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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0695b9a | The world would condemn but they would rejoice; glorious outcasts, unashamed, triumphant! | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 7c6e589 | I cannot protect you, Mary, the world has deprived me of my right to protect; I am utterly helpless, I can only love you. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| adc8acd | For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 1f0baa3 | For other women that kind of intimacy--the physical, mental and emotional closeness to a man, a lover--was something they took for granted. But she would never travel through life with a man she loved and who loved her in return. Out of nowhere, a yearning ache of loss welled up inside her. A sense of barren hopelessness that panicked and angered her. | relationship man-woman-relationship | Penny Jordan | |
| 0f5fd6b | From the Bullens' cottage came Father and Alf. They were carrying Granny on her old straw pallet. Hannah followed with the rest of the family. Showers of sparks were blowing on to the roof and against the side wall that was weather-boarded. Mother was clutching her case of stuffed birds and the family Bible. Granny was singing. Hannah said: 'Yer'd best take 'er up near the church and put 'er somewheres out of the wind. Ermie and Doris, you .. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 463613c | this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful -- but you'll find that it will pass and be completely forgotten -- | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| fac7098 | And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed; saw a patient endurance that was purely fictitious, and conceived of a loyalty far beyond the limits of Angela's nature. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| da3d3a0 | For she thought that she glimpsed through the dust of the years, a faint flicker of the girl who had lingered in the lanes when the young man Williams and she had been courting. And looking at Williams as he stood before her twitching and bowed, she thought that she glimpsed a faint flicker of the youth, very stalwart and comely, who had bent his head downwards and sideways as he walked and whispered and kissed in the lanes. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| c119167 | There seldom seemed to be a house left with a roof, or with anything much beyond its four walls, and quite often they must lie staring up at the stars, which would stare back again, aloof and untroubled. | war | Radclyffe Hall | |
| c6d5c9e | But Pierre, who like all who have known the sea was a child at heart, broke into loud exclamations | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| c76dc5b | After she had gone he sat on alone, and the lie was still bitter to his spirit as he sat there, and he covered his face for the shame that was in him - but because of the love that was in him he wept. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| e9e3df0 | Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can't be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it's a thousand times better to be unhappy in your own way than to be happy in someone else's. | unhappiness happy independence freedom happiness love unhappy | Radclyffe Hall | |
| 5795ce8 | The ageing and the cynical may make wars, but the young and the idealistic must fight them, and thus there are bound to come quick reactions, blind impulses not always comprehended. Men will curse as they kill, yet accomplish deeds of self-sacrifice, giving their lives for others; poets will write with their pens dipped in blood, yet will write not of death but of life eternal; strong and courteous friendships will be born, to endure in the.. | war the-well-of-loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | |
| 938803d | Memory, the old room was haunted by it -- a man dying with love in his eyes that was deathless -- a woman holding him in her arms, speaking words such as lovers will speak to each other. Memory -- they're the one perfect thing about me. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 5a628ca | John's mouth felt full of hot pennies. | Jordan Harper | ||
| b15df47 | to his mother's overprotective concern for him. Normally she would have dismissed him without a thought, but | Penny Jordan | ||
| da32eca | Emerald | Penny Jordan | ||
| b278ccc | Children were vulnerable--helpless hostages to fate, their emotions so tender that a parent could with the smallest sentence, the briefest gesture, accidentally scar them. He did not want the burden of carrying that responsibility. | parental-advice parents-and-children | Penny Jordan | |
| 7193e0d | Giselle had woken up once already, to find that she was pinned to the bed by the weight of Saul's leg lying across her lower body and his arm holding her against his side. It was a welcome imprisonment, though, and it enabled her to lie silently within its captivity and marvel at the magical events of the night and the happiness they had brought her. Now she was awake again--this time to find that she had the bed--his bed--to herself, and t.. | relationship love | Penny Jordan | |
