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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2b9e7e9 | You cannot have both. Riches and purity do not match. Humility hates pride." He paced in a circle. "You have been warned." | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 34f2074 | my mother fished for compliments this way, saying something negative so that someone would raise her up by contradicting her with just the opposite. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 130eed6 | You carried your visions as a burden, but it was a gift. You still think of it as such. You think He above would reward you after what you have done? You have ruined lives with your obsession. It became your curse. When have you known a gift to be given twice? Once the package is open, is it still a gift? | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 805e678 | Domingo, your family needs you. Let me explain why I feel strongly that you must stay with them. I had a family once too that loved me. But I made a mistake. I was lured away by other things. When I realized they were what mattered, it was already too late. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 38c2f93 | do not confuse what you hope to accomplish with your personal anger. It will only muddy things. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 2b920c0 | why anticipate bad things? We all experience these things, both the rich and the poor." Elena" | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| cd2985c | The cure for her happiness was not bad luck, but to make her happier inside. Esmeralda | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 6626c25 | He was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger? | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 0b9c14c | You cannot save people, you can only love them. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 8ea1441 | Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6f42b8f | plant. Some girls started crying and asking me what was going on, like I'd actually have a clue, and whether the worst reports we were reading or watching on our phones were the accurate ones. But how could I know? I called my mom to see what was going on, but she never picked up. I sent her a text and never heard back. Same with my dad, but I never really expected to hear from him. I figured he was up to his ass in whatever nightmare was g.. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 215a806 | be wary of what I might learn. "No. Do you think I should?" "I don't know. Maybe," she replied, and in my mind I saw her in her high-backed bar stool at the island in the kitchen where the kids scarfed down their Lucky Charms before walking down the hill to school. Then, before I could answer, she went on, "It will be weird if we're related to the woman in the photo." "In what way?" "She's so ..." "Go ahead," I said. "She's not like us. Eve.. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 9c5c094 | months earlier with Kristin, | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| a2c91f5 | vernissage | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 8b38543 | cerulean. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 299c908 | A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile. | woman women | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 7c84e6d | are an Armenian," says the Turk with the handgun. "I am." "Where are you going?" "Damascus." "Why?" "My sister lives there." "What do you do?" "I'm an engineer. I'm working on the Baghdad Railway--the spur from Aleppo to Nusaybin." "The British have captured Nasiriyah." "I hadn't heard that." He nods. "Had you heard that an Armenian murdered a Turkish" | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| c9e9d70 | crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 42ffe2d | Some are just businessmen. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 31555d2 | The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it the way Henry Holiday did in his exquisite nineteenth-century painting): Bice is walking beside the Arno River, dressed in white, the fabric clinging to her legs and outlining her slender thighs, and there is Dante. He meets her at the corner of one of the bridges that span the river. His left hand.. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| b3e3bf8 | ontological | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 4cc00a4 | Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we're either very resilient or super callous. I don't know which. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 4185fbb | My dad and Patricia viewed my decision to become a vegetarian largely in terms of the way it seemed to complicate their dinner menus. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| f1570c3 | But if you are a person who needs no one's approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 2031efe | A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22. | double-bind schizophrenia | Chris Bohjalian | |
| f933429 | Elena believed that reportage like that might be compelling and beautiful, but it would never gain traction in the Age of the Troll. In the Age of Mass Shootings. In the Age of the Suicide Bomb in the Crowd. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| a559682 | If you were Bill Clinton, how did you justify Monica Lewinsky to Chelsea? What did you say about the cigar and the beret and the little blue dress? If you were Anthony Weiner, how in the world did you explain to your daughter your apparently insatiable need to text pictures of your junk to strange women? | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 83b08bc | Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| a34ff09 | Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel," he says." | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| ab1b62f | You want to know the definition of a consultant? A guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 69a0b9c | Did you ever read Carlo Levi?" "No." "You should--if you like Tolstoy. He wrote beautifully about Italian peasants. My people, once. He had a soul like Tolstoy. 'The future has an ancient heart.' I think I have that right." -- | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 1886603 | Pain came in all colors and sizes, much of it far worse than the pricks and aches and fever dreams that affected the body | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 933e9f8 | This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect | self-esteem self-respect | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 9ea282d | Seriously," the banker went on, "what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies." "Murder." | murder stray-kittens | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 0b1b64d | Natural movement is riskier," he acknowledged, "but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!" | Thad Carhart | ||
| d255bc3 | the exuberance of the moment drowning out all other sensations but that of music's delicious momentum. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 92e6a08 | What allowed a person sitting in front of this strange giant to call forth beautiful sounds just by moving his fingers up and down? | Thad Carhart | ||
| fdd649e | The piano became a kind of flying carpet by which I could travel to an entirely different place, and I would leave the room with the half-dazed sensibility that children sometimes show when they have discovered a new and agreeable and utterly private world of their own. | Thad Carhart | ||
| afb1075 | This special moment takes the two pianists--master and student--someplace that no one else can go. The French call this sort of sharing, this meeting of minds, complicite, and the word captures perfectly the special bond that instantly develops as two pianists explore together the edge of music. If chamber music can be likened to a conversation, with a constant give-and-take, a joining and separating of the voices, this is all simultaneity,.. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 4e96fc2 | There is no such thing as music note by note just as there is no such thing as a book word by word. We have to accept that things are ambiguous," Sebok said to one of the students on the last day of the master class. Is there any more fundamental lesson that we must learn as we mature? As my friend had told me, he might have been talking about all of life, not just music." | Thad Carhart | ||
| 16d9660 | Should I tell them of my lifelong love of pianos, of how I hoped to play again after many vagabond years when owning a piano was as impractical as keeping a large dog or a collection of orchids? | Thad Carhart | ||
| 5f77144 | Val de Grace is a large late Renaissance church that is unusual for Paris; its exuberant carvings and animated facade are more typical of Rome, and the most beautiful dome in the city graces its undulating mass of light yellow stone. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 1417a54 | This pronouncement suggests how France differs from America in this respect. In the United States, private institutions--schools, conservatories, hospitals, universities--are very often the richest and most prestigious of their kind, while this is rarely the case in France. The government-run conservatories are showered with resources while their private counterparts must make do by raising money in a country where there are few private fou.. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 874f870 | I particularly liked the rationale it advanced for renouncing the tradition of competitive concours: "On ne fait pas de musique contre quelqu'un" ("One does not make music against someone else")." | Thad Carhart |