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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 27e244a | I was born an outcast in an ancient and subtle way; I was conceived out of some grief or darkness and would be made to pay a price for it. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 0277173 | all men of a certain age tell this story, and they give themselves away by always using the same fruit. I have yet to meet the father who will look his child in the eye and say, "I was happy just to get some seedless grapes." But" | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 913eb0a | never would. In short, he was what it meant to be a father and a man in 1971. Up against his power I could see none of his failings. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 8b481c2 | But I loved him, loved him, a little girl is helpless against her love for a brother. I climbed on him, harassed him, begged him to carry me, take me with him wherever he was going. From a distance he seemed both cold and receding, a man whose most familiar feature was his back as he walked away as fast as he could. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| b468c8d | Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching-bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait till you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until" | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 3770af3 | There is a kind of wildness that grows up among people who have gathered in the dark, and we all felt a little giddy. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 2014fd7 | I'm never reading poetry again unless it's by James Whitcomb Riley!" And I went storming out of the house to try and shake off the injury done to me with words." | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 08f458a | I know that a lot of Christian kids rebel. But as I said earlier, I'm convinced that most of them don't really want to. They just haven't been given a better alternative. The only true antidote for a life of rebellion is a life worth living. | Tim Kimmel | ||
| 585ced2 | Sometimes the side of the house would exert a strange and supernatural magnetic force upon my body, which would cause me to fly up against it, face first, and stick there. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 1419526 | There are people in this world so perfect that the fact of them feels like a personal gift, | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 6629359 | Cassie got in her truck.She didnt own much , but it was all there with her.A vintage Balabushka pool cue won fair & square; a backpackfrom a Boy Scout packed with Laura,s letters.a phone number in Biloxi.Her tools ,her boots ,her clothes,some books;she had a .22 pistol ,a Ruger Single-Six,strapped to her ankle.She had three hundred thousand in cash in a metal box behind her seat . She drove away . | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 4b77651 | Ingen ar normal. | Art Spiegelman | ||
| b846a9b | If you want to live, it's good to be friendly. | survival | Art Spiegelman | |
| 5131596 | Within an hour we had a visit from a gentleman with shifty eyes and an interesting pattern of knife scars where his nose used to be, | Barry Hughart | ||
| 976480d | Ginseng hunters refer to the plant as chang-diang shen, "the root of lightning," because it is believed that it appears only on the spot where a small mountain spring has been dried up by a lightning bolt. After a life of three hundred years the green juice turns white and the plant acquires a soul. It is then able to take on human form, but it never becomes truly human because ginseng does not know the meaning of selfishness." | Barry Hughart | ||
| 84bcb6b | Nothing on the face of this earth - and I do mean nothing - is half so dangerous as a children's story that happens to be real... | Barry Hughart | ||
| a5aa729 | Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 98ecbf9 | He actually seemed to want an answer, so I shrugged and said, "A superior who inherited the job from an uncle rams a barge pole up his ass." | Barry Hughart | ||
| fbaf383 | Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccupped their way into history?" "Sir, that's the best autobiography I ever heard!" I said enthusiastically." | Barry Hughart | ||
| f8b2132 | Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row. | Barry Hughart | ||
| db0ad0c | finche non siamo arrivati al cancello, al, al cancello, ho visto un treno e binari. Ma non un treno come ho visto quando arrivavo qui a Dachau, ma un treno con...per passeggeri, per gente . Non per, ehm, per cani o per ehm, cavalli. Ma questo, questo non puo essere per noi, forse Gestapo arriva anche. No...il treno era per noi! E li, prima di entrare su treno, tutti ricevevano una scatola. Una scatola da Croce rossa svizzera, e io l'ho acc.. | metamaus | Art Spiegelman | |
