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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b801b36 | I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago--the craft of writing as the art of thinking. Poetry aims for an economy of truth--loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0032b27 | My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm. Clap. Clap. Clap. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1c95987 | Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f00376e | But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c7c0e58 | For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. | thought | George Eliot | |
| 2678ca2 | In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy." "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women as to see themselves in a relationship of connection...I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein that h.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9ac2722 | Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure). | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 869906c | Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. | spiritual values-in-life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 488aaef | Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| c580277 | Still. Four words. And I didn't realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear Neil, If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the wall of a public library children's area, what would it be? Thanks! Lynn I pondered a bit. I'd said a lot about books and kids' reading over the years, and other people had said things pithier and wiser than I ever could. And then it hit me,.. | book book-lover books | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2e4c21a | You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew knew that the other mother loved her as a possession, nothing more, a tolerated pet whose behavior was no longer amusing." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2832ec0 | The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 10d5351 | I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 493b24b | It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 77ae66b | Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it. | life motivational reading | Robert Greene | |
| c84444e | had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. | greatness honor ingersoll perfect perfection praise respect robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll | Thomas Edison | |
| 9a93c02 | Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7bdedac | In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c7a2d01 | It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita | sense-memory | Laura Esquivel | |
| 6e67ed4 | I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 9d8e95f | Mors certa, vita incerta, | latin | Philip K. Dick | |
| c190f7f | On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 786ba22 | danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 4703b82 | Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 99e2ed6 | When I was a kid," Orr replied, "I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek." ... A minute passed. "Why?" [Yossarian] found himself forced to ask finally. Orr tittered triumphantly. "Because they're better than horse chestnuts... When I couldn't get crab apples," Orr continued, "I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the sh.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 88bc0ec | Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy voices talking and laughing. She guessed she was hearing hundreds of years of parties and celebrations that had been held at this shrine in ancient times, as if the memories had been freed along with the spirits. 'What is that?' Jason asked nervously. Piper slipped her hand into his. 'The gho.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 747b795 | I will feast on enemies of Ra until my belly is full!" "Charming," Sadie whispered." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 80e72b5 | I lost hope when I saw the horses' teeth. As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's. I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most horses. , I told him. The horse said. , I protested. Usually this gets me VIP treatment in the equestrian world, but not this time. The horse.. | poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| a75db9b | Go Chase A Donut. -Percy Jackson. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 60481c0 | But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed. | kindness small-things wine | Rick Riordan | |
| 87d663b | One guy wore nothing but a Speedo. He'd painted himself blue and was armed only with a baseball bat. Across his chest were the words COME AT ME, BRO. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6e4059d | The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. | humor religion | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 32a560a | There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. | life misery | Raymond Carver | |
| f9c1348 | No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 8fda964 | Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts. | faith | Orson Scott Card | |
| c2f0abf | The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. | practicing training | Orson Scott Card | |
| e9ab20e | What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?" | Robin McKinley | ||
| dca65d7 | There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance. | Robin McKinley | ||
| a428805 | It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music | Henning Mankell | ||
| f7d3093 | Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange? | anthony burgess clockwork orange | Anthony Burgess | |
| 28e087c | Okay. This was good. This was heading somewhere I'd-- "I want to strangle you," she said, her voice hoarse. All right, that wasn't good. Not at all. "You have no idea how badly I want to kick you right now," she added. And that was worse. This wasn't-- "I love you," she said, and she swallowed. "I've loved you since you pushed me down on the playground. I swear-- I've loved you since then." | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| e5df39c | Apparently, there was even a meme created already. The incredibly photogenic glowing-alien meme. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 771f756 | You make me think before I act. You make me want to be a better person-Luxen-whatever. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 08ad48a | This was better than looking through Tumblr posts of hot guys. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |