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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f615b73 | Life, oblivious to his grief, continued | lost-love paris wwii | Julie Orringer | |
| a23e3ed | This is the Centre Americain de Secours. What is more American than wild hope? | hope | Julie Orringer | |
| af323b1 | But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth? | lie truth | Julie Orringer | |
| 79601b1 | It's no small matter to cross an ocean,"Chagall said. "More can be lost than canvas and paint. An artist must bear witness, Monsieur Fry. He cannot turn away, even if he wished to." "An artist cannot bear witness if he's dead." | ww2-holocaust | Julie Orringer | |
| 6e7e50f | God asks the most of those he loves best. | Julie Orringer | ||
| 39b7bd4 | Billy's one and only moment of candor was when I parked him in front of my computer to play a game. He took one look at the Noah's Ark display and his whole face flinched like someone had hit him. He told me that the snow leopard is extinct. The last surviving specimen died in a zoo a few weeks back. "The snow leopard was my favorite," he said. Then he sat down at the computer and within about 30 seconds he was lost in a realistic prison in.. | Michel Faber | ||
| 9265c16 | The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ce390f8 | He cupped his testicles in his hands, and, with his wrists, pressed his penis hard against his belly until the semen came. | Michel Faber | ||
| 2ccd388 | Lose track of time for a moment -just long enough to be overtaken by a hundred and thirty years. | Michel Faber | ||
| 48289dd | bitumen. | Michel Faber | ||
| 3df296f | It burns in her mind, branded there by Mrs Castaway: Wicked is what we can't help being, little one. The word was invented to describe us. Men love to wallow in sin; we are the sin they wallow in. | Michel Faber | ||
| 11137c0 | Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" | Michel Faber | ||
| 5ca3394 | It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift. | Michel Faber | ||
| ecff442 | protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory. | Michel Faber | ||
| e17edf2 | He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman. | Michel Faber | ||
| 8affde7 | Locating a past event in measured time was something they could do with great effort, as a special favor, but Peter could tell they didn't see the point. Why should it matter exactly how many days, weeks, months or years ago a relative had died? A person was either living amongst them or in the ground. | Michel Faber | ||
| a393361 | In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick. | Michel Faber | ||
| 086b5b3 | There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether this would cause comprehension problems when it came to certain crucial fish-related Bible stories. There were so many of those: Jonah and the whale, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, the Galilean disciples being fishermen, the whole 'fishers of men' analogy . . . the bit in Matthew 13 about the kingdom of heaven being like a net ca.. | fish fishers-of-men fishing-nets nets translations | Michel Faber | |
| e25c64b | could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition. | Michel Faber | ||
| 93f611b | behaving as if his actions didn't need defending. Typical rich kid, typical pampered little tycoon. None of their actions ever needed defending, did they? | Michel Faber | ||
| 9e79c60 | Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human. | Michel Faber | ||
| 9490396 | She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure. | Michel Faber | ||
| 28660a7 | Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job. | technology | Michel Faber | |
| 0c71ad7 | how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves? | Michel Faber | ||
| 40dba0c | Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" I've always tried to come up with answers to that challenge. I don't know if I can at the moment. Pray for me." | Michel Faber | ||
| e8d08fd | And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances. | laid mind-altering-substances new people | Michel Faber | |
| 33980a1 | There was only so much calamitous change you could hear about, events that rewrote what you thought was general knowledge, before your brain stopped digesting and you clung on to older realities. | Michel Faber | ||
| 36e62f7 | facades of the unknown city loomed up before him, harboring unimaginable wonders--his whole life had been leading up to this. | Michel Faber | ||
| 32d1e2f | Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto. | Michel Faber | ||
| 17f2e8a | La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres. | Michel Faber | ||
| d9956c3 | The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious. With God, nothing shall be impossible, proclaimed Luke, and that message, which Peter had always thought was the most joyously positive reassurance you could wish for, now turned itself over like a dying insect, and became Without God, everything shall be impossible. | Michel Faber | ||
| cae1563 | Desconfia de un confort excesivo: engendra irreflexion. | Michel Faber | ||
| 6fe8a1e | Reinhold Niebuhr, | Michel Faber | ||
| 63ea36f | UFCNo such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you... | Michel Faber | ||
| d676eae | No such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you... | Michel Faber | ||
| 816e502 | Hoy dia, su vida se asemeja mas bien a un periodico: sin sentido, al dia y lleno de sucesos disparatados. | vida | Michel Faber | |
| b1fe188 | Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another | Michel Faber | ||
| c3da1f4 | Todo arte nuevo, para ser autentico, necesita en cierta medida una... comadrona artistica. | Michel Faber | ||
| 62aa430 | Hoy es el dia, el dia tormentoso y memorable en que metera en vereda a su futuro incontrolado. | Michel Faber | ||
| bbcdbee | El hombre no solo vive de alta cultura. | Michel Faber | ||
| 46108f8 | away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing | Michel Faber | ||
| 4d18d63 | Todos nosotros somos a la vez objeto de repugnancia y de envidia. Todos nosotros menos los muy pobres, los que solo tienen por debajo de ellos el pozo septico del infierno. | Michel Faber | ||
| fb92b83 | a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart. | Michel Faber | ||
| af8470c | No desea que los hombres la consideren hermosa. Tal cosa solo conduce a la infelicidad. Tampoco espera la admiracion de otras mujeres; de ellas solo espera una indiferencia cortes y un cotilleo rencoroso a sus espaldas. | Michel Faber |