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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19b8d33 | There aren't many things we humans need to do. We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to make love. And the French attitude is, okay, we should do those things very well. | Barry Eisler | ||
| ab35984 | I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. | Ali | ||
| fdec583 | Strangeland's confidence in her, the risks she was willing to run . . . it was all producing a roiling mess of emotion she couldn't deal with right now. She managed to push it away and handed | Barry Eisler | ||
| 9b920de | But we rarely see what we prefer to overlook. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 313744c | A Fed, a local, and a consultant. | Barry Eisler | ||
| f54712f | Graham smiled and filled it all the way, then said, "What the hell" and did the same for his own. He took a sip and made an mmmmm sound. "That's a Peruvian varietal, from Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco. I can't get enough of their coffee. I have twenty pounds flown in every month, and it's barely enough for my habit. Say, you're from California, aren't you?" | Barry Eisler | ||
| 2aad822 | But then, as seemed always to be the case when she found herself hit by a wave of happiness, or joy, or delight, there was an immediate undertow of sadness. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 551fc9e | I read it somewhere once." She laughed. "You did not." "I did. Okay, I wrote it down first. Then I read it. But still." -- | Barry Eisler | ||
| 986abfc | His gal had thrown down, and he was going to follow her wherever that led. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 0ebbe4f | Context had reinforced familiarity, and familiarity had blinded them to new possibilities. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 4f0932f | George Burns line? 'Sincerity--if you can fake that, you've got it made. | Barry Eisler | ||
| b4bb91f | Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru | Barry Eisler | ||
| f647e33 | So much of being a good interrogator was just knowing how to actively listen to someone, | Barry Eisler | ||
| 3d29b14 | Arrington smoked | Barry Eisler | ||
| 2fd8737 | Because we're friends, dumbass. Friends stay in touch. I won't lie to you, you're so good at reading people, but sometimes you assume everyone else is just like you, and that ain't the way the world works. Most people don't prefer to go months without talking to another human. That's unusual. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it; in fact, there's not. I'm just saying you shouldn't be surprised to learn that the people in your life .. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 895976a | Glock with an exceptionally long magazine. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 0d9dd4d | Thirty-round mag, | Barry Eisler | ||
| 53832c1 | I felt like Schrodinger's cat. She would come, or not come. She would take me in, or throw me out. She would forgive me, or tell me to fuck off. And in that narrow, purgatorial space, a feeling crept in, a kind of mourning for my younger self and all his terrible choices, and a wish that I could somehow tell him what I knew now and help him for both our sakes to get it right, and a grief that such a thing was impossible, the young man's bli.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| b85a07a | If there was one thing Snake knew about people, it was that once they got attached to a theory, it was hard to get them detached. They'd screen out unhelpful facts, invent favorable ones, and ignore contradictions in their own claims. Look at those Sandy Hook truthers, babbling about false flags and crisis actors and all the rest. When people were motivated enough to believe something, they were going to believe it no matter what. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 15e52dd | Pardon me, but the drop-down menu of my mind just offered up so many enticing possibilities that for a moment my brain froze. | Barry Eisler | ||
| fa9033e | Sometimes you need the anesthesia. Because what you learn about yourself when fear finally overtakes you isn't pretty. You understand that the person you thought of as yourself, your immutable, indivisible self, is just an overlay, fragile and frail. Fear strips away the facade. And having to see what lies beneath, and accept it, makes you different from everyone who hasn't been similarly forged. You've been aged; they remain neophytes. You.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 8815e94 | One possibility, sure." "What are the others? He's retired, isn't he?" Larison" | Barry Eisler | ||
| 00ecf04 | client?" "I asked the same question. Hort wouldn't tell me. For your ears only. But if you want to share, I'm a good listener." I said" | Barry Eisler | ||
| e80f059 | Treat | Barry Eisler | ||
| c58b328 | If you understand Allah's Majesty, then you will not attach any importance to the creatures. | Ali | ||
| 9a626b3 | When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you? | Madeleine Brent | ||
| c579381 | Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault. | Madeleine Brent | ||
| 440b422 | I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant. | motivational self-awareness | Madeleine Brent | |
| 60b60ae | Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching. | emotional-strength mothers staying-strong | Madeleine Brent | |
| a2a1e4d | Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women. | bad-men relationships | Madeleine Brent | |
| a7ed2cb | Ah, Chantal... Now I think I know how it feels to fly on a trapeze. | love relationships | Madeleine Brent | |
| bd28a6c | At a time like this with damage and disorder everywhere, no tale is too absurd to be believed and even decent people seek something on which to vent their anger. | disorder | Madeleine Brent | |
| dc89bac | Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life. | inspirational-attitude | Madeleine Brent | |
| 55504a5 | Twelve shillings for your sister's skates, and two shillings for your dreams. | Noel Streatfeild | ||
| 33353b9 | Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims. | Rumer Godden | ||
| d26e5cd | My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy," said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty." | fiction historical-fiction monasticism | Rumer Godden | |
| 57a6c06 | The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always. | fiction historical-fiction monasticism | Rumer Godden | |
| c9447d9 | To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth. | Rumer Godden | ||
| 86d1de7 | Eliot always said, 'I'm sorry. I had to do that.' If you are all right really, really all right, you don't do things that are sorry. | Rumer Godden | ||
| 8d410f3 | I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us. | understanding | Rumer Godden | |
| aac2844 | I think there are only two ways to live in this place,' said Sister Philippa, 'you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it. | Rumer Godden | ||
| 029a76f | The greengages had a pale blue bloom, especially in the shade, but in the sun the flesh showed amber through the clear green skin; if it were cracked the juice was doubly warm and sweet. | Rumer Godden | ||
| 82abb5b | None of us should marry, unless we love a man so much we would go through hell for him, which we shall probably have to do. | Rumer Godden | ||
| 8be51e8 | Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be. | Rumer Godden |