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7f7c7b1 She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong. obsession Jodi Picoult
5fe8933 Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Jodi Picoult
e080eee You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green." love perfect Jodi Picoult
b0ea270 We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any. interesting Jodi Picoult
bd1e2c8 Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is Jodi Picoult
827ac35 What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot. Ken Kesey
bb181a8 Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
8a0bbb6 because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth Gabriel García Márquez
c797857 One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever"." Gabriel García Márquez
3190bd0 In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down. Gabriel García Márquez
eaa0a36 Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can. death smiling Gabriel García Márquez
145190e By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore. Gabriel García Márquez
e945f30 There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was. Gabriel García Márquez
67c5968 The difference between a criminal and an outlaw is that while criminals frequently are victims, outlaws never are. Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized. All people who live subject to other people's laws are victims. People who break laws out of greed, frustration, or vengeance are victims. People who overturn laws in order to replace them with their own laws are victims. ( I am speaking here .. outlaw vs Tom Robbins
4f5cdd3 Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket. etiquette manners Brené Brown
8e1843c I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair ... Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd .. fantasy reality shadow time Fyodor Dostoyevsky
d334c95 The finest fury is the most controlled. bob-dylan control fury lonesome-death-of-hattie-carroll music Christopher Hitchens
5c0ecdb But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. Evelyn Waugh
4302a91 Never in her life - she could swear it from the bottom of her soul - had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently? Thomas Hardy
f75f5bc My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love. Graham Greene
0edcc57 We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts. Graham Greene
adef29a How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt. corruption death evil glory god sacrifice sin vice Graham Greene
2d93c77 I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem. poem poetry Karen Joy Fowler
eba8ba2 Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. human-nature society Iris Chang
7a5a73c To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. humor meat stinky-cheese Anthony Bourdain
7089f2c What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. science Carl Sagan
b6d964e If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? eternity T.S. Eliot
514255d Why do people respect the package rather than the man? truth Michel de Montaigne
253e4c3 I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me. master stoker vampire Bram Stoker
efd6cf0 Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. inspirational truth Richard Dawkins
7bb3e17 Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. evolution Richard Dawkins
b2aeabd It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. jealousy love ownership Toni Morrison
60c5bea If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over? Robert Fulghum
20d9330 The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought killing luck man moon nature stars sun Ernest Hemingway
d0c9811 All ends are temporary and all life is born from death. Christopher Pike
b8fc15f Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make .. christopher-pike thirst-volume-1 Christopher Pike
305e8f5 Price," Wrath said, still looking at his brother. "Well, here's the thing." As the king cursed, the man, Lassiter, laughed. "It's not a price, though." "What. Is. It." "We're a two-for-one-deal." "Excuse me?" "I come with him." "The fuck you do." The man lost any levity in his voice. "It's past of the arrangement, and believe me, I wouldn't choose this either. Fact is, he's my last change, so yeah, I'm sorry, but I go with him. And if you s.. J.R. Ward
17401af I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me. J.R. Ward
ca56ed5 Ah, hell. His peripheral vision was working far too well tonight. His slut of a cousin, his cocksucking, suit-wearing, Montblanc-up-the-ass cousin Saxton the Magnificent, was standing next to the queen, looking like a combination of Cary Grant and some model in a goddamn cologne ad. Not that Qhuinn was bitter. Because the guy was sharing Blay's bed. Nah. Nope. Not at all. The Cocksucker- With a wince, he thought maybe he should switch that .. heartache quinn J.R. Ward
a123032 When he heard light, rushing footfalls, he turned his head. Someone was racing along the second-floor balcony. Then laughter drifted down from above. Glorious feminine laughter. He leaned out the archway and glanced at the grand staircase. Bella appeared on the landing above, breathless, smiling, a black satin robe gathered in her hands. As she slowed at the head of the stairs, she looked over her shoulder, her thick dark hair swinging li.. john-matthew zsadist J.R. Ward
331e8d8 Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it. Marcel Proust
135f540 Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. Marcel Proust
705b29d The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. Kurt Vonnegut
ac2fb70 Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president. Kurt Vonnegut