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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bac3bbb | Set is the sun of my years;I sit in my darkness and tears. | Age | ||
| 100d541 | Words from a tongue ten thousand years old. Words for gold and silver, brass and iron. The names of the gods that the king and his men and whores praise above all. Things you can weigh on a scale or measure by a ruler or add and divide and count out piece by piece in order to sell. Daniel says that right that minute, the one instant they're all living in, it's the king getting weighed and measured and counted. And Belshazzar comes up short... | Charles Frazier | ||
| 83b97a6 | The instant passed so fast, and when that happens, it goes for good and all you have is a slow lifetime to speculate on revisions. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 836b0e7 | Please, V says. Scribble. James opens his notebook and writes, The island was a separate place, situated partway between America and the moon. Some clear nights out with the telescope--moon full or gibbous--I felt about equidistant between the sharp-edged craters and the sparkling lights of America across the harbor. I knew that off the island very particular rules and laws and customs about skin color and blood degree applied, that the ent.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 7aba38f | History in the making, at least on the personal level, is almost exclusively pathetic. People suffer and die in ignorance and delusion. | Charles Frazier | ||
| cb9be1b | V drifts into talking about generations. How grandparents and grandchildren so often get along very well. Remove one generation--twenty-five years at least--and the anger in both directions dissipates. All the failed expectations and betrayals become cleansed by an intervention of time. Resentment and bitter need for retribution fall away. Love becomes the operative emotion. On the old side, you're left with wrinkled age and whatever fractu.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 7772f41 | great loss wasn't that simple. You couldn't just wish yourself out of it. You had to go through it all the way, had to let grief roll over you like Mississippi floodwater until it decided to let you rise to the surface and keep going, more beaten and broken than before. | Charles Frazier | ||
| d9e1021 | It was simple, and not one she'd ever found the strength to follow. The idea was, the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. And also maybe something about the great reluctance with which we let go of our belief in a just God. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 2feefdf | You can mire yourself in the past, but you can't change a damn thing in that lost world. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 0be156f | Inhuman, V says. But that's an easy word. We've been doing that sort of thing to each other all through history, back past the Pyramids. Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal. | humanity inhumanity | Charles Frazier | |
| 05f5ee2 | It is a frightful thing to drop out of one's place in the world and never find it again. I try very hard to keep my memory green and thus by sympathy live anew, or if not anew, aright, which is more to the point, much more. | place-in-the-world | Charles Frazier | |
| ca3a19e | When time is remote enough nobody amounts to much. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 83bc364 | It does your mind good to talk to people different from you. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 856fcfb | wishing you'd simply paused, taken a long, deep breath. Not allowed the personal moment and the pattern of your family and your stupid culture to shove you two-handed from behind, forcing you to stumble unbalanced into the future. | Charles Frazier | ||
| e64ac2b | sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 3e5c052 | I've had relatives so crooked they nearly went to prison, but if you have money you never actually go. They make you think it for a while, and that's your punishment. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 297f31f | sometimes | Charles Frazier | ||
| 171af50 | Here's what some had said about Leslie Taha's cartoons Seth MacFarlane -Creator of "The Family Guy", "American Dad", "Ted" "Timeless humor!" __________________________________ Billy Crystal -Actor / Comedian "Very funny. In the tradition of Gahan Wilson!" ___________________________ Louie Anderson -Comedian / Actor / TV Host "Loved it. Dark, disturbing, and funny" ___________________________ Jeff Foxworthy -Comedian / Actor / Author "If y.. | Leslie Taha | ||
| 950e77d | In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless, | Charles Frazier | ||
| 03a5834 | So even very young she saw slavery as an ancient practice arising because rich people would rather not do hard work, and also from the tendency of people to clench hard to advantageous passages in the Bible and dismiss the rest. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 07f0f5e | our inner selves can't help but come along | Charles Frazier | ||
| 30d1489 | Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled. | Age | ||
| 54e67c1 | Why will you break the Sabbath of my days?Now sick alike of Envy and of Praise. | Age | ||
| ef24f66 | Crime does pay, only not for the criminals. You're probably wondering how I can afford these palatial digs. Well, I'll let you in on the secret. About fifteen years ago, the state decided to contract out indigent defense and I was firstest with the mostest. | Phillip Margolin | ||
| e3e94ae | be recovered from the vagina as long as three to four days after their introduction. W. | Phillip Margolin | ||
| c1c8c9f | stronger than he looked but it was still a strain to drag the drop cloth-wrapped corpse through the house and out the back | Phillip Margolin | ||
| 9b7a66e | On the day the gods chose for his destruction, Peter Hale ate his breakfast on the terrace of his condominium. | Phillip Margolin | ||
| 83e14b4 | His leaf also shall not wither. | Age | ||
| 47f4df4 | Csak onnan tudhatjuk, hogy igaz, hogy mindketten ugyanazt almodtuk. Ettol lesz valosag. A valosag is alom, csak mindenki egyszerre almodja. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 4c6b7c6 | Here is what Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt said about Stegner's biography of John Wesley Powell: When I first read Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, shortly after it was published in 1954, it was as though someone had thrown a rock through the window. Stegner showed us the limitations of aridity and the need for human institutions to respond in a cooperative way. He provided me in that moment with a way of thinking about the American.. | David Gessner | ||
| 1bc0d7c | Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. | Henry Adams | ||
| d741b34 | His point, again and again, was that truth wasn't the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged. | religion truth | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 7847063 | Intimates are predestined. | Henry Adams | ||
| 96a1823 | Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said. | jeffrey-eugenides rumor secondhand-account the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| ecc99f3 | Olum, kendini giderek yaslanan aile bireyleriyle ima eder. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a28d485 | It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though she were advising the girls in her mumbling Greek, "Don't waste your time on life." -- | jeffrey-eugenides life misery suicide the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| e605636 | Something sick at the heart of the country had infected the girls. Our parents thought it had to do with our music, our godlessness, or the loosening of morals regarding sex we hadn't even had. | the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| a5e1f2b | We weren't prejudiced against them. We wanted to include them in our society if they would only act normal! | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a5ae796 | A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love? | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ecf6f5a | Looking back now, I can only remember a time when the world seemed to have a million eyes, silently opening wherever I went. Most of the time they were camouflaged, like the closed eyes of green lizards in green trees. But then they snapped open -- on the bus, in the pharmacy -- and I felt the intensity of all that looking, the desire and desperation. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| d0800c2 | None of us went to church, so we had a lot of time to watch them, the two parents leached of color, like photographic negatives, and then the five glittering daughters in their homemade dresses, all lace and ruffle, bursting with their fructifying flesh. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 01cd2b8 | When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 789cc16 | He came back to us with stories of bedrooms filled with crumpled panties, of stuffed animals hugged to death by the passion of the girls, of a crucifix draped with a brassiere, of gauzy chambers of canopied beds, and of the effluvia of so many young girls becoming women together in the same cramped space. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| f05db1c | We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents." "From the what?" asked Desdemona. "From families intermarrying." | Jeffrey Eugenides |