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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e62a1d | The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain...Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9d2e197 | In Bottletown, even our tears flicker like jewels. | Jeff Noon | ||
| 331ffaa | The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass. | books experience feelings library mood read reading smell | Betty Smith | |
| e0a445e | I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up? | Edward Albee | ||
| 889bfb6 | Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4b62641 | It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together. | death friendship war | Tim O'Brien | |
| f7b4979 | He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| af5206a | There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3ecead9 | Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day... | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 9ab9337 | Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air. | Pat Conroy | ||
| cc5192d | This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird. | guidance inspirational intriguing | Maureen Johnson | |
| 5935631 | The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 1af824c | You do not,' cried Giovanni, sitting up, 'love anyone! You never have loved anyone, I am sure you never will! You love your purity, you love your mirror--you are just like a little virgin, you walk around with your hands in front of you as though you had some precious metal, gold, silver, rubies, maybe diamonds down there between your legs! You will never give it to anybody, you will never let anybody touch it--man or woman. You want to be .. | James Baldwin | ||
| 7f95f2e | I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 9fd6411 | I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well! | Enid Blyton | ||
| 20d3512 | The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing. | John Berger | ||
| 6c5db31 | Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 3925607 | Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? | E.M. Forster | ||
| 88926b7 | Nothing happens by chance. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c6e7adf | In these fast and fickle times, it's nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys' "California Girls"; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| da68901 | The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 404491d | Jer, i najvece pustinje imaju svoje prolece, pa ma kako kratko i neprimetno bilo. | ivo-andric | Ivo Andrić | |
| 5df35db | How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement. | growing-up loss memory | J.K. Rowling | |
| de62398 | Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved. | awesome badass best-character-ever best-quotes-ever dumbledore harry-potter j-k-rowling saved | J.K. Rowling | |
| 29efe26 | I checked my phone messages. Three in all. The first was from Joe. "Hey, Cupcake." That was it. That was the whole message. The second was from Ranger. "Yo." Ranger made Joe look like a chatterbox." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e0af943 | When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school. | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 0cacb60 | I wasn't a fabulous cook. I didn't have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn't a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 980c74e | Ranger] "How's your mental health?" he asked. "I heard about Soder." [Stephanie] "I'm rattled." "I have a cure." Oh, boy. He put the truck in gear and headed for the exit. "I know what you're thinking," he said. "And that wasn't where I was going. I was going to suggest work." "I knew that." | ranger romance | Janet Evanovich | |
| b2c5b61 | The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 3e5b992 | What took you so long?" Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they were tucking into Will's attache case. "I walked to Jerusalem for the Bible. I knew you'd want an original," Evie snapped." | Libba Bray | ||
| 04189b5 | God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd in.. | godly lesbian stupid | Libba Bray | |
| 80f677b | Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker. | conversation friendship | Ann Patchett | |
| 468de3c | Did you ever want to be a writer?" "No," she said, and she would have told him. "I only wanted to be a reader." | Ann Patchett | ||
| a3d3f84 | Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. | death-and-dying humor humorous humorous-quotations internet television wisdom wisdom-in-fiction | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ff77353 | We just had a near-life experience | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d996687 | Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 051e8f3 | Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be. | nature | Bill Bryson | |
| 5760d56 | Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 378f7ab | By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5acd638 | Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d14341d | Our leaders strain every nerve and with success, to get the next war going, while the rest of us, meanwhile, dance the fox trot, earn money and eat chocolates...And perhaps...it has always been the same and always will be, and what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3f006d1 | Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 03facab | To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. | crime laws | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2912aeb | What good is power when you're too wise to use it? | power restraint wisdom | Ursula K. Le Guin |