| 16bec7c | You are the wheel on which my life turns, Giselle, the heart of everything I do. I promise you that somehow we will find a way to set you free from your fear. | free-from-fear wheel-of-life | Penny Jordan | |
| 2f522b2 | your absence, but with my cousin in such very poor health still, I feel I cannot leave her, so...' The old | Penny Jordan | ||
| c25b6ad | Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it. | Greg Iles | ||
| b2d0327 | Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose provenance dates to the dim drama.. | Greg Iles | ||
| 964681c | A glacier consumes whole forests by inches. | Greg Iles | ||
| e0952c5 | He did say something about my butt once." "What?" "No way." "Come on." "God." She bowed her head as though mortified. "He said I had a ghetto bootie." I grabbed the wheel to keep us on the road. "Meaning?" "You know...a butt like a black chick." I laughed at Mia's expression of mixed embarrassment and amusement. "Do you have one?" "You tell me." "Yeah, you kind of do." She burst out laughing. "It is a good one, though, I'll admit that." "It.. | Greg Iles | ||
| d3264cb | McCrae was the kind of southerner who had only left the parish of his birth to serve his country in wartime or to carry bulls across the state for mating purposes. | Greg Iles | ||
| f98a482 | darkness turned to noon. Even with the nose cone of the Learjet pointed away from the blast, the flash blinded everyone inside. Diaz lost control of the aircraft. It pitched over into a screaming, spinning dive, hurtling earthward at over five hundred miles per hour. In the cabin, people slammed into each other in the terror of flashblindness. General Steyn screamed in pain. Hauer half-fell past Burton into the cockpit. "Straighten up!" he .. | Greg Iles | ||
| 5af314c | There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole. | Greg Iles | ||
| 097994e | searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the | Greg Iles | ||
| f2feb29 | The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always. And who among us, offered the chance, would not relive the day or hour in which we first knew love, or ecstasy, or made a choice that forever altered our future, negating a life we might have had? Such chances are rarely granted. Memory and grief prove Faulkner right enough, but Einstein knew the finality of action. If I cannot ch.. | Greg Iles | ||
| dde9a6f | The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead human being. You don't expect a stone to move. A person robbed of all motion and cold to the touch is the most alien object in the world. Natural instinct drives us away from the decaying body, and quickly. Yet love compels us forward, to kiss the empty vessel of the soul departed. ...Lesson two: there are many fates worse.. | Greg Iles | ||
| 506a31a | As we move, a roar like the voice of some satanic creature bellows from the staircase. The fire's voice. I've heard it in lots of places, and the sound turns my insides to jelly. There's a reason human beings will jump ten floors onto concrete to escape being burned alive. That roar is part of it. | Greg Iles | ||
| 1ace358 | Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn. | Greg Iles | ||
| 9d1dfe2 | Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man" ran through his overheated brain: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." | Greg Iles | ||
| 1e5446f | The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world. | Greg Iles | ||
| 7f13093 | For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed, the condom on the park path, the twitch in the old wound, the baby shoes dipped in bronze, the taint in the blood stream. And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. --Robert Penn Warren, A.. | Greg Iles | ||
| c4c6c95 | She's floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along. | Greg Iles | ||
| 2d101f4 | When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it. | Greg Iles | ||
| 84f3481 | have crystal meth over in Natchez?" "Of course we do. I'm not interested in the meth. I'm interested in the men who make and sell it." Walker's eyes narrow, then go wide with comprehension. "And what exactly do you want me to do?" | Greg Iles | ||
| a72e68f | IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth. | Greg Iles | ||
| 8307bdd | Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be. | Greg Iles | ||
| 6990c5b | For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop. The waves diminish, and all seems to return to its previous state, but that's an illusion. Disturbed fish change their patterns, a snake slides off the muddy bank into the water, a deer bolts into the open to be shot. And the stone remains on the slimy bottom, out of sight but inarguably there, dense and permanent, sediment settling over it, turtles and catfish .. | Greg Iles | ||
| 76a5076 | between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal | Greg Iles | ||
| 3d9ea0d | a military base, to check out the story. | Greg Iles |