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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8fecbb9 | I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie | Sarah Rees Brennan | ||
| c579aad | Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are .. | happiness wanting | Heather O'Neill | |
| f881f9a | I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. | Harper Lee | ||
| 4d2af1f | Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. | Harper Lee | ||
| c1ab32f | but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| f28e84f | What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day. | Thomas Harris | ||
| ce54d60 | The medium is the message. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 1001bd1 | For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. | Doris Lessing | ||
| e71d58c | By now you've probably noticed that except when safely contained by quotes, Zampano always steers clear of such questionable four-letter language. This instance in particular proves that beneath all that cool psuedo-academic hogwash lurked a very passionate man who knew how important it was to say "fuck" now and then, and say it loud too, relish its syllabic sweetness, its immigrant pride, a great American epic word really, starting at the .. | danielewski truant-s-narrative | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 7c23859 | When I say that evil has to do with killing, I do not mean to restrict myself to corporeal murder. Evil is that which kills spirit. There are various essential attributes of life -- particularly human life -- such as sentience, mobility, awareness, growth, autonomy, will. It is possible to kill or attempt to kill one of these attributes without actually destroying the body. Thus we may "break" a horse or even a child without harming a hair .. | M. Scott Peck | ||
| 8edf6be | The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born. | death self-development | Erich Fromm | |
| 2e7ce21 | I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet." -- | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 986abf9 | Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return. | magic-strikes raphael | Ilona Andrews | |
| f36cfe9 | Consort," I said. "You honor us." "Fuck you," Dali said. "Fuck your shit. I quit." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 61be7f9 | Curran roared. The blast of noise erupting from his mouth was like thunder. I clenched up, fighting the urge to step back. "Yes I can," he snarled. "Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do." I raised the cookbook and tapped him on the nose. Bad cat." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7a0ca68 | The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5bc596a | Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| e50a812 | We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1f8bcf9 | Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. | imagination modern-art skill | Tom Stoppard | |
| 3205b23 | There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 5d373e2 | I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders. | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| f2a426f | Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health." "Child geniuses," growled Holly. "Genii," said Minerva." | minerva-paradizo | Eoin Colfer | |
| 63089e3 | Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. | ideas inspirational opinions priniples steadfastness | Victor Hugo | |
| cbe6b2e | How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 6a6b4ec | Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 00f5f13 | Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 84c4d60 | Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove | pleasure poetry | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 65017e1 | Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attach value to difference. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be human and practical. Because difference is the reality of our world. And by teaching her about difference, you are equipping her to survive in a diverse world. She must know and understand that people walk different paths in the world and that as .. | equality feminism inspirational | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| f7c84d8 | It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the o.. | Martin Amis | ||
| c5ba940 | And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 118e83c | First the colours. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. | Markus Zusak | ||
| da382cd | Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. | George Eliot | ||
| 7c44970 | Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 3164b8f | You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b26c282 | Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning. | psychiatry self-understanding | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 7f04704 | I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are. | buried finding ocean searching underground | Neil Gaiman | |
| e4343ad | Across the years I will walk with you - in deep green forests; on shores of sand: | love | Robert Sexton | |
| ca5317d | Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. "And no matter how far they try to go the other way - to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty - at some point, life is over. An.. | god | Mitch Albom | |
| 37d319a | I love you every day, Mom | love mother | Mitch Albom | |
| 59c4247 | Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked. | logic philosophy | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2c2b2cc | I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c7233a0 | ql lshykh `bd rbh lty'h : 'ns shGlthm lHy@, wakhrwn shGlhm lmwt. 'm 'n fqd stqr mwD`y fy lwsT. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 9f7222e | Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. | Frances Mayes | ||
| a480f58 | You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure. | danger life | Jeannette Walls |