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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 988b420 | Sorry. That is courtesy, right? Custom? Jondalar, what good are words like sorry? It doesn't change anything, it doesn't make me feel any better." He pulled his hand through his hair. She was right. Whatever he had done--and he thought he knew what it was--being sorry didn't help." | Jean M. Auel | ||
| dcfb108 | Brun led them well beyond the spoor of cave lions before he stopped and studied the landscape. Across the river, as far as he could see, the prairie stretched out in low rolling hills into a flat green expanse in the distance. His view was unobstructed. The few stunted trees, distorted by the constant wind into caricatures of arrested motion, merely put the open country in perspective and emphasized the emptiness. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| ee35e13 | The first snow sifted down silently during the night. Ayla exclaimed with delight when she stepped out of her cave in the morning. A pristine whiteness softened the contours of the familiar landscape creating a magical dreamland of fantastic shapes and mythical plants. Bushes had top hats of soft snow, conifers were dressed in new gowns of white finery, and bare exposed limbs were clothed in shining coats that outlined each twig against the.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| c1a1d03 | The ones that counted were the ones that cared. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| bf24f49 | Though the ones who had come before them had slowly developed and improved various implements and tools, the people like Jondalar and Ayla were the first to imagine and innovate to such an extravagant degree. Their brains could make abstractions easily. They were capable of conceiving of an idea and planning how to implement it. Beginning with simple objects that utilized advanced principles that were intuitively understood, they drew concl.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 4ace8da | through the | Jean M. Auel | ||
| e07dd64 | What are counting words?" "They are ... names for the marks on your sticks, for one thing, for other things too. They are used to say the number of ... anything. They can say how many deer a scout has seen, or how many days away they are. If it is a large herd, such as bison in the fall, then a zelandoni must scout the herd, one who knows the special ways to use counting words." An undercurrent of anticipation stirred through the woman; she.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 9670eb9 | En ocasiones las mujeres que no son perfectas resultan mas interesantes; han hecho mas o han aprendido algo. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 883a4c1 | were greeted warmly, but Ayla felt they were interrupting something. Everyone seemed to be looking at them, as though | Jean M. Auel | ||
| e80024f | Tal vez creas que resulta mas facil seguir la corriente, porque asi no tienes que luchar contra ella, pero ahi esta el problema. Cuando vas contracorriente, tienes que estar pensando todo el tiempo en el rio y la embarcacion. Sabes que si te abandonas perderias todo lo que hayas ganado. Y puedes ver con tiempo lo que llegue, para evitarlo. Pero si sigues la corriente, es demasiado facil dejarte llevar, permitir que tu mente vagabundee y que.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| b2518f5 | Roe Deer, when your spirit returns to the Great Earth Mother, thank Her for giving us one of your kind, that we may eat," Jondalar said quietly." | Jean M. Auel | ||
| a0f6b9a | The pit was roughly rectangular, somewhat longer than it was wide, and muddy around the edges where the last wet loads had been hauled out. Loose piles of dirt, spilled from the hide, were strewn on the trampled grass within the triangular area defined by the two walls of brush coming together at the muddy hole. Through a gap where the pit separated the two fences, the river could be seen, reflecting the glowing eastern sky. On the other si.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| d9f9751 | No podia obligarle a quedarse; solo podia ayudarle a marcharse. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| b4eb991 | The feeble flames glinted off hidden facets in the crystal matrix of the rocks, and were reflected in the glistening sheen of damp stalactites hanging in eternal icicles from the roof, longing to reach their inverted counterparts growing from the floor. Some had succeeded in forming a union. Strained through the stone of ages, the calcereous drops had culminated in stately columns that reached from floor to vaulted ceiling, thinning at the .. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| c666166 | Hablan con sombras en la lengua. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| c06e155 | La mano y la vista hacen al artista. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| e2e2b60 | No era solo su aspecto lo que la hacia hermosa. La belleza no era una representacion estetica: era la esencia, el espiritu que la animaba. Se expresaba mejor a traves del movimiento, de la conducta y del talento. Una mujer hermosa era una mujer dinamica y completa. | mujer | Jean M. Auel | |
| f05e931 | countered. "I suspect the story was made up by a woman who had a" | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 65506cc | Hacia falta una fortaleza diferente para persuadir en vez de obligar. Talut se ganaba el respeto respetando a los demas. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 6ad5855 | Comenzaba a comprender que una conducta determinada no era necesariamente erronea solo porque algunos la consideraran asi. Una persona podia resistirse a las creencias populares, defendiendo principios personales, sin perderlo todo, aunque pudieran surgir ciertas consecuencias desagradables. Mas aun: se podia ganar algo importante, aunque solo fuera dentro de uno mismo. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 468332b | They stopped for a moment to watch the evening sky transform itself in a show of dazzling radiance as gold transmuted into shades of vermilion that waned into shimmering purple, then darkened to deep blue as the first glittering sky fires appeared. Soon the sooty black night became a backdrop to the multitude of blazing lights that filled the summer sky, with a concentrated accumulation wending its way like a path across the vault above. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| a3aecc9 | Estare a su lado contra mis peores enemigos y contra mis mejores amigos. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 14e6b66 | Once I got over feeling sick in the morning, I've been feeling good," Levela said. "Vigorous and strong. Although, lately, I get tired easily. I want to sleep late and take naps in the day, and sometimes if I stand for a long time, my back hurts." "Sounds about right, wouldn't you say," Velima said, smiling at her daughter. "Just the way you are supposed to feel." | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 5461547 | A frown creased Ayla's forehead. She remembered he had used that word to describe her when she used her sling, and she wasn't sure if she understood the word the way he used it. "Are you artist?" she asked. He made a wry grimace. Her question had touched at the heart of an issue about which he had strong feelings." | Jean M. Auel | ||
| b1dd8ff | find of the basket's contents, then reworked the cinch-basket-harness arrangement, fastening the two spears the way they had fallen, points down. She attached the grass mat, which had been wrapped around the deer, to both poles, thus creating a carrier platform between them--behind the horse but off the ground. She lashed the deer to it, then carefully tied down the unconscious cave lion cub. After she relaxed, Whinney seemed more accepting.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| aa4a146 | was dark and no more inviting | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 9af4d97 | flickering lamps scattered here | Jean M. Auel | ||
| aa685dd | to drink | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 7296794 | But she was beginning to learn that no one knew what everything in the painted caves meant. It was likely that no one actually knew what anything meant, except the person who put it there, and perhaps not even then. If something painted on the walls of a cave made you feel something, then whatever you felt was what it meant. It might depend on your state of mind, which could be altered, or how receptive you were. Ayla thought about what the.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 02083f4 | body | Jean M. Auel | ||
| bf7a23e | The empathy and compassion we feel for our own kind is sometimes extended to the rest of the living things on the earth. If we allowed it to keep us from killing a deer, or other animals, we would not live long. The | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 9631155 | figure of the First. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| b3bf3e3 | There was a silence when Ayla finished. Zelandoni who was First broke the silence. "In our Histories and Legends, the Great Earth Mother gave birth to all life, and then to those like us who would remember Her. Who is to say how Doni formed us? What child remembers its life in the womb? Before it is born, a baby breathes water and struggles to breathe when first born. You have all seen and examined human life before it was fully formed, whe.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 9dd69f1 | or group of | Jean M. Auel | ||
| fe0acbd | It was the first time he had spoken. What Gift could Ayla give in return to the Mother that would be of equal value?" There was silence as everyone looked at Ayla. "I gave Her my baby," she said, knowing in her heart that the child she had lost was one started by Jondalar, that it was her and Jondalar's child. Will I ever have another baby that will be Jondalar's, too? she wondered. "The Mother was honored deeply when that baby was started... | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 6cfa743 | Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. | Alexander Alekhine | ||
| 8fb1f3e | Instinct is untaught ability. | Alexander Bain | ||
| 6513932 | He didn't know that panic was a survival trait, in extreme circumstances. When all else fails, and all rational means of finding a solution have been exhausted, panic takes over. And sometimes an irrational act becomes a solution the rational mind would never have thought of. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 06f2392 | Hearth to change. He had been watching from the Lion | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 5856148 | When people treat others badly, they have to rationalize it so they can go on living with themselves. We give ourselves excuses. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 6af0d9c | He didn't know he had only the shell of the woman he loved. It didn't matter. The shell was enough. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 2bc8f9a | But humans have been given the ability to think. That is what makes us learn and grow. It is also what gives us the knowledge that cooperation and understanding are necessary for our own survival, and that has led to empathy and compassion, but there's another side to those kind of feelings. The empathy and compassion we feel for our own kind is sometimes extended to the rest of the living things on the earth. If we allowed it to keep us fr.. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 3dcd8de | That is truly the loss of innocence, Ayla, when we understand what we must do in order to live. That | Jean M. Auel | ||
| f30e7bd | His people believed that the Mother had first created a spirit world, and the spirits of all things in it were perfect. The spirits then produced living copies of themselves, to populate the ordinary world. The spirit was the model, the pattern from which all things were derived, but no copy could be as perfect as the original; not even the spirits themselves could make perfect copies, that was why each was different. | Jean M. Auel |