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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f166d5c | Irruption of the magical in the life of Snow White: Snow White knows a singing bone. The singing bone has told her various stories which have left her troubled and confused: of a bear transformed into a king's son, of an immense treasure at the bottom of a brook, of a crystal casket in which there is a cap that makes the wearer invisible. This must not continue. The behavior of the bone is unacceptable. The bone must be persuaded to confine.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 065d322 | We have decided to stop voting, so pull down the posters. Let's get all those ugly faces off our streets and out of our elective offices. We are not going to vote any more, no matter how often they come around with their sound trucks and statesmanlike gestures. Pull down the sound trucks. Pull down the outstretched arms. To hell with the whole business. Voting has turned out to be a damned impertinence. They never do what we want them to do.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 859c4b7 | Tenemos putrefactores, plagas y oxidos capaces de atacar su alfabeto. Estos son la leche. Tenemos un producto quimico para encoger sus cabanas que penetra las fibras del bambu provocando que las chozas asfixien a sus ocupantes. Esto funciona solo despues de las diez de la noche, cuando la gente duerme. Sus matematicas estan a merced de un supurante numero sordo que hemos inventado. Tenemos una familia de peces entrenados para atacar a sus p.. | humor war | Donald Barthelme | |
| 1807711 | The daughters are tired of kissing each other, although some are not. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| e1c2427 | The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered." | Donald Barthelme | ||
| cabb379 | Ma non ci riusci, a pensare. Pensare era al di sopra delle sue possibilita. Io lo capisco bene. Anch'io ho i miei problemi. I finali sfuggono. Le parti centrali non si trovano mai, ma peggio di tutto e cominciare, cominciare, cominciare. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 54098b1 | The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day, when the sun goes down and the supper is to be cooked." -from "The Educational Experience" | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 9e34ba2 | And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 9b1603e | It's only when you stop to think about it. I don't stop. - From "Morning" | humor introspection motion reflection | Donald Barthelme | |
| b934ffb | It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| ab5d0c5 | Do I want to be loved in spite of?Do you? Does anyone? But aren't we all to some degree? Aren't there important parts of all of us which must be, so to say, gazed past? I turn a blind eye to that aspect of you and turn a blind eye to that aspect of me. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| fcdd835 | Love, which is a kind of permission to come closer than ordinary norms of good behavior might usually sanction. - Back rubs. - Which enables us to see each other without clothes on, for example, in lust and shame. - Examining perfections, imperfections. - Which allows us to say wounding things to each other which would not be kosher under the ordinary rules of civilized discourse. | love relationships romance | Donald Barthelme | |
| 9803547 | He tried to ignore the feather of longing that tickled his heart. But it kept tickling. Because he hadn't quite made up his mind to stay here. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 9fd7462 | Over and over and over, Mom and Dad towed them out, turned them around, then let go. The water whooshed them back to shore. The hot sun above, the cold water beneath: it was a feeling you could never get tired of. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| c81e8f7 | Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it. | Bigotry | ||
| c2eaa9a | I believe that once you can just marry your idea, believe in it. You will begin to see the results. | Bilikiss Adebiyi | ||
| 815e590 | But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!" | Bill Bailey | ||
| 07cc34e | o que desejo a Chizalum e o seguinte: que ela seja cheia de opinioes, e que suas opinioes provenham de uma base bem informada, humana e de uma mente aberta. Que ela tenha saude e felicidade. Que tenha a vida que quiser ter. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 36dfa09 | Who photographs kebabs? | Bill Bailey | ||
| f5e9a67 | I am a confectionary-based existentialist. | Bill Bailey | ||
| 1cd6c36 | Nostalgia: How long's that been around? | Bill Bailey | ||
| 50c72d3 | his plan to prevent potential boyfriends from taking advantage of his daughter] | Bill Engvall | ||
| d6e1149 | about trampolines] | Bill Engvall | ||
| 445e3fe | Men have three basic needs: Eating, sleeping, sex. That's it. | Bill Engvall | ||
| 1dd4eaf | Did I say Seven Minutes in Heaven? No, you're playing Seven Minutes in Hell!" Mal cackled; she couldn't help it. This was going" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 9b014f4 | They would rampage up and down the island, terrorizing step-granddaughters and traumatizing even the most stalwart goons, and no one | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| a1c4bb4 | Evie, sweetie! So glad you could make it!" Mal said, throwing her arms theatrically around the girl and giving her a giant and fake embrace. "We're playing Seven Minutes in Heaven! Want to play?" "Uh, I don't know," said Evie, looking around the party nervously. "It'll be a scream," said Mal. "Come on, you want to be my friend, don't you?" Evie stared at Mal. "You want me to be your friend?" "Sure--why not?" Mal led her to the closet door a.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 2b30211 | Excuse me? she sent. What's this all about? She looked around suspiciously, but the library was full of Auradon students diligently working on their Virtues and Values term papers on computer terminals or else absorbed in their Kindness and Decency reading. This week's assignment was Snow White's How to Keep a Happy Home for a Family of Seven (Dwarfs Optional). | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 661614a | Me, crazy?" Mal raised her voice even higher. "How could I not be? I go to school in a graveyard and eat expired scones for breakfast. My own mother sends me to forbidden places like this, because of some old bird and a lost stick," she scoffed. "There's nothing you can throw at me that's worse than what I've already got going." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 5ea0a73 | Dr. F picked a few up and held them under the dim reading light beside him. "The Major Arcana. Impressive." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 544c5d9 | For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright. | historical-romance | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| c80f5bc | kill | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| cf33148 | Hi, | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 1b78097 | Jane | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 0d21cb2 | Jay. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d4e9eda | A new Dragon's Egg?" asked" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 012d15c | deftly | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 9dd26f5 | were actually pretty hilarious--he hoped | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6461532 | escape the | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6c1b29e | Yeah, | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 3fb55af | There she saw the tiny princess, the fairest of the (is) land, sitting on her rickety throne, her hair as blue as the ocean, eyes as dark as night, and lips as pink as roses. Her hair was pulled back from her face in a pretty V-braid, and she laughed in delight at the array of marvels before her. The | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 3bf800a | se la heroina de tu vida, no la victima. --NORA EPHRON | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| e56117f | Malefient's | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 3eeb573 | Es el reto al que nos enfrentamos todos. ?Que podemos hacer para mejorar nosotros y este pais? ?Que podemos hacer para ser recordados? ?Quienes queremos ser? | Melissa de la Cruz |