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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e07b104 | Inconceivable! | William Goldman | ||
| 00023d5 | Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread | family-values life mafia rules | Mario Puzo | |
| c57a720 | When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. "Hey, Boo," I said. "Mr. Arthur, honey," said Atticus, gently correcting me. "Jea.. | Harper Lee | ||
| 3e15fe6 | It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 8b558ff | They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 8f765f5 | I don't break up, I trade up | Emily Giffin | ||
| 140d395 | you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| b0bd8de | Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed...." | Philip Pullman | ||
| 58fb4cd | Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed as if on cue. I glanced at Mahon. "You really shouldn't let him talk to you like that." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 95152b8 | Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in.. | urban-fantasy | Ilona Andrews | |
| 02c3858 | Curran's eyes went gold. His voice dropped into a rough growl. "If you're going to shoot, make sure to empty the clip, because after you're done, I'll shove that gun up your ass sideways." Blue Jacket blinked. "Can you even do that?" I asked. "Let's find out." Curran stared at the thug. "Well? Shoot, so we can start this experiment." -- | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| b98fd21 | Speak to me." "I hate you." "Okay." Mad Rogan let go of me. "You're fine." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 62fa2a5 | The earth is a great piece of stupidity. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1149639 | One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; but it could never be true to say of one man that he is kind or wise, and of another that he .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5bda377 | Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns" | jane-eyre life life-lessons | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 996c350 | REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: | poetry | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| cb7def4 | Is it my birthday again? Already? Where the time go?" "Behind us --or in front. It depends on which way you are looking." | David Eddings | ||
| b1a1f23 | And know this: Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours. Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place. | Sarah Kay | ||
| a4efe49 | They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 9072a63 | She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification -- for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery. | madame-bovary | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 419537d | Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal. | teamwork | Patrick Lencioni | |
| 20e45b9 | Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria... | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 9dc9d02 | I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying." | sadness suicide therapy | Ned Vizzini | |
| 5c0c647 | there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself? | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| a3d942c | If Epicurus were speaking to you at this moment, he would urge you to simplify life. Here's how he might put it if he were standing here today : " Lads,your needs are few, they are easily attained, and any necessary suffering can be easily tolerated. Don't complicate your life with such trivial goals as riches and fame: they are the enemy of ATARAXIA. Fame,for example,consist of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life.. | life yalom | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 8f458d5 | She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9f51b80 | I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f6811f7 | The Norse myths are the myths of a chilly place, with long, long winter nights and endless summer days, myths of a people who did not entirely trust or even like their gods, although they respected and feared them. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e7f01c8 | Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. | Kathy Reichs | ||
| efd354e | Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. | William Hutchison Murray | ||
| 6dbc8b8 | The length of your days does not belong to you. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 394be18 | They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| e8060f1 | Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more." "I see." The girl regarded him uncertainly, not knowing whether to believe him. Not sure if he mean.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f5a99ed | Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 4668ac3 | And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world. | inspirational | Tracy Kidder | |
| eb18d70 | If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our poor little toe. Now, for a day or two, it is difficult to walk. With every step, we are reminded of our poor little toe. Our vigilance becomes: Wh.. | enlightenment happiness joy mark-nepo misery perspective | Mark Nepo | |
| 5f68ae7 | They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences. | Michael Crichton | ||
| af66b8e | You can change only what people know, not what they do. | management | Scott Adams | |
| 1c6f3a2 | And me not sleeping tonight or tomorrow night or any night for a long while, now that this has started. And he thought of her lying on the bed with the two technicians standing straight over her, not bent with concern, but only standing straight, arms folded. And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6b417c3 | He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")" | halloween october | Ray Bradbury | |
| d39785d | Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d644002 | Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 79bdcef | And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| dff7370 | I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily, which may go along with my not having much of an attention span. But extremely clever chi-chi writing, or just plain tomfoolery writing, puts me to sleep. Writers don't need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows.. | Raymond Carver |