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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 31360ea | George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| d3f2f0c | On the sofa, a huge orange tabby cat regarded me with characteristic feline apathy before hopping down and stalking to the door. "This is Francis." Lucas opened the door and the tom wandered lazily outside, stopping on the landing to clean a paw. I laughed, moving to the center of the room. "Francis? He looks more like a... Max. Or maybe a King." He shut and locked the door, his ghost smile turning his mouth up on one side. "Trust me, he's .. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 2f64b8a | Is there any chance the tutor is, you know, gay?" I held my breath, waiting for his answer. "What, like I hand out a survey?" He laughed when I blinked, worried I'd just offended him. "I'm just messing with ya. I'm pretty sure he doesn't play for my team. Though if he did, he'd be a little out of my league." He sucked in and patted his stomach, which was made somewhat flat by his efforts. "Nothing a couple of weeks at the gym and giving up .. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 9cbe852 | I knew Chaz was a good guy, if misguided and gullible. He'd swallowed Buck's side of what happened between us, had argued with Erin that maybe I was drunk that night and didn't remember everything clearly. He was probably one of those boys to whom rapists were ugly men who jumped out of bushes, assaulting random girls. Rapists weren't your nice-guy coworker, or your frat brother, or your best friend. Maybe it never occurred to him that his .. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 278dd49 | They say the brain can block painful memories, leaving gaps and voids in place of them, but it didn't work like that for me. I remembered everything. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 6a2bd35 | I was like water trying to choose a suitable form--ice or vapor. | Tammara Webber | ||
| e047cfa | One of the reasons AA works is that the individual makes the decision not to drink, one day at a time. One hour. One minute even. You can do that, right? One minute?...There's one minute. You're stronger than you know, Mrs. Alexander. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 9c6d7e4 | Despite the crushing weight of the expectations placed on her, from the theological to the self-inflicted, what I needed was the last, selfless thought in her sleepy head. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 4b2ac88 | The best way out is always through. | way-out | Tammara Webber | |
| 7a32c84 | The worst thing is to be alive for no reason. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 71c8b64 | Le lacrime piu amare sparse sopra le tombe sono per le parole non dette e le azioni non fatte. Harriet Beecher Stowe | Tammara Webber | ||
| 52c55ea | I think I'd better take some of Gramps' sleeping pills, I'm never going to be able to sleep without them. In fact I think I'd better take a supply of them. He's got plenty, and I'm sure I'll have a few bad nights at home before I get straightened out. Oh, I hope it's just a few. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| fffdf7c | Actually I don't need the sleep as much as I need the escape. It's a wonderful way to escape. I think I can't stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage in my life nothingness is a lot better than somethingness. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| f9214dc | I wanted to tell them! I wanted more than anything in the world to know that they understood, but naturally they just kept on talking and talking because they are incapable of really understanding anything. If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won't listen! They simply won't or ca.. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 3d56aec | It all seems so permanent, so old and new at the same time. But I wonder if I will ever feel completely new again. Or will I spend the rest of my life feeling like a walking disease? | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 93ed128 | We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| a61fd75 | All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 4a201f2 | Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| fa5eaaf | What a child knows about transformation is very little. What an adult knows, I think, is even less. Because a child at least remembers that transformation is possible. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4afc88e | Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 39bb870 | Am I ultimately alone? How many of us have asked that question--drunk or sober--when we've wondered if there was a God or when we've decided that there was none? And the universe reels around us, more vast than we could begin to comprehend and more apparently empty. But it's only when we overlook the fairly obvious fact that we are human beings on a planet packed with human beings that we can entertain the fairly self-indulgent idea that we.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 6df01e2 | perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something from it, and to give something back. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| e4789fe | warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said, | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4aeacff | comprehending little and caring less. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4461ac7 | So rather than running from doubt, shutting down our spirits and hearts, or reaching for quick certainty, we can use doubt as a spiritual practice. We can wait. We wait for our tangled emotions to unknot themselves; we wait for our troubled or angry or grieving spirits to let their sorrow go. We wait for the humility to recognize our limitations and our lack of control, for this humility will bring us peace while we wait. We wait for answer.