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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea865d4 | I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 14d8303 | I have never been a nag. I have always been rather proud of my un-nagginess. So it pisses me off, that Nick is forcing me to nag. I am willing to live with a certain amount of sloppiness, of laziness, of the lackadaisical life. I realize I am more type A than Nick, and I try not to inflict my neat-freaky, to-do-list nature on him. Nick is not the kind of guy who is going to think to vacuum or clean out the fridge. He truly doesn't see that .. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4300ae5 | Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don't land me in one of those relationships where we're always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and "playfully" scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument they could not care less about." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5b9ec31 | I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and e.. | possibilities | Joan Didion | |
| 21ed12f | In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose. | Paul Auster | ||
| e8d27e8 | But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 9ee015b | the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. | William Golding | ||
| c3188e0 | Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities. | Ayn Rand | ||
| a76874c | Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence. | rand virtue | Ayn Rand | |
| 15c6ab0 | the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry... | Billy Collins | ||
| 7498079 | As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. | writing | John Steinbeck | |
| e166f26 | Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to. | look-ahead men steinbeck | John Steinbeck | |
| 20242c6 | It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a11d880 | Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived. | Arthur Golden | ||
| dd0eeb5 | Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 00af4bf | Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little. | sun sunlight | Nora Roberts | |
| eb20348 | Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it. | Dan Brown | ||
| bf4f468 | There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge. | limit mind napoleon-hill | Napoleon Hill | |
| 8fea4ff | You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. | desparation women | Lisa See | |
| 77d875d | Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. | history possession war | Jared Diamond | |
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| 228a3ae | Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 25c831b | One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 2b3889c | Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state to sidetrack us." He brushed his fingers againist the lacings of her neck. "Isn't it time you returned that shirt to its owner?" -- | Julia Golding | ||
| 00c63ee | Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one. | Frank Herbert | ||
| f8ad833 | A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind. | dune | Frank Herbert | |
| b0bffd2 | That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c4943fa | We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep - it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything .. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| a0745e4 | Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness. | june madness may | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 2f7df75 | And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. | misery people watches | Douglas Adams | |
| 3d70010 | In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you se.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| af1cb53 | Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later - or sooner." | great-tales tales | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6107e57 | Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command? | faramir lord-of-the-rings middle-earth tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 747eb1a | But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 08fd995 | It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| fe8288e | Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep." | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 7e01a95 | I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly been able to enjoy it properly . . . I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and then has to close its eyes again. I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human be.. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 42e206d | Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is 'grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock' supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Cafe is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a74dd50 | You have the optimism of a child. (Julian) Peter Pan all the way. (Grace) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0d95a7c | Then why don't you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick) I don't want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel's Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I'd take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9d1db4f | He's right. I'm a worthless bastard fathered by a bastard even more worthless than I am." [Fury]" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| aadeda4 | If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 90187ac | You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 2a6e27d | You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away? | Kelley Armstrong |