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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9b4ed6c | The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it, the sleeves carefully worked down inside Jack's sleeves. It was his own plaid shirt, lost, he'd thought, long ago in some damn laundry, his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack's own shirt, the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two in one. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 9886f7a | Toda nuestra vida seria una serie de gritos anonimos en un desierto de astros indiferentes | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 5106667 | If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b3eb665 | I confused things with their names: that is belief. | names | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| eb1566f | And as Prince Ramil has insulted you by choosing another wife than the one you proposed for him, you'll want to cast him out too," she suggested slyly. "Oh, undoubtedly," murmed Ramil. "Do cast me out." | Julia Golding | ||
| ba3dc91 | If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on teaching your children false-hoods--that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection--then you must expect, at the very least, that th.. | religion science | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| eb6e322 | Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life. | Ted Dekker | ||
| f2180f2 | Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7969c6b | Scars crossed her welded wrists. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| df38857 | It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not lawtype honest--I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment--but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may .. | Truman Capote | ||
| 8f19c78 | the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. | politics saints | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fc3ad15 | Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. | humor nerdiness ray-bradbury science-fiction | Junot Díaz | |
| cce214b | l , l 'ryd 'n yfhmny bshry 'dh kn fhmh 'yy Drban mn l`bwdy@ lm`nwy@ . wm 'kthr ldhyn ytwhmwn 'nhm yfhmwnn l'nhm wjdw fy b`D mZhrn shy'yan shbyhan bm khtbrwh mr@ fy Hythm . wlythm yktfwn bd`y'hm drk 'srrn - tlk l'srr lty nHn dhwtn l ndrkh - wlknhm ySmwnn b`lmt w 'rqm thm yD`wnn `l~' rf mn rfwf 'fkrhm w`tqdthm mthlm yf`l lSydly bqnny ldwy@ wlmsHyq ! | جبران خليل جبران | ||
| e46e256 | The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul.. | growth poetry soul truth | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 81ee0ae | Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's .. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 61ceb5a | Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1b36687 | Can you keep a secret?" "Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain't nothing going to get out." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 021aebe | Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c77d643 | Don't be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You'll never find peace in that. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d8d7570 | Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else." | sex | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| fbeacec | You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a7d8c0b | So, what's your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 213ffc9 | If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 85b87e2 | It doesn't matter what other people think. The only opinion that really matters is yours. We are all the writers of our lives. We can make our stories comedies or tragedies. Tales of horror, or of inspiration. Your attitude and your fortitude and courage are what determine your destiny, Nick.... Life is hard and it sucks for all. Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them. And.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0420cae | About Daniel: Two, he hates Clay * Five, he really hates Clay. * Nine, he really, really, hates Clay. | clay daniel | Kelley Armstrong | |
| ebcf531 | I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art -- not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 2823b15 | Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man. | Albert Camus | ||
| e116990 | When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quiet and then told me life has no one meaning, it only has whatever meaning each of us puts on our own life. I'll tell you now that I still don't know the meaning of mine. And Lucas Cader, with all his brains and talent, doesn't know the meaning of his, either. But I'll tell you the meaning of all this. The meaning of some bird showing up and some boy disappearing and you knowing all .. | John Corey Whaley | ||
| 789df92 | There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is the right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead. This is the kind of passionate convi.. | Howard Schultz | ||
| 15bdabb | I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. | life living | Albert Camus | |
| c6867e6 | We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges. | nihilism philosophy | Albert Camus | |
| ed9c54d | All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid. | Iain Banks | ||
| e8f2d30 | There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. | soldiers war | Iain M. Banks | |
| 2ae2975 | People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 7cbb390 | I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn't worried about frightening me, not overprotective like Edward always was. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6ac5d5b | And then as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you rolled over restlessly and mumbled my name once more, and sighed. The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5efacd3 | Be Safe. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| fd4a47b | I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9d22aba | When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| 3dd60ec | A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. | language philosophy picture solipsism | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| 9e2a900 | What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 6d4fad7 | For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| bd13b12 | Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand "flying" as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a separation would exist between you and time. So if you understand time as only passing, then you do not understand the time being. To grasp this truly, every being that exists in the entire world is linked together as moments in time, and at the same time they exist as individual moments of time. Because all momen.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 946df1a | Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. | Cormac McCarthy |