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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0211800 | When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep | belief heart soul youth | Maya Angelou | |
| 2685016 | He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him. | Mario Puzo | ||
| d2e4d3b | Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it. | Mario Puzo | ||
| e6c22d5 | I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot. | gossip-girl | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| bb119d4 | The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrum.. | biology business charles-darwin darwin goal history illimitable inexplicability infinite intellectual isaac-newton justification knowledge metaphor newton ocean origin-of-species possessions principia science solidity unknown | Thomas Henry Huxley | |
| a5e0122 | The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable--namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows,.. | evolution evolution-of-morality instincts intellect morality science social sympathy | Charles Darwin | |
| bafa066 | The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 92db6ff | dangerous chemistry | Emily Giffin | ||
| beb7002 | recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void... | loss | Emily Giffin | |
| 14e8e4c | Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| c1b28cf | That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped." | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 1e602ed | you just took on five million years of evolution again | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| adee29b | alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 212b288 | Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all m.. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 5a43f91 | I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it--you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. | bullshit sports truth | Harry Crews | |
| 0d1a047 | Since we're playing that game... I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. "Do you have to sneeze?" he asked. "Be quiet. I'm pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said." "Try not to strain anything." "Oh, I won't. I'm very good at faking it." That shut him up." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6f1282c | The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them." | bran ilona-andrews kate kate-daniels magic-burns oracle | Ilona Andrews | |
| aafdf53 | I thought of telling him that if it wasn't for Oklahoman cowboys and Mexican whores having a bit of fun, there would've been no Texans, but that would be counterproductive. | kate kate-daniels magic-bites texans | Ilona Andrews | |
| f87f2ab | I did some thinking." "That is a very dangerous pastime," Ghastek said." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| efa945a | Do you have a girlfriend?" Grandma Frida asked. I put my hand over my face. "No," Mad Rogan said. "A boyfriend?" Grandma Frida asked. "No." "What about . . ." "No," Mom and I said in unison. "But you don't even know what I wanted to ask!" "No," we said again together. "Party poopers." Grandma shrugged." | mad-rogan nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| d626b43 | My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scratches looked suspiciously like letters. I climbed on a chair and looked at it from above. MINE. Oh, that's great. Fantastic. So mature. Perhaps he would pull my pigtails next or stick a tack on my seat. | possessive-hero | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6f8267b | They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame. | koboi opal paradox time | Eoin Colfer | |
| e0e0c4e | Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced. | inspirational les-misérables wisdom | Victor Hugo | |
| b11ecbb | I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 22d1731 | Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ff0c183 | In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfying of natural human needs, and that all unhappiness comes not from lack, but from superfluity; but now, in these last three weeks of the march, he had learned a new and more comforting truth - he had learned that there is nothing frightening in the world. He had.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 01e66f7 | She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 29bcdd0 | On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| eb2fd87 | There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 8cf04e3 | Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 34b379c | The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c7878a8 | T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. | madame-bovary music speech | Gustave Flaubert | |
| a8fac8b | All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers. | freedom | Voltaire | |
| bcd8fde | And I mouth into the phone, , in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. If there is one. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| c069891 | You have now reached infatuation's final destination--the complete and merciless devaluation of self. | infatuation | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 3a4f121 | Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there. | spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0058f0f | This is very American, too - the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. Planet Advertising in America orbits completely around the need to convince the uncertain consumer that yes, you have actually warranted a special treat. This Bud's for You! You Deserve a Break Today! Because You're Worth It! You've Come a Long Way, Baby! And the insecure consumer thinks, Yeah! Thanks! I AM gonna go buy a six-pack, damn it! Maybe even tw.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7a804e1 | Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 87c3107 | The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else... | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 945bab8 | If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 1a5d2e4 | He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting. | fairy-tales fantasy | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6d69bba | Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3b5a625 | Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5d955a4 | The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter. | Mitch Albom |