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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a378bcd | Sadiq pondered the nature of war. Everyone was sure that they had the right to the land and the others should be forced to leave. That they had God on their side while the others were in league with the devil. Everyone believed they owned the truth, and everyone seemed thirsty for blood. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| bd315c1 | Through the book, I want to give something back to the community from which it sprang. My royalties for this book in Norway are being donated in full to the 'En av oss' (One of Us) foundation. The foundation's statutes allow for the money to be distributed to a wide range of causes nationally and internationally, in the areas of development, education, sport, culture and the environment. I have chosen to let those who contributed most to th.. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| fd1600d | A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| 8c8707a | Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontes or elaborately untied by George Eliot.... Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her." G.K. CHESTERTON" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| d2d0151 | Think Gone with the Wind as an illustration of historical romance. Nora Roberts' The Obsession, the love story between a woman abused when she was young and a good-hearted mechanic with the added mystery of an outside obsession running through it, is a great example of romantic suspense, and Jennifer Crusie's Welcome to Temptation, described as "blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent se.. | Jessica Lourey | ||
| fd6da6c | Then she turned away before anybody caught her slack-jawed with admiration. He was not the one, that was her DNA talking, looking for a high-class sperm donor. Every woman in the room with a working ovary probably looked at him and thought, This one. Well, biology was not destiny. The amount of damage somebody that beautiful could do to a woman like her was too much to contemplate. She took another drink to cushion the thought, and said, "H.. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 5795774 | Later, she couldn't remember whether she'd had time to stop, or if Donald's trying to ruin her potatoes the way he'd ruined everything else had made her temporarily insane. Whatever the reason, she stabbed him with the sharp, narrow, old-fashioned fork and hit a vein in the back of his hand. Donald screamed, and she shoved his hand away so he wouldn't get blood on her potatoes. "I'm so sorry, Donald," she said and took another bite." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| df583cc | Okay, why did we have to leave?" Bonnie said when they were in Liza's convertible and Min was banished to the backseat. "Because Min was swapping tongues with a doughnut pusher." Liza looked back over the seat at Min the sinner and shook her head." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 2ff813a | One hot August Thursday afternoon, Maddie Farady reached under the front seat of her husband's Cadillac and pulled out a pair of black lace underpants. They weren't hers. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 95d49df | You are the most passive son of a bitch," Cynthie said. "No wonder she never slept with you. You probably never asked her." "Thank you," David said. "That's great coming from somebody who got turned down after putting out for nine months. Don't see that being aggressive worked for you, sweetheart. Maybe you're the one with the heat problem." "Listen, you," Cynthie said. "I have a perfect body and I am great in bed." "You know, I doubt it," .. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 1b0defd | In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better." "Bad deduction," Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now." "I'm" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 0f7fe1f | At present, he was deep into the romances of Jennifer Crusie, an author who wrote with excellent pacing and laugh-out-loud wit. | Katy Regnery | ||
| b8ca732 | She had to be the calmest woman in the world. Either that or she trusted him completely. That was depressing somehow. He went to take a cold shower. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 4835617 | Oh," Jake said. "So, this is what you want?" "No," Kate said. "But this is what I've got." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| ece7f45 | Romance fiction "tells the story that reflects a woman's reality as it could be and as it is," Jennifer Crusie, a bestselling contemporary romance author, writes on her blog. "It tells her she is not stupid because she's female, that she understands men better than they understand her, that she has a right to control over her own life, to children, to vocational fulfillment, to great sex, to a faithful loving partner."[13] Romantic fiction .. | Maya Rodale | ||
| 9025ac8 | Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive? | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 2335757 | He seemed particularly insistent. I both did and didn't want to be left alone at the house with my mother. There was an aching in my chest that surprised me, and my eyes were watering up against my will. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 886188a | We learn in school that the civil rights movement was about overcoming segregation. But as my father has pointed out to me, what an oddly neutral word - segregation to describe what was happening in this country. We prefer it to more blunt descriptions of that social arrangement: subjugation, oppression. And perhaps, also, we don't want to acknowledge the ways in which we were not segregated at all, the ways in which the lives of black and .. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 02df379 | I think the narcolepsy is adorable. Someday you'll be happy for these little lulls. Who the fuck wants a man to be awake all the time? | Danzy Senna | ||
| 4fa490a | My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word he uses. Excretion. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 8b1d69f | something--to make something right and final--is to kill it. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 3181a61 | She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a | Danzy Senna | ||
