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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d892cd5 | The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 1cb01c1 | You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life. It won't matter. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, .. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| b1e4cfb | Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 357e505 | There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. | evil psychoanalysis religion | Erich Fromm | |
| c277b5c | Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would... and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and suddenly I realized that I had been to China. So to speak. And I'd forgotten it. | Philip Pullman | ||
| f298bde | Would you like to work here with me? We have no clients and the pay is shit. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| f38e467 | Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ee2a669 | He referred to you as his little snack." "He's a sweetie." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 326939b | I have had it up to here with my wedding," I said. "The other day Andrea tried to explain to me that apparently I am supposed to have a new thing, an old thing, a blue thing, and something stolen." "Borrowed, Kate," Barabas murmured. "Who the hell even makes up those rules?" -- | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 9c3fa43 | A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until--"My God," says a second man, "I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn." At which point, a dim.. | mystical-encounter reality unicorn | Tom Stoppard | |
| 2545962 | He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings, saints and bishops who at least did not laugh in his face and looked at him with only tranquillity and benevolence. The other statues, those of monsters and demons, had no hatred for him - he resembled them too closely for that. It was rather the rest of mankind that they jeered at. The saints were his friends and .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 460498b | There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched. | les-misérables protest | Victor Hugo | |
| eff1749 | A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bc91c30 | It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 910acd5 | She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 0c5a1c2 | Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| cb9d1fc | In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are n.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 89f6f13 | When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there migh.. | oath-of-the-abyss signs | David Eddings | |
| 6f83158 | People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 1910cc2 | It's such a silly little thing, the heart. | heart humor ned ned-vizzini quotes true vizzini | Ned Vizzini | |
| 5ca2e94 | What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 631a8b6 | Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| a556caa | When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn't tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright, which actually, is simply not true. And I also got very grumpy because I felt like they were pirating my stuff, that it was bad.. | piracy | Neil Gaiman | |
| 5c5e924 | The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it. | hob-gadling sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| ead802b | I believe that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. | death-penalty justice justice-system legal-system reasonable-doubt | Neil Gaiman | |
| 3ce5478 | Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 99ff22d | Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 66cb52e | La mera verdad es que la verdad no existe, todo depende del punto de vista. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 4a094b8 | Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner o.. | maps place | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 41707e9 | She had a taste for sugar, however, and this meant that a doughnut or a cake might follow the sandwich. She was a traditionally built lady, after all, and she did not have to worry about dress size, unlike those poor, neurotic people who were always looking in mirrors and thinking that they were too big. What was too big, anyway? Who was to tell another person what size they should be? It was a form of dictatorship, by the thin, and she was.. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 0373f55 | Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 758ba5d | I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky." (p.275)" | fish learn sky teacher water | Mark Nepo | |
| 4becac7 | We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world--a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or.. | peace politics violence war | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 13baae3 | I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room service waiter had a vaguely reptilian cast to his features, but I was no longer seeing huge pterodactyls lumbering around the corridors in pools of fresh blood. The only problem now was a gigantic neon sign outside the window, blocking our view of the mountains -- millions of colored balls running around a very comp.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| dcd4d24 | With the palms zipping past and the big sun burning down on the road ahead, I had a flash of something I hadn't felt since my first months in Europe--a mixture of ignorance and a loose, "what the hell" kind of confidence that comes on a man when the wind picks up and he begins to move in a hard straight line toward an unknown horizon." | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 9c7f85c | Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for. | inspirational | Francine Rivers | |
| d547325 | People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. | Saul Bellow | ||
| bb4aee4 | I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 50fc117 | And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9ada69b | It never occurred to me to say no. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 2d74f4c | it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. | the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 809ec97 | Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss | A.S. Byatt | ||
| f5356d6 | but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| eadf390 | Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for | book media thomas-jefferson-education | Oliver DeMille |