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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d7eb2d6 | Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat-like figure, and would be disappointed with his r.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 4da46b6 | Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity. | Susan Cain | ||
| a39c0f4 | Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle. | create destroy the-count-of-monte-cristo | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 3f39f5a | On what slender threads do life and fortune hang... ! | instability life | Alexandre Dumas | |
| fdf7f57 | There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic. | grave-peril harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 9dc8b66 | We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome. | Holly Black | ||
| 8e88e5b | Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not tr.. | Holly Black | ||
| 92e13b1 | Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 3247639 | If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs. | fruits-basket good-qualities jealousy | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 155535f | Yes, alone we are, deeply alone, and always, in store for us, a layer of loneliness even deeper. There is nothing we can do to dispose of that. No, loneliness shouldn't surprise us, as astonishing to experience as it may be. You can try yourself inside out, but all you are then is inside out and lonely instead of inside in and lonely. My stupid, stupid Merry dear, stupider even that your stupid father, not even blowing up buildings helps. I.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 2033448 | This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 2908524 | First blood is mine. | funny lolz | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 1193883 | All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?" "Yeah," said Rincewind. "...Luters, I expect." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 74a3c74 | The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys. | sexism | Terry Pratchett | |
| e8f2e1d | The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 01468af | Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3c616ac | And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 4968388 | That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 1f52b3a | We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable. | despair | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| b00daa1 | Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? | be let-it-be mindfulness moment | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| ad4be19 | Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 22477f8 | Nix to Regin: What about that nice leopard-shifter pack that wanted to date you? The benefits of a variety pack of males cannot be overstated. | iad | Kresley Cole | |
| b7cc1b8 | Five years of hell. You deserve to be fucked till you can't walk. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0ba8bc1 | He kissed her. A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| cab1cf4 | Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 6624b54 | It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 355571f | Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world. | Betty Smith | ||
| 1432b7a | There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it has to be heard. In the endless babble of narrative, in spite of the daily noise, the story waits to be heard. Some people say that the best stories have no words. They weren't brought up to Lighthousekeeping. It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a261bd2 | live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 359c36a | Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm. | literature reading words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| ff2357f | To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e67ce6e | Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| bba5638 | I speak as I must and cannot be silent. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 1b17bdd | Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to si.. | home isolation | Gregory Maguire | |
| 9ceeb0d | I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple. | love relationships | Ai Yazawa | |
| ca4692a | I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| db0cd2c | I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help. | fearless inspirational women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 8970ee5 | You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years. | hayley-kincain | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 577bd21 | I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother? | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 714e298 | It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c232494 | You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they.. | change consumerism individuality loss memories modern-society mom-and-pop-stores neighborhoods new-york-city retail transience | Colson Whitehead | |
| b1521b7 | I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. | Judith McNaught | ||
| fc8deb5 | Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 0e8821a | What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts | Pat Conroy |