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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 66f4638 | We've learnt to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It is very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard, and you helped us to do that. | inspirational | Luis Sepúlveda | |
| 065159f | After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? | inspirational | Russell Hoban | |
| 981912c | Aku telah mengidap sakit gila nomor enam belas: yakni penyakit manusia yang membuat dunia sendiri dalam kepalanya, menciptakan masalah-masalahnya sendiri, terpuruk di dalamnya, lalu menyelesaikan masalah-masalah itu, sambil tertawa-tawa, juga sendirian. | humor inspirational irony | Andrea Hirata | |
| 5291138 | Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 37d0d88 | You know how to pray, don't you? Just put your hands together and hope. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e18d124 | The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7208769 | When you look into the abyss, it's not supposed to wave back. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8626515 | That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0ab876f | a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| f3cfdf1 | I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 10ba78d | Stronger than iron crueler than death | love riddle | Juliet Marillier | |
| 39111a3 | And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 73d7912 | Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7b4eadb | And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - although I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living cre.. | loneliness sorrow sunlight yellow | Donna Tartt | |
| 87a6f37 | I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling the wasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 8b3a776 | I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I'm humbly aware of how much less a person I'd be - how less a human - if they did not exist. | exist family friends | Rick Bass | |
| d3629a1 | What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering and I responded ... sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly. | George Saunders | ||
| 972b679 | At that, the initial mrowr pfft pfft I'd felt transformed into I will cut a bitch. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0e2a203 | Ship, lady. This here's a ship," he said defensively, as if she'd told him, "Your penis: I find it minuscule." -- | Kresley Cole | ||
| 1dc1fe1 | Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do. | language tongue words | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 29730ca | No matter where I am, I am always loving you. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 05a1d90 | Things aren't different. Things are things. | William Gibson | ||
| dad2877 | Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life. | knowledge understanding | David Baldacci | |
| 763c38a | Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen. | truth | Edward Albee | |
| 0afd581 | Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 74a0ddb | So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| fc1ca69 | After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of Stories ended up being the King of the gods; because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart. | Joanne Harris | ||
| b73e23f | When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them." | feelings | Terry Brooks | |
| de8675f | I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me! | love | Anne Frank | |
| b16e716 | Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. | appetite evil | Gregory Maguire | |
| 4951bc9 | Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense | woman | Gregory Maguire | |
| 7b87444 | A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself or her children. She has to put him first even if she longs to judge for herself. She has to put him first even when she knows best. To be a good wife is to be a woman with a will of iron that .. | wife | Philippa Gregory | |
| 7c3771d | What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 47c4bad | We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 50e9d0a | What's so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn't any difference between people --well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends? | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 054bae5 | All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| fef417f | In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. | living-in-the-present regret | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4c77a47 | You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. ... You are captives--and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?--your captivity and the captivity of the world. | civilization exploitation philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| 23f29d4 | learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| a312a98 | It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2f16eae | Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5665bcb | People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. | Willa Cather | ||
| 3ef5111 | For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn'.. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 9259283 | Kekule dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness, the cynicism with which this dream is to be used. The Serpent that announces, "The World is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning," is to be delivered into a system whose only aim is to violate the Cycle. Taking and not giving back, demanding that "productivity" and "earnings" keep on increas.. | Thomas Pynchon |