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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb6fea4 | mauve-grey envelope | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 5b3b2b5 | presumptuous | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 75e2134 | talked dolefully about his job--he sold antiques in a shop owned | Ruth Rendell | ||
| e21cc0d | It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but "out of sight, out of mind" | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 24ddb38 | It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but "out of sight, out of mind" might be just as true a truism. He hadn't" | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 47f8e53 | Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship." | Reginald Hill | ||
| 40b91e0 | Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-junctions, lights; and of course, bus-stops. The world you passed through was observable. And real. So was the world inside your head. Buses were good places to worry on. | Reginald Hill | ||
| f0b70b1 | a politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence | Reginald Hill | ||
| 091f979 | For the first time, she felt she'd laid a glove on Doll Trapp. 'Well, you really are full of surprises,' she said. 'Interesting theory. I'd be careful who you share it with. Now, where was I?' That | Reginald Hill | ||
| 42df4d8 | Middlefield. | Reginald Hill | ||
| 2b88780 | tyro psychiatrist who provided the topic for a great deal of their conversation. | Reginald Hill | ||
| ac0082d | Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity. | Reginald Hill | ||
| 163f7ff | He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it. | Reginald Hill | ||
| 9a87813 | Jefferson exploded with guilt: "The torment of mind, I will endure till the moment shall arrive when I shall not owe a shilling on earth is such really as to render life of little value." | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 9c59d23 | The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. If a parent could find no motive either in his phil.. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 3771963 | What I find is that most people don't know the fact that they don't know, because of the complete lack of information."4" | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 38973ab | War is our only recourse. There is no other remedy. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| b0d8b0d | War exists notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it."8" | Ronald Takaki | ||
| b2d2d01 | Chinese men were seen as sensuous creatures, especially interested in white women. A writer for the New York Times reported that he noticed "a handsome but squalidly dressed young white girl" in an opium den and inquired about her. The owner replied: "Oh, hard time in New York. Young girl hungry. Plenty come here. Chinaman always have something to eat, and he like young white girl. He! He!" | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 216cef3 | At the state's constitutional convention of 1878, John F. Miller warned: "Were the Chinese to amalgamate at all with our people, it would be the lowest, most vile and degraded of our race, and the result of that amalgamation would be a hybrid of the most despicable, a mongrel of the most detestable that has ever afflicted the earth." Two years later, California lawmakers enacted legislation to prohibit the issuance of a license authorizing .. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 73aace2 | In 1852, of the 11,794 Chinese in California, only seven were women. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 25e3ea1 | Children of narcissists emerge from this crucible with a common and most serious problem. They feel that they do not have the right to exist. | Elan Golomb | ||
| a38f5a2 | I began to feel that this city is my home. It came nearer to my heart, not so distant. That's how it started, but now it's different. I am enjoying making friends my age in my church-non-Bengali friends who don't know the customs that keep a widow so lonely. | immigrants indian-americans ya | Mitali Perkins | |
| 7141ed6 | You read her diary! That's wrong, Ma!" Ma closes the incinerator door and raises her palms in the air like she's praying. "I have to find out what's going on in her head, don't I? It's my duty to keep her safe." "You'll make her dangerous instead," Starry answers." | Mitali Perkins | ||
| e855205 | Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 33de32a | Masjid turns on the radio, and Rabindra Sangeet adds the perfect soundtrack to the scene: "Por ke korile nikot bondhu"--you bring the distant near. One of Baba's favorites." | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 45895d1 | pen. Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine? | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 8fb94b7 | A muddy river is a muddy river, whether it's in Bengal or in Baton Rouge. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 5bb508e | Nothing makes you feel more beautiful than a sari. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 7466a24 | My skin is soft and smooth and the color reminds me of rain-drenched earth. But it's as if the darkness of it keeps Ma from noticing my assets: curly hair, a round face that makes babies smile, deep dimples in both cheeks, big eyes that notice details other people miss. I like my face, even if Ma doesn't. I resemble Baba, and he's got presence. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| e536374 | Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude. Where the musty smell of books greets me like the perfume in our grandmother's embrace. My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. The librarian and I both got teary when I said goodbye. And this library is almost as close! I'll get a library card tomorrow and carry back my first installment of books. Maybe I can also find a quiet corner to writ.. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 81cbc4b | I wish the Ganges could wash the grief from my heart, but it can't. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 6854d00 | I'm glad we're in the same school," I say, and drop a kiss on her head. In London we were enrolled in different schools because Sunny's so gifted. Here there's no separate school for extra-smart students, and she's coming in as a freshman, as they say, while I'll be a junior. With her around, I'll be sure to have one set of admiring eyes at least." | Mitali Perkins | ||
| a95d854 | Theater, my Star?" Baba asks. I listen carefully, but there's no disappointment in his tone, only surprise. "Yes, Baba," I say. "It's been an interest of mine. And I think I might be good at it. But Ma--" Baba takes my hand in both of his. "My grandmother used to organize natok in the village for the children--she loved to act. There's nothing wrong with telling a story onstage. It's beautiful work; it brings people together. Rabindranath T.. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| c9ec08c | Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady's name is Rita Jones. | Blake Crouch | ||
| dfd63f8 | All told, there must have been more than a hundred people there, milling about between the makeshift tricycle track in the parking lot and the fraternity house. The freshmen had come sporting a variety of attire, from the East Coasters in polos to Southern Californians in tank tops, most trying too hard to look cool and casual at the same time. All the brothers were wearing yellow t-shirts for rush; the front depicted Curious George passed .. | Billy Gallagher | ||
| 26ea9d8 | Evan was born on June 4, 1990, to a pair of highly successful lawyers. His mother, Melissa Thomas, graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced tax law as a partner at a prominent Los Angeles firm before resigning to become a stay-at-home mother when Evan was young. His father, John Spiegel, graduated from Stanford and Yale Law School and became a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, an elite firm started by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Mu.. | Billy Gallagher | ||
| c988cab | Adam left work early and drove to the new turf field at Cedarfield High School. The boys' lacrosse team was practicing. He parked down the block, out of sight, and watched his son Thomas from behind the bleachers. He had never done this before--watched a practice--and he probably couldn't articulate exactly what he was doing here. He just wanted to watch his son for a while. That's all. Adam remembered what Tripp Evans had said at the Ameri.. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 7df4021 | Sketches Einstein: His Life and Universe A Benjamin Franklin Reader Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Kissinger: A Biography The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (with Evan Thomas) | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3778e2b | slave camp?"21 He was far from alone in" | Evan Thomas | ||
| 494a108 | Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Kissinger: A Biography, and is the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He and his wife live in Washington, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 913115e | The Mystery of Israel's Origins: An Introduction and Proposals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. *Stager, Lawrence E. "Forging and Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel," in The Oxford History of the Biblical World, ed. Michael D. Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Stark, Thomas. The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries to Hide It). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010... | Peter Enns | ||
| 3f0215a | one of the most important things to me is that my children and grandchildren are curious. Because, if you're not curious, you're not smart. | Evan Thomas | ||
| fdd70ed | wandering off to bars. "I" | Evan Thomas |