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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a66c90 | men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| d8f216f | Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| b10f550 | He did not notice, every day, as I did, the blind gaze of the old dog in its basket in the library, who lifted its head when it heard my footstep, the footstep of a woman, and sniffing the air drooped its head again, because I was not the one she sought. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 0939373 | Death was an executioner, lopping a flower before it bloomed. The sky had glories enough, but not the soil. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 9181327 | Rebecca Daphne du Maurier | Greer Hendricks | ||
| b4bebbd | Magellan's sudden identification of millions of land forms fomented a crisis in nomenclature. The International Astronomical Union responded with an all-female naming scheme that evoked a goddess or giantess from every heritage and era, along with heroines real or invented. Thus the Venusian highlands, the counterparts to Earth's continents, took the names of love goddesses -- Aphrodite Terra, Ishtar Terra, Lada Terra, with hundreds of thei.. | planets queen science venus women-scientists | Dava Sobel | |
| c43a171 | Uveriaiut, budto Liudovik XIV, uvidev novye karty svoikh vladenii, osnovannye na tochnom opredelenii dolgoty, posetoval, chto geodezisty otniali u nego bol'she zemel', chem nepriiatel'. | Dava Sobel | ||
| 3d16e1f | To have done work which is widely recognized, to have gained the sincere esteem of many and the real love of even a few, surely these are sufficient reasons to look on life as well worth the living. | Dava Sobel | ||
| dc4706e | It was a typical Soviet ploy. People were forever quoting Lenin, much of the time with a great deal of creativity, knowing that even scholars had a difficult time identifying quotations from the mass of Lenin's writing and speeches. Rostnikov | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| ffd0c5a | This was fine with Katrina Vross, a weary, short, baggy-eyed chain-smoker with the put-upon air of many Russian bureaucrats whose attitude suggested that any question you might ask was a major imposition on their time, a reflection of your own stupidity, and a confirmation that life was an endless series of debilitating repetitions. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 93edd50 | You may return to Odessa to spread the news that Fedot the cousin of fond memory was a walking blind erection that managed to be unable to locate me for the past four years. He was, however, more successful in locating a colorful array of other willing, waiting receptacles. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 3e82e3f | At the end of the top of the desk, the sickle caught the phone and the tip of the blade broke off. There are days, thought Rostnikov, where fate denies a man even the most meaningless of dramatic gestures. The | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 8a92708 | A good wife is a stone to hold one down," said the Wolfhound. "A rock to rely on," Rostnikov corrected gently. "Da," the Wolfhound said seriously, returning to Russian. "A rock to rely on. The American idiom contradicts itself and is often difficult to fathom." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| d075896 | The train ride back from Yekteraslav was hell. Zelach brooded, pouted, almost sucked his thumb. He shifted and squirmed and demanded more attention than a petulant child. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| a9e5395 | Moscow," he said, "was built to make people feel small against the magnificence of the revolution. The streets are eight lanes wide, the statues are five stories high, the buildings are as big as mountains. But this--look at it, Shemenkov" | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 9bc8247 | Girls," said Rostnikov. "Go into the other room and pretend you are doing homework. You can listen from there." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 3b515bd | you fantasize too much. It will make you dream. Dreams will turn to hopes. Hopes will turn to longing. Longing will turn to despair. Despair will turn to laughter. And laughter will get you in trouble. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 9170bea | I am going to move to St. Petersburg," Boris said, his voice a crisp rasp. "You have relatives there?" Rostnikov said, ignoring the non sequitur. "No, never. That is why I want to go there." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| d635299 | Porfiry," Sarah said. "I'll heat you something." "Girls," said Rostnikov. "Go into the other room and pretend you are doing homework. You can listen from there." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 5d78b6c | Once again he cawed four times and was about to caw again when he heard the sound of humans coming through the woods. The bird turned on the window ledge, flapped its black wings, and rose slowly toward the trees. He caught the wind and soared upward. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| c621526 | All books are investments (p.134) | Monica Ali | ||
| 7aaeea8 | He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake. | Monica Ali | ||
| 04df32e | She put her free hand briefly across his round cheek. To touch like this was permitted here, among these stateless people, where the rules were unknown and in any case suspended. | Monica Ali | ||
| 62fbee0 | The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful. However much she thought of to tell, however the words flowed in her head as she performed her chores, despite the emotion that swelled and throbbed while the storylines formed, the telling was inevitably brief and blunt, a poor thing, stunted as a failed crop. | Monica Ali | ||
| e58a0a7 | Sometime when people see a beautiful thing they want to destroy it. The thing make them feel ugly so they act ugly. | Monica Ali | ||
| 3bf5dc1 | What could not be changed must be borne. And since nothing could be changed, everything had to be borne. | Monica Ali | ||
| 65da678 | When she woke she thought I know what I would wish but by now she knew that where she wanted to go was not a different place but a different time. | Monica Ali | ||
| 90b9a34 | But if you do not wish to speak, I do not wish to hear. | Monica Ali | ||
| d7ca4ac | It's not very often that a writer's words can punch through the paper and throttle the lifeblood out of you, but Tony's words manage to do just that, his experiences are so powerful and emotional and full of fucking heart that it pales everybody else's work into insignificance. Tony O'Neill will be remembered in years to come, when Monica Ali and Zadie Smith are nothing but footnotes." --StraightfromtheFridge.com" | Tony O'Neill | ||
| 463e15e | If you are strong you withstand the storm. Can you see? The storm comes and everything is blurred. But all that is built on a solid foundation has only to stand fast and wait for the storm to pass. | Monica Ali | ||
| 94b6bef | If she could leave him so easily, if it was as easy as that, then why did she ever begin it? | Monica Ali | ||
| 4a552b8 | Anything seemed possible if you had ingenuity, money, and tenacity. But the body doesn't play by those rules. | misscarriage motherhood women | Ariel Levy | |
| 7651b10 | What teens have to work with, then, are two wildly divergent messages. They live in a candyland of sex...every magazine stand is a gumdrop castle of breasts, every reality show is a bootylicious Tootsie Roll tree. And these are hormonal teenagers: This culture speaks to them. But at school, the line given to the majority of them about sex is just say no. They are taught that sex is wrong until you have a wedding (they have seen those in the.. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 69fd177 | The idea that sex can be reduced to fixed components as it is in pornography--blow job, doggie style, money shot, girl-on-girl--is adolescent: first base, second base, all the way. It is ironic that we think of this as adult entertainment. I don't see why we should regard porn as a way to enjoy "sexuality in all of its explicitness" any more than we consider looking at a chart of the food pyramid to be a feast." | Ariel Levy | ||
| 1a04843 | We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together, drink by drink, until we occupied a separate reality from the rest of the world. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 18d180d | we were taking on the care of, together. They slept in the bed with us and followed us around from room to room, except sometimes when we crossed paths with them and they looked at us as if they were seeing--for the first time in their lives--creatures so terrifying, so dangerous, they could barely stand to know that we existed. Then they went flying for the closets, where they hid until they were ready to recognize us again for who we were.. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 76ee6ec | Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland...those are the games men play. We see it differently. We want to be neither oppressor nor oppressed. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 2348f36 | We decided to get another cat--no, two! A pair of tiny, spotted sisters from an animal shelter on Long Island. We brought them home in a cardboard box punched with holes that they poked their noses through. They ran around the house curious, fearless, and then abruptly collapsed, always right next to each other. They did everything that way: They ate and drank in unison; they got in the litter box at the same time, like a two-headed kitten... | Ariel Levy | ||
| e24da4f | We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted." I" | Ariel Levy | ||
| ce238fe | We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 40a5fbf | I had occasion to talk to Erica Jong, one of the most famous sex-positive feminists--"one of the most interviewed people in the world," as she's put it--on the thirtieth anniversary of her novel Fear of Flying. "I was standing in the shower the other day, picking up my shampoo," she said. "It's called 'Dumb Blonde.' I thought, thirty years ago you could not have sold this. I think we have lost consciousness of the way our culture demeans wo.. | Ariel Levy | ||
| f1483c3 | marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness. DJ | Ariel Levy | ||
| bf16679 | But the danger that we invite into our lives can come in the most unthreatening shape, the | Ariel Levy | ||
| bb4d607 | Behind the bar, tall females in white feathered tops danced on poles, their faces set in masks of lascivious contempt. Keith Blanchard, then Maxim's editor-in-chief, told me, "It's a sexy night!" To me, "sexy" is based on the inexplicable overlap of character and chemicals that happens between people...the odd sense that you have something primal in common with another person whom you may love, or you may barely even like, that can only be .. | Ariel Levy |