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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 85e21ed | Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me. | memