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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5fa1a1a | Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 343dad0 | There is a sense of violation in learning that, unbeknownst to me, my mind has maintained such a strong connection with the town, as if my brain's been sneaking around behind my back. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| c273ad3 | attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off the rack at Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. They run on treadmills, these women, work out with personal trainers and play tennis at the club, but still their hips widen, their legs thicken, their breasts sag. Genetics help some more than others, but they are all like melting ice .. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 87a279e | It wasn't that she didn't love me, I knew that she did, and that actually made it worse. If someone leaves you because they don't love you, it's a tough break, but as they say, life's a bitch, get a helmet. But if someone loves you and leaves you anyway, you enter a whole new realm of self-doubt and recrimination, what psychologists call the what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-me syndrome. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 2c18fcc | The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it's too late to apply to yourself. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| ca86cb1 | Over the course of a fifty-year marriage, one bad year isn't very significant. Your marriage might still be there to be saved. But you'll never know if you keep indulging your hate and anger like the world owes you reparations. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| e4ff3b5 | Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 1fa8418 | It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d040c1e | Jen was in turmoil; she was grappling with self-esteem issues and a failed attempt at anorexia. I was in the right place at the right time, and the gods were finally ready to cut me some slack. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d5334a7 | This is just your time, son, that's all. Your time to hurt and bleed and tear apart your notion of what makes you who you are. Life knocks us all on our ass at some point. And then we get back up, and we make some changes, because that's what men do. We adapt. And when we're done adapting, we're better equipped to survive. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 64a775b | But moving from conversation to violence is just as hard as moving from flirting to kissing. There's that leap you have to take, to shed your inhibitions and expose your naked impulses. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| aa27b13 | As soon as he saw her face, he knew what it would look like when she ended it. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 915e790 | The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| da489f7 | Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you're not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 48d671e | And nothing can be resolved until each of you has come to appreciate the other's position | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 213d496 | Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can. So his actual death itself was less an event than a final sad detail. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 0dbd054 | the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 50864a6 | Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right. We were that couple for a while, nauseatingly impervious assholes, busy staring into each other's eyes while everyone else was trying to have a good time. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| ec3feff | This is the age," she explained to me once as we walked home from school, "when we're the purest forms of ourselves we'll ever be. We haven't been complicated by everything yet. I want to keep a clear record of who I am, so that down the road I'll be able to see who I was. Maybe I can avoid losing myself completely." She sighed, biting her lip pensively. "Things happen," she said. "Small things and large things, and they just keep changing .. | journaling | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 930cfcb | wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| edf0aa0 | Everything I touch turns to shit, he thinks, not with self-pity, but with an almost scientific fascination at the truth of it. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 189a82d | Until you found your way out of the woods, it was reassuring to find other people lost in them with you. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 9bb0306 | Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| bc758ab | Relationships don't come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 6fae10b | If anything, love is just a starting point. Then life intrudes, along with the personal baggage you've spent years packing, and things get royally and irrevocably fucked up. You can get bitter or you can keep trying. Most people do some of each. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 374fc44 | the less you behave like you care, the less you come to care. The less you care, the more you can stay on track with your personal mission and the more frustrated the bad guys become because their mission is destruction. | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| 3c7cd0d | Sadly, hurting feelings has risen in our society to the status of a high crime, and that's too bad, because temporary hurt feelings that lead to an awakening of positive possibilities are a small price to pay to literally save a life from wasted misery. | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| e2e6353 | When you devote your life to "finding yourself," you probably won't." | women feminist womens-rights self-improvement self-help | Laura Schlessinger | |
| 1a5ec6a | His jeans, soft against her legs, made her realize that twice tonight they'd done the deed with him more dressed than not. She liked such desperation in a man. | sex deperation lust | Marilyn Pappano | |
| d0a745b | In 1982 President Ronald Reagan called for a war on drugs: by 1990 more men were in federal prisons on drug charges alone than had comprised the entire 1980 federal prison population for all crimes combined. | Laurie Garrett | ||
| a7e0680 | Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, who so valiantly defended Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, was in command of the Union troops assembled in formation to observe and accept the stacking of arms. In deference to the officers of Lee's army, Chamberlain lowered his sword in an officer's salute as each ranking member of his former enemy passed by. Leading the parade of surrender were the surviving members of .. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 60451cd | The Hittites called their language Nesili (van de Mieroop 2007, 119), while the Egyptians and Mesopotamians referred to them and their language as "Hittite" and their land as "Hatti" (Faulkner 1999, 198). Technically the Hittites spoke Arzawan (Macqueen 2003, 25), but Arzawa was also the name of a kingdom that neighbored Hatti, and those people also spoke the same language as the Hittites. During the era of the Hittite civilization, there w.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 078f365 | In contrast, the Soviet answer to Paperclip, Operation Osoaviakhim, used the implied threat of imprisonment, torture, and death, the characteristic tools of Stalinist Russia, to coerce assistance from German scientists and engineers following the war. These men yielded rich dividends to the Soviet state in terms of achieving at least temporary technical parity with the USSR's western rivals. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 7e4e57a | If the Devil created Texas like some folks say he did, this is where he rested on the seventh day. | Garth Ennis Steve Dillon | ||
| ad8390c | He had been able to repress every disrespectful word; but the flashing eye, the gloomy and troubled brow, were part of a natural language that could not be repressed,-- indubitable signs, which showed too plainly that the man could not become a thing. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 31cde4d | look at me, now. Don't I sit before you, e very way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face--look at my hands--look at my body," and the young man dr ew himself up proudly. "Why am I not a man, as much as anybody?" | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 589a00e | there have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| fb63d06 | It was the first time that ever George had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table; and he sat down, at first, with some constraint and awkwardness; but they all exhaled and went off like fog, in the genial morning rays of this simple, overflowing kindness. This, indeed, was a home,--home,--a word that George had never yet known a meaning for; and a belief in God, and trust in his providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a.. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 107c5be | But then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word, - or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle with 'Ran away from the subscriber' under it. The magic of the real presence of distress, -- the imploring human eye, frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony, -- these he had never tried. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| c1f0b26 | This is God's curse on slavery!--a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!--a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil. It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours,--I always felt it was,--I always thought so when I was a girl,--I thought so still more after I joined the church; but I thought I could gild it over,--I thought, by kindness, and care, and instruc.. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 9cb9a9b | According to her views," her niece later recalled, "little girls were to be taught to move very gently, to speak softly and prettily, to say 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am,' never to tear their clothes, to sew, to knit at regular hours, to go to church on Sunday and make all the responses, and to come home and be catechised." Harriet" | Noel B. Gerson | ||
| 91b3c41 | she was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 25d43ce | It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures, just because they are slaves, and have been abused and oppressed all their lives, poor things! | racism equality slavery freedom empathy compassion humanity politics religion | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 05471eb | On the contrary, an airy and innocent playfulness seemed to flicker like the shadow of summer leaves over her childish face, and around her buoyant figure. She was always in motion, always with a half-smile on her rosy mouth, flying hither and thither, with an undulating and cloud-like tread, singing to herself as she moved, as in a happy dream. Her father and female guardian were incessantly busy in pursuit of her, but, when caught, she me.. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |