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| 0313c03 | The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage? | racism same-sex-marriage | Frederick Douglass | |
| 264d794 | Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say.. | culture north north-and-south northerners perceptions prejudice regions society south southerners stereotypes superiority | Susan Sontag | |
| 8cae471 | Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining. | John Green | ||
| ad1f3e8 | You can never love people as much as you miss them. | love missing | John Green | |
| 2b592f6 | Algunos infinitos son mas grandes que otros infinitos, nos enseno un escritor. Hay dias, mucho de ellos, cuando resiento el tamano de mi juego ilimitado. Quiero mas numeros de los que puedo tener, y Dios, quiero mpas numeros para Augustus Waters que los que ha obtenido.Pero Gus, mi amor,no puedo decir cuando agradecida estoy por nuestro pequeno infinito. No lo cambiaria por el mundo entero. Me diste un por siempre con dias enumerados, y est.. | John Green | ||
| 28be8ec | We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another. | John Green | ||
| 17c3849 | You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls. | John Green | ||
| eed516c | We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else's misfortune. | John Green | ||
| bb0c204 | Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 46a61cb | Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 6474afd | She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman." | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 514fc24 | I'm so damn glad I love you - I wouldn't love any other man on earth - I b'lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he'd have been you. | Zelda Fitzgerald | ||
| 71e0fd1 | Please stop calling me that. You're still officially the Master." "Oh, I know," Malik said. "But much like Merit, I find it amusing to irritate you." As Malik walked down the hallway and around the corner, Ethan turned his pointed gaze on me. I shrugged innocently. "I can't help it if I'm a trendsetter." | malik merit trendsetter | Chloe Neill | |
| d9666fa | War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. | T.H. White | ||
| 5e93ec0 | And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 82fd1a1 | Wow," I said, since it was all I could think of to say. "Wow. That's some outfit." When you've got a big guy wearing Lycra it doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I resisted the temptation to ask Eric to turn around. "I don't believe I could be convincing as a queen," Eric said, "but I decided this sent such a mixed signal, almost anything was possible." He fluttered his eyelashes at me. Eric was definitely enjoying this. "Oh, yes,.. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| bf21402 | She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win" -- | romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 6a98e0d | A little truth seasons a lie like salt. | story truth | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 666c10c | Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. | lodermulch the-eyes-of-the-overworld | Jack Vance | |
| 454bca6 | It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world. | her humor takeover women world | Julia Quinn | |
| 440e370 | Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place? Etrigan: Think you God built this place, wishing man ill and not lusts uncontrolled or swords unsheathed? Not God, my friend. The truth's more hideous still: These halls were carved by men while yet they breathed. God is no parent or policeman grim dispensing treats or punishments to all. | hell theology | Alan Moore | |
| b0bec61 | There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get | Charles de Lint | ||
| b183be9 | My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. | Tracy Letts | ||
| 0dae9ae | An old man sat down beside her. "Well, aren't you a pretty little peach?" His breath smelled near as foul as the dead men in the cages, and his little pig eyes were crawling up and down her. "Does my sweet peach have a name?" For half a heartbeat she forgot who she was supposed to be. She wasn't any peach, but she couldn't be Arya Stark either, not here with some smelly drunk she did not know. "I'm . . ." "She's my sister." Gendry put a hea.. | gendry-waters | George R. R. Martin | |
| 6819772 | Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. | a-storm-of-swords george-r-r-martin jaime-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| b33f6e9 | It occurs to me," said Hodge, "that the dilemmas of power are always the same." Clary glanced at him sideways. "What do you mean?" She sat on the window seat in the library, Hodge in his chair with Hugo on the armrest. The remains of breakfast--sticky jam, toast crumbs, and smears of butter--clung to a stack of plates on the low table that no one had seemed inclined to clear away. After breakfast they had scattered to prepare themselves, an.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| aa4fffb | I'll tell you what you can do," he said, stopping abruptly. Now he did reach out to grip both my shoulders. But still not to kiss me. Only so he could wheel me around to glare at me some more. "You can leave me alone." Tears sprang once more into my eyes. That's what he wanted from me? For me to stay away from him? This had turned into a greater disaster than when I'd died. And I was still breathing, so that was say something. "I'd like .. | Meg Cabot | ||
| fdceed9 | Everything you want in life has teeth. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| f2fad0e | Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 8ab76d7 | children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| ff8af11 | sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| aab19b7 | She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack." "Yes?" "I. . ." she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| cf73b1e | happiness is a journey, not a destination. ls`d@ rHl@, wlyst wjh@. | Robin S. Sharma روبين شارما | ||
| aad19b9 | Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best t.. | Stephen King | ||
| 600cc82 | Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikel.. | politics | Stephen King | |
| ce5f88e | Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not. | Stephen King | ||
| 5dcc896 | Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just.. | Stephen King | ||
| bc980d7 | I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town." | horror | Stephen King | |
| d3e71c1 | They were close to the end of the beginning . . . | chambers dark-tower deschain gunslinger jake man roland stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 01129f6 | the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... | colors colours sunlight | Stephen King | |
| fab69ac | If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. | library readers reflection | Alberto Manguel | |
| 14e994e | I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying. | Brandon Mull | ||
| e412f71 | Barzul! | eldest eragon funny humor orik | Christopher Paolini | |
| 4a95e88 | When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all. | Robin Hobb |