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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c544c29 | Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. | trick | Bill Watterson | |
| 755938e | I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you'll see what I mean. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3e06abd | That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 2c4d681 | Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| f3c5444 | Be happy without picking flaws. | happiness | Victor Hugo | |
| 331f57a | Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at t.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 690160c | Well fiddle dee dee! | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| b69fe7f | The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? | fight oppression revolution voice | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| e090901 | They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, 'they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.' Lancelot smiled bitterly. 'Perhaps .. | religion salvation | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 61dd709 | For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. | joy love sacrifice | George Eliot | |
| 55a96be | Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said. "If you have three or four -or more - chickabiddies, you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over - empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up." | Sharon Creech | ||
| 06b5e63 | It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." | life nightmare | Ned Vizzini | |
| a68b345 | And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 894c38b | You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 32bce32 | I am hope. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 06b8462 | There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2f86793 | Goodbyes are overrated. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 03784d8 | Embrace aging. | aphorisms | Mitch Albom | |
| e2a592e | How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 431b749 | Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| f2d8c81 | Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. | digression philosophy reading wit writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 911ba01 | For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... | bradbury dead destroyed dust fahrinheit jackets knowledge many more nothing pages person ray so to | Ray Bradbury | |
| 55887da | My gosh, if you're going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would've talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f81e1c0 | Elm BY SYLVIA PLATH I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. Is it the sea you hear in me, Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse. All night I shall gallop thus, impetuously, Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little t.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| e74ff36 | Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath. | John Updike | ||
| c014e69 | Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. | genealogy persona | Orson Scott Card | |
| ee95b6a | Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up." | Lynne Truss | ||
| 5a0059c | The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. I took him in my arms, and rocked him. I said to him: "The flower that you love is not in danger. I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep. I will draw you a railing to put around your flower. I will --" I did not know what to s.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 7c4f039 | One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . ." | humanity the-little-prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 8d7f541 | Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. | Alex Garland | ||
| 9dd1905 | There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair." | Darren Shan | ||
| ad26496 | At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4a5e5af | The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car. Up until then I was having a great afternoon. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b6c9615 | With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must've looked pretty strange--a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. "How's it going?" I said. "I'll take the stairs." He hurried off." | Rick Riordan | ||
| cfd562f | Nike could start you two fighting easily." Percy gave her a sideways smile. "Yeah, we can't have another incident like in Kansas. I might kill my bro Jason." "Or I might kill my bro Percy," Jason said amiably. "Which proves my point," Annabeth said." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 470a168 | For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 6ce4539 | Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? | temptation | Margaret Atwood | |
| fe79191 | When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning--human meaning, that is--is defined by them. You have to admit that." | meaning | Margaret Atwood | |
| 31fd310 | The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. | lust young-love | Margaret Atwood | |
| 09e0ddd | There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| a3129b2 | Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 42e7258 | You're falling for me like I'm falling for you. That's why you're pushing me so hard. | Katie McGarry | ||
| a2a6a45 | Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 4d8710f | L'inferno dei viventi non e qualcosa che sara; se ce n'e uno, e quello che e gia qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo piu. Il secondo e rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non e inferno, e f.. | Italo Calvino |