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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6855e1f | He felt me wake, and drew me close, as though to preserve a moment longer the union we had reached in those last seconds of our perilous joining. I curled beside him, putting my arms around him. He opened his eyes then and sighed, the long mouth curling in a faint smile as his glance met mine. I raised my brows in silent question. "Oh, aye, Sassenach," he answered a bit ruefully. "I am your master ... and you're mine. Seems I canna possess .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 89203be | I am not one of those women who can stand things. | William Faulkner | ||
| 07ba078 | I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it. | William Faulkner | ||
| a94a92a | Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. | James Joyce | ||
| bcc21e0 | I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. | James Joyce | ||
| 6f59e93 | One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black... | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| ccb42e4 | Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| b3cf75e | To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ... | Ken Kesey | ||
| 967d287 | He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. | psychology | Ken Kesey | |
| 9927baf | But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain. | Brené Brown | ||
| d10c19c | The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are "those people." The truth is...we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being "those people"-the ones we don't trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don't let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the.. | addiction divorce poverty shame | Brené Brown | |
| 2a4d27f | Rukia: Why is she glaring at me? Ichigo: I wonder.. Nel: What's your welationship with Itsygo? Rukia: Huh? | nel renji rukia | Tite Kubo | |
| f782e59 | Truth only exists for those who cling to it. "Sosuke Aizen" -- | cling kubo manga tite truth | Tite Kubo | |
| bf72740 | Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream." | balance briar good magic nightmares rosethorn | Tamora Pierce | |
| f89b37e | Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do." | ishabal magic tris | Tamora Pierce | |
| 7292b3f | A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry. | gardening landscape nature poetry | Michael Pollan | |
| 9898b96 | If he's alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn't understand that | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5388811 | n f~ 'SHb lnfws lHss@, lmrhf@, lrqyq@, nw`an mn l`nd f~ b`D l'Hyn, ftr~ 'Hdhm y'b~ 'n y`bWr llshkhS ldh~ yHbh `n Hbh, l byn lns fHsb, bl wf~ lkhlw@ 'kthr mm byn lns, wyndr 'n tflt mnh mlTf@, wlknh n 'fltt knt `nyf@ qwy@ `rm@, `l~ qdr nHbsh md@ Twyl@ mn lzmn. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b78245c | Life [had] replaced logic. | life-of-meaning raskolnikov resurrection | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 2042370 | May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9200fd9 | I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cedad95 | We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 54c5511 | Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| d8a1b3c | Que no me vean caida. Muerta por dentro, pero de pie. Como un arbol. | energía firme fortaleza fuerza resistencia | Alejandro Casona | |
| a14318e | You are shameless!" he said angrily. "Nonsense! You only say so because I drove your horses," she answered. "Never mind! I will engage not to do so again." "I'll take care of that!" he retorted. "Let me tell you, my dear Cousin, that I should be better pleased if you would refrain from meddling in the affairs of my family!" "Now, that," said Sophy, "I am very glad to know, because if ever I should desire to please you I shall know just how .. | cousin fustian pompous | Georgette Heyer | |
| 8af041e | And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!" "No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3e0afbc | Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. | religion science | Carl Sagan | |
| bb79e67 | Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| e2d8465 | I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; | wisdom | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 702213b | It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia" | personal-problems perspective pity self-help | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 7306996 | Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| f731470 | Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn't. They're like a song you hate but can't ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 054acb2 | Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? | good religion science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 192e708 | The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and gives strong sanction to) both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today. Without a doubt it is the prime aggravator .. | vendetta violence | Richard Dawkins | |
| 4c4f616 | Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7d42565 | Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 07d46cb | She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own se.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| af70574 | Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? | Toni Morrison | ||
| cfff320 | But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| c247bfa | For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, hold.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c3c7b5b | I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 4e65b5e | Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?" "Yes, every once in a while." "Do you know that in abou thirty- five more years we'll be dead?" "What the hell, Robert," I said. "What the hell." "I'm serious." "It's one thig I don't worry about," I said. "You ought to." "I've had plenty to worry about.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 4df6bc7 | Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 184eed1 | The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me." | pedro-romero | Ernest Hemingway |