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| 674acae | But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly America.. | norman-mailer philip-roth solipsism | David Foster Wallace | |
| 1177f7e | I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a6cb50e | I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a9c3b12 | You also know you're surrendered when you don't react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don't edge others out, you don't demand your rights, and you aren't self-serving when you're surrendered. | Rick Warren | ||
| 710043f | Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 132e08e | fy lwq` swf tfj` dy'man w'bdan. ln ttjwz mwt mHb, swf tt`lm 'n tt`ysh m` hdhh lkhsr@. swf tshf~ wtbny nfsk mn jdyd Hwl mHwr lrHyl ldhy `nyt mnh. swf tktml mjddan wlknk ln t`wd 'nt. ln tkwn mthlm lsbq. ln t`wd 'nt wl yjb 'n ttmn~ dhlk. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 3fcb89e | And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3f362a5 | Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces! | elrond | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9a65c5e | And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined. | tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 84f2d18 | And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through. | damaged disappoint kids more-like-us perfect pretend spectacular than-we-think | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9f24755 | When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if m.. | love marriage partner years | Jodi Picoult | |
| 2e32094 | Grace has a grand laughter in it. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| b9e3d96 | And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. I.. | pain | Anne Rice | |
| 3d78b0c | Next time I'll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick) (Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.) Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| bf69b5a | I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever. (Fang) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f3d3375 | Why you sleeping on the ground out here, Mr. Boy Human? The Simi don't think this is a safe thing to do. Someone might think you dead and steal something or they could kill you. Maybe not if they think you dead already, but then again, people do weird things all the time - like killing dead people even though they're dead. Is that overkill or is that just dumb? Never mind. So you should probably get up soon and not sleep here. Did you lose .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4435f3a | Chloe? It's me." After a pause, he added, "Derek," like I could mistake that deep rumble for anyone else, like I could mistake that little part of me that perked up like an eager puppy saying, "It's him. Quick! Go see what he wants." God, how had I been so blind? It seemed so obvious now." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 409a4f9 | Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried. Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you. Keep it light. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e879799 | My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 93dabe8 | Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei | Amy Tan | ||
| dfae6fd | You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman" | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8c5d2a5 | What would it take for you to go out with me? | alex alex-fuentes | Simone Elkeles | |
| e589768 | Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6c1ae4f | These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. | romeo-and-juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| c0bee31 | The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings, But mercy is above this sceptered sway. It is enthroned in.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9cc64ee | Don't be afraid." "I hear voices," Iggy said. "Be very afraid." | James Patterson | ||
| 3286c70 | Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2. | James Patterson | ||
| 39e5f20 | And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS." -- | William Goldman | ||
| 1110e3d | Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes. Though I had my driver's license, I bought a cheap secondhand bicycle so I could ride with her. Sometimes she led the way, sometimes I did. Whenever we could, we rode side by side. She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day. She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone .. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| d41f675 | in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 187d4c4 | In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| b5b4f70 | There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em. | Harper Lee | ||
| 81f24b0 | The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ef3759e | She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task. | David Levithan | ||
| ee5a8a0 | I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me. | David Levithan | ||
| 3e2a8cd | Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6e21cf9 | I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 858a68d | What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. | observation reality truth | Michael Connelly | |
| 007a914 | You can present the material, but you can't make me care. | education student-accountability | Bill Watterson | |
| f859924 | As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| e124e08 | Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| ca1e181 | What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one .. | Philip Pullman | ||
| c572a68 | Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute. | magic-strikes | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7751ad3 | Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. | Victor Hugo |