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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d320edc | My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser | parenting spanking | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 222f2e2 | But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 11ff87c | All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 53b3aff | She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| faea793 | An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d78b6d7 | the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d81485b | Siempre pense que morir de amor solo era una licencia poetica. | memoria-de-mis-putas-tristes | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 534fc44 | The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f6a65e0 | Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues. | Tom Robbins | ||
| f9afe97 | Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. | Tom Robbins | ||
| e81c5ee | Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. | Brené Brown | ||
| 212dcba | When the culture of any organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in power than it is to protect the basic human dignity of the individuals who serve that system or who are served by that system, you can be certain that the shame is systemic, the money is driving ethics, and the accountability is all but dead. | Brené Brown | ||
| 946d62d | I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c449614 | What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world. | Howard Zinn | ||
| f476d0a | Along this road, we won't stop moving forward Not even if we become separated from one another. For us, most of all, there was never a time, never a place where you could just stand still But even so, if there were times when we were afraid, when we'd look back on it all and wonder | Tite Kubo | ||
| 14174ad | The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity. | Julie Powell | ||
| b5230f6 | Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 78a228e | Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with. | death flick helplessness henna illness sickness | Tamora Pierce | |
| fdf2906 | I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it. | pride | Tamora Pierce | |
| e5b0f54 | Shake the hand that feeds you. | Michael Pollan | ||
| c2c4cf4 | You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins. | fear sadness | Rachel Klein | |
| f0d5961 | lm y`d fy ws`y ltHml ,`Tny lmsds- | دوستويفسكي Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5964db6 | There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 512a873 | Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 9f6ed52 | She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. | elizabeth-george-speare witch-of-blackbird-pond | Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 0c0affa | Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess? | star | Thomas Hardy | |
| f4f542b | We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| ab32f9a | The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, .. | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 1ec3a1b | So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done.. | creative-process daily-life preoccupations subconscious superficiality writing | Graham Greene | |
| db4579e | Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen." "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9132f4c | When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. | night-sky science stars | Carl Sagan | |
| e56c425 | Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?" | Clive Cussler | ||
| a3c58a6 | No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. | silly words | Michel de Montaigne | |
| a26e0e6 | When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work. | funny goodnight gwen | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 06121f6 | When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America" | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 52edd59 | Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." | Oscar Wilde | ||
| bf12ff8 | I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| ec0294c | I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 65d8abb | Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman | satire | Oscar Wilde | |
| 0896b53 | Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one. | Toni Morrison | ||
| afe9abc | Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?" -- | Clive Cussler | ||
| fcdc2ea | Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exe.. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 39838f5 | I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. | Greg Iles | ||
| c33d468 | There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it? | faith spiritual | Robert A. Heinlein |