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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9b689af | Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude. | solitude sovereignty | Georges Bataille | |
| 9b7281f | Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life." | John Green | ||
| 98b818a | Everyone in this tale had a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, "The fault, dear Brutus, is no in our stars / But in ourselves." Easy to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage o.. | John Green | ||
| 28e9be0 | How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? | looking-for-alaska | John Green | |
| 126169d | I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps. | john-green looking-for-alaska seek | John Green | |
| 8731975 | God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 3a27f54 | It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding. | misunderstanding | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| d9e8ddc | When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 9134414 | I want first of all... to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact--to borrow from the language of the saints--to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| de0a409 | A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b8d8415 | Life cracked like ice! | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| c9df7d0 | Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone | enlightenment meditation narcissism self-absorption self-improvement self-realization | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 691843f | Ya murio? ?Y de que? -No supe de que. Tal vez de tristeza. Suspiraba mucho. -Eso es malo. Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace. | tristeza vida | Juan Rulfo | |
| 8907cea | Courage faces fear and thereby masters it | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 213b96c | When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps. | jealousy sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| e1dc14d | Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 25330b0 | I am illegitimate," she said distinctly, as if he were a foreigner trying to learn English. "You are a viscount. You can't marry a bastard." "What about the Duke of Clarence? He had ten bastard children by that actress...what was her name..." "Mrs. Jordan." "Yes, that one, Their children were all illegitimate, but some of them married peers." "You're not the Duke of Clarence." "That's right. I'm not a blueblood any more than you are. I inhe.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 5319071 | What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you." "Why? Was kissing me that bad?" A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good." | haven kiss wine-cellar | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 6ae2fba | And in our Scripture class, Owen said, "IT'S TRUE THAT THE DISCIPLES ARE STUPID - THEY NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS MEANS, THEY'RE A BUNCH OF BUNGLERS, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD AS MUCH AS THEY WANT TO BELIEVE, AND THEY EVEN BETRAY JESUS. THE POINT IS, GOD DOESN'T LOVE US BECAUSE WE'RE SMART OR BECAUSE WE'RE GOOD. WE'RE STUPID AND WE'RE BAD AND GOD LOVES US ANYWAY - JESUS ALREADY TOLD THE DUMB-SHIT DISCIPLES WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. "THE SO.. | John Irving | ||
| 4cd0d40 | Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you | John Irving | ||
| 761508d | Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b980a37 | I want you to steal something." I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you." "If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated. My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away." | eugenides gen magus the-thief | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| d07864c | She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you? | unrequited-love | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 0ae5bfd | I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I'm not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodgi.. | sex women | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 85cda5b | The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 7dbc002 | Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life. | Alan Moore | ||
| f638e6b | We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 2d10e7f | But I've been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don't get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn't even true at the time--love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions--and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives--then I p.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 5902543 | And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile -- except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison. | convention fame science-fiction self-referential | Isaac Asimov | |
| 2300c44 | I've never even been to Long Island | supernatural | Meg Cabot | |
| 1aa67ca | They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian! | Meg Cabot | ||
| 6bef9f3 | I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something. | boots cabot john meg pierce | Meg Cabot | |
| 8d09094 | Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh. | missing-someone romance | Salvador Plascencia | |
| 1998dba | Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy | Harlan Coben | ||
| aac0f9c | because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself. | Stephen King | ||
| 4f3cc80 | Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack? | Stephen King | ||
| 16d32f9 | We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith. | death faith | Stephen King | |
| 78722ef | Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer. Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer. Death is speechless, so hear my speech. This is Jake, who served his ka and his tet. Say true. May the forgiving glance of S'mana heal his heart. Say please. May the arms of Gan raise him from the darkness of this earth. Say please. Surround him, Gan , with light. Fill him, Chloe, with strength. If he is thirsty, give him water in .. | jake-chambers roland-deschain stephen-king the-dark-tower | Stephen King | |
| fe91aca | At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled. | detective express fiction hercule murder orient poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 845eaed | They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 6c4b420 | As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive," or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These past understandings aren't to be denied or dismissed; they're to be embraced. Those experiences belong. Love demands that they belong. That's where we were at that point in our life .. | love past | Rob Bell | |
| 08f4c1b | When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself. | self-loathing | Emma Forrest | |
| 68e8754 | E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear. | caring children cuteness hypocrisy kids neglect parents pretense | Emma Donoghue | |
| 15a4150 | If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. | Anne Brontë |