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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 723bb8f | Soon is such a long word. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| ac6343d | Though they are fine to see, horses frighten me because they are large and weak minded, which is a dangerous combination in horses, men, and gods. | religion-and-philoshophy | Kate Horsley | |
| 2d73660 | I wish that I could thoroughly believe in some creed. I wish that I was ignorant enough to know one truth and discard all others. | religion | Kate Horsley | |
| f067e6d | But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred. | Kate Horsley | ||
| e2130e2 | the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked. | politics poor rich war | Kate Horsley | |
| 92ce041 | Calvin had said, his hands hard at his sides. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| b589761 | The Midwife talked to herself now, rather than God, as she walked the road past the Big Bog, wondering if a child born female could truly live her whole life as a male. And if this were possible and offended no god, then perhaps the world had no order other than what was arbitrarily imposed by humans. | lgbtq transgender | Kate Horsley | |
| 23097da | At any other time, I actually wouldn't have minded going on a date with him. After all, he was hot, he was French, and he was a complete emotional train wreck - in other words, my type. | Kate Horsley | ||
| 2b46573 | I looked at some old photos Mom took of me and Dad for some photography project or other and tried to see if he listened to me back then, if we were close. But how can you tell? Just because people smile for photos doesn't mean they're happy. | Kate Horsley | ||
| 80b15f8 | Nada en este mundo debe ser mas tremendo que los escombros de un hombre. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 2661f97 | Mary O'Donnell had been nursing that baby, and the day after Agnes was committed to the sea, her milk stopped flowing. She thought it only a natural result of grieving for Agnes. She would go on to have three more children with her second husband, the seller of Augustus Townsend's walking sticks, but with each child the milk did not return. "Where is my milk?" Mary asked God with each of the three children. "Where is my milk?" God did not g.. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 34c554d | But the law expects you to know what is master and what is slave . . . if you roll around and be a playmate to your property, and your property turns around and bites you, the law will come to you still, but it will not come with the full heart and all the deliberate speed you will need. You will have failed in your part of the bargain. You will have pointed to the line that separates you from your property and told your property that the l.. | Edward P. Jones. Jones | ||
| b8e6c9f | But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be. | life nuns parochial-schools priests religion religious-education schools | Edward P. Jones | |
| 730bcf0 | What we need is a new God. Somebody who knows what the fuck he's doing. | god higher-power religion | Edward P. Jones | |
| f02b246 | We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world. | roots south | Edward P. Jones | |
| 454fc1d | As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road. | dying illness weakness | Edward P. Jones | |
| ca24abf | They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and pets his dog and snores besides Mrs. President every night? Now would they? | blacks presidents washington-dc | Edward P. Jones | |
| 2106222 | Render your body to them" his father had taught, "but know your soul belongs to God." | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 379590c | Celeste was practically talking to herself now because Stamford and the baby were in a world of their own. The baby's hands had reached the man's face and he was tapping every feature of it, doing everything that was necessary for the man to say the words the baby had come to expect in their brief history together. Stamford's mouth opened more and more. 'You here early this mornin,' Stamford Crow Blueberry would say to Ellwood Freemen that .. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| b0fa4ad | In the spring of 1844, a good many white people in Manchester County remained uneasy about news from other places about slave "restlessness" that had gone on a few years before. In the North, people called it slave uprisings, but in much of Virginia the word uprisings had an abolitionist undertone and was felt to be too strong for what many slaveowners preferred to characterize as "a family squabble," instigated by unknowns not part of the .. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 35a98b6 | Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man, but God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind. Was God even up there attending to business anymore? | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 9df2f88 | Henry had been a good master, his widow decided, as good as they come. Yes, he sometimes had to ration the food he gave them. But that was not his fault--had God sent down more food, Henry would certainly have given it to them. Henry was only the middleman in that particular transaction. Yes, he had to have some slaves beaten, but those were the ones who would not do what was right and proper. Spare the rod . . . , the Bible warned. Her hus.. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| b2a5e9a | The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| e2d180b | The world is entering a period of stagnation, the new mediocre. The end of growth and fragile, volatile economic conditions are now the sometimes silent background to all social and political debates... A confluence of influences is behind the ignominious end of an era of unprecedented economic expansion. Since the early 1980's, economic activity and growth has been increasingly driven by financialisation - the replacement of industrial act.. | Satyajit Das | ||
| 2c11787 | the sordid necessity of living for others."9" | Satyajit Das | ||
| 1d0d8b1 | Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging | Satyajit Das | ||
| e0292be | While the changes that are necessary are actually simple, they're painful, and require courage and sacrifice. Living standards will decline in real terms. Citizens will have to save more and consume less. Working lives with lengthen. For many, retirement will be revert to being a luxury. Taxes and charges for government services will rise to match the cost of providing them. There has to be greater emphasis on the real economy - the creatio.. | Satyajit Das | ||
| e7d04b2 | Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,And image charms he must behold no more. | Absence | ||
| 2149d00 | The absent are like children; they are helpless to defend themselves. | Absence | ||
| b8478f7 | I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure. | Absence | ||
| 4f293d0 | As 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. | Absence | ||
| be83e9e | Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. | Absence | ||
| 01a0295 | Greater things are believed of those who are absent. | Absence | ||
| ca34562 | 'I must not fear,' " she intoned, her eyes closed. " 'Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.' " It" | Brian Herbert | ||
| 3b7607f | Despite an appearance of infallibility, computer projections are not prescient. --TICIA CENVA, former leader of the Sorceresses of Rossak | Brian Herbert | ||
| 1d4eaa3 | haring | Brian Herbert | ||
| ebdcae2 | All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 10923ac | When the shepherd is a wolf, the flock becomes only so much meat. | Brian Herbert | ||
| c52107f | Conspicuous by his absence. | Absence | ||
| beea692 | Ever absent, ever near;Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! | Absence | ||
| 82d6e8a | so far away. He lives in Vence, not in Jerusalem," she" | Gloria Goldreich | ||
| 454661a | The intensity of that gaze never unnerved her. He was Marc Chagall, and he looked at her neither as man nor father but as an artist in the throes of creation. It | Gloria Goldreich | ||
| 129592f | for its very excellent and very | Gloria Goldreich | ||
| 6133f2c | We, the women, who rule the house But ours is not to question why... Ours is but to do and die and Husband never to defy. | Narendra Jadhav |