| c3eaaa6 | Alas, great is my sorrow. Your name is Ah Chen, and when you were born I was not truly pleased. I am a farmer, and a farmer needs strong sons to help with his work, but before a year had passed you had stolen my heart. You grew more teeth, and you grew daily in wisdom, and you said 'Mommy' and 'Daddy' and your pronunciation was perfect. When you were three you would knock at the door and then you would run back and ask, 'Who is it?' When yo.. | Barry Hughart | ||
| b03d9da | Fraud, my children! Fraud and forgery. Dry rot covered with paint and gilded with lies, | Barry Hughart | ||
| ac46bb8 | It was big enough for five village dances and a riot. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 738d821 | I'm surprised you're here." Her mouth curved upward. "I warned you I'd be joining you." He ignored the heat that spread inside him at the sight of her smile. "That's just it." Her smile grew wider. "A politician who keeps his word--what a remarkable aberration in the species." "How could I have forgotten that keen wit of yours?" he marveled. "Yeah, I'm full of surprises. Might want to remember that." Then, throwing caution to the wind, he l.. | Laura Moore | ||
| 19eb188 | And Mom....you...uh...just killed someone." "I know, dear, but..." "Dead." "It was a lucky shot." "Lucky shot?" Leecy wasn't satisfied, obviously. "That's not my point." | John J. Davis | ||
| 50078c4 | All my love, respect, and admiration, Leecy | John J. Davis | ||
| 31d0ca3 | Another commandment, really an application of the commandment to love, is the prohibition against judging our brother's sins (Matthew 7:1-5). This is not a prohibition of discernment and virtuous discrimination, but the warning against identifying our neighbor by his sins and the pretense of being without sin ourselves. | John Granger | ||
| a982cd5 | Dor wondered whether, if he should ever happen to be a ghost for eight hundred years, zombies might begin to look good to him. He doubted it. | Piers Anthony | ||
| ad97b50 | facile | Piers Anthony | ||
| ae3600b | prevaricate. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 1d1c642 | sinecure | Piers Anthony | ||
| 8568202 | extirpated. | Piers Anthony | ||
| e316429 | eclectic | Piers Anthony | ||
| ec5dd88 | incongruous | Piers Anthony | ||
| c10edbd | The man glanced up. "Hello. Tweeter tells me you're Kody, a fellow Mundanian, newly arrived, and you want to compare notes." "Uh, yes, in essence," Kody agreed, taken aback. All that from one tweet? Well, maybe it did fit within 140 characters." | Piers Anthony | ||
| 7ebf487 | Como te llamas? - La pregunta era inevitable. Tenia que venir. Eso es caracteristico de la conversacion humana, y de su respuesta vienen una porcion de obras teatrales mas o menos largas. | sarcasmo vida | Günter Grass | |
| 007000f | We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. | An Essay on Criticism | ||
| bc67e0b | Neljannentoista vuosisadan lopulla matkusti tanne seurueineen englantilainen prinssi Henry Derby, kauan ennen kuin hanesta tuli Shakespearen henkilo, ottaakseen kristityn talvihuvina osaa pakanallisten liettualaisten jahtaamiseen. | Günter Grass | ||
| 04a43cd | Si alguna vez vamos a parar al infierno, uno de los tormentos mas refinados consistira en encerrar en una habitacion al ser humano desnudo con las fotos enmarcadas de su tiempo... tal vez ese infierno no resulte incluso soportable, porque las peores fotos solo se suenan, no se hacen y, si se hacen, no se revelan. | Günter Grass | ||
| 2226294 | He settled into the Chelsea apartment as best he could with everything in his life in turmoil -- no permanent abode, no publishing agreements, growing difficulties with the police, and what was to happen now with Marianne? -- but when he turned on the TV he saw a great wonder that dwarfed what was happening to him. The Berlin Wall was falling, and young people were dancing on its remains. That year, which began with horrors -- on a small sc.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 4aff292 | A fifteen-year-old dropped her cone, bent to retrieve it, then hesitated, abandoned the melting delicacy to the pavement and the soles of future passers-by; soon she would be one of the grown-ups and no longer lick ice cream in the street. | Günter Grass | ||
| b0538c5 | my incessantly syllable-excreting mind | Günter Grass | ||
| 2ebf898 | Don't be so hard on yourself, as if you'd been trapped and sealed in amber. Since you passed away I've been following your trail, traced only with lost words. Recently I went looking for the castle and found it in Bohemia. You'd given orders for diligent restorers to renew its facades on all sides. They hadn't finished back then, they're still at it today, and they will be tomorrow. Because it crumbles, cracks appear, mold swells the plast.. | Günter Grass |