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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 980df79 | Without the future there is no present," my father is saying. "Without the future there can be no hope for redemption, and without hope for redemption there is nothing. A man must plan for the future." Max smiles politely. That is the sort of talk, he once told me, he used to get from his own father. "They talk about redeeming the world for the future," Max said. "I have more modest goals. I wish only to redeem a canvas for today." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 0f93884 | May the best of the past be the worst of the future." Keep everything always off balance. No boundaries. No repetition. The opposite of what the Rebbe wants. The Rebbe seeks fixed boundaries, perfect balance, eternal repetition. Asher Lev caught between the two." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 99577bb | I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on his face. 'The Rebbe said precisely that. You are following the party line, Asher Lev. But we know it is not the same thing, don't we? | religion | Chaim Potok | |
| 127c7c8 | Poor" is a word they never said, or "common." But the wife has worked so hard to make her vowels shallower and to lift her r's and to bring back her h's that she hardly speaks anymore; every time she opens her mouth, the farmhouse falls out all over again." | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 9ef51ae | a hatred I was going to feel anyway for men whose evil came not from some grand design, but cost-benefit analysis and spite. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 4b45f95 | Moral: If at first you don't succeed, invent fire. Or hire a chef. Preferably one with imagination. Jane Yolen, | Ellen Datlow | ||
| d139805 | Time is a ring, and in the House of Belphegor that ring contracts like a muscle. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 0741877 | There are angels in Hell," the horror writer told him, "not just in Heaven. Indeed, the angels of Hell may be the more numerous." | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 38418e8 | The Cinderella Game Kelly Link | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 6faa448 | His new stepsister, Darcy, stood in the door that went down to the second floor. Her hair was black and knotted and stringy, and, no surprise, she was wearing one of her dozens of princess dresses. This one had been pink and spangled at one point. Now it looked like something a zombie would wear to a fancy dress party. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 9a42f3e | She and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, live in Northamp ton, Massachusetts, which is only a short drive away from the Eric Carle Museum. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 7cdf7c5 | The wood smoke gave the whole place the scent of autumn, | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 67c3ff1 | Kelly Link is the author of three collections: Magic for Beginners, Stranger Things Happen, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have appeared in A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales; Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things; Firebirds Rising; The Starry Rift; The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales; and The Restless Dead. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 4aeaac2 | I also love 'Mr. Fox' and the advice that his bride-to-be sees carved above the door to his house: BE BOLD, BE BOLD. She goes inside, of course, and then she sees more advice: BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BUT NOT TOO BOLD. But she goes through that door, too. The next piece of advice is BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BUT NOT TOO BOLD, LEST THAT YOUR HEART'S BLOOD RUN COLD. I bet you can imagine what she does anyway. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 4d6cb9c | A man with no memory is interesting, while a man with sad memories can't be buried fast enough. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 3abab9a | So the little girl collected feeling like a cistern collects the rain, and when she held too much, she pulled it out and sealed it in beautiful vessels. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 5dece28 | I should know better than to try and measure the breadth and depth of love by its noise and dramas but there are times that I crave it, as if it's proof that love is alive. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 975caa9 | Merchant Bashir got up and plodded to a pile of rugs. He grabbed a kilim and unrolled it across the floor. A mosaic of black, yellow, and maroon geometries glimmered. "He taught me rug weaving. It's a nomadic art, he said. Pattern making carries the past into the future." Bashir pointed to a recurrent cross motif that ran down the kilim's center. "The four corners of the cross are the four corners of the universe. The scorpion here"--he toe.. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 9113460 | Eliza wonders, floating in the corridors of Gateway, watching the RLVs rise into low Earth orbit, the continents shifting past, the clouds swirling, endlessly, this whole strange giant spaceship planet as it travels at 1200 kilometres an hour around the sun, while at the same time Earth, Mars, Venus, Sun and all travel at nearly 800,000 kilometres per hour around the centre of the galaxy, while at the same time this speed machine, Earth and.. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| a26a618 | Wilderness remained a place of evil and spiritual catharsis. Any place in which a person feels stripped, lost, or perplexed, might be called a wilderness. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| ee77325 | Her skin was so tan that it reminded Krista of a stain. Coffee on blonde wood. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 047a005 | Primitive peoples did not inspire Rudge, who saw in them the worst aspects of human nature, reminding him that superstition, ignorance, violence, and cruelty were inherent human traits, first impulses, and that civilization was a cheap coat of paint over a rotten edifice. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 5ec056e | It's one of those stories that needs tellin' because it's heavy," Tom said. "Tellin' it makes it easier to carry." | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 106951b | That's one of the things that lies in the deeps, never far enough from the surface; the only real difference between the broken ones and everyone else is that the broken ones know there isn't one. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| cb76bc3 | The fakir had warned the Mughal princess that the secret was not for human eyes, but since that fateful night when the boy had first glimpsed the eucalyptus jinn, saw his fetters stretch from sky to earth, his dreams had been transformed. He saw nightscapes that he shouldn't see. Found himself in places that shouldn't exist. And now here was an enchanted cup frothing with liquid light on his kitchen table. The boy looked at the chalice agai.. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 4ded764 | Belgium's pommes frites are not french fries at all--a grievous misnomer, as this universally known and loved side order is Belgian in origin. Belgians make the best frites in the world: Crispy, sweet, lightly bronzed--these are the gold standard of fries. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 1c287a0 | In the distance, over the cusp of the planets, a primordial paused, its mammoth body shimmering itself into perception. As I watched it, a dreadful certainty gripped me: this was how Gramps was trapped. If I didn't look away immediately, I would be punished too, for when have human eyes glimpsed divinity without forsaking every sight they hold dear? But I was rooted, stilled by the primordial's composition. Strange minerals gleamed in its h.. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| ae7a83f | The root J-N-N has so many derivatives. Jannah, paradise, is the hidden garden. Majnoon is a crazy person whose intellect has been hidden. My favorite, though, is janin. The embryo hidden inside the mother. The jinn are not gone from our world, you see. They've just donned new clothes. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 9e40d77 | children often didn't notice the things adults classified as disastrous. The opposite, Whitcomb thought, was also true. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 00efeab | Texas barbecue is so good, you don't need barbecue sauce, and some places don't bother to serve it, believing that it distracts from the exquisite flavors. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 1111c3f | The 50-minute flights go from Hanapepe Valley to Mana Waiapuna, also known as "Jurassic Park Falls," then on to some of Kauai's most beautiful sites: the Bali Hai Cliffs; the pristine blue waters of Hanalei Bay and the Princeville Resort area (see p. 943); Olokele Canyon; and Waimea Canyon, the dramatically, ruggedly beautiful "Grand Canyon of the Pacific" (see p. 947)." | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 303a23b | In business since 1948 and claiming to serve 10,000 meals a day, the Rendezvous lies in a busy cellar down an alley near the grand Peabody Hotel, known for the trained ducks that waddle through its lobby twice daily to the music of John Philip Sousa. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 4023843 | Most visitors, however, will need a car to watch the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, a park tradition. At 1,530 feet the highest peak on the U.S. Atlantic coast, this is the spot where America catches its first rays of the morning sun. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 8d401a1 | Early Hawaiians built fires on the top as a navigational aid for canoes traveling along O'ahu's south shore, a function now provided by the Diamond Head Light, built in 1917. The name "Diamond Head" dates to the 1800s, when British sailors digging around in the crater found what they thought were diamonds. They rushed into Honolulu with their newfound treasure, only to discover that the "diamonds" were really worthless calcite crystals--but.. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 7306d16 | fun village of Oak Bluffs, with hundreds of colorful Victorian cottages and a beloved 1876 carousel said to be the oldest working merry-go-round in the country, | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 14344a6 | Montana may never be considered the epicenter of modern life, but about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, it was a happening place.) | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 8c4b903 | This land is your land, This land is my land. From California, to the New York island. From the redwood forests To the Gulf Stream waters. | Schultz Patricia | ||
| 1bf26b9 | Bethlehem's peak season is--naturally--Christmas, when it celebrates not only the birth of Jesus, but its own birth, having been named on Christmas Eve 1741. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 0cf437d | don't forget to look for that famous "Hollywood" sign. The 50-foot-high sign was placed atop Mt. Lee in the Hollywood Hills in 1923 as part of a promotion for a real estate development called Hollywoodland." | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 623c66a | Although both the U.S. and Canadian sides of the falls are well worth visiting, the best views, including nighttime illumination, are from the beautifully manicured flower gardens that line the Canadian side. However, to get up-close-and-personal with the falls, visit Niagara Falls State Park in New York, where there are several locations, including Prospect Point, Luna Island, Terrapin Point, and the Three Sisters Islands, that allow visit.. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 8dcb8d7 | Over 300,000 veterans from the U.S. armed forces, from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq, have been laid to rest in these 612 serene acres overlooking the Potomac, and more than 100 graveside services are still held every week--so many that the cemetery is projected to run out of space by 2020. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 1ca9399 | With upwards of a million people attending, give yourself over to the crowd and join a massive 100,000-strong conga line like the one that set the world's record in 1988. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| ac4942a | The archipelago of St-Pierre and Miquelon is a French territory, a negligible fraction of that country's once huge colonial holdings in North America. | Patricia Schultz | ||
| 2c95696 | The most visited resident of Balboa Park is the world-famous San Diego Zoo. Dating back to 1916, and more parklike than a traditional zoo, it set the standard for zoos around the world with its well-tended grounds, up-to-the-minute approach to exhibits, and wildlife conservation. | Patricia Schultz |