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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8bd8b5 | Cyprian Clamorgan ends | Margo Jefferson | ||
| 375b23d | Nadinola Bleaching Cream: "Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?" | Margo Jefferson | ||
| dc162ab | Striving ardently to be what they were and were not. Behold the Race Flaneur: the bourgeois rebel who goes slumming, and finds not just adventure but the objective correlative for his secret despair. | Margo Jefferson | ||
| 71fba81 | You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You've acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times. You do not have children; you never intended to. Sustained romantic intensities have not been for you. Your explanation (not an untrue one,though not quite sufficient) is that you have let yourself be shaped by so many conventions, expectations, and requirements (institution's, people's), by so much dread of disapprov.. | identity independence | Margo Jefferson | |
| 8827ad5 | White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected. | whiteness | Margo Jefferson | |
| 24ab9e9 | I hate when I'm supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties. | Margo Jefferson | ||
| 5772c84 | Elbow grease" is not a metaphor." | Margo Jefferson | ||
| e6b2637 | We sing more colored than the Africans," boasted John Lennon, and few Americans were inclined to dispute him." | Margo Jefferson | ||
| f97b129 | And out in the wide wide world, the famous women we gazed upon never stopped reminding us that we must cherish that generic female future. | Margo Jefferson | ||
| 8afcab1 | What I would have to do later, starting in college and in the years following, to become a person of inner consequence: break that fawning inner self into pieces. | Margo Jefferson | ||
| 4111b46 | In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 6f67cbd | There is no joy but calm! | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 6ce94ae | There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence.. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 5c2ab6d | We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by marriage. It's an act of love - of love. Not merely of the flesh, but of the mind and even the soul. There's nothing about it you shouldn't welcome. | sex | Colleen McCullough | |
| f6e00e3 | loved, and indulged to the full extent of her father | Colleen McCullough | ||
| e71d0c8 | forbearance down as virtues intrinsic to his own | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 83eab93 | Your Eminence, it doesn't matter," said Dane softly. "What you say doesn't make you any less my conception of the perfect priest. I think you don't understand what I mean, that's all. I don't mean an inhuman automaton, above the weaknesses of the flesh. I mean that you've suffered, and grown. Do I sound presumptuous? I don't intend to, truly. If I've offended you, I beg your pardon. It's just that it's so hard to express my thoughts! What I.. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 004b637 | But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know...we understand...and still we do it. Still we do it. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 4f447a7 | I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, scraped, and massaged by slaves, but Gaius Marius preferred to do his own dirty work, even now. Mind you, at forty-seven he was still a fine figure of a man. Nothing to be ashamed of about his physique! No matter how ostensibly inert his days mi.. | dumbbells face gaius-julius-caesar gaius-marius physique rival slaves tiber | Colleen McCullough | |
| 8491227 | V nachaloto na vseki den toi si nalagal da ne umre i v kraia na denia se smeel pobedonosno, ustanoviavaiki, che e oshche zhiv | Colleen McCullough | ||
| a6030ad | Zashcho ni nabi vsichki, Frank? -- popita Megi. -- Kazakh i, che samo az s'm vinovna. Frank svikna s mirizmata ot povr'shchano i veche ne obr'shchashe vnimanie. Protegna r'ka, pogladi razseiano kobilata po nosa i ia izbuta, shchom tia stana tv'rde liubopitna. -- Bedni sme, Megi, i tova e glavnata prichina. Sestrite vinagi mraziat bednite uchenitsi. Kato postoish niakolko dni v mukhliasaloto staro uchilishche na sestra Agata, shche razberesh.. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 94e16c6 | Justine tu choi vi truoc het doi voi nang, tinh yeu la su tuoc doat, gia dinh la su cham dut tu do | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 535b4e0 | Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot. God gives pleasure in it only to husbands. Women are the source of evil and temptation, therefore women are to blame when men fall into fleshly error. It was Eve who seduced Adam, Eve who entered into league with the serpent, who was the Devil in disguise. So the only pleasure women are allowed is in their children. | men-and-women religion sex | Colleen McCullough | |
| fd3785e | the Melbourne | Colleen McCullough | ||
| e646c1a | Do you realize that you've been married to me for just about half of your entire life?" Her head came down, her eyes opened wide to stare at him. "Is that all?" she asked. "It seems an eternity". "Did I say a quiet lion?" Alexander pulled a face. "An eternity with me has turned you into a bitch, my dear"." | marriage men-and-women | Colleen McCullough | |
| 2ff48c6 | my chances with moral vanity," Stephen interrupted, "when the alternative is" | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 3d482a0 | Quand vous avancerez en age, vous vous apercevez que la vie est faites de rencontres, de connaissances et de separations. Parfois, nous aimons les gens que nous rencontrons, parfois, nous ne les aimons pas, mais les connaitre est ce qu'il y a de plus important dans la vie, c'est cela qui fait de nous des etre humains. | amour connaissance être-humain la-vie rencontre separation | Colleen McCullough | |
| 02e314e | on him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence | Colleen McCullough | ||
| c1615c9 | He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| e16cfa1 | Then God's a bigger poofter than Sweet Willie. "You might be right" said Justine. "He certainly isn't too fond of women, anyway. Second-class, that's us, way back in the Upper Circle. Front Stalls and the Mezzanine, strictly male." | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 8ed43d7 | All that appearance business is crap, and I'm not even going to be bothered arguing with you about it. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 4fc2b42 | sold into an indentured servitude | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 1901ef9 | Tai sao chung ta lai dau xot? Con may man duoc som thoat khoi cuoc song moi met nay. Chinh cuoc song nay moi la dia nguc; mot ban an no le suot doi o tran the. Chung ta phai chiu dung su dau kho trong dia nguc nay khi chung ta con song la nhu the | Colleen McCullough | ||
| b179d68 | Lares of the Crossroads | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 994f578 | this parish had been excellent for his self-control. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 6c7c592 | Give a Greek enough rope and he'll hang everyone else in sight. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 29c7c13 | Something in her little soul was old enough and woman enough to feel the irresistible, stinging joy of being needed; she sat rocking his head back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 6794c91 | orgy of sampling Europe's charms, she never went back, and that was strange. In his experience people always | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 0b9e557 | Bien mirado, era esta una prueba de amor mas evidente que un millon de besos faciles. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 864ace1 | But I'll pin you to the wall on your own weakness, I'll make you sell yourself like any painted whore." Mary Carson to Father Ralph." -- | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 6ed966b | The lioness in Rome is quiet. I will not wake her to seek more money. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 9235c45 | Kitty!" "Wishes are evanescent," | Colleen McCullough | ||
| c502bf3 | And the best of all waysIs to steal a few hours from the night, my dear! | Thomas Moore | ||
| 9f965d6 | But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it | Colleen McCullough |