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| 09bd24f | Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. | language words | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 1b89dd8 | I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 599b66e | Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 9506c05 | Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say." | Italo Calvino | ||
| 04afb04 | Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped. | false-hope good people truth | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| e3f09ed | They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water. It was terrible at first. We couldn't stand to be in the house for more than a few hours at a time. The first two weeks were filled with nights of intermittent sleep and quarreling for the sake of being heard over the water. We fought so much just to remind ourselves that we were in love, and not in hate. But the next weeks were a little better. It was possible to sleep .. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3e03f10 | For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 5d3eb1f | She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 82b70a5 | Human beings are millions of things in one day. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 57853ea | Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| dca8713 | Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. | inspiration | Walter Isaacson | |
| 3e7fee7 | You're mine, mo duinne," he said softly, pressing himself into my depths. "Mine alone, now and forever. Mine, whether ye will it or no." I pulled against his grip, and sucked in my breath with a faint "ah" as he pressed even deeper. "Aye, I mean to use ye hard, my Sassenach," he whispered. "I want to own you, to possess you, body and soul." I struggled slightly and he pressed me down, hammering me, a solid, inexorable pounding that reached .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 983d8a5 | While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6924709 | We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f6f4c57 | If Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend.' Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves. | James Joyce | ||
| 95d5e2b | I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 79df66e | Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough. | Brené Brown | ||
| dcdc88f | I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. | courage parenting | Brené Brown | |
| f1ec9c8 | The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before? | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 8f1d3ce | Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?" | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 45e6faa | Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without a rest. Sometimes they do not require food or water. They never cast shoes, go lame or put their hooves down holes, except when the Management deems it necessary, as when the forces of the Dark Lord are only half an hour behind. They never otherwise stumble. Nor do they ever make life difficult for Tourists by biting or kicking their riders .. | horses humor | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| e7e4dca | Look at this!" he shouted "look at it! what has that one-woman force of chaos done to these spells?" Sophie and Michael whirled round and looked at Howl. His hair was wet, but, apart from that, neither of them could see that it looked any different. "If you mean me-" Sophie began. "I do mean you! Look!" Howl shrieked. He sat down with a thump on the three-legged stool and jabbed at his wet head with his fingers. "Look. Survey. Inspect. My .. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 2ac4e91 | Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?" | man men rosethorn | Tamora Pierce | |
| 683497b | The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4680061 | Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? | tragedy | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 1cca91a | Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says women aren't funny,' or 'Rick Fenderman says women aren't funny... Do you have anything to say to that?' | feminism humor women | Tina Fey | |
| 49cbb8b | for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. | new-york-city | Evelyn Waugh | |
| bb9e593 | Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 7c2ee03 | By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. | apple apple-computer-inc bible catholicism christianity forbidden-fruit garden-of-eden genesis humor jesus-shock laptop mac macintosh old-testament original-sin philosophy sarcasm spirituality steve-jobs theology | peter kreeft | |
| 6d6ba95 | America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce. | money sex | Peter Kreeft | |
| c4bf14e | Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. | failure luck near-hits near-misses nearly success | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0220f81 | And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0fe42bb | There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 8501036 | Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. | Carl Sagan | ||
| f9be077 | There's an old, frequently-used definition of insanity, which is "performing the same action over and over, expecting different results."... Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ... ...Other symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia are: Do you see things that aren't there? Such as a link between 9/11 and Iraq? Do you - do you feel things that you shouldn't be feeling, like a .. | religion | Bill Maher | |
| 62c56d7 | That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 5df9672 | The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of tru.. | erotic | Audre Lorde | |
| c3c4cf3 | You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim. | optimism positive-thinking | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 8ba7dff | Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 25f1d00 | A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. | sorrow | Oscar Wilde | |
| 83b668a | Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 5261bd9 | The way Magnus' breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he'd said his father's name. | magnus | Cassandra Clare | |
| b4f24cd | It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9164528 | In fact, it wouldn't hurt if you just spent the next few days inside. You can lock yourself in your room like Isabelle." "I'm not gonna do that." "Of course your not," said Jace, "because you live to torture me, don't you?" "Not everything, Jace, is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you have to admit that the majority of things are." Clary resisted the urge to scream." | Cassandra Clare |