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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb5dfdc | And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again... | family-relationships | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0b96fe8 | Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bb32d39 | He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back. | realization | Ray Bradbury | |
| 1108923 | Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down. | inspiration margaret-langstaff risk writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7ce5bf6 | Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 8cecc28 | I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner." | cheating fidelity | Erica Jong | |
| 5b70898 | Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? | ecology humanity | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 060a55a | His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain. | love | Alice Munro | |
| 5547a3f | From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be mistaken for light--a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries--after the lovers who made the glow will have long been laid permanently on their backs--metropolises will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cit.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fb752b8 | These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light. | Ian McEwan | ||
| fd4f45d | This is how the entire course of life can be changed - by doing nothing. On Chesil beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have cared to know, that as she ran away from him, certain in her distress that she was about to lose him, she had never loved him more, or more hopelessly, and that the sound of his voice would have been a deliverance, and she would have turned back. Inste.. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 551442f | Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. | Franz Kafka | ||
| cd46628 | because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love. | life love lovers | Milan Kundera | |
| 6d8208a | It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76" -- | helplessness weakness | Milan Kundera | |
| 7883d57 | I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky | creative feeling feelings haruki-murakami inspirational murakami sky sputnik-sweetheart | Haruki Murakami | |
| d9fb9c4 | When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1e0fec2 | Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. | free-will life recipe | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4229cbc | You showed me what it was like to love. What the world could be like, if | L.J. Smith | ||
| 22d969c | I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian. | Steve Martin | ||
| 1c0d888 | There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 13bcf54 | When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 066c310 | The dog would run a few steps toward the house, circle once or twice as though unable to decide what to do next, then run back into the wood, turn, and run again toward the house, all the while whining with agitation, tail low and wavering. "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ," I said. "Bloody Timmy's in the well!" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f1a289e | The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. | madness normalcy | Robert Anton Wilson | |
| 45b25b7 | He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. | homesickness sick | James Joyce | |
| 1b5e2a7 | We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 82eb86c | I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him." | hope | C.S. Lewis | |
| 9c45985 | Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| aec3e5d | God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering. | selfishness suffering | William Nicholson | |
| 3784169 | He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things. | strength-and-courage strong | Ken Kesey | |
| 838da37 | For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 5e71bb6 | The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4cc49a6 | To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. | Brené Brown | ||
| b98d9cb | We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. | Brené Brown | ||
| 40bc7ef | The opposite of recognizing that we're feeling something is denying our emotions. The opposite of being curious is disengaging. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us. Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending--to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, Yes. This is what happened. This is m.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 49e84f5 | Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 9a52ee8 | Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 29457b1 | Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said. Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?" | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 2227a7a | Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 176ae3a | Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. | evil suffering | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 52b38b1 | I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 70558fc | But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| a4234e4 | I'm not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I'm tired and I don't want anymore pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love. Dear God, you know I want to want Your pain, but I don't want it now. Take it away for a while and give it me another time. | Graham Greene | ||
| 5b971b9 | Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| a041cd9 | Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expect.. | atheism atheist atheist-argument belief christianity-is-immoral christopher-hitchens compulsory crime dawkins debate dictatorship divine-dictatorship eternal-father eternal-punishment ethics evidence fear great-atheist-argument guilt health hitchens hitchslap homo-sapiens human-sacrifice immoral-christianity indifference intellect love love-your-neighbor morality myth reason redemption responsibility richard-dawkins supreme-being totalitarianism truth wishful-thinking | Christopher Hitchens |