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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b3e046 | Some men [...] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 7244d1f | The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 843f32c | A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future. | science national-security | Barack Obama | |
| 1f0b708 | Once the quietness arrived, it stayed and spread in Estha. It reached out of his head and enfolded him in its swampy arms. It rocked him to the rhythm of an ancient, fetal heartbeat. It sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory; dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue. It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left .. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 8930de8 | By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 53fbdc7 | How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. | D. H. Lawrence | ||
| bc004e8 | I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . . | semiotics | Italo Calvino | |
| e55a6c8 | I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| d977dd2 | It's easy to close, but almost impossible to close. Think about friends. Think about hobbies. Even ideas. They're close to us--sometimes so close we think they are part of us--and then, at some point, they aren't close anymore. They go away. Only one thing can keep something close over time: holding it there. Grappling with it. Wrestling it to the ground, as Jacob did with the angel, and refusing to let go. What we don't wrestle we let .. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a62f2d7 | She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 3a6e5b3 | it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little. | Franz Kafka | ||
| cca77d8 | That is when I understood the magical meaning of the circle. If you go away from a row, you can still come back into it. A row is an open formation. But a circle closes up, and if you go away from it, there is no way back. It is not by chance that the planets move in circles and that a rock coming loose from one of them goes inexorably away, carried off by centrifugal force. Like a meteorite broken off from a planet, I left the circle and h.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4c687fc | No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2bc51c4 | I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d3efb8e | So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a40e471 | He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| acf91c4 | Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about 'the Shadow' in one of his books: 'It is as evil as we are positive... the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 96986e0 | Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. | perfection future work life starting | Haruki Murakami | |
| 8d064e6 | In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 178c3f1 | Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive. | life philosophy | Murakami Haruki | |
| ccce3b2 | Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4ace99c | The heart apparently doesn't stop that easily. | heart stop | Haruki Murakami | |
| e6734b5 | But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 461d799 | Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the .. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 8537dbc | You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life | perfection reality | Woody Allen | |
| 7f3b0e6 | Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. I should never have let your lips leave mine all those years ago in Boston. I should never have pulled away. I should never have panicked. I should never have wasted all those years without you. Give me a.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ee034a4 | At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can do: 1) break down, lose hope, and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 32b684c | sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin. | lessons life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 3774e11 | I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends forever, | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0271203 | A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 50b23b9 | The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there's no right way and wrong way to do it. We're all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he's right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1187ce5 | You know how I see it? There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing--light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light...I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d740a1d | There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 398924e | As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 544889f | I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| de987d6 | Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | James Joyce | ||
| 2482f3b | More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you. | boys-love i-m-dying theo | Donna Tartt | |
| 20ed16f | Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in. | religion love inspirational | Francine Rivers | |
| 40c7d83 | My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 8443b92 | You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. | Saul Bellow | ||
| ba391ca | Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely vi.. | emily-dickinson | Emily Dickinson | |
| 4ae5fe6 | A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly | flying | Emily Dickinson | |
| af07c5c | I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end. | Sylvia Plath | ||
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