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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1584cec | because the thing he hadn't understood then (he was happier not knowing it) was that once you were in prison, you never got out. People treated you like a different person; you tended to backslide, the way people tended to backslide into malaria or bad alcoholism | Donna Tartt | ||
| 82b0c5f | he had an indefinable look of privilege gone wrong, | Donna Tartt | ||
| 59867e1 | E per quanto mi piacerebbe credere che ci sia un verita dietro l'illusione, mi sono convinto che non c'e alcuna verita dietro l'illusione. Perche, tra la "relata" da un lato, e il punto in cui la mente va a sbattere contro la realta, esiste uno spazio sottile, uno spicchio d'arcobaleno da cui origina la bellezza, il punto in cui due superfici molto diverse tra loro si mescolano e si confondono per procurare cio che la vita non ci da: e ques.. | modern-classic the-goldfinch | Donna Tartt | |
| ca31986 | there's a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 74ac2e5 | it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1b5c49e | I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b4b9bab | The rose is red, the violet's blue, The honey's sweet, and so are you. Thou art my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine. The lot was cast and then I drew, And fortune said it should be you. | Tomie dePaola | ||
| 39ee002 | Study Herod, madame, study Herod. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 1b7cbae | Accord, n. Harmony. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 2de8cfa | Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e891d17 | Slep lish' tot, kto ne zhelaet videt'. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 26bb4a6 | Razve mozhet byt' poritsanie bolee surovoe, chem samoosuzhdenie, kogda pritvorstvo bolee nevozmozhno? | Richard Matheson | ||
| 1040e8e | Smert' - vsego lish' prodolzhenie zhizni na drugom urovne. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 9aae090 | To, vo chto ty verish', stanovitsia tvoim mirom. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 36f1e20 | The man is mollified. The systematic juices leave off bubbling, the fires sink, the coals are scattered. But the anger is still there, apart. Energy is never lost; a primal law. -"Mad House" | insanity science | Richard Matheson | |
| 917b29f | Stewardess!" She came running down the aisle, her face tightened with alarm. When she saw the look on his face, she stiffened in her tracks. "There's a man out there! A man!" cried Wilson. "What?" Skin constricted on her cheeks, around her eyes. "Look, look!" Hand shaking, Wilson dropped back into his seat and pointed out the window. "He's crawling on the--" The words ended with a choking rattle in his throat. There was nothing on the wing... | Richard Matheson | ||
| 9e90c9e | Adoro tu cuerpo -le dije-.Ni se te ocurra considerarlo otra cosa que no sea perfecto. | richard matheson | ||
| 7615978 | Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes | Richard Matheson | ||
| 0877e63 | I stood there feeling nowhere. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 6cfdb86 | Non c'e da stupirsi che i bambini sono felici. Per loro la vita e facile. Un po' di fame un po', un po' di freddo, un po' di paura del buio. Tutto qui. Perche affannarsi tanto a crescere? La vita diventa troppo complicata. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 7c2c258 | Tantos libros -penso-; restos de la inteligencia de un planeta, migajas de mentes futiles, popurri de sistemas incapaces de impedir la muerte del hombre. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 8f6aab8 | On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 6f3827c | he'd thought the past was dead. How long did it take for a past to die? She | Richard Matheson | ||
| c223e48 | All he knew was that. magically, both of them were naked and Marianna was bestowing upon him the kind of headlong wantonness that he'd imagined only in his most covert of fantasies - wordless, unconfined, increasingly berserk, her exquisite face gone bestial with demented sensuality, her hands and mouth like swarming creatures on his flesh, her ivory body twisting, turning, offering every possible variety of sensation, driving him deeper an.. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 55d1e9e | It's a time when men and women come to know what they truly are. A time of purging." I'd been looking at the ceiling as he spoke. At his final words, I turned to face him in surprise. "Is that what the Catholics mean by purgatory?" "In essence." He nodded. "A period during which each soul is cleansed by a self-imposed recognition of past deeds--and misdeeds." -- | Richard Matheson | ||
| 83a1fc7 | No snow or sleet. What about people who like snow? This wouldn't be heaven to them. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 136ff79 | That's my job; to bring adventure into your life. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 860bb94 | They were completely devoted to each other. Except for us children, they seemed to have need for no one but each other. Not that they didn't see people. People liked them and wanted to see them, you know that; they were great friends with your Mom and Dad. But togetherness meant more to them than anything. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 07e0526 | What is the atomic bomb?" queried Leslie, "But a mass of tortured Elements suffering complete nervous breakdown?" I shuddered at the thought." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 8aa1267 | No amount of reasonable threats prevailed. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 84e0506 | Accordingly, Mr. Cook spent four years, six months, two days, $5,228.20, six thousand yards of wiring, three hundred and two radio tubes, a generator, reams of paper, dizzying mentation and the good will of his wife in assembling his duplication machine. | Richard Matheson | ||
| dbe3f12 | As he stepped into the sunlight, he heard the seals barking loudly. They must have an audience. Slick glory seekers. Whiskered prima donnas. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 83d0c28 | The pheasants looked around in bobhead curiosity. Your pigeon cousins walk in freedom. You sit in the cage in glorious Technicolor. | Richard Matheson | ||
| c638684 | At home he found the same threats waiting for him. He unlocked the door and stepped into the trap he had formed around him. | Richard Matheson | ||
| e86c959 | He hungered for peace and there was no peace. Terror was his only food. | Richard Matheson | ||
| dc08145 | The agony of being earthbound can be indescribable. I'm sure the memory still haunts. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 936abf2 | Another day. Another collection of wracking hours. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 96f4b48 | she watched the storm move off on lightning legs. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 816ac0d | My teenage years were unacceptable. An unhappy array of failed female liaisons and repetitive skin disorders. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 5eaa672 | Tell ya the man's got a private line t'Moscow," he said. "A few men like that in office and we're in for it, take my word." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 16d39ed | he went to clean up the library with a fellow janitor; but the moment he entered the huge room, he gasped, put his heads to his temples and fell down on one knee, gasping, "My head! My head!" | Richard Matheson | ||
| 28a15ea | And this knowledge you say you've acquired--are you conscious of an increase in it since your ill-fated visit to the library?" Fed nodded. "I know more than ever." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 3f2f65c | They said he used to cackle and bark in his crib after dark. They said he walked at two months and sat staring at the moon whenever it shone. Those were things that people said. His parents were always worried about him. An only child, they noticed his flaws quickly. They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 96e34f2 | Emily Post mincing through the graveyard. Etiquette for Young Vampires. | Richard Matheson |