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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | words literature reading | 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.. | isolation home | 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. | relationships love | 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. | women inspirational fearless | 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.. | loss individuality memories change mom-and-pop-stores retail modern-society transience neighborhoods new-york-city consumerism | 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 | ||
| e346027 | An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places oft.. | risk nature freedom empowerment happiness wildness liberation self-responsibility environment mountains risk-taking los-angeles desert | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 11bbc7c | In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4fb1d8d | Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward. | funny shades-of-london maureen-johnson awkward | Maureen Johnson | |
| 09f9537 | The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett" | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 9e9f097 | It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 732de3a | She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 51f660c | Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches! | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 151fb72 | I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. --JAMES A. BALDWIN | Brené Brown | ||
| 1f4019b | Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal. | reciprocity | James Baldwin | |
| 84ba55b | I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years | James Baldwin | ||
| e0b594a | At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 802a42b | Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. | woman suffering virgin-mary | Willa Cather | |
| 966a786 | Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world. | bell hooks | ||
| b08cdea | I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e8f29c2 | The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 35ba88b | There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be "not stupid," kindhearted, and yet to have no talent at all, no originality, not a single idea of one's own--to be, in fact, "just like everyone else." Of such people there are countless numbers in this world--far more even than appear. They can be divided into two classes as all men can--that is, those of limited intellec.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8bb2e5e | Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. | observations | Eoin Colfer | |
| 38c36c0 | Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now." | mulch tasty | Eoin Colfer | |
| a0aaa2c | I'm the nut! | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c0fa064 | One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. | suffering passion pleasure | Denis Diderot | |
| cf5baf3 | So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. | Victor Hugo | ||
| df498fa | I think, therefore I doubt. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1d14487 | Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole.. | remorse | Victor Hugo | |
| 8ab37e3 | And where love ends, hate begins | love truth | Leo Tolstoy |