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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 81a2528 | After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? | homer iliad justification mythology passage-of-time passion past right troy truth war | Umberto Eco | |
| b1e5ee8 | It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly. | Miranda July | ||
| bdf75e8 | Her lips pursed. My palms went damp. Her fangs were out, as pointed and delicate as little bone daggers. "That's disappointing, Solange." I was going to die because I couldn't embroider roses on a pillow." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 987600c | If we act like prey, they'll act like predators | fear hunting prey truth | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 0a34a23 | I might have been more worried if I hadn't been defending myself against six brothers my whole life. And if I didn't have a mother who thought she was a ninja. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 1191509 | Can I give you a word of advice?" Lucy asked. "I suppose so." "You have a great French accent. If a guy asks you to wear a French maid's costume, kick him in the shin." "Especially if it's one of my brothers" Solange agreed." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 1edb958 | We have the same symptoms as tuberculosis, especially in the eyes of the Romantic Poets. Pale, tired, coughing up blood." "That's romantic?" I had to smile. "Romantic with a capital 'R.' You know, like Byron and Coleridge." He gave a mock shudder. "Please, stop. I barely passed English Lit." I snorted. "I didn't have that option. One of my aunts took Byron as a lover." "Get out." "Seriously. It makes Lucy insanely jealous." "That girl is . .. | solange | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| ed2ab37 | The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore. | reality | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 88c5437 | Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 5a5149a | You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. | noir | Raymond Chandler | |
| 00ebc35 | And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a534ec8 | I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen h.. | jean-claude love | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 0a847ce | Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last. | maturity skin-trade | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 9e2b7fb | Edward glanced at me, then back at Olaf. "The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover. But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a497cf0 | I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b288c90 | that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both. | perseverance | José Saramago | |
| df3272a | ql bsr`@: 'n bkhyr shkr lk, hdh m nqwlh `ndm l nryd l`b dwr lD`f ljsdy, nqwl nn bkhyr, Hty lw kn nHtDr, w hdh mt`rf `lyh b'nh stjm` llshj`@, Zhr@ lm t`rf l ldy lbshr | José Saramago | ||
| 4939db4 | Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| bbf4c50 | Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| cf59248 | Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 684411c | Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay? | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6b64d23 | During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spi.. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 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 |