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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ef58c3e | Every promotion requires you to do less of the thing you originally wanted to do | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 568bf74 | Leila always reminds me of Bambi. She has long spindly legs and she wears high wedged sandals that clip-clop like hooves and she peers at the world through her long eyelashes as though she's not sure if it's about to shoot her. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 6ecc65b | Mum's like one of those dressage riders on TV. She changes her voice an iota and we all obey her instantly, like trained Olympic horses. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| c72d82e | She looked like a mean newsreader." I put on an exaggerated TV voice. "Hello. This is the Mean News. You're all rubbish and I despise you." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 3eec3b9 | Some time in the early hours of the morning, I find myself staring at him in the dim bedroom light, at the strong, lithe form of him. His back has a curve to it like the sweep of a boat. I steal out a hand to stroke it, wondering whether he's awake, when he turns and his eyes glint at me. "Do you sail?" I say, half sleepily. "No. Used to row, though." "Huh." I nod my head: That makes sense." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 91e5aed | no one seems to socialize at all. Unless you count working late as "socializing." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 3e9cfd6 | Family bloody first. I'm not saying Dad was wrong, I'll never say that, but maybe I'm starting to see "family"differently. It's not just the people you share genes with; it's the people you share loyalty and friendship and respect with. It's the people you love." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 537673d | We look at each other silently and I feel like we have more in common right now than I can ever remember. We met guys and we fell in love and everything seemed to work out. Until it didn't. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| b5fb6ba | He's listening silently to his mother, leaning against the front doorway, his hands shoved in his pockets, his expression distant. Toby could be really good-looking, but he's got one of those beards. There are sexy beards and there are stupid beards, and his is stupid. It's so straggly and unformed, it makes me suck in breath. I mean, just trim it. Shape it. Do something with it.... | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 6a8558d | The law doesn't always know what it's doing," he adds for good measure. "Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 3e34787 | I'm suddenly seeing the other side of me; the side I thought had disappeared forever. All this time, all my stuff was here. Suddenly I have a memory of Eric's words, that first time I asked him about Jon. 'You'd trust Jon with your life.' Maybe that's what I did. Trusted him with my life. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 0116d68 | When they expect you to give up, that's when you should put your foot down and double speed. | wisdom | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 606e284 | States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement. | Nuala O'Faolain | ||
| de7a73f | What is not challenged from outside is open to corruption from within. -This is the infinite value of a dissenting voice: that where it is not allowed to flourish, an institution- a school or an orphanage or a government or a media consensus....begins to slide toward allowing its worst energies into play. | Nuala O'Faolain | ||
| 59b1898 | uboga siedziba mej zmarnowanej mlodosci. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 50f8459 | her voice of raw egg white. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d28cced | believe it. I must believe | Margaret Atwood | ||
| a06e0c2 | Janine had been overenthusiastic, which sometimes has the force of a denial. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 9fe2ff8 | God, do I need a cigarette, says Moira. Me too, I say. I feel ridiculously happy. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8acb824 | We wait, the clock in the hall ticks, Serena lights another cigarette, I get into the car. It's a Saturday morning, it's a September, we still have a car. Other people have had to sell theirs. My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 71346bf | Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6065ecd | She who does not hesitate is lost. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 484a072 | There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate | Margaret Atwood | ||
| f603d1f | I am sane. Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ea67ac1 | Meglio non significa mai il meglio per tutti [...] Ma sempre, per alcuni, significa il peggio. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e9314ae | It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be fully described, too many flavours, in the air or on the tongue, half-colours, too many. But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b4a2864 | But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. There's | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d60c4b8 | they sleep, they can be startled, even there in the soothing of the heart, like waves on the shore around them. A | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d3e6bf8 | I remember a television program I saw once... The program was a documentary, about one of those wars. They interviewed people and showed clips from films of the time, black and white, and still photos... The interviews with people still alive then were in colour. The one I remember best was with a woman who had been the mistress of a man who had supervised one of the camps where they put the Jews, before they killed them. In ovens, my mothe.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 65eb0b5 | It's like a fart in church. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ffc75fa | There's a rug on the floor, oval, of braided rags. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3f37799 | She's in her usual Martha's dress, which is dull green, like a surgeon's gown of the time before. The dress is much like mine in shape, long and concealing, but with a bib apron over it and without the white wings and the veil. She puts on the veil to go outside, but nobody much cares who sees the face of a Martha. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4838a18 | It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. Then | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 21670b0 | We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting. | Adolph Gottlieb | ||
| bb09f92 | My favourite symbols were those I did not understand. | Adolph Gottlieb | ||
| c823f81 | I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence. | Adolphe Quetelet | ||
| ca7d9af | A nation is a far more self-conscious community than an ethnicity. | Adrian Hastings | ||
| ef1a913 | Tonight at noonSupermarkets will advertise 3d EXTRA on everything | Adrian Henri | ||
| 579d45b | You will tell me you love meTonight at noon. | Adrian Henri | ||
| 486460c | This is the morning that we burnt a cardboard hat | Adrian Henri | ||
| e62cb3f | no se si soy bueno, pero se decir que no soy el malo; | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 5aa21c5 | Love is feeling cold in the back of vansLove is a fanclub with only two fans | Adrian Henri | ||
| 740ac4d | Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews | Adrian Henri | ||
| b72f840 | Pero hay distancias de cuatro varas que una locomotora no podria recorrer en diez anos: la distancia de la posicion no se mide por kilometros sino por inmensidades. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |