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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 855ce1d | Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7ecaac3 | The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die. | world | Jodi Picoult | |
| 5d3289f | A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9f47be1 | I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d085b7b | What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tortures of hell forever? Forever! For all eternity! Not for a year or an age but forever. Try to imagine the awful meaning of this. You have often seen the sand on the seashore. How fine are its tiny grains! And how many of those tiny grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play. Now imagine a mountain of that sand, a million miles high, reaching from the earth to the f.. | James Joyce | ||
| 5464040 | Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping. | Roald Dahl | ||
| cbc072b | The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it. | writing writing-life | Roald Dahl | |
| 02bb4ba | The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered .. | hyde jekyll rebirth robert-louis-stevenson transformation | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 4cbd3ea | And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is king of the Mud. That is all he can see. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 231985c | Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 2724ccd | Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5c67f26 | There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence. | violence war | Tom Robbins | |
| 6f8ca99 | How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries? | Brené Brown | ||
| 07e1db8 | MANIFESTO OF THE BRAVE AND BROKENHEARTED There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers Than those of us who are willing to fall Because we have learned how to rise With skinned knees and bruised hearts; We choose owning our stories of struggle, Over hiding, over hustling, over pretending. When we deny our stories, they define us. When we run from struggle, we are never free. So we turn toward truth and look it in the .. | Brené Brown | ||
| e0b35bc | For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is "I didn't get enough sleep." The next one is "I don't have enough time." Whether true or not, that thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think to question or examine it. We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing, explaining, complaining, or worrying about what we don't have enough of. ...Before we even sit up in bed, before our fe.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 4aa1a9e | What else? I also believe that if someone comes up behind you on the freeway and flashes their lights to get you to move into the slow lane, they deserve whatever punishment you dole out to them. I promptly slow down and drive at the same speed as the car beside me so that I can punish Speed Racer for his impertinence. Actually, it's not the impertinence I'm punishing him for, it's that he let other people know what he wanted. Speed Racer, .. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 50abdc6 | You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be. | plot purpose-of-life work | Douglas Coupland | |
| 5577880 | I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. | life longing poetry pride sense-of-wonder stars | Roger Zelazny | |
| 81c96a3 | George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?" | friendship george | Tamora Pierce | |
| a54a438 | Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male - I hesitate to say 'man' - or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?" One of the new women snorted. Others snickered. Kel looked at the man, who was momentarily speechless. "If I disagree with you, should I place blame on the misworkings of your manhood? Or do I refrain from so serious an insul.. | mysogyny sexism | Tamora Pierce | |
| 28b1181 | And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!" | grandmother humor men sailors sex warning | Tamora Pierce | |
| 603a8b8 | If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0ebbeee | People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6d20f7f | I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f2a41ab | Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. | wealth | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 28102b9 | It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 78b7978 | Sentia una inmensa ternura por ella. Estaba seguro de que la querria siempre, para mi dicha y tambien mi desdicha. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| f39fc94 | I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. | believing otma pretending romanovs russia russian-revolution tsar-nicholas-ii war | Sarah Miller | |
| bff8012 | That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime! | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6074605 | What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad--yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly." | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 256ba07 | Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you." | pessimism truth | Lawrence Block | |
| f66ac0a | Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 4f88b0b | For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 6b8f47e | The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown). | Andy Warhol | ||
| 8e9c0c4 | Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me | days-of-magic-nights-of-war longing love sad-love | Clive Barker i Days of Magic Nights of War i | |
| 2080ce1 | I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| b870692 | Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 7ccf907 | We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 4d3e649 | Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 116457a | if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 2839e6c | Dreams: the place most of us get what we need. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 4fc22a0 | I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. | women | Bram Stoker | |
| d63737b | Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 1ebdd8a | One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest. | Kay Redfield Jamison |