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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c10d7bd | Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?" "It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or a flower. It takes time, but once the butterfly lets its guard down, you can become friends quite naturally." ... " ... I come here every day, say hello to the butterflies, and talk about things with them. When the time comes, thou.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 88ac442 | My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. | Murakami Haruki | ||
| afab4ba | But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'.. | escape flawed reading relatable | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 0bde1c7 | Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 28ca3a1 | Even the most beautiful things can be toxic. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b585401 | Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cdb53bd | This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f737a38 | INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, . Limit of the.. | memorized | James Joyce | |
| 0e3352c | Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy. | Roald Dahl | ||
| d444af5 | Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| b0b604d | Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 5c4bfbd | There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 77392ec | He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal. | life | Tom Robbins | |
| db9ad20 | Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. Honeysuckle, swamp flowers, magnolia, and the mystery smell of the river scented the atmosphere, amplifying the intrusion of organic sleaze. It was aphrodisiac and repressive, soft and violent at the same time. In New Orlean.. | decatur dixie-beer french-quarter honeysuckle louisiana magnolias new-orleans scent smell | Tom Robbins | |
| 363df13 | Dehumanizing and holding people accountable are mutually exclusive. Humiliation and dehumanizing are not accountability or social justice tools, they're emotional off-loading at best, emotional self-indulgence at worst. And if our faith asks us to find the face of God in everyone we meet, that should include the politicians, media, and strangers on Twitter with whom we most violently disagree. When we desecrate their divinity, we desecrate .. | Brené Brown | ||
| fcb7ad3 | The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. | time | Jonathan Swift | |
| d8c04a3 | If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles. | patriotism | Howard Zinn | |
| 28362e7 | Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!" | Tite Kubo | ||
| ea6c5a0 | Doesn't matter who it is I'll friggin break 'em -Grimmjow jaggerjaques | Tite Kubo | ||
| ff36aab | That night, the Raka conspirators had plenty of news to report, particularly Ochobu. Aly had not known that the mages of the Chain had been laboring to eliminate any mages who had worked magic on the Crown's behalf. So far they had killed seven of the most powerful. Chelaol would call this count of the dead another 'good start,' Aly thought grimly. This crude business of counting up lives taken struck her as a bad idea. It took the horror f.. | life murder | Tamora Pierce | |
| 88b73f2 | It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best." | frostpine | Tamora Pierce | |
| c2302f1 | It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked at myself with furious discontent, which verged on loathing, and so I inwardly attributed the same feeling to everyone. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a57aeaa | Sure you can be a coward and hope somone else changes the wrld for you. You can hide up in that attic of yours until someone knocks on the door and says, 'Oh, hey, they freed the hidden. Want to come out?' Is that what you want" Luke didnt answer "You've got to come, Luke, or you'll hate yourself the rest of your life. When you dont have to hide anymore, even years from now, there'll always be some small part of you whispering 'I don't dese.. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 496accc | It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| df3b541 | And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 0ffd826 | All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. | sex | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 49f4ea1 | One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books. | Graham Greene | ||
| 062f640 | Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe" | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 17f934b | But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| de2d704 | You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 3fa435a | but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 56ec6a2 | Stay gold Ponyboy, | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 17fed72 | Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have been programmed to respond to the human difference between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no pa.. | difference differences-between-people institutionalized outsiders profit rejection | Audre Lorde | |
| 83468b7 | I love Nancy Drew! | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 69f37d3 | I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and pl.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| a4cc612 | Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b24dbd8 | For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. | life | Oscar Wilde | |
| 5cdff91 | Conscience makes egotists of us all. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 6a10ee1 | I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does." | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3eba277 | A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| bef3170 | The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 758bc7d | I often say that I don't worry about the meaning life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is that I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 6530315 | When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves. | Christopher Pike | ||
| be38da7 | The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least. | Chuck Klosterman |