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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b1c08d | Dan Murphy's diagnosis added Lia Lee to a distibguished line of epileptics that has inlcuded Soren Kierkegaard, Vincent van Gogh, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, all of whom, like many Hmong shamans, experienced powerful senses of grandeur and spiritiual passion during their seizures, and powerful creative urges in their wake. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 018d5e6 | After a few months went by, Dee started leaving her own baby with Foua when she took Lia to medical appointments-perhaps the first instance in the history of Child Protective Services that a foster mother has asked a legally abusive parent to baby-sit for her. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| cea88d4 | May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time, | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | ||
| 4ab91a1 | May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time, Your joys and conquests as one, In this world and forever. Then all the cats gathered around closer, clowder cats and village cats leaping up on the boulder, purring | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | ||
| e2a00d7 | Life, the tomcat thought with uncommon sentiment, is not only challenging, wild sometimes, it can be tender, too. Warm and tender and good. | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | ||
| 353d225 | Dulcie said there were no cats in the Bible, but Kit wasn't sure she believed that. Why would there be horses and cows and dogs, wild pigs and weasels, but no cats? Why, when everyone knew that a little cat would have to be God's favorite? | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | ||
| 868a6b7 | You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy. | living-with-joy | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| 1e86ba3 | the poetry made her uncomfortable. It was too much like reading spells. | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | ||
| 48d53c6 | difference | John Grogan | ||
| 7890bc2 | Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. | John Grogan | ||
| 911a4c6 | Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought." | Albert Szent-Györgyi | ||
| 6096607 | Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. | Albert Szent-Györgyi | ||
| a947e77 | Life is water, dancing to the tune of macro molecules. | Albert Szent-Györgyi | ||
| 642d286 | Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas. | Alberta | ||
| 3d1910a | Today I am excited to announce that I am going to make Alberta the fifty first state, I really am. | Alberta | ||
| aeb3ab4 | Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction. | Alberto Giacometti | ||
| ff50a85 | There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement. | Alberto Giacometti | ||
| f22d79c | I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror. | Alberto Gonzales | ||
| 188cb10 | reading is at the beginning of the social contract" | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 8d55875 | I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 567dd6d | A book brings its own history to the reader. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| d815770 | One can transform a place by reading in it. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 732b25b | From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| f53d781 | Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 0b3b1b9 | She was coming to look on men and women as fellow survivors; well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or just put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. But all, involuntarily, became part of a deeper assertion to life. Though the dissolution of love created no heroes, the process itself required some heroism. There was the .. | truth wisdom | Shirley Hazzard | |
| 1ecb07d | Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion. | Joseph H. Hertz | ||
| baf081f | That alas is the way it goes"; "Something we must rectify." Paul, not Caro, would interpret the degree of meaning in their respective lots. That had been decided, as he sat speaking intimately of his life to the person most excluded from it - in order to readmit her to the intimacy, though not the life." | loss love mistress sadness | Shirley Hazzard | |
| 42bdfda | The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 8b25b4a | As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 964bfe5 | Every text assumes a reader. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 26a6ab9 | This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing. | Albertus Magnus | ||
| 26d7c2e | Kosovo is an independent and sovereign state and should be treated as such. | Albin Kurti | ||
| 8e61f6f | The starving chemist in his golden viewsSupremely blest. | Alchemy | ||
| e34a3ce | Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 1fd66a5 | Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale,And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 24b31b7 | Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 76aca79 | Sam raises an eyebrow. "You this guy?" "Listen," I say, taking one look at White Guy and am glad he's wearing a blue button-down instead of his coral shirt. It's still geek city, but at least I can keep a straight face when I say, "This guy's been in jail more times than me. He might look like a complete , but underneath that fucked-up hair and lame shirt he's a complete badass." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 86397a8 | As Gary walks down the hallway, I think of how funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally. And how a blond girl can make you think futures are something to look forward to. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 1658ea8 | Let's hang Thursday after school. You know, to work on the outline," I tell Brittany for two reasons. First, I need to stop thinking about getting naked with her in front of Miss Koto. Second, I want Brittany to myself. "I'm busy Thursday," she says. Probably with Burro Face. Obviously she'd rather be with that than me. "Friday then," I say, testing her although I probably shouldn't. Testing a girl like Brittany could put a serious damper.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 5770847 | Get out of the car." "Give me one good reason why I should?" "Because if you don't, I'm gonna drag you out. Trust me, " He puts my keys in his back pocket and steps out of my car. Seeing no other options, I follow him. "Listen, if you wanted to discuss our hand warmers we could have done it over the phone." He meets me around the back of my car. We're standing, toe to toe, in the middle of nowhere. There's been something nagging at me all .. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 105d6ff | We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are." "So" | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 3850744 | To hand warmers," she says with a smile on her lips. "To hand warmers," I agree. And sex, I add silently. "Do" | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 51a03ce | I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out." Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. " " a voice bellows through the speaker. "I'm bein' tortured." " " | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 0db08c5 | I'm so proud of you, Douggie," Sierra says, throwing herself on him. They start making out immediately, not caring who's watching or about Fairfield's PDA policy. "I love you," Doug says when they come up for air. "I love you, too," Sierra coos in a baby voice. "Get a room," another classmate calls out." | Simone Elkeles |