| 1847c2f | Don't hate white people. They can't help it. They have a learning disability. They need your compassion. They need accommodations. They are like preschoolers--their understanding of race is so basic. They can't be faulted for being uncomfortable with somebody who has what amounts to a graduate degree in race--that is, us. It's not fair for preschoolers to be placed in the same classroom with graduate students and be forced to compete. Pity .. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 43d4054 | One of the keys to cultivating grit is making the task at hand more interesting and motivating. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 6271c4b | considerate | Ruth Rendell | ||
| d3b787d | Stanley was affable, even considerate. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| e0d0f4c | She could envision a lifetime spent trying to create such flashes of connection. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 76d6c25 | Vincent van Gogh, for one, wrote that his exuberant mood propelled not just his art but his speech: "There are moments," he said, "when I am twisted by enthusiasm or madness or prophecy, like a Greek oracle on the tripod. And then I have great readiness of speech.")" | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 5162c06 | Brian imaging studies conducted while a person is listening to music show that there are increases in cerebral blood flow in the same reward areas of the brain that are active when food, sex, or highly addictive drugs are involved. (Music may also, like other inducers of positive mood, decrease activity in those regions of the brain associated with negative emotions, such as anxiety or revulsion.) | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 80abc88 | But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine. As John Donne has written; it is not so pure and abstract as one might once have thought and wished, but it does endure and it does grow. | love medicine | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 06c9803 | The man's true life, for which he consents to live," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, "lies altogether in the field of fancy. The clergyman, in his spare hours, may be winning battles, the farmer sailing ships, the banker reaping triumph in the arts: all leading another life, plying another trade from what they chose....For no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 2d8367a | Later, after Christmas carols and a nightcap of mulled ale in front of the fire, Mole reflects on how much he has missed the warmth and security of what he once had known, all of those "friendly things which had long been unconsciously a part of him." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| ac14173 | To be sure," wrote Hugo Wolf, "I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 001642f | In a state of exuberance, judgment is put on hold-but is not turned off completely. In hypomania judgment is napping, but still wakes up periodically to check things out. In mania, judgment is out like a light. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 3a1100b | People who aren't as exuberant as you are get really irritated with you. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| a6244b1 | Exuberance, Cheng makes clear, is an indispensable part of his scientific life. "It keeps me alive. I like to have fun, I don't like boredom. Exuberance is necessary, you have to have enthusiasm. Any kind of work involves a lot of tedium, menial tasks, boring tasks. Exuberance allows you to see beyond, to see the goal. You need that kind of emotional makeup to push through the work, to pursue really difficult things. Exuberance stops you fr.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 5661806 | I have suffered from exuberance, from being scattered, a lack of focus," he says. Conflicting enthusiasms caused him to switch scientific fields several times, from high-energy astrophysics to space physics, to particles and fields, and finally to planetary science." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 5909c59 | Creative and manic thinking are both distinguished by fluidity and by the capacity to combine ideas in ways that form new and original connections. Thinking in both tends to be divergent in nature, less goal-bound, and more likely to wander about or leap off in a variety of directions. Diffuse, diverse, and leapfrogging ideas were first noted thousands of years ago as one of the hallmarks of manic thought. More recently, the Swiss psychiatr.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| d6c26d8 | Both individuals who are manic and those who are writers, when evaluated with neuropsychological tests, tend to combine ideas or images in a way that "blurs, broadens, or shifts conceptual boundaries," a type of thinking known as conceptual overinclusiveness. They vary in this from normal subjects and from patients with schizophrenia. Researchers at the University of Iowa, for example, have shown that "both writers and manics tend to sort i.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 772a14a | Discovery, however divine or intoxicating, is just one aspect of scientific exuberance, however. Science is also driven by curiosity and an enthusiastic restlessness, hastened forward by a drive to explore, a desire to put together the pieces of some pattern of nature. The diversity of scientific inquiry is spectacular, and it is often the most exuberant scientists, the ones who possess the greatest capacity to be easily excited, who pursue.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| d55fb20 | the exuberant are easily engaged. And exuberance is, in its very effusiveness, liable to misconstruction and suspicion, often misinterpreted as sexual interest when none is intended, or as implying a more sustained emotional commitment than is warranted by the high spirits that, however persuasive, may prove to be transient or directed in any number of places. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| c9659e2 | Cocaine, hashish, opium, Ecstacy: all seduce with the promise of rapture or exuberance-and then they collect. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| ec3838c | The fates and character of the rhyming tribe often employ my thoughts when I am disposed to be melancholy. There is not, among all the martyrologies that ever were penned, so rueful a narrative as the lives of the poets. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| ee30a88 | The review of studies of seasonal patterns for peak months of occurrence for episodes of mania and depression indicates that there is a consistency of findings despite the methodological problems intrinsic to such research. | Kay Redfield Jamison |