ee8e9e2 | But Arthur dislikes me to talk to him, and is visibly annoyed by his commonest acts of politeness; not that my husband has any unworthy suspicions of me--or of his friend either, as I believe--but he dislikes me to have any pleasure but in himself, any shadow of homage or kindness but such as he chooses to vouchsafe: he knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear tha.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| a076963 | A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself. | envy frankness | Anne Brontë | |
| 6d7c811 | There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.' 'Then | Anne Brontë | ||
| a122afa | Whenever I visit my mother I feel I am turning into Emily Bronte, my lonely life around me like a moor, my ungainly body stumping over the mud flats with a look of transformation | Anne Carson | ||
| c97dabe | But was there any harm in wishing that, among the many thousands whose souls would certainly be required of them before the year was over, this wretched mortal might be one? I thought not; and therefore I wished with all my heart that it might please Heaven to remove him to a better world, or if that might not be, still, to take him out of this... | i-hate-you i-wish-you-were-dead | Anne Brontë | |
| 6750466 | When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear... | Anne Brontë | ||
| 43ca9b7 | Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d7e40bc | if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense | Anne Brontë | ||
| e1e7420 | No man can deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him," I replied: "it cost more to redeem their souls--it cost the blood of an incarnate God, perfect and sinless in Himself, to redeem us from the bondage of the evil one:--let Him plead for you." | Anne Brontë | ||
| a066506 | What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist? | Anne Brontë | ||
| 41a533f | I don't believe that after reading such a fine writer as Emily Bronte, I will be happy to read again Miss Amanda Gillyflower's Ill-Used by Candlelight. Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. | Mary Ann Shaffer | ||
| 3cab905 | This mania for scribbling wasn't an unusual activity for literary middle- or upper-class children in nineteenth-century England (many poorer kids were working at a young age, including Charles Dickens, who pasted labels onto jars at Warren's Shoeblacking factory and warehouse when he was twelve years old and his father was in debtor's prison). In the late eighteenth century, young Jane Austen filled the beautiful notebooks her father had bo.. | Deborah Lutz | ||
| ed971a8 | We can never know if Charlotte and Ellen had a sexual relationship--there is certainly no proof that they did--and perhaps it doesn't matter. Their correspondence attests to a fervent love that included romantic, and perhaps even erotic, feelings. It's likely that Charlotte had heard of women who took women as lovers or "wives," such as fellow Yorkshirewoman Anne Lister, or perhaps even knew some. 38" | Deborah Lutz | ||
| c946436 | Glupo je zudjeti za ljepotom. Razumni ljudi nikada ju ne zele za sebe, niti im je stalo do nje kod drugih ljudi. Samo ako je um dobro prosvijecen, a srce na pravome mjestu, nikome nikada nije vazna vanjstina. Tako su govorili ucitelji nasega djetinjstva; a tako i mi govorimo djeci danasnjih vremena. Sve vrlo razumno i umjesno, nema sumnje; ali imaju li takve tvrdnje podrsku u stvarnim iskustvima? | Anne Brontë | ||
| 366ae76 | Citanje je moje najdraze zanimanje, kada za to imam slobodnog vremena i knjiga koje bih citala. | Anne Brontë | ||
| c652634 | No - for themselves. They were all drunkards, but Anne was the worst of the lot. Branwell, who adored her, used to pretend to get drunk at the Black Bull in order to get gin for Anne. The landlord wouldn't have let him have it if Branwell hadn't built up - with what devotion, only God knows - that false reputation as a brilliant, reckless, idle drunkard. The landlord was proud to have young Mr Bronte in his tavern; it attracted custom to th.. | Stella Gibbons | ||
| d41b118 | Mogla bih biti uistinu sretna u kuci punoj neprijatelja, kada bih imala samo jednog prijatelja, koji bi me istinski, duboko i vjerno volio. | Anne Brontë | ||
| fc3591a | Emily, now twenty-seven, and Anne, twenty-five, even pretended to be characters from their fantasyland, "escaping from the palace of instruction" while on a train to York at the end of June." | Deborah Lutz | ||
| 8d9c83e | you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness! | promise youth | Anne Brontë | |
| 9647e1f | When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . . | love marriage mistakes | Anne Brontë | |
| 0112f48 | I like my blood warm. I find cold blood as appetizing as an old stale cup of coffee. It's hard to choke down, but then again I'm finicky. | Gea Haff | ||
| 1c1b9a7 | lbd 'n `dd s`t lyd ws`t lHwy'T lmwjwd@ lywm hw tHqyr ll'bdy@ | Charles Simic | ||
| 65bf715 | Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I | Robin Hobb | ||
| 216b123 | Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight. I have seen farmers continue their plowing and planting, heedless of armies clashing but a few miles away. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f324652 | So. Which of our troubles torments you most this evening?" Althea surrendered. "They all nip at my heels like a pack of yapping feists, ship. I don't know which to worry about first." The figurehead gave a snort of disdain. "Then kick them away as if they were truly a pack of curs and fix your gaze instead on your destiny." ... "Don't think about the obstacles" ... The ship spoke in a low, soft voice. "Long or short, if you worry about eve.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b7f766f | She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283" | Robin Hobb | ||
| e927022 | Any human who dared to attack a dragon deserved to die himself. And dead, of what use was he, unless someone ate him? She didn't see why leaving a human to be eaten by worms was more acceptable. | Robin Hobb |