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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3183d9e | The fact of the matter is that hundreds of SS officials are now in the United States, with some even working for the CIA. This is a truth that must never be revealed. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 7a92a77 | In 1947 alone, an estimated eight thousand members of the SS safely travel to Canada and the United States utilizing false documents. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 9017eda | The second secret is Juan and Eva Peron's deep ties to the Nazi Party. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 2d940d1 | Sugar Act modified an existing but rarely enforced law and added new goods--including sugar, certain wines, coffee, and calico-- | David Fisher | ||
| 8dd233d | The 49ers didn't have a first-round pick--it had been traded years earlier to the Bills in the O.J. Simpson trade--and Walsh was hoping to take Simms at the top of the second round. But the Giants took Simms seventh overall, and Walsh had to settle for Joe Montana with the last pick in the third round. | Gary Myers | ||
| a5afc81 | We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant. | Joe Simpson | ||
| 8bf6ad6 | Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in? | Joe Simpson | ||
| 37e10ba | Joe Willie was a perfect child," Marjorie Simpson said. "We never had any trouble with him." | Lacey Fosburgh | ||
| f49e0fb | You knew you couldn't reason with him. Not in the state he'd created for himself. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 5c7fdc5 | They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 5ae4f10 | As long as their fear of the dragon is stronger than their greed, this is a reasonable loss, said he. What's concerned us is that someone will become bold and organize a way to maim or kill her. The hoard is only metals and jewels. Nothing essential to life. Egnis's mystery is. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 625a577 | You were perplexed by the women who came up to your swollen body. Remove your hands, you wanted to say. Don't touch me. What a blessing, they said. What a blessing? No, you were an animal, you thought, a heatless bitch, ewe, cow, doe. You carry one of your own kind. The conception is nothing. That happens whether chosen or not. It is the persistence of life. One is begotten. One begets. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 923d242 | To see a spiderweb was a matter of awareness. You noticed that you shared a space with the creature. You had a choice to leave it alone, destroy it, or engage with it. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 02c4a59 | They weren't surprised that you had gone to find the truth about the dragon and its treasure. Such curiosity is reasonable, said an elder woman. They all nodded. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| b0a4d64 | You felt like a beast, but you weren't simply one. Once you accepted the pregnancy was yours to bear, you did become vigilant. They were to grow. You were to tend them. But you were mystified by other women's joyfulness at your condition. You remembered overhearing, as a girl, their talk of how a young woman would hear a coo one day that would turn her soft and make her want a baby. Such a thing had never happened to you. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 7cb33c3 | It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone." | Ariel Levy | ||
| 4095125 | E]very morning her body worked like the crew of a sinking ship, when all she had to do was get out the door in the morning. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 4ec5939 | Of course, not every single person was lonely, but he guessed that she was. She seemed in need of comfort and care, like a stray animal that gets fed by various kindly people but never held. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 5d8c032 | But he felt disoriented and depressed amid these shifting, lunging, grabbing people from all over the country, who had been in his life for hours and were now about to disappear, taking their personal items and habits with them. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| e9e1fa9 | This late-adolescent camaraderie gave their time at Meadow a fraught emotional quality that was like the shimmering fullness of a bead of water before it falls. They were all about to scatter and become different from one another, and this made them exult in their closeness and alikeness. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 88c891e | early breasts | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| ea295a6 | She doesn't think that the mean people she knows are the most passionate; they just want to laugh at everything. But then she remembers that she laughed when a boy in class played a joke on an ugly girl and made her cry. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 3744fbe | Quando ero piccola mia madre mi lesse una storia su una ragazzina cattiva. La lesse a me e a mia sorella: ce ne stavamo rannicchiate contro il suo corpo sedute sul divano, mentre lei leggeva ad alta voce un libro che teneva sulle ginocchia. La luce della lampada splendeva su di noi, avvolte da una coperta. La ragazza della storia era bella e crudele. Sua madre era povera, percio la mandava a lavorare per una famiglia di persone ricche che l.. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 14f23fa | But life can give a lot. If you can't see inside the heart no matter how you look, then why not look? Why not see as much as you can? How is that disrespectful? If you are only given one look, shouldn't you look as fully as you can? | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 8049248 | Of course, Veronica had a lot of smart cracks stored up. She needed them. When she didn't have them, she was naked and everybody saw. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| fcd20e7 | The singer's voice is thin and fake, but it's pretty, and somewhere in the fakery is the true sadness of smallness and failure and believing in beautiful things that aren't real because that's the only way to get through. | sadness singer singer-s-voice singing | Mary Gaitskill | |
| 9a1bcc1 | girl, | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| f77b32f | feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 81e5157 | I loved them like you love your hand or your liver, without thinking about it or even being able to see it. But my music made that fleshly love feel dull and dumb, deep, slow, and heavy as stone. Come, said the music, to joy and speed and secret endlessness, where everything tumbles together and attachments are not made of sad flesh. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| d95e498 | They say dogs are man's best friend," he said. "But horses are man's best slave." | horses slave | Mary Gaitskill | |
| a30229e | Today I'm Yours." It was a crude and romantic song. But human feeling is crude and romantic." | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 4b830ad | She was starved hurting limbs. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| bb0ef0a | But prettiness is always about pleasing people. When you stop being pretty, you don't have to do that anymore. I don't have to do that anymore. It's my show now. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| bd280a9 | Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 190abd9 | I watched voyeuristically, knowing I was peeping at people in the middle of a collective dream. I imagined myself among them, part of the regimental dance, the teacher's rosy heat, the huge mobile hope of happiness and vitality. And as I watched, it suddenly occurred to me I had been merely watching the world all my life. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 87abee7 | Ho fatto cose che sembrano autodistruttive tutta la vita. Ma in realta non avevo nessuna intenzione di distruggermi. Ho sempre saputo dov'era il limite. Fino ad ora. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 097c932 | He looks like somebody wandering in a dark maze, clutching his little bit of goodness, knowing it's all he's got but not remembering what it is or how to use it. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 243122a | Maybe it would be better to hold her winglike shadow safe in the lock of his memory than to touch the breathing girl and lose her. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 3a6fc24 | This is the second chance to be a fellow that Chelsea Manning has blown | Ann Coulter | ||
| 69803e9 | at the heart of science is this tremendous regard for nature and reality | Ann Druyan | ||
| a261a29 | I left the sadomasochist dump with a girl from the south of France named Simone. She was wearing a tight blue dress with red wine spilled down the front of it. She was so drunk, she didn't care. "Fuck it," she kept saying in English, "you know?" The tattooed doorman called out an endearment to us as we emerged for his cave... We linked arms and walked. Simone was talking about her new boyfriend, but I didn't listen. I was thinking about Lis.. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 470b2d5 | We're a story-driven species. | Ann Druyan | ||
| f195234 | To be believed, you had to have the support of the Somebodies | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 228457e | If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. | Ann E. Dunwoody |