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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 529e79a | Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying? | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| c08e515 | I stared at the palm trees, their green fronds rippling in the breeze. Sweat trickled slowly down the side of my face, and the constant smell of coconut on my hands reminded me of suntan lotion. It would always be summer on the island. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| cfa7239 | She was the kind of woman you might overlook in a dark, crowded bar, but the first one you'd notice when the lights came up. In other words, she was exactly my type. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 714b1d3 | He cupped my face in his hands and wiped my tears with his thumbs. "Better?" | romantic sweet t-j | Tracey Garvis-Graves | |
| 6044668 | We'd come a long way since our days of sleeping on the ground. Just a couple castaways playing house. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 60c6eff | Kicking frantically, my lungs on fire, I swam as hard I could. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 4e2d9de | life without someone to love is a life not fully lived. Don't waste yours. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 8e1343b | I have to say I'm truly shocked at what men deem appropriate behavior in the modern dating world." "You," she said, pointing a finger at him. "YOU are shocked." "I am. I'm not sure how you women put up with it." "The struggle is real. Go on." "Your emails all include emoticons, usually hearts and smiley faces, and your Netflix queue consists mostly of romantic comedies. Oh, and you're a 34C. That's just the stuff I can remember off hang. I'.. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| a37cf6f | I have to say I'm truly shocked at what men deem appropriate behavior in the modern dating world." "You," she said, pointing a finger at him. "YOU are shocked." "I am. I'm not sure how you women put up with it." "The struggle is real. Go on." "Your emails all include emoticons, usually hearts and smiley faces, and your Netflix queue consists mostly of romantic comedies. Oh, and you're a 34C. That's just the stuff I can remember off hang. I'.. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 2decc40 | Because when the universe finally throws something truly remarkable your way, it is impossible to avoid the accompanying flood of emotion, at least for me. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 6faf181 | What about you? What do you want for Christmas?" "It hardly seems fair to ask for more when I'm looking at everything I've ever wanted." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 7d2ce5f | See? You asked me once how I could stand it here. It all comes down to a woman, McClain. They'll make you do crazy shit. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 0eb5ac7 | I didn't come back because you needed me. I came back because I needed you. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 17ab2b0 | I never know what people are thinking. It's like visiting a country where you don't speak the language and you're trying so hard to understand but no matter how many times you ask for juice, they keep bringing you milk. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 1c59c8d | A life without someone to love is a life not fully lived. Don't waste yours. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| bde2805 | Dying is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| ac4cac9 | Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible. | Barbara Tuchman | ||
| 5b9355b | Hepimiz karsimizdakinin bizi anlamasini isteriz ama, ayna gibi icimiz disimiz gorunsun istemeyiz. | trevanian | Trevanian | |
| af193a1 | Of course these gifts were reckless extravagances for a family that was never more than a couple of dollars and a few days away from hunger, but that's how poor people cope with being marooned in poverty while all around them flows the frothy stream of the consumer culture. | Trevanian | ||
| 504a178 | When I hear middle-class people complain about the poor buying luxuries for their kids when they don't even have enough for groceries, I remember the lavish Christmases my mother gave us, even at the risk of breaking up the family. Prudence is a bourgeois virtue, because the rich have something worth saving. The poor splurge because they need desperately to make a colorful splash across the drab fabric of their lives. The hungry don't dream.. | Trevanian | ||
| 50d02f9 | But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things he does not create, who collects power and wealth out of proportion to his discrimination, and who is responsible for all that is kitsch, for all that is change without progress, for all that is consumption without use. | Trevanian | ||
| b700c0b | Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin. | Trevanian | ||
| 39ab768 | But we are in the age of the mediocre man. He is dull, colorless, boring--but inevitably victorious. | Trevanian | ||
| 0c223e6 | the first batch of ads just after the couple broke up, and the second just before they got together again...two moments that the sponsors considered so suspenseful that the listener wouldn't be able to step away from the radio for fear of missing the resolution. | Trevanian | ||
| 963430d | there were more critics than painters, more publishers than writers, more teachers than practitioners. | Trevanian | ||
| f4b7d4b | The effect of this was to make me abjure hackneyed expressions from an early age, so I suppose I benefited from my mother's phrasal insouciance in the long run, although it's possible that my automatic eschewal of cliches occasionally drove me from the Scylla of ridicule into the turbid Charybdisian eddies of sesquipedalian obfuscation...though I trust not. | Trevanian | ||
| e6eb4fd | and it was a given of the Western genre, both on the radio and in the movies (it's interesting that one was 'on' the radio but 'in' the movies) | Trevanian | ||
| a36e19f | Mother used to shape and score the Spam, arrange the rings of pineapple, then pour a little maple syrup over it and bake it so that it came out looking almost exactly like a miniature glazed ham, and we used to have it with yams on which we melted margarine. | Trevanian | ||
| 6942107 | When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined. | Barbara Tuchman | ||
| b215dc0 | my job to color the margarine, putting the white, lard-like block into a bowl then sprinkling orange coloring powder over it and mixing with a fork until it was more brazenly yellow than any butter would dare to be. | Trevanian | ||
| d27da2c | intentioned myth. | Trevanian | ||
| d92a9ad | Who must do the harsh things? He who can. | Trevanian | ||
| 0fb0671 | Would the young men called to arms laugh and joke and exchange hearty platitudes in imitation of popular fiction, while they waited to be mutilated by the stupidity and arrogance of aged politicians? | Trevanian | ||
| c2908a8 | Diamond could not repress a sigh when he read that phrase. Miss Stern obviously suffered from the democratic delusion that all people are created interesting. | Trevanian | ||
| ecb253f | basso ostinado | Trevanian | ||
| 39dbd36 | Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience--twenty times. | Trevanian | ||
| b6d714d | But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards. | Trevanian | ||
| 4a1fe8d | Prudence is a bourgeois virtue, because the rich have something worth saving. The poor splurge because they need desperately to make a colorful splash across the drab fabric of their lives. The hungry don't dream of brown rice and vegetables; they dream of cake. | Trevanian | ||
| 514e459 | Gardiyan elindeki tepside agir bir caydanlik ve iki kulpsuz Japon fincaniyla girdi. Cayi bardaklara sarsak hareketlerle, evcil bir ayiymis gibi bosaltti. Sanki zarafetten nasibi olmamak erkekligin kanitiymis gibi. | gender-stereotypes manhood | Trevanian | |
| eddf9c8 | She often said, and honestly believed, that she was not prejudiced--well, except in the case of Italian mobsters and drunken Irish loafers and stupid Poles and snooty Yankee Protestants, but then who wasn't? | Trevanian | ||
| 3e3bc22 | Nicholai bir yil boyunca olup bitenin farkina varmadi. Gunluk yasami bir suru kucuk olaylarla noktalanip olculuyor, cezaevi disindaki yasamla da hicbir ilgisi kalmamis bulunuyordu. Hicbir zaman cani sikilmamisti. Fizik kurallarina ters gorunen bir ilke vardi cunku. Zaman ancak, ici bos oldugu zaman agirdi. | Trevanian | ||
| 2165037 | Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. | Barbara Tuchman | ||
| 949d8eb | What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact. | Barbara Tuchman | ||
| 0912b22 | We can think that God is good, and we are pleased with him, though we might be pleased less with him than we are with the ease of our lives. Then, when life is hard--especially when life remains hard--the allegiances of our hearts | Edward T. Welch |