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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a00ca6 | It's just too bad they have to die. They're totally bangable, you know?" "Bangable," Taylor mouthed in disgust. She wanted to show this boy another meaning for the word bang, and it involved his head against a steel door." | Libba Bray | ||
| 6594d4c | For half a second, I consider staying. Maybe I could find that bliss state again. Maybe I could stay here, follow all the rules, be safe always. But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. , it burps. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4ada82c | But what was the point of living so quietly... you made no noise at all | Libba Bray | ||
| db24888 | So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4bf9785 | People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it. | Libba Bray | ||
| d0e6eed | And falling for Sam Lloyd was the don't-you-dare cherry on top of a worst-idea sundae. | Libba Bray | ||
| 89d2d3d | No. I like my girls fully conscious when I kiss 'em. I'm funny that way, | Libba Bray | ||
| 1d610e7 | My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes." | Libba Bray | ||
| 0e5001b | The light is so bright it hurts my eyes. But I don't dare close them. I won't. Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning, and there is so much to see. | Libba Bray | ||
| a0d2a9a | Mr. DuBois, you are a rehearsal accompanist. I do not pay you for your musical interpretation.' The impresario marched down the aisle and stood in the middle like the commander of a mutinying ship. 'No, Mr. Ziegfeld. I'm not. I'm a songwriter. My songs are a damn sight better than this garbage.' One of the midwestern chorus girls gasped. 'Forgive my language,' Henry added. | songwriting stand-up-for-yourself | Libba Bray | |
| 7924369 | I'm not really sure what I am at all anymore." "We're not just sashes and states," Nicole said on a sigh. "Or gender," Petra murmured. "Or bodies." | teen-girls | Libba Bray | |
| 8501456 | When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime? | exploit naive religion | Libba Bray | |
| 2be0d14 | The Voice of Tomorrow America, America, will you listen to the story of you? You bruised mountains, purpled by majesty. You shining seas that refuse to see. You, haunted by ghosts of dreams, From the many, one; the one, many. I am in you and of you, America. You of amber waving grain, shining Like fool's gold in a plentiful river. I am the dream coming, yes, The Voice of Tomorrow Ringing in freedom's ear. Do you hear it now? Calling, callin.. | america-the-beautiful before-the-devil-breaks-you diviners memphis-campbell | Libba Bray | |
| 5234d59 | But why on earth?" "When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear," | Libba Bray | ||
| f896816 | This country is founded on a certain tension." He pressed his fists against each other. "There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy--and, as I've said, spirits are attracted to energy." | Libba Bray | ||
| c5ebd5c | Aww, Sheba. So you're working for Evie. Honestly, who isn't working for himself in this meshuga world? Some people just hide it better than others. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7e908fb | But forgiveness ... I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with... | Libba Bray | ||
| 8421771 | There is no greater power on this earth than story." Will paced the length of the room. "People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense--words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions--words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History." | Libba Bray | ||
| d4dac6c | Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything. | Libba Bray | ||
| 88b0755 | The history of the land is a history of blood. In this history, someone wins and someone loses. There are patriots and enemies. Folk heroes who save the day. Vanquished foes who had it coming. It's all in the telling. The conquered have no voice. Ask the thirty-eight Santee Sioux singing the death song with the nooses around their necks, the treaty signed fair and square, then nullified with a snap of the rope. Ask the slave women forced to.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 61ce462 | I found her. There was blood everywhere. I slipped and fell in it.' 'That's awful,' Ling said when she found her voice again. 'It was awful. I loved those pants. | Libba Bray | ||
| 2c41752 | Terrific, Miss Knight. Simply terrific,' a smiling reporter said. 'They're going to love this story in Peoria. Why, you'll be famous everywhere - from New York to Hollywood, Florida to Kansas.' 'Kansas?' Theta whispered. 'Yeah. Big state in the middle of the country. Fulla corn, Republicans, and Bible salesmen, and not much else? | Libba Bray | ||
| 63d27ea | Their jaws unhinged and they vomited out an oily black substance, which fell to the floor like a river of snakes. | Libba Bray | ||
| 2dfb5ee | Let's be brave girls, shall we? | bravery | Libba Bray | |
| 8f62582 | Every leader has blood on her hands. | women-leaders | Libba Bray | |
| bfe0a1b | I don't want to have this conversation. It's sunny out. There's bacon downstairs. My life is starting over today. I've just made it official. | Libba Bray | ||
| f1f7ebb | Memphis's eyes fluttered open. Theta's eyes were wide, and she was crying. 'Did I hurt you?' She laughed through tears. 'You could never hurt me. | Libba Bray | ||
| c53cca2 | There's no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it's automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way. | humor | Libba Bray | |
| 134d445 | You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players. | Algis Budrys | ||
| abe6e2a | It's good for us; hot breath on your heels is what keeps you on your toes. | Algis Budrys | ||
| df614e2 | I hate acting on probability.""You go to your church and I'll go to mine." | Algis Budrys | ||
| 1126851 | It's amazing how self-perpetuating ignorance is. | Algis Budrys | ||
| 6c6fc7b | sense trying to make him feel bad about it. She tilted back her glass and went past the gin for a second time. She | Ann Patchett | ||
| 1434776 | Kitty stopped the cart and put in two three-packs of paper towels. "Sale." Sabine nodded. Was $2.49 a good price? To know if paper towels were a deal this time, you'd have to remember what they cost last time. Sabine could never remember." | Ann Patchett | ||
| e23425c | Forgiveness was at the heart of everything. Because I could not ask, I could not be forgiven. | Ann Patchett | ||
| feed6db | Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. ( | Ann Patchett | ||
| c22645e | Hard work is first and foremost hard, and whether or not it's ultimately rewarding is very rarely the thing you're thinking of at the moment. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 58db86a | The general wisdom around here is if you can't get it at Wal-Mart, you don't need it." Sabine looked up at the brown building, which was itself the size of another parking lot. "I've never actually been in one of these." "Go on," Kitty said. Sabine shook her head. "I've just never had any reason to." Kitty stubbed out her cigarette and replaced her mitten. "Well, you are in for a treat." | Ann Patchett | ||
| 2a852fa | I learned the most from sticking with my dream even when all signs told me it was time to let go. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 815d077 | It's a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but we also have to find him or her at a time in life when we're able to listen to and trust and implement the lessons we are given. | Ann Patchett | ||
| f28c6e8 | There are rivers, hundreds of them, running underground all the time, and because of this a man can say he is walking on water. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 8e00a55 | And if we fail at marriage, we are lucky we don't have to fail with the force of our whole life. I would like there to be an eighth sacrament: the sacrament of divorce. Like Communion, it is a slim white wafer on the tongue. Like confession, it is forgiveness. Forgiveness is important not so much because we've done wrong as because we feel we need to be forgiven. Family, friends, God, whoever loves us forgives us, takes us in again. They ar.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 7b3bfcd | It had occurred to him in his life that he had the soul of a machine and was only capable of motion when someone else turned the key. | Ann Patchett | ||
| addbf18 | All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes of song, and when she came to the highest notes it seemed that all they had been given in their lives and all they had lost came together and made a weight that was almost impossible to bear. | Ann Patchett |