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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c303ed3 | His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink. | William Golding | ||
| c88d80b | I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined. | Alice Sebold | ||
| f919352 | There's no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 7c48346 | There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d7208e4 | I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him. | loneliness | John Steinbeck | |
| b0b8ea7 | The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size. | capitalism ownership | John Steinbeck | |
| 02a6cdb | What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. | monster sex sexuality | John Steinbeck | |
| 7c3ffde | But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win | John Steinbeck | ||
| 753cca0 | I've lived my life again just telling it to you. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7d7502c | Are you always so forthright over coffee dates?" "I don't know. You're the only one I ever had a crush on." Oh, boy. "And that was stupid." Flustered again, he raked his fingers through his hair. "Now I've scared you. That sounds scary and obsessive. Like I have an alter somewhere with your pictures over it, where I light candles and chant your name. Jesus! That's even scarier. Run now. I won't hold it against you." She burst out laughing.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a5e27c3 | It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing. | robert-langdon | Dan Brown | |
| 02cdc85 | When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out. | Dan Brown | ||
| f39bd30 | Act first, explain later. | random | Dan Brown | |
| 5002c71 | Love ... I put so much faith in it. Truth ... I kept believing it falls always from the lips of the one you love and trust the most. Faith ... it's all bound up to love and trust. Where does one end and the other start, and how do you tell when love is the blindest of all? | V.C. Andrews | ||
| f7e340d | Nothing fires the warrior's heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one's own bowels or guts but from one's discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplis.. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| a006778 | We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7e70d4d | Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 24212ae | INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of. GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds. INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| c3c2e19 | Knowing where the trap is--that's the first step in evading it. | evasion trap | Frank Herbert | |
| 9dd8833 | Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. "I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell me, years ago, about being intelligent," she said. The Constable brightened all at once. "Pleased to hear it." The Vickys have an elaborate code of morals and conduct. It grew out of the moral squalor of an earlier generation, just as the original.. | rebellion religion | Neal Stephenson | |
| 6aa7978 | Man has always been a venal animal. The growth of populations, the huge costs of war, the incessant pressure of confiscatory taxation - all these things make him more and more venal. The average man is tired and scared, and a tired, scared man can't afford ideals. He has to buy food for his family. In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals. You can't expect quality from people whose lives are a subjection.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 5456bd7 | Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get... | police politics reality | Raymond Chandler | |
| 48235af | It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move." | traumatic-experiences | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 6a12140 | Who is this god person anyway? | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5bc73ea | He thought much but said little. | the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 22d7eb1 | When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept... "Why did I ever wake up!" he cried." | hobbit humor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 765a021 | When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best! | entwives longing loss song | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 599b0cb | I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| afdad2e | Where are you going, Master?' cried Sam, though at last he understood what was happening. 'To the Havens, Sam,' said Frodo. 'And I can't come.' 'No, Sam. Not yet, anyway, not further than the Havens. Though you too were a Ring-bearer, if only for a little while. Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.' 'Bu.. | j-r-r-tolkien samwise-gamgee the-end-of-the-fellowship the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d880b7a | Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers) | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f8408fa | Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure! | coronation crown faramir frodo-baggins gandalf | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ecf6a8c | Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams | patriotism political service | David McCullough | |
| 4930d8b | The Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims. There was a reason for each man. They were leaving bad wives or bad towns; they were coming to find something or leave something or get something, to dig up something or bury something or leave something alone. They were coming with small dreams or large dreams or n.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cab92f5 | We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature. Solitude is a place where Christ remodels us in his own image and frees us from the victimizing compulsions of the world. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| dd61502 | To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice. Our minds have great difficulty in coming to grips with such a reality. Maybe our minds will never understand it. Perhaps it is only our hearts that can accomplish this. Every time we .. | god-s-love | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 5c6aea6 | Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafarin.. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 0970ba2 | There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 97183e1 | Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| acc3225 | Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt. | humour | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 02213d0 | Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7f46bd4 | Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin) I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat) Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 33cbfcf | Oh, gross! Zombie goo. (Caleb) Ooo, I wonder if it tastes like chicken? What do you think? (Simi) I think I'm never eating guacamole again as long as I live. (Caleb) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1f76d0c | Have you no honor? No decency? No damn brains? You don't kill me with bullets. You just piss me off. And you just ruined my friggin' favorite coat. For that, you die. (Wulf) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0b38eea | Double-knotted to a bedpost, not that it's any of your business. That boy was always too trusting for his own good. You'd think by now he'd know better. But no. He's got to be stupid. Personally, I'd tie the bitch up, muzzle her, and ride her around the room with spurs on, but no one ever asks my opinion, do they? No. What do I know? I'm only omniscient. (Savitar) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |