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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| caa0b68 | Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with. | small-town south summer | Harper Lee | |
| 0bc084b | Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening. "Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common." "'s what everybody at school says." "From now on it'll be everybody less one--" "Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, why do you send me to school?" | Harper Lee | ||
| dc1135c | If you did not want much, there was plenty. | Harper Lee | ||
| bea48b2 | I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. This is feeling so fucking famliar. Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Of is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? | loneliness rant | David Levithan | |
| 5bd4643 | A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. | opinion probes social-science understanding wisdom | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 776bf1f | The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 629b57d | There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 099d428 | And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am again haunted by a kind of confirmation. The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. His pathos was natural, almost casual. The Stoics, ancient and modern, were proud of concealing their tears. He never concealed His tears; He s.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| ef24a55 | For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. | instinct learning | Philip Pullman | |
| 13c0d4e | Roland had sworn off children--they kept trying to kill him. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b679558 | One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a6af105 | If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 24942ec | For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| 9cfee95 | Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things. | David Eddings | ||
| 2a92e89 | In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is ful.. | ideology philosophy toilets | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 513ff50 | Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers. | John le Carré | ||
| a96f91d | She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books." | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 3ff5220 | I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| b6079dd | For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| eafa7b9 | Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. | beowulf-seamus-heaney coast-guard | Seamus Heaney | |
| 514255c | I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent-and working at a pace so slow-that I would be able to hear myself living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 56c5cd0 | Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b782c72 | I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b75a88f | Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b8ec423 | You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others-- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion... but that is not my business. We are all different, I suppose. All I ever wanted was to know this world. I can say now, as I reach my.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fe264d9 | One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 704e101 | the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| a084cf7 | All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9e62093 | Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives. | Joseph Heller | ||
| be18574 | Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species." Yes? Why is that?" Because it means the end of innovation," Malcolm said. "This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own s.. | future globalisation mankind mass-media | Michael Crichton | |
| 361a4c5 | These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| dd72f1e | Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails... | Francine Rivers | ||
| a2a6bbe | I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c2225a5 | Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 72f6588 | The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. | cynicism rabbit-angstrom teotwawki | John Updike | |
| f5337f5 | I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know. | teaching | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1d03123 | And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves? | stupidity | Orson Scott Card | |
| b0e2ee3 | But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like... "One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| e4c5472 | You just don't want to admit that you're in the beginning stages of a bromance to end all bromances." I snorted. "Whatever." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b89d655 | I don't think we got the chance to introduce ourselves the other night at the diner. My name is Blake Saunders." He offered his free hand. Daemon glanced at Blake's hand before returning his gaze to me. "I know who you are." Oh, geez. I twisted toward Blake. "This is Daemon Black." His smile faltered. "Yeah, I know who he is, too." Laughing under his breath, Daemon straightened. At his full height, he was a good head taller than Blake. "It'.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 42d6fc9 | The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.' 'How far is that in regular measurements?' Percy asked. Frank rolled his eyes. 'That is a regular measurement in Canada and the rest of the world. Only you Americans -' 'About five or six football fields,' Hazel interceded, feeding Arion a big chunk of gold. Percy spread his hands. 'That's all you needed to say. | measurement-units percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 6e8e933 | About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no attention. Of course not, Frank thought. He's [...] Jason's face was already beaded with sweat. He kept shouting in Latin: "Form ranks!" But the dead legionnaires wouldn't listen to him, either. [...] "Make way!" Frank shouted. To his surprise, th.. | frank-zhang greek heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace legion legionnaires nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan roman | Rick Riordan | |
| 8a31083 | Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most. | jason-grace special-gifts the-lost-hero | Rick Riordan | |
| 54852b8 | Hey, moose!" I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we'll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought." | Rick Riordan |