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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7704ab1 | These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age--they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woma.. | submission | Philip Roth | |
| 7553c20 | She] knew there were women who worked successfully out of the home. They ran businesses, created empires and managed to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children who went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard or became world-renowned concert pianists. Possibly both. These women accomplished all this while cooking gourmet meals, furnishing their homes with Italian antiques, giving clever, intelligent interviews with Money magazine .. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 495edb9 | Darkness feeds on apathy. | Dan Brown | ||
| a743d08 | Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? | Dan Brown | ||
| 30f519a | We refuse to believe that which we don't understand. | truth | Napoleon Hill | |
| aab3266 | just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. | death inspirational truth | Lisa Genova | |
| 0d9eb11 | The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 9895a7f | Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. | meaning | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 68429d6 | Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 3f87446 | The zipper opened all the way down our spines. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| f814e6b | During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water. | collarbones rain skinny suicide the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| b418c5a | What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there. | Truman Capote | ||
| c77432c | Chance favors the connected mind. | innovation insightful internet | Steven Johnson | |
| 89560c9 | If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar. | h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| 597a903 | How to Leave the Planet 1. Phone NASA. Their phone number is (713) 483-3111. Explain that it's very important that you get away as soon as possible. 2. If they do not cooperate, phone any friend you may have in the White House--(202) 456-1414--to have a word on your behalf with the guys at NASA. 3. If you don't have any friends in the White House, phone the Kremlin (ask the overseas operator for 0107-095-295-9051). They don't have any frien.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| da7dcf4 | Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament ... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth. | eucharist love romance | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 703e68d | He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| bbd9409 | his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5e27a21 | And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1ea73ec | If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made. | mistakes | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3628f8d | For most of my life I have struggled to find God, to know God, to love God. I have tried hard to follow the guidelines of the spiritual life--pray always, work for others, read the Scriptures--and to avoid the many temptations to dissipate myself. I have failed many times but always tried again, even when I was close to despair. Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to kn.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a3ac654 | His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'. | enemies nothing trust | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 9c6a611 | We have three kinds of family 1.Those we are born to | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1ad8925 | You can have me the way i am -- bad behavior included -- or not at all. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7a005cd | I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said no.. | hopeful mystery prophetic | Cormac McCarthy | |
| a996ef5 | I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 4714433 | Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)" | expression speaking taciturnity words | William Shakespeare | |
| 8b1a475 | I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155" | James Patterson | ||
| 0b2236d | My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird. | introvert weird | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 5f77737 | If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you. | jaime-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 3e828dd | Was there ever a war where only one side bled? | war | George R.R. Martin | |
| fd3dd8b | I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son. | shaun zombies | Mira Grant | |
| 6fb0245 | Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence. | thinking | Hannah Arendt | |
| 68626d6 | The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 6d15777 | People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can't. | David Mitchell | ||
| be51852 | Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago... | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3fc52d3 | Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed | Jay McInerney | ||
| 67f3580 | The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 1fb3c02 | A Second Childhood." When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God's ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins and me, Because He does not take away The terror from the tree And stones still shine along the road That are and cannot be. Men grow too old for love, my love, Men grow too old for wine, But I.. | death joy life love old wonder | G.K. Chesterton | |
| efffc53 | And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it." | paraphrased | Ilona Andrews | |
| 20fe8d9 | I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea." | kate magic-slays threats | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6d331f5 | Oh. "So the best way to fight you is to strip naked and attack?" His eyes flashed with a wicked light. "Yes. You should try it and see what happens." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 875a450 | Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off." Did he expect anything different? "Hey, I didn't kick or punch you in the throat. I consider this progress. And you haven't choked me again, which is some sort of record for you..." | ilona-andrews kate magic-bleeds mouthing-off | Ilona Andrews | |
| c1f2f3b | He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality | Victor Hugo |