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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a55340c | But when you envision the perfect flowers and the perfect food and the perfect outdoor space and the perfect weather, you forget that you can't rent the perfect family to go along with it. You're stuck with shitty old one you've already got. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 279a83c | This was the hardest part about a marriage, or a relationship like theirs: your hopes and your fears and your happiness hinged on someone else. When you stopped thinking that they ought to, you ended up like her parents, bitter and angry and apart. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 53b4129 | It seemed to Alice that everyone these days was out for themselves. The sort of families she and Daniel had grown up in and tried to carry on no longer existed, not really. Her mother had had eight children, including the two babies that died. Daniel's mother had had ten. Though she had hated the noise and the chaos and the sacrifice this implied back then, now Alice saw that it gave you something, being part of a family like that. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 1efc503 | Like Ronald Reagan said, trust but verify. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 9029643 | Well, Chrissy, I'm afraid your grandmother's Irish Alzheimer's has gotten quite advanced - she's forgotten everything but her grudges. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| cccd021 | She and Gerald rarely argued, and when they did, she quickly nipped it in the bud, silently reciting an Ogden Nash poem entitled "A Word to Husbands," though she thought it applied to just as well to wives: To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 534ac12 | People wanted you to validate their choices by doing the same thing they had done. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| a2acfad | This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| a4e19f4 | for everything that was wrong with men. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 35f2cc6 | A child had no choice but to forgive. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| ce99b97 | No one can ever know the inner parts of anyone else's marriage. It's a strange business. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 44ef14d | She had made a choice and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 933f8ca | Vielleicht war das Bild, das die eigene Familie von einem hatte, zu sehr mit ihren Hoffnungen und Angsten vermischt, als dass sie einen jemals wirklich als die Person sehen konnten, die man war. | identity | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| 32db55a | He existed, then he didn't. The world spins on, indifferent to the mess. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| f705e25 | Kate was often preoccupied with how to do good in a corrupt world, where just by eating dinner or turning on a laptop each of us was complicit in someone else's suffering. She struggled with how to speak the truth when it put others on the defensive or made her seem like a downer. The things she worried about on a daily basis included but were not limited to: Children starving in Africa. Chemicals in her daughter's food and drinking water... | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| ea283ca | After all this time, she still had not grown accustomed to the American obsession with air-conditioning. Every store and subway car had it-an ecological disaster, but an apparent necessity for American comfort. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 2c2be5b | You should call your brother and congratulate him on the new job, her father might say over the phone, and it would take Kate a moment to figure out what the hell he was talking about. Brother? She didn't have a brother. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 4b5f1a9 | Through centuries and across cultures, women were intimidated and coerced into marriage through horrible means-kidnapping, physical violence, even gang rape. In eighteenth -century England, the doctrine of coverture dictated that a woman had no legal rights within a marriage, other than those afforded her by her husband. Early American laws replicated this idea, and did not change until the 1960's. Before then, most states had "head and mas.. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 587be73 | He was forty-five | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 722dd2e | Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him- or herself. The more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 2328e89 | Her faith that love was everything in the end, even if it was an imperfect love, a love that depended on memory, on some former version of who they | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| a12adc6 | Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 5d3028f | awake. James would force himself to close his eyes. For the next few hours, he'd lie there, thrashing around, trying to get comfortable. By morning, | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| ba4875f | We were born to crucify the truth; it is our mission in life, and we must not be blamed when we fulfill our destiny. | Howard Pyle | ||
| 2764ee2 | Such were the travelers along the way; but fat abbot, rich esquire, or money-laden usurer came there none. | Howard Pyle | ||
| 2665173 | Then Allan touched his harp lightly, and all words were hushed while he sang thus: "'Oh, where has thou been, my daughter? Oh, where hast thou been this day Daughter, my daughter?' 'Oh, I have been to the river's side, Where the waters lie all gray and wide, And the gray sky broods o'er the leaden tide, And the shrill wind sighs a straining.' "'What sawest thou there, my daughter? What sawest thou there this day, Daughter, my daughter?' 'O.. | Howard Pyle | ||
| d34fe37 | clout | Howard Pyle | ||
| d5ea915 | W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle. | children children-s-books classics | Louise Seaman Bechtel | |
| 4be668d | Up rose Robin Hood | Howard Pyle | ||
| fd6bc9b | So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in tome to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten. | Howard Pyle | ||
| 32bda8d | Now, you and I cannot go two ways at the same time while we join in these merry doings; so we will e'en let Little John follow his own path while we tuck up our skirts and trudge after Robin Hood. | Howard Pyle | ||
| 186d12f | Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, ... , and saving, also, for the mellow snoring of Friar Tuck, who enjoyed his sleep with a noise as of one sawing soft wood very slowly. | sleep | Howard Pyle | |
| 3392684 | However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'? | past | Howard Pyle | |
| 8ec3c48 | For every man may sin, and yet again may sin; yet still is he God's handiwork, and still God is near by His handiwork to aid him ever to a fresh endeavour to righteousness. | Howard Pyle | ||
| f9739c7 | IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood. | Howard Pyle | ||
| 49d518b | Let me tell you, an I had the shaping of things in this world, ye should all three have been clothed in the finest silks, and ride upon milk-white horses, with pages at your side, and feed upon nothing but whipped cream and strawberries; for such a life would surely befit your looks." At" | Howard Pyle | ||
| 5c95797 | Then Allan touched his harp lightly, and all words were hushed while he sang thus: "'Oh, where has thou been, my daughter? Oh, where hast thou been this day Daughter, my daughter?' 'Oh, I have been to the river's side, Where the waters lie all gray and wide, And the gray sky broods o'er the leaden tide, And the shrill wind sighs a straining.' "'What sawest thou there, my daughter? What sawest thou there this day, Daughter, my daughter?' 'O.. | Howard Pyle | ||
| f9d664a | Once I slew a man, and never do I wish to slay a man again, for it is bitter for the soul to think thereon. | Howard Pyle | ||
| 50b3293 | Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 09fe023 | 215 bnvbmbr 2014 "Grandmother never seemed old in comparison to the other boys' grandmothers." | John Boyne | ||
| 458a8cc | There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 843575b | Todo esto, por supuesto, paso hace mucho, mucho tiempo, y nunca podria volver a pasar nada parecido. Hoy en dia, no. | John Boyne | ||
| ea9d1a6 | After all, the clamour of the crowded public house is infinitely more welcoming than the stillness of the empty home. | John Boyne | ||
| 3f858d0 | Cyril about Charles Avery: 'Charles was a banker. He was quite rich but he was always cheating on his taxes. He went to prison a few times for it. And when he was younger he always had a string of women on the go. But he was good fun. He was always telling me I wasn't a real Avery, though. I think that I could have done without that.' 'That sounds quite mean on his part.' 'I honestly don't think that he was trying to be cruel. It was more a.. | parents-and-children | John Boyne |