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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a328b4b | For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 4f36c45 | This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living. | the-house-of-sleep | Jonathan Coe | |
| dff39bc | Conoce esa sensacion? Seguro que si: tropezarse con un artista cuyo trabajo te habla tan directamente que es como si los dos compartieran el mismo lenguaje complice, y eso a la vez te reafirmara en lo que siempre has pensado y te dijera algo completamente nuevo. (...) ?No la ha sentido, entonces? | jonathan-coe menudo-reparto what-a-carve-up | Jonathan Coe | |
| 81c4d37 | Benjamin had not dared, yet, to enquire about sales figures; as for the book's critical reception, it was non-existent. No reviews in either the national or local papers, of course, nothing on the various readers' websites and no reader reviews on Amazon - where it had a sales raking of 743,926 (or, if he wanted to cheer himself up, 493 in Bestsellers>Fiction>Literary Fiction>Autobiographical Fiction>Romance>Obsession). | Jonathan Coe | ||
| e66462b | Gil waited, waited just a few more seconds before picking up and in that stretrched instant she felt the promise of revelation curl, evaporate and vanish; watched in despair as it slipped for ever through her mind's grasping fingers. Even before she heard her daughter's first, broken words, she knew that it was too late. The pattern she had been searching for had gone. Worse than that - it had never existed. How could it? What she had been .. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| ea38128 | In an age when politicians are judged first of all on personality, when the public assumes all of them to be deceitful, and when it's easier and much more pleasurable to laugh about a political issue than to think about it, Johnson's apparent self-deprecating honesty and lack of concern for his own dignity were bound to make him a hit. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 264ed29 | Interesting little phrase though, isn't it though "open" marriage? Makes it sound like a drain, or a sewer." | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 30b33de | What did she die of? The same thing that gets everybody in the end: a combination of circumstances, | Jonathan Coe | ||
| e494faf | And so they sit at home, getting fat on the proceedings and here we all are. Our businesses are failing, our jobs disappearing, our countryside choking, our hospitals crumbling, our homes being repossessed, our bodies being poisoned, our minds shutting down, the whole bloody spirit of the country crushed and fighting for breath. I hate the Winshaws, Fiona. Just look what they've done to us. Look what they've done to you. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 1e99776 | because there comes a point where greed and madness can no longer be told apart. This dividing line is very thin, just like a belt of film surrounding the earth's sphere. It's a delicate blue, and this transition from the blue to the black is very gradual and lovely. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 9e65afc | You know she wanted you to vote the other way. It's her future, you know. She's the one who's going to be around the longest. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 37ad64d | but deep down he couldn't tell whether Nigel was joking or not. It was to become an increasingly familiar feeling over the next few years. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 6e2f280 | Politics can make people do terrible things | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 1e7e58f | believe there are infinite ways of telling stories - linear and non-linear, multiple viewpoints and single viewpoints, first and third person, and so forth. An infinity of choice faces you whenever embarking upon a new work. However, I no longer believe, as Johnson believed, for instance, that the novel must be radically reinvented as it progresses or otherwise it will die. If you look at the tradition that he felt himself a part of, it's o.. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| e5f1697 | In quanto a lei, sapeva anche di leggere piu di quanto fosse sano, di riporre troppe aspettative nella lettura, di avere una sorta di ossessione nevrotica per la letteratura e i suoi presunti benefici sul piano morale. | letteratura lettura | Jonathan Coe | |
| 39f8adb | Where are the laughs in massacre, famine and climate change, exactly? What's so funny about the Middle East, North Korea and Afghanistan? Who's going to chuckle when they pick up the London Review of Books and find John Lanchester arguing, convincingly as always, that the banking habits of the British people pose a greater threat to their own security than terrorism? | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 91da58f | Kakoi zhe nam vsem pizdets. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 2a4c4db | By the time we had reached the chestnut grove in front of the inn I had said so little that my companion was sure I was one of the most intelligent women he had ever met. I know he thought so, for he turned suddenly to me as we were walking past the Frau Forster's wash-house and rose-garden up to the chestnuts, and said, 'How is it that German women are so infinitely more intellectual than English women?' Intellectual! How nice. And all the.. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| a4671cf | And so at Binz, dragged out of my pleasant dream to night and loneliness, I could not move for a moment for sheer extremity of fright. When I did, when I did put out a shaking hand to feel for the matches, the dread of years became a reality--I touched another hand. Now I think it was very wonderful of me not to scream. I suppose I did not dare. I don't know how I managed it, petrified as I was with terror, but the next thing that happened .. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 61dff38 | Prayer: Father God, thank You for giving me the joy of family. Help me to create a place where there is forgiveness and love. My children are truly a reward for me, and they come straight from You. Thank You. Amen. Action: Be bold and ask your children tonight, "Do you feel loved in our home?" Be ready for unexpected answers. Today's Wisdom: Discipline is demanded of the athlete to win a game. Discipline is required for the captain runn.. | Emilie Barnes | ||
| 6b6b5da | Great men [women] never complain about the lack of time. Alexander the Great and John Wesley accomplished everything they did in twenty-four-hour days. FRED SMITH | Emilie Barnes | ||
| 5c109ca | Everything I didn't do yesterday Added to everything I haven't done today Plus everything I won't do tomorrow-completely exhausts me! | Emilie Barnes | ||
