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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... ! | life instability | 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. | jealousy good-qualities fruits-basket | 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 | ||
| 8a09661 | We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for caring what happens to other people, least of al.. | society technology | Henri Charrière | |
| c534621 | Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. | life truth status open-heart nowhere | Mitch Albom | |
| 678a686 | Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2225d90 | mn l'khT m l yujdy m`h l`tdhr | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 767f8b7 | The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? | grief spirituality | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2067336 | Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals. | live people peaceful ideals real way | John Scalzi | |
| 178a667 | I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 304a0c9 | It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e609d5f | The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else wa.. | münch | Philip K. Dick | |
| 454fc9e | Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9d16279 | Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0a9d358 | The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41 | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 848a28e | Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?" | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 1823a4c | Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?" | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 5e84d15 | Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 852e402 | Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office. | war | Joseph Heller | |
| 4a5df95 | Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| aa055f4 | Friendships are nice. So is competence. | Michael Crichton | ||
| b52e383 | A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is.. | science | Michael Crichton | |
| 49d1c88 | Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline. | jurassic-park | Michael Crichton | |
| 28f6451 | Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8e8d1bc | The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 285c696 | The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are. | Robin McKinley | ||
| c98d0c4 | So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format. | Lauren Oliver | ||
| 4492263 | To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all. | religion born-again atheist | Gore Vidal | |
| 1650d18 | And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time ove.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 906180f | I let out the breath I hadn't realized I was holding. "Guess what?" "What?" Meeting his amber-colored eyes, I admitted what probably wasn't a secret, but what I felt like I needed to put into words. "I like you, Seth." He stopped his hand over mine, staying there, as he gave me a lopsided smile. "Guess what?" "What?" I whispered. Seth shifted so that his lips brushed mine as he spoke. "I like you too, Josie." | seth-diodoros the-return | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 7698141 | Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out. | time world shimmer disney hunter disney-world year luc vacation | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| a822345 | Roth lowered his forehead to mine as he brought our joined hands to his chest, placing them above his heart. "And I love you," he said. "With every breath I take, I will always love you." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b3a6b94 | Or maybe it was the soul that worked that way, seeking out warmth and touch, needing to prove that we were still in the world of living. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0d55f70 | You haven't locked yourself in any rooms or rocked in any corners, right? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1473ac5 | A second later, there was a knock on my door and a booming voice. 'Alexandria?' Seth stilled above me, panting. 'You have got to be freaking kidding me.' Leon knocked again. [...] 'Lucian is requesting your presence immediately.' Another gap of silence followed. 'He is also requesting to see you, Seth.' Seth frowned as the gleam in his eyes faded. 'How in the world does he know I'm in here?' 'Leon...just knows.' I pushed at him weakly. 'Get.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ca7da23 | The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. | H.G. Wells |