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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f31350 | Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| caaec9d | Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being. | being life | Kate Atkinson | |
| b3e25ff | Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. "I hate funerals, don't you?" He said. "I rather like them," she said smugly. "At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 0525aab | Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e2765c2 | When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine. "Put your clothes in for a wash," he said. "They were disgusting." Ginny always thought that the only way of getting clothes clean was by drowning them in scalding water and then whipping them around in a violent centrifugal motion that caused the entire washing machine to vibrate and the floor to shake. You beat them clean. You made them s.. | ginny humor humour keith | Maureen Johnson | |
| 977652d | Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves. | James Baldwin | ||
| 1b686bc | The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know. | golden-age moon sun | Elizabeth Coatsworth | |
| d728282 | I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colo.. | Elizabeth Bishop | ||
| 1267fa7 | Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her | gentle jane lantern life love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 751929d | How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language." | communication connection language love romance | Bell Hooks | |
| 55f2662 | Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD's, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it. | bell hooks | ||
| 333962a | I know what you want, and you don't need to take it. I can give it to you. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 6e36ee9 | our favorite Sayings from Ryke Meadows. My favorite: Willow's: Lo's: Lily's: Rose's: Connor's: | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 44e59f6 | He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. | life malice spite | Patrick Süskind | |
| 5e7740e | The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 59544b5 | I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 928deda | In his rearview mirror, I saw something flash in his eyes. "You want to know?" he sneered. "Let me imagine, Agha sahib. You probably lived in a big two- or three-story house with a nice backyard that your gardener filled with flowers and fruit trees. All gated, of course. Your father drove an American car. You had servants, probably Hazaras. Your parents hired workers to decorate the house for the fancy mehmanis they threw, so their friends.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b5024ed | People never like me and I never like people | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| bfd7ad6 | To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6a39a12 | For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot. | science | Gordon Korman | |
| f9b8d0f | He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. | decisions doubts | J.K. Rowling | |
| f103db4 | I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4bcc6ed | Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes. "You're less like your father than I thought," he said finally, a definite coolness in his voice. "The risk would've been what made it fun for James." "Look --" "Well, I'd better get going . . . I'll write to tell you a time I can make it back into the fire, then, shall I? If you can stand to risk it?" There was a tiny , and the place where Sirius's head had been wa.. | risk sirius-black | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9a56f0b | ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library. | harry-potter malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3259c63 | You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James. "They won't be able to see you?" asked Harry. "We are part of you," said Sirius. "Invisible to anyone else." | james-potter sirius-black | J.K. Rowling | |
| 75527e2 | That wand's more trouble than it's worth," said Harry. "And quite honestly," he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, "I've had enough trouble for a lifetime." | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| fed027b | Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0dd391f | That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 956fe6e | If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life. | past present-moment | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 599d55c | I don't know what else I can tell you, other than that I can imagine spending the rest of my life with you. I know that sounds crazy. I know we're just getting to know each other, and even admitting what I just did might make you think I'm nuts, but I've never been more sure about anything. And if you give me a chance - if you give us a chance - I'm going to live the rest of my life proving to you that you made the right decision. I love yo.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8ecca93 | I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a705ba3 | That's nice of you, but it's not necessary to loan me a car." "I loan you cars all the time." "And I almost always destroy them or lose them. I have terrible luck with cars." "Working at Rangeman is a high-stress job, and you're one of our few sources of comic relief. I give you a car and my men start a pool on how long it will take you to trash it. You're a line item in my budget under entertainment." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a271022 | He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5facf4c | These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bd305d7 | In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aa97106 | There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible. | people | Nicole Krauss | |
| 15543d2 | When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 6797bc3 | The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. | ignorance | Dan Simmons | |
| cf318dc | I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together. | Michael Chabon | ||
| e5a5708 | The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 82a174c | I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 48e2252 | Every day, God gives us the sun -- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 780d70e | we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e4f5cbb | Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. | Paulo Coelho |