| cac52c1 | Put out? My dear Gertrud, I have been thinking of very serious things. You cannot expect me to frolic along paths of thought that lead to mighty and unpleasant truths. Why should I always smile? I am not a Cheshire cat. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 86aba2a | A RIPE EXPERIENCE OF GERMAN pillows in country places leads me to urge the intending traveller to be sure to take his own. The native pillows are mere bags, in which feathers may have been once. There is no substance in them at all. They are of a horrid flabbiness. And they have, of course, the common drawback of all public pillows, they are haunted by the nightmares of other people. A pillow, it is true, takes up a great deal of room in on.. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 7391797 | War is like love, it always finds a way. | Bertolt Brecht | ||
| 7bac3be | I have come to see that the time-honoured practice of bestowing anonymity on our communities and informants fools few and protects no one - save, perhaps, the anthropologist's own skin. | Nancy Scheper-Hughes | ||
| 2829b7c | Well, it was evident that in ordinary cases, having tired one's host, one would go away. But was this quite an ordinary case? She couldn't think so. She couldn't help remembering, though it was a thing she never thought of, that she had made way without difficulty for Stephen to come and live in this very house, giving him everything--why, with both hands giving him everything--and she couldn't help feeling that to be allowed to stay in it .. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 5c3b031 | THE next morning Catherine went to church for the last time--for when Stephen was in London, and not there to invite her to accompany him, which he solemnly before each separate service did, there would be no more need to go--and for the last time mingled her psalms with Mrs. Colquhoun's. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 80cf76c | Thou shalt have one God only; who Would be at the expense of two? No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency: Swear not at all; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse: At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy friend: Honour thy parents; that is all From whom advancement may befall: Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive: Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely come.. | religion satire sin ten-commandments | Arthur Hugh Clough | |
| 14b449e | Rhyme's eyes closed. His head dipped. But only a few millimeters. As with most great men, Lincoln Rhyme's gestures of defeat were very subtle. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| e1e69ce | But, as the ninth-century cultural critic Jahiz wrote, `Some people who affect asceticism and self denial are uneasy and embarrassed when cunt, cock and fucking are mentioned but most men you find like that are without knowledge, honour, nobility or dignity.'2 I have certainly not played up these features of the narrative, | Hugh Kennedy | ||
| df83c39 | Virginia had, however, long felt that her mother was not truly religious--not truly and seriously, as she and Stephen were. No doubt she thought she was, and perhaps she was, in some queer way; but were queer ways of being religious permissible? Weren't they as bad, really, as no ways at all? | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| ee0720c | can never see two people contradicting each other without feeling wretched. Why contradict? Why argue at all? Only one's Best-Beloved, one's Closest and Most Understanding should be contradicted and argued with. How simple to keep quiet with all the rest and agree to everything they say. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 3d27f40 | It is not only unkind, it is simply wicked. For how shall we ever be anything but tools and drudges if we don't co-operate, if we don't stand shoulder to shoulder? Oh my heart goes out to all women! I never see one without feeling I must do all in my power to get to know her, to help her, to show her what she must do, so that when her youth is gone there will still be something left, a so much nobler happiness, a so much truer joy.' 'Than w.. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| cf6244f | Her bare feet hardly make a sound as she leaves the little grove of trees and heads for the cauldron. The contents of her basket are cast into the shimmering, bubbling belly of the cauldron--each item in turn is lifted and honoured as she sings to it and, with a gentle throw, casts each one into the liquid. She smiles, she sings, the boy stirs, the cauldron bubbles. | Kristoffer Hughes | ||
| 1161dcb | Our world is filled with meaningless conversations. It is an honour to participate in one that is not. | Julia Quinn | ||
| e0a2f02 | Legacy of Love In the future, when your children ask you, "What do these stones mean?" tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever. --JOSHUA 4:6-7 In your family's history there are probably many examples of sacrifice--some you may know about, but many othe.. | Emilie Barnes | ||
| 31308a2 | se "in-between times" to get things done. For example, it takes 15 minutes or less to change the sheets on a bed. So when you're waiting for dinner to finish cooking, to go somewhere, or for something to finish up, make a bed. Planning saves you time. Know what you have to do-and set your priorities. ere's a fun idea! Why not lighten a gathering together load a little by hosting a tea "potluck." It's a great way to widen your circle of frie.. | Emilie Barnes | ||
| 17f8018 | Charlie Overby, | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| d1e1473 | Whatever else you could say about Jason Westerfield, grass didn't grow under the man's feet. A | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 731c8e9 | Wisdom comes from knowing God and understanding His will for our lives. The Holy Spirit assists us in our quest for wisdom by enabling us to view the world as God perceives it. From an early age we can seek God's wisdom. We don't have to wait until we are old to figure out this puzzle of life. In Psalm 111:10 we read, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise en.. | Emilie Barnes | ||
| 60e366c | f you're living in a place that's just not big enough for that huge Christmas tree you'd love to have, get branches of evergreen, balsam, or juniper and use them to outline mirrors, arrange on mantels or windowsills, or decorate tabletops and bookshelves. Add gold or silver balls or showcase your holiday collectibles among the branches, such as snow villages, angels, and Christmas teacups. And don't forget to use plenty of unlit candles in .. | Emilie Barnes | ||
| 3a61792 | PRAYER Lord, Your model prayer has come to me in the night on several occasions and has given me great comfort. Your prayer has become my prayer, and I enjoy reciting it often when I think of You. Amen. HEART ACTION Trust the Lord each day for your provision. Let me live according to those holy rules which thou bast this day prescribed in thy holy word; make me to know what is acceptable in thy holy word; make me to know what is acceptable .. | Emilie Barnes | ||
| e0d711a | HEART ACTION Plan a tea party to gather together some old or new friends. Even having just one person over for a cup of tea and good conversation will create a time of hospitality and connection. Make it simple so that you enjoy it and can focus on sharing your heart with your guests. A TEA PARTY HAS ITS OWN MANNERS Serving tea is a wonderful excuse for sharpening etiquette around the table. Mothers can use this time to teach their young da.. | Emilie Barnes |