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4b0adda | Waiting through doubt teaches us enormous spiritual strength. It gives us the strength to go on--through struggle, through joy, through recovery, through our daily lives--even though we do not know how to name or describe a power or powers greater than ourselves. And the paradox is this: to accept this not-knowing--to accept doubt, a lack of certainty--is to accept the very nature of life as it is. In accepting doubt, unanswered questions, .. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 89b33bb | If a woman stands in a kitchen rubbing her eyes and pouring coffee with no one there to see her, does she exist? I | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 2078ccf | That which stirs within, slows or quickens, goes deep or dies out. When I speak of spirit, I am not speaking of something related to or given by a force outside ourselves. I am speaking of the force that is ourselves. The experience of living in this world, bound by a body, space, and time, woven into the fabric of human history, human connection and human life. This is the force that feels, and thinks and gives us consciousness at all. It .. | spirituality athiesm self-help | Marya Hornbacher | |
| f2d30fc | It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| c70c02b | I cannot help but think that, had I lived in a culture where "thinness" was not regarded as a strange state of grace, I might have sought out another means of attaining that grace," | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 0d8a54d | There is no right," she says. "There's the best you can do. And that's fine. That's normal." | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 7a3eb5b | We put an extraordinary amount of effort into how we appear, or wish to appear, trying frantically to construct a sense of self out of how we are seen from without. But who are we from within? What makes us who we are? If we stop for a moment and think, Of what do I consist? what is the answer we hear? | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| f60da6c | Shigure: G'morning. Tohru: Good morning! Yuki: Um, Shigure, it's . Why don't you get a sleep pattern? Shigure: I became an author so I wouldn't have to. | writing-life writing | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 4da0b60 | NOW THE SHIT REALLY hit the fan. It must have hit something because it sure as hell wasnt floating around the city. There no longer was any thought, or even desire, to make money, but just an unending effort to get enough for themselves. Some days it was a case of just copping enough for right now and then going out again to take care of the rest of the day and have that wake up shot nice and secure. And the streets were getting tougher. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| f21a221 | All the books I liked were basically about the same topic. White Niggers by Ingvar Ambjornsen, Beatles and Lead by Lars Saabye Christensen, Jack by Alf Lundell, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr., Novel with Cocaine by M. Agayev, Colossus by Finn Alnaes, Lasso Round the Moon by Agnar Mykle, The History of Bestiality trilogy by Jens Bjorneboe, Gentlemen by Klas Ostergren, Icarus by Axel Jensen, The Catche.. | Karl Ove Knausgård | ||
| 4fd7c4d | Hubert Selby, Jr.: 'Because we choose to live the dream instead of choosing to live the life. | Jennifer Loring | ||
| 178c0e6 | Before our vacation, the idea of keeping a diary and scribbling my thoughts on paper seemed silly and stuck-up. And besides it was usually something I thought only unhappy girls did. | Henry H. Roth | ||
| 44f89a5 | Once upon a time, out of nowhere a car appeared and headed straight for Mal Bennett. 'Long time, no see,' the engine roared, and the clanging muffler agreed. The car embraced Mal, really soul-kissed him, then said 'Farewell,' tossing him back onto his beloved, sacred lawn. | Henry H. Roth | ||
| efa26da | At the crest of the hill outside Agor, Henry pulled the car to the side of the road and we got out to take in the view. In the falling shadows, the little Arab village at the foot of the Jewish settlement looked nothing like so grim and barren as it had a few minutes before when we'd driven down its deserted main street. A desert sunset lent a little picturesqueness even to that cluster of faceless hovels. As for the larger landscape, you c.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 3adfb1e | Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence of an immense loss. | Henry H. Roth | ||
| 873e8c5 | When Flynn was drinking, the sun shone brighter, evening breezes were cooler, the stars were fatter and more dazzling. And there were fewer problems for all concerned. | Henry H. Roth | ||
| bc560ba | She said he looked better. He insisted it wasn't true. Then both were silent. They ate carefully--lonely people no longer astonished by their loneliness. | Henry H. Roth | ||
| 5b5d04a | His was cancer of the left lung; she had lost two breasts. Her grey eyes narrowed but did not tear when she said brightly, 'I'm not forgetful, they're not misplaced boobs, you understand. They're gone. | Henry H. Roth | ||
| db3beae | The priest is immense because he makes others believe in a heap of weird things. The Church wanting to do everything and be everything: it is a law of human spirit. Peoples adore authority. Priests are the servants and followers of imagination. The throne and the altar: revolutionary maxim. | Charles Baudelaire |