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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6746bc1 | The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after," | Lois Lowry | ||
| 22e9bb4 | Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea." | multiculturalism | Zadie Smith | |
| 452366a | No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because is one of the magical fantasy words like and and that have now passed into language. | imaginary-things immigrants immigration | Zadie Smith | |
| 6e08eb2 | There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were. | Libba Bray | ||
| a1967ae | Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it's gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We're all damaged somehow." | Libba Bray | ||
| cb05f08 | He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the ma.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 1bed2f9 | That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ad44014 | The girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0e34d6b | History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0ff1206 | He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e59c30e | In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 46e4f18 | I've been the oldest child since before you were born | wisdom siblings | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| a25c9e3 | My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother. | parenting parent mother | Michael Chabon | |
| d5654d3 | God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life. | Max Lucado | ||
| 0400422 | The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114) | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fc92ea3 | When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6d638cc | If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 271d52c | ndm nltq~ 'Hdhm wnq` f~ Grmh , nsh`r n lkwn klh yTw`n f~ hdh ltjh . hdh m Hdth l~ lywm `nd mGyb lshms . lkn dh Hdth khll mn , fn kl shy' `ndy'dh ytlshy' wykhtf~ ! Tywr mlk lHzyn wlmwsyq~ lSdH@ f~ lb`yd wT`m shftyh . tr~ , kyf ymkn lljml ldh~ kn HDra bqw@ n ykhtf~ bhdhh lsr`@ wytlshy' ? | حب | Paulo Coelho | |
| c5a57b4 | Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c498a26 | The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers. | politics | Ann Coulter | |
| ef8977b | Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first time, in so doing, enters an artificial and complicated world; to know the laws and rules of this world completely and to practice them perfectly, no single human life is long enough. Without words, without w.. | words literature history reading | Hermann Hesse | |
| 39ac3b6 | Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen. | hesse east west | Hermann Hesse | |
| 47c335a | I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? | glory home stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f395d28 | I didn't. My mother gave it to me as a keepsake, then took it back when I reached maturity--and gave it to the Weaver for safekeeping." "Why?" "So I wouldn't waste it." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 48f972a | And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish. | stars hope inspirational sarah-j-maas acomaf stargazing wish wishes night | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d5602b8 | More--I wanted the hardness of his body crushing against mine; I wanted his mouth and teeth and tongue on my bare skin, on my breasts, between my legs. Everywhere--I wanted him everywhere. I was drowning in that need. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9db4670 | She knew the gold in her eyes had shifted to flame, because when she looked to Maeve, the queen's face had gone bone-white. And then Celaena set the world on fire. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| efc42a4 | He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king. | woman women woman-and-man princes kings women-and-men prince manhood | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 992c38d | Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8d23667 | To four years until freedom," she said lifting her glass. He raised his in salute. "To you, Celaena." Their eyes met, and Chaol didn't hide his smile as she grinned at him. Perhaps four years with her might not be enough." | future four-years throne-of-glass sweet | Sarah J. Maas | |
| c5b3a45 | And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 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? | let-it-be mindfulness be 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 |