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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e281518 | Distract me, please | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 80a62ff | Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that... Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 2092af3 | Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 55c7c04 | It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. | writing humor bad-writing dullness | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 6a11b49 | I start to walk out of the room, but I hear him start to panic and his breathing gets labored. He reaches out to me. "Don't go. Please." I sit next to him on the bed, wondering if he's afraid of being abandoned. He slings his arm around my thigh and rests his forehead against my knee. "I have to protect you," he says softly. "From who?" "El Diablo." "El Diablo? Who's that?" I ask. "It's complicated." What does that mean? "Try to rest," I t.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ff8b76f | That's not the only reason I'm stayin', chica. I can't leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my leg is busted up. I was just thinkin' . . . should we tell your parents now or later?" "Tell them what?" I ask, eyes wide. He kisses me softly, then says proudly, "That we're in a serious, monogamous, committed relationship." "We are?" "Si. And when I get out of here, I'm gonna fix the door to your car." | kiara-westford conversation | Simone Elkeles | |
| 53f6e6e | Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4c76070 | I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 4e40620 | Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. | meaning inspiration | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 64ce7b9 | What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts | Lewis Carroll | ||
| b325f3d | Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 05ce37f | Consider anything, only don't cry! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 85abe43 | I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the--never mind.) | James Patterson | ||
| be04076 | Max?" said the Gasman. "Are those, um, rats?" Lovely. "Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids," I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl." | James Patterson | ||
| 9acade1 | Uh-oh,' said Gazzy, but Angel was so nauseated she didn't have time to leap to a safe distance, or grab a gas mask Bbbbbrrrrrrrttthhhhhhttttttt. 'Mother of God, no!' Total cried, doing a fast belly-crawl to the pool and throwing himself in. 'You said it wasn't your digestive system!' 'What was that?' Dylan asked. He winced and threw an arm oer his nose and mouth. ... 'Sorry,' Gazzy said miserably, but he couldn't help a tiny grin. Nudge was.. | humor | James Patterson | |
| 023f101 | I love you," Matt said. I love you, too," Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it." If I have a soul, I'll go with you," promised Matt." | love soul | Nancy Farmer | |
| fc051e9 | I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. | ugliness | Marguerite Duras | |
| aef8958 | his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ce0b745 | The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine's Day on February's shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 50282db | I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon | sweet-talk | Alice Sebold | |
| 4599dc2 | The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. | Joan Didion | ||
| 543e505 | I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life. | philosophy galt taggart objectivism ayn-rand | Ayn Rand | |
| f2deba5 | Worry is a waste of emotional reserve"." -- | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6aaef7d | The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels. | escape church | John Steinbeck | |
| b93b30d | I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places. | money | Nora Roberts | |
| 46b78ad | My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. | truth | Frank Herbert | |
| 99f357d | But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in the workshop on the future of naturalism) that they lean the other way: free will, in their view, is obviously incompatible with naturalism, with determinism, and very likely incoherent against any background, so they cheerfully insist that of course they don't have free will, couldn't have fr.. | free-will science incompatibilism sean-carroll determinism naturalism consciousness | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| cf7ba7b | Who's to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos." The skin of this world," he said quietly." | Ted Dekker | ||
| 95ce202 | We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don't fear the shadows it creates. | Ted Dekker | ||
| c7228cb | Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 6a1a56b | Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| db3dc75 | Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later." | humor marvin h2g2 robots science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 77c89df | The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." | religion | Douglas Adams | |
| 4505f26 | and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3a5ef40 | The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 97694da | And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on. | inspirational sam-gamgee | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2b2f79a | Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3aed984 | do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 52b59fe | Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed. | Umberto Eco | ||
| a8fd9a5 | Everyone deserves a happy ending. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6f409ee | Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. | survival | Dave Pelzer | |
| 5d71f6d | So where do you start when you want to start your life again? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 7674332 | Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| b7f5ee9 | Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price? | Khaled Hosseini |