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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e7d457c | I can grow. I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right. | life | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 22bf1c3 | I sniff again and wipe my eyes on my arm. The bruises are vivid, but they will fade. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 66a01fa | It takes more to scare me now. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d8e9129 | Some stand-up comic cracks, 'No, Melinda no es linda.' They call me Me-no-linda for the rest of the period. This is how terrorists get started, this harmless fun. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 72ec210 | Nothing good ever happens at lunch. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation Rituals. And it smells gross. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ccf2174 | When one suffers, all are weakened, but when everyone thrives, we dance. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a51c7ad | Heather is not at school today. Everybody is griping about her lame decorations. I bet she calls in sick the rest of the year. Heather should run away and join the Marines immediately. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5571935 | It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3f90d3c | Hurry up," Gracie called after him. "I want to talk to dead people." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c93406c | Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid. | fear | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| a79f896 | The taste of shame smells like stubborn vomit in your hair lingering no matter how often you was it sometimes you have to shave yourself bald and start again like a newly hatched chick leaving the faint rot of broken magic in shattered eggshell pieces behind you. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0b4f633 | A trained assassin who babysits. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| dc0244b | If you touch me, I'll cram your nose into your brain with the heel of my hand. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 11e5154 | She got too tired and went to sleep. Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 9aaad92 | They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them. Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one's powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| aa9ff97 | The toponyms of the Macedonian homeland are the most significant. Nearly all of them are Greek. | Ancient Macedonian language | ||
| 76893c0 | To send a political activist to an asylum is more sadistic and evil than killing him. | Anders Behring Breivik | ||
| 136b7a8 | In the sway of a sudden reverie among the furrows or while untangling the mysteries of an early-morning dream. In the middle of a song on a warm Sunday night. Then it comes, always--the overseer's cry, the call to work, the shadow of the master, the reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| deb94ec | Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but created equal was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if all men did not truly mean all men. Not if they snatched away what belonged to other people, whether it was something yo.. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 75f8845 | After a lull in white arrests, some towns increased the rewards for turning in collaborators. Folks informed on business rivals, ancient nemeses, and neighbors, recounting old conversations where the traitors had uttered forbidden sympathies. Children tattled on their parents, taught by schoolmistresses the hallmarks of sedition. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 3070306 | memory has a palette and broad brush. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 5998277 | Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 22592ea | The way poor Michael reciting the Declaration of Independence was an echo of something that existed elsewhere. Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn't sure the document described anything real at all. America was a ghost in the darkness, like her. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| dedb436 | It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south. | Anders Fogh Rasmussen | ||
| 53c62bb | I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life. | Anderson Cooper | ||
| ca0f26d | The first one hundred pages were fueled by early Misfits ("Where Eagles Dare [fast version]," "Horror Business," "Hybrid Moments") and Blanck Mass ("Dead Format"). David Bowie is in every book, and I always put on Purple Rain and Daydream Nation when I write the final pages; so thanks to him and Prince and Sonic Youth." | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 8c02368 | It wasn't until they were moving again that Cora realized she forgot to ask where they were headed. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 68c044a | Only darkness could not be held off by the will of men. | Andre Norton | ||
| 2e9bbe5 | And the opposite of dreams are facts! | Andre Norton | ||
| d20c56d | Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city. | Andre Norton | ||
| 293f2b6 | Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you? | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 7f7f6cd | But who will I say you are? How will I explain you? People don't just appear out of nowhere." "Lord A'mighty," Andrew exclaimed. "Have you no brains? We're as alike as two peas in a pod. All we need to do is switch places." | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 7db68f2 | While Papa talked about his day in court, I relived my fight with Edward. What a lousy, stinking, ungrateful coward he was. Hateful. Underhanded. Sly and dishonest. A tattle-tale. What branch of the family tree had produced a rotten apple like him? | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 807ec80 | Here, there, everywhere | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 7435883 | I wanted to leap up and defend her, perhaps throw my arms around her and protect her, but I just sat there like a nincompoop. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| f64360b | as if I cared about something as useless as long division, | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 6d34796 | Jade and men are both shaped by harsh tools; be not unaware of sudden changes of fortune. | Andre Norton | ||
| 166c5d0 | Behold, we give you this girl, a gift beyond what you asked for. Take good care of her, for she will change the course of history. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0ddac13 | A volte mi chiedo se la realta esiste davvero, se c'e varamente una natura delle cose, obiettiva e intatta. O se tutto cio che ci accade e gia modificato in anticipo dalla nostra immaginazione. Se sognando qualcosa gli diamo vita. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| ab83b52 | Does mud care which cloak it bespatters? | Andre Norton | ||
| 7e7f3ca | Todas las historias tienen muchas versiones distintas. La version elegida nos revela mas acerca del narrador que acerca de la historia. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| af38416 | Promises only lead to trouble. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| a3ff6c4 | Perhaps the smell of the balm had put me in a trance, for as I moved my hands back and forth, I thought I saw hanging in the night sky a great web, its glinting threads woven from our present nature and our past actions. Karna was caught in it, as was I. Others were enmeshed there, too: Kunti, my husbands, Bheeshma, even Duryodhan and Dussasan. If there was a way to escape the web, I couldn't see it. Our puny struggles only entangled us fur.. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 77c8d53 | Leela's happiest childhood memories were of aloneness: reading in her room with the door closed, playing chess on the computer, embarking on long bike rides through the city, going to the movies by herself. You saw more that way, she explained to her parents. You didn't miss crucial bits of dialogue because your companion was busy making inane remarks. Her parents, themselves solitary individuals, didn't object. People- except for a selecte.. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |