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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2e4fb13 | One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity | alcoholism recovery | Roddy Doyle | |
| 7136f55 | Even voting is nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. | politics voting | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 735f131 | I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| fa00b54 | We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 6f3f449 | He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything. | life mediocre | Robert Cormier | |
| 58356e5 | I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is. | looks woman | Richard P. Feynman | |
| 6f2f802 | Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| c41ce4c | For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| eb70aae | Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f0c7798 | When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love. | murder | Patrick Süskind | |
| a792d51 | if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. | reading writing | Paulo Coelho | |
| 02c39e0 | The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certai.. | piano | E.M. Forster | |
| 94c1931 | I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 83b6be3 | My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. | Yann Martel | ||
| db0e48c | He's gone, Harry told himself. He's gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He's gone and he's not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| c75c67c | Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn't even sure why he was feeling so angry. "Don't sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn't I?" he said heatedly. "I know what went on, all right? And I didn't get through any of that because I was brilliant at Defense Against the Dark Arts, I got through it all because -- because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right --.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0d2c4c6 | Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it," Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. "I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they'd use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters." | sirius-black | J.K. Rowling | |
| 42844fb | History is the propaganda of the victors. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 66aee0c | No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the fut.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9c7e469 | I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6c94f4a | It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fcccfb4 | sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 16a635f | Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 122160f | Babe,' Ranger said. 'Do something with her.' And he disconnected. I called Ranger back. 'No,' I said. 'And I need information on Jelly Kantner. His apartment got blown up, and I need to find him.' And I should do this why?' Because you like me.' There was a full beat of silence. 'I do,' Ranger said. 'I like you a lot. Sometimes I'm not sure why. Give me a couple minutes. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e534c70 | Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. | christianity god jesus-christ perfected-man religion spirituality | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| bcadc45 | When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown! | god life | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| f029619 | This is passive-aggression in action. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bfe0ab9 | You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8838bc9 | I am nothing, and not even that. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9feaf68 | Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b46af6a | The books on plastic surgery, the pamphlets and brochures all promised to help me live a more normal, happy life; but less and less, this looked like what I'd want. What I wanted looked more and more like what I'd always been trained to want. What everybody wants. Give me attention. Flash. Give me beauty. Flash. Give me peace and happiness, a loving relationship, and a perfect home. Flash. Brandy says, "The best way is not to fight it, just.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 224394f | Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 85a913c | Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not .. | ethics practice religion theology | Karen Armstrong | |
| a8e8dab | The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home. | E. L. Konigsburg | ||
| aa2c067 | The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1feac01 | How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5618ffb | You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know what was in that apple? Logic. Logic and intellectual stuff. That was all that was in it. So--this is my point--what you have to do is vomit it up if you want to see things as they really are....' The trouble is,' Teddy said, 'most people don't want to see things the way they are. They don't even want to stop getting born and dying all the tim.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| aa4d12d | It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place. | american-psycho conclusion crime cruel demons epiphany evil gore horror human-beings human-nature humanity humans life living murder murderer murderers psycho psychopath quote serial-killer serial-killers society the-world theory | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| dceaeaf | I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too. | snowflakes | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 4e90050 | for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha" | buddhism monasticism siddhartha siddhartha-gautama | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0fd9979 | Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c09ad41 | He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a .. | banking banks capitalism economics leguin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| c458ee4 | And my heart shifted a bit in my chest as I said to him with no guile whatsoever, "I won't tell anyone unless you say so." The weight of that jeweled knife and belt seemed to grow. "I wish I had been there to stop it. I should have been there to stop it." I meant every word. Lucien squeezed our linked arms as we rounded a hedge, the house rising up before us. "You are a better friend to me, Feyre," he said quietly, "than I ever was to you." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 77a07dd | But she was her own champion now. And she would not add another name of her beloved dead to her flesh. | Sarah J. Maas |