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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e29d506 | I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me,.. | Beth Revis | ||
| 8505b1a | He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better | Beth Revis | ||
| 8e0f643 | And that's why I'll never be as good an Eldest as he is. Because I like a little chaos. | Beth Revis | ||
| 893aa6e | Nuestros labios se encuentran. Su boca sabe a cosas que no tienen sabor: calidez, vida, verdad, bondad, amor. | Beth Revis | ||
| 6a9a355 | So, no. I'm talking to an oversized potholder. | Beth Revis | ||
| 0bd36de | Recuerdo la primera vez que vi estrellas de verdad a traves de la ventana de la escotilla. Entonces me parecieron hermosas, pero esa palabra ya no sirve para contener todo lo que siento ahora. Veo las estrellas como parte del universo, y tras haber pasado la vida rodeado de paredes, el estar aqui, en el vacio, me llena de un terror y una reverencia repentinos. La emocion corre como una riada por mis venas y amenaza con ahogarme. Me siento t.. | Beth Revis | ||
| 908846f | But sometimes I look at Phoebe and I think about how she had a bird inside her heart. On the outside, she's just like everyone else, but I like to think that maybe she carries within her something magical and free. | Beth Revis | ||
| 6f33877 | I just had to hope you'd find me," he says. Then he can't talk any more because I'm kissing him, and I don't think I'll ever stop. But I do. I lean back and stare into his eyes, and it's not until I see the light within them that I realize the truth of it. He's back. -- Beth Revis (Shades of Earth pg. 440)" | across-the-universe-amy shades-of-earth | Beth Revis | |
| 578c049 | I'll always come back to you," he tells me, pulling me close. Always. --Beth Revis (Shades of Earth pg. 441)" | across-the-universe-amy shades-of-earth | Beth Revis | |
| ccfc8f7 | I'd rather have answers than weapons. | Beth Revis | ||
| 46dd249 | Eldest thinks power is control, that the best way to be a leader is to force everyone into obedience. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all-- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. | Beth Revis | ||
| bf76c55 | Remember that time I punched you in front of my father's grave?" I ask in a sentimental voice." | Beth Revis | ||
| ff9a585 | We're not ignoring the problem, not really. We're all aware it's there, even Bo. We see the edges of this new Bo, this Bo who's special, different. We're not ignoring it. We're just carefully, carefully avoiding it. | Beth Revis | ||
| 0fa06ff | If we're not there to protect them--that's why people being murdered! Because we aren't protecting them!' 'No.' My voice is calm and sure. 'People are getting murdered because there's a murderer. | Beth Revis | ||
| 7199d11 | Don't stagnate because of fear. | Beth Revis | ||
| 79d93a1 | He doesn't look like a man who's contemplating treason. He looks terrified. | Beth Revis | ||
| 85234ba | I may have spent the morning tracking down a lunatic thanks to a holographic image of my dad, hallucinated, and wound up in a potential terrorist's office where I had a super weird conversation, but at least pastizzi are normal. | Beth Revis | ||
| 788e6d5 | Why wouldn't it be the government? It's not like we have a perfectly operational terrorist group right here to do it. | Beth Revis | ||
| 067bb1f | Because we can say them or not; it doesn't matter. What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness and silence. | Beth Revis | ||
| 5391f31 | Death is easy, and sudden, and can't be stopped. | Beth Revis | ||
| 9dda7a1 | The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one." | sibling-relationships heartless cost family-love | Beth Revis | |
| e446cfe | Because if I break, they'll break too. It's a responsibility I'd never really felt before, or at least I never thought about enough to name. But, Bo's actions just cement my place in my family. He can walk away from the dinner table. I can't. | sibling-relationships | Beth Revis | |
| cb393de | that's why people are being murdered! Because we aren't protecting them!" "No." My voice is calm and sure. "People are getting murdered because there's a murderer." | Beth Revis | ||
| 83e972b | I think death is easier than guilt sometimes. | guilt-quote | Beth Revis | |
| aa7b230 | I want the freedom to mess up," I say. Just once, I want to be the one who's allowed to screw up. I want the freedom to choose. Right now, I have no choice. I have to be this way. But one day, I'll be free. I'll be be able to live my life without having to be perfect. I'll be able to do anything I want - or nothing at all. I'll wander around aimlessly. I'll make mistakes. I won't worry about being safe, being perfect." | perfection freedom wander safe | Beth Revis | |
| 584a0e2 | I don't believe in texting while dining, sending one-word e-mails in lieu of formal thank-you cards, wearing shorts to the theater, or settling for any of the modern trends that favor comfort over politeness, ease over style. Manners are simply about asking yourself, What's the right thing to do? | Tim Gunn | ||
| 0e3d708 | Doing as many makeovers as I do, I've learned a few things about what makes women feel better about themselves. The starting point is usually getting a new haircut. I don't want to generalize, because every case is different, but I think it's best to err on the side of styling your hair shorter the older you get. In my opinion, it's generally not a good look for women over thirty to have hair way below their shoulders. | Tim Gunn | ||
| a6b59c9 | I love cooking. I cook for myself every day. I like the ceremony of it. It takes me into a different zone. I make a lot of pasta. But cooking for a crowd of five or ten or, heaven forbid, twenty? No, thank you. I don't like feeling like a slave to the care and feeding of my guests. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 7ea1ca7 | Honestly--and maybe some of you can relate to this--I just can't stand the pressure of being responsible for hosting a memorable (and not in a bad way) evening. Martha Stewart, bless her heart, intimidates me. That level of entertaining is so over my head: What do you mean, you didn't dig up your own potatoes for this dish? You didn't make the doilies? The plates didn't just come out of a kiln? I love Martha, but it gets ridiculous. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 6ed5e78 | Entertaining shouldn't be about showing off. It's all about making people feel comfortable and setting a stage for everyone to have a good time, make new friends, and have stimulating conversations. You want to leave a party thinking: If I hadn't gone to that, I never would have met this wonderful person, or had that delicious meal, or felt that sense of camaraderie with the people I met at the dessert table. You don't want anyone looking a.. | Tim Gunn | ||
| e03a080 | To be a good houseguest, you should be as independent as possible. You should buy groceries or take your hosts out for dinner. Pick up after yourself. Pretend to have a good time even if you're not. Say, 'I'd like to make a dinner reservation tonight. What's your favorite restaurant?' Try not to break anything. Be quiet. | Tim Gunn | ||
| f404ff7 | Taking the high road is always the best way to go. You feel better about yourself, and the world feels better about you. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 5d1636a | Every one of Dad's colleagues would eventually commit suicide, most by gunshot to the head, and every woman in their circle except for my mother would become a dysfunctional alcoholic. But in the fifties, they were all riding high. | Tim Gunn | ||
| b451a1e | The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years--centuries, even--before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection. | Tim Gunn | ||
| f52c960 | Tim Brown, the CEO of the international design and innovation firm IDEO, clearly acknowledges this affinity when he writes that designers need to go out and observe people's experiences in the real world rather than rely on extensive quantitative data to develop their insights. | Wendy Gunn | ||
| 4216f4a | From Tudor to eighteenth-century England, there are many instances of women writers with no place or room of their own. The life-story of the play-wright Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland (1585-1639) gives us a dramatic and, lately, much-studied example. In the hagiographical 'The Lady Falkland: Her Life', written by one of her daughters, we hear how the prodigious Elizabeth learnt to read very soon and loved it much... Without a teacher, whils.. | Hermione Lee | ||
| 1e8e345 | MAD-EYE MOODY The storm had blown itself out by the following morning, though the ceiling in the Great Hall was still gloomy; heavy clouds of pewter gray swirled overhead as Harry, Ron, and Hermione examined their new course schedules at breakfast. A few seats along, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were discussing magical methods of aging themselves and bluffing their way into the Triwizard Tournament. "Today's not bad . . . outside all mornin.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e223daa | Someone laughed behind Harry. Turning, he saw Fred, George, and Lee Jordan hurrying down the staircase, all three of them looking extremely excited. "Done it," Fred said in a triumphant whisper to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "Just taken it." "What?" said Ron. "The Aging Potion, dung brains," said Fred." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0eec32a | Here is the past and all its inhabitants miraculously sealed as in a magic tank; all we have to do is to look and to listen and to listen and to look and soon the little figures - for they are rather under life size - will begin to move and to speak, and as they move we shall arrange them in all sorts of patterns of which they were ignorant, for they thought when they were alive that they could go where they liked; and as they speak we shal.. | Hermione Lee | ||
| 81017db | Like the vacationer who returns to a beloved summer house year after year, the addicted reader opens book three or four or eleven in a given series and is thoroughly at home in the locale--its by now familiar native characters, the verbal shrubbery and the narrative floorboards that occasionally creak. | literature reading series-books mysteries | Selma G. Lanes | |
| 2468a3e | spymaster does," Herbert said. "When he's someplace new," | Jeff Rovin | ||
| a7b59f5 | Lancelet's skin was so soft--she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a child's. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 885ed38 | Leave tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow's men to solve. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| ee4566b | Uther: "I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you" "If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath." | love-and-hate foolish | Marion Zimmer Bradley |