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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c333768 | Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| f00626e | was dressed in black jeans, black motorcycle boots, a black T-shirt, and a black leather motorcycle jacket. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| abc5463 | The Simple Abundance path encourages us to be patient until we find what's perfect for us, rather than continue to waste our money, energy, and emotion settling for second-best or the second-rate. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 6dc3e17 | there is no competition on the spiritual plane. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 471fa0c | Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| a15e5c1 | All women need more compliments in their lives. We need to give more of them to our families, friends, and strangers. We need to hear more of them, even if we have to give them to ourselves. But most of all, we need to bask in them. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 2b9c745 | Accurst is the march of that gloryWhich treads o'er the hearts of the free. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 9c3727f | Cultivate the habit of giving at least one compliment a day to another human being, as well as to yourself. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| d0edb47 | It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do, | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| d62a8c8 | life's not a dress rehearsal. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 0b1a0dd | The bearers of the right of self-determination possess justiciable rights, not mere promises. | Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ||
| 2d5d625 | Man for his gloryIs told in her eyes. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 50a78c3 | God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 1a05ae9 | Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed up by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking weed. That'd be preferable to the agony they were in just by being alive. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 9e19611 | You are a magnificent and powerful person," I said." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 29497fd | It was true. After our divorce, I'd ended up in a slight relationship with my last research assistant, Aurelia Feinstein, age 34-though let me state for the record it was not as hot as it sounded. Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure little red entry on Hungarian poetry. It was dead silent, no one gave me any dierection, and nothing was where it was supposed t.. | sex | marisha Pessl | |
| 030dad4 | I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there. | marisha pessl | ||
| 7ca66c0 | There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch them like a cold. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 55e9077 | But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 9827b18 | There it is," he'd say reverentially. "The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make believe." | schrodinger | Marisha Pessl | |
| 628ac7c | A wife sets the ambience of a man's life. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 727edb3 | Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I'd kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, down pours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone. | life | Marisha Pessl | |
| 87c0ee9 | You know what Confucius said?" "Remind me". "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves" -- | Marisha Pessl | ||
| a815651 | They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| e1ab468 | It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly out of touch with reality," wrote Albert Pooley in The Imperial Consort of the Dairy Queen (1981, p. 233)." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| bac6629 | With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2683082 | Once you slaughter the lamb, you are capable of everything and anything, and the world is yours. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| d2e1827 | Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn't me. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 447df12 | Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 0117545 | The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments | Anne Brontë | ||
| d4aa597 | This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,The past, the future,--two eternities! | Thomas Moore | ||
| 69d9edd | I used to think all the monsters in my life were made up. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| d9875c8 | Self-determination is an expression of the individual and collective right to democracy. | Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ||
| c2f21f2 | There was no expression to his face. He looked like he'd seen it all and didn't think much of it. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ef7245c | But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fastTo some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 129dd2e | Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit,But the trail of the serpent is over them all. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 1b9649a | But the trail of the serpent is over them all. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 1315921 | Why would Munch want barium? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1238640 | Decolonization was not only just and consistent with the Charter; it was necessary to end violence. | Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ||
| e53584b | I'm telling you, it's fucking hard to be classy," she said. T" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| fb6287e | Where's my candy bar?" Lula asked. "I don't have" -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ae19008 | Neither the right of self-determination nor the principle of territorial integrity is absolute. | Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ||
| f4c2a2c | Paradise itself were dimAnd joyless, if not shared with him! | Thomas Moore | ||
| 78fc0f7 | carton and sleep in my bed." "Maybe I can arrest him for" | Janet Evanovich |