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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e9a2b03 | The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.' He left me alone to think about that. And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid ca.. | gods greek greek-gods greek-mythology inspirational kindness percy-jackson smile wine-god | Rick Riordan | |
| 93c3fa7 | Kronos became the Titan of time. He couldn't pop around the time stream like Doctor Who or anything, but he could occasionally make time slow down or speed up. Whenever you're in an incredibly boring lecture that seems to take forever, blame Kronos. Or when your weekend is way too short, that's Kronos's fault, too. | Rick Riordan | ||
| f32644d | Get out of the lab occasionally, Stiles." "Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0b5c0a2 | How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 1156b62 | But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That's life. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 9aded11 | By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b2e38a4 | You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 9815f17 | The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 946115b | They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 45b7b0f | we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 08596e2 | Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 51d84b4 | A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 584b807 | I didn't sleep with Brodick," she blurted out. "I have no need for a priest." "Yes, you did too." "Alec, it isn't polite to contradict your elders." "But, Mama..." "Hush, sweetheart." Gillian glared at Brodick. He could easily correct this horrid misunderstanding if he would only offer a quick explanation. He wasn't inclined. He winked at her. "I didn't know a face could get that red," he remarked. "Do explain," she demanded. "Explain what.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| e3ea66d | Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses. | insight pity | Robert Jordan | |
| fd99536 | But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary. | power | Robert A. Caro | |
| d01570f | Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 970cb80 | There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. | Erica Jong | ||
| 80bcc37 | When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| ac20efe | So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| acc718a | In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness.. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| a5ccd51 | I'll be there someday, I can go the distance. I will find my way, if I can be strong. I know every mile, will be worth my while, When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong. - Hercules | disney-lyrics disney-songs go-the-distance hercules lyrics michael-bolton movie movie-quote song-lyrics | Walt Disney Company | |
| 5744c31 | The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible. | Italo Calvino | ||
| 42cd5b3 | by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction. | James Clavell | ||
| be111cc | I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea, With someone else's paper words to say.... They took us at the gates of green return, Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why- Do children meet again? Does any trace remain, Along the superhighways of July? | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 8f38f03 | He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. | nostalgia | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 069ac37 | We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history. | environment factory-farming | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 79304e8 | And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e6f6a9b | With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. | Denis Johnson | ||
| db48320 | I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| e6ad6c3 | When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through. | marriage | Ian McEwan | |
| d3b26be | The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. | Milan Kundera | ||
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| 2d60aef | He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the familiar features that he loved tenderly. It was as if he were looking at two images through the same lens, at two images superimposed one on the other with one showing through the other. These two images showing through each other were telling him that was in the girl, that her soul was terrifyingly amorphous, that it held faithfulness and unfaithfulness, treache.. | relationships sex women | Milan Kundera | |
| 94d6a39 | You are a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers. | James Patterson | ||
| f30a609 | I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. | Nick Hornby | ||
| d2ceba1 | Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7fa406b | We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2ce4963 | Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood. | pain violence | Haruki Murakami | |
| fe1bc91 | Don't you see? It's just not possible for one person to watch over another person forever and ever. I mean, suppose we got married. You'd have to work during the day. Who's going to watch over me while you're away? Or if you go on a business trip, who's going to watch over me then? Can I be glued to you every minute of our lives? What kind of equality would there be in that? What kind of relationship would that be? Sooner or later you'd get.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2a2ae7d | If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity. | writing | Haruki Murakami | |
| 609b90e | you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, .. | love | Haruki Murakami | |
| c07c383 | Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8f20f0f | We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we're surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1aed897 | The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl. A lonely boy, and a lonely girl. A classroom, just after school let out, at the beginning of winter. They had neither the power nor the knowledge to know what they should offer to each other, what they should be seeking. They had never, ever, been truly loved, or truly loved someone else. They had never held anyone, neve.. | true-love | Haruki Murakami |