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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 28e97f0 | She was dizzy with her own feelings, her own voice. She was flying around on a carnival machine that would not stop, she could not make it stop and she screamed and screamed. | Marilyn French | ||
| 46b0e43 | It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman .. | rape men rape-culture inequality | Marilyn French | |
| ecd300b | Szanse dostaje sie tylko w okreslonym czasie. Skrzyzowanie drog, i tak dalej. Podejmujesz decyzje i skrecasz w lewo. Podejmujesz inna, skrecasz w prawo i trafiasz zupelnie gdzie indziej. | Simon Beckett | ||
| ec71a40 | Z morderstwem jest jak z zyciem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 2171096 | bundan sonra bana cicek getirmeni istemiyorum.Sana ozellikle cicek verirlerse baska.Soz mu?' | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| f8b76cd | For att ta livet av en manniska behover man ju inte sikta med Buck Jones revolver och gora pangpang med den. Det var inte sa jag menade. Utan man kan ocksa doda en manniska i sitt hjarta. Man gor sa att man slutar att tycka om den manniskan. Och en vacker dag ar den manniskan dod. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| e2f3cdc | yjb 'n t`lm 'n qlb lnsn yjb 'n ykwn kbyran jdan lHtw kl mn nHb. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| d1f1f45 | Birkac gun sonra her sey bitti. Yasamaya hukumluydum. Yasamaya! | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| ddd81b3 | Elimden gelse seninle sekiz yuz elli iki bin kilometre hic durmadan konusurdum. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| c57f9a4 | Agora voce sozinho. Nada de medo que voce esta ficando um homenzinho. Meu | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 61c9371 | Mas que lindo pezinho de Laranja Lima! Veja que nao tem nem um espinho. Ele tem tanta personalidade que a gente de longe ja sabe que e Laranja Lima. Se eu fosse do seu tamanho, nao queria outra coisa. - Mas eu queria um pe de arvore grandao. - Pense bem, Zeze. Ele e novinho ainda. Vai ficar um baita pe de laranja. Assim ele vai crescer com voce. Voces dois vao se entender como se fossem dois irmaos. Voce viu o galho? E verdade que e o unico.. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| e2ef385 | If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's a requirement. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| b48f4d7 | Harrison Salisbury When Amor Towles was ten years old, he threw a bottle containing a short note he had written into the Atlantic Ocean. A few weeks later he received a letter from the man who found it: Harrison Salisbury, the managing editor of The New York Times. From this childhood incident, a correspondence developed between Salisbury and Towles and they eventually met. In his earlier career, Harrison Salisbury was the real-life chief c.. | Kathryn Cope | ||
| 9868823 | I don't go to graduate school. Instead, I move to New York, the city where I naively imagine writers must go. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| fbc4b09 | Someday a sentence will come to me, a magic sentence that will undo all that is wrong and make everything right. But until that sentence comes, I say nothing. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| 9f20ec7 | And now you'll never be able to have anyone else, because you won't be able to keep our secret. You'll tell whoever it is, and once he knows, he'll leave you. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| cc728f6 | Who's normal? Normal is a mathematical concept. It has no bearing on human personality or relationships. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| 28539c4 | The road always stretches endlessly ahead and behind us, so that we are out of time as well as out of place. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| cc95928 | The three of us spend much of our week together at art museums and botanic gardens and other tourist attractions. We are drawn to these places of silent staring and confused, enervated wandering because they make us seem and feel less like freaks as we stare in speechless shock at one another. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| 4b87acf | Prophecy, annunciation, virginity. A hidden sword, an angel bearing a crown of jewels. An army of knights, a cloud of butterflies, a phallic arrow that missed its mark. A tower cell, an evil bishop, a king's betrayal. A heart that would not burn, a dove that flew from the flames that failed to dispatch that immortal heart. | Kathryn Harrison | ||
| 30f7c99 | American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula "Beep" Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes Jacky Jakes, his mother Greg Peshkov, his father Lev Peshkov, his grandfather Marga, his grandmother MARQUAND FAMILY Verena Marquand Percy Marquand, her father Babe Lee, her mother CIA Florence Geary Tony Savino Tim Tedder, semiretired Keith Dorset OTHERS Maria Summers Joseph Hugo, FBI Larry M.. | Ken Follett | ||
| 08b7568 | On July 2, 1960, a few weeks before that year's Democratic National Convention, former President Harry Truman publicly stated that John F Kennedy--who had won enough delegates to be chosen his party's candidate for the presidency--was too young and inexperienced for the job. | Robert Greene | ||
| 1c7b6f7 | Of all the misapplications of the word "conservative" in recent memory, Nisbet wrote in the 1980s, the "most amusing, in an historical light, is surely the application of 'conservative' to...great increases in military expenditures.... For in America throughout the twentieth century, and including four substantial wars abroad, conservatives had been steadfastly the voices of non-inflationary military budgets, and of an emphasis on trade in .. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 43c4390 | This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I told everyone I was gonna do this, so I gotta do it... or I will be living a life of feminist-sounding somedays. And I will be more responsible, powerful, and amazing afterward. I will be able to do anything and not self-consciously stare at elevator numbers when the doors close. I will look the other person in right the eye and nod hello. | travel love radical | Erika Lopez | |
| 06d3960 | Everyone hopes to go through life and find their burning bush that tells them what they're here for. Some never find it. And some find their burning bush goes away with a little prescription cream. | Erika Lopez | ||
| 887ca17 | Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 637df8d | The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is. | drunk | Jonathan Tropper | |
| a587300 | anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d63f07c | We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday morning to speak gibberish to each other, and you would think, in these godless times, that the experience would be empty, but somehow it isn't. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| c99aea7 | Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 93c1689 | Things have been going too well for me lately. I feel like I have some bad karma headed my way." Tamara frowns at me as she leads me toward the dressing rooms. "That's a pretty dire outlook on life," she says. "What's the point in working to be happy if you're going to be constantly looking over your shoulder, wondering when it's time to pay the bill?" | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 6b67782 | You have to question the originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| af5797b | One day you just wake up and discover that you got old while you were sleeping. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 9d3432e | And someday soon, I'll rest in peace. But till that day does come, I'll rest in pieces. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 6368ad1 | It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 84670af | Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature," he says. "Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, " he offers with a wry grin, "Might well become one bitter fuck." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 53a9f5f | You still go to therapy?" "Nah. I gave up years ago." "Mental health ins't for everyone." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 55d8e57 | You still go to therapy?" "Nah. I gave up years ago." "Mental health isn't for everyone." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 661f0e9 | Did i say something wrong?" "Well, in your defense, there is no right thing to say." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| fb08343 | Everybody dies alone. That's a fact. Some more alone than others. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 87a5773 | This is how it ends, he thinks. Strangely, he is not panicked, just a little bit sad. He tells himself to pay attention. If this is death it will only come once, and he doesn't want to miss anything. Like he did when he was alive. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| cf5a151 | I totally remember what it felt like to be so full." "Full of what?" "I don't know. Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you're bursting. And then you get out into the world, and people empty you out, little by little, like air from a balloon." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 9920260 | I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader in the industry. Our customers rely heavily on us. We produce nothing. We sell nothing. We buy nothing. If we didn't exist, Kafka would have to invent us. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 36ef8ec | he'd continue to cry passionately, long after he'd forgotten why he was crying to begin with. | Jonathan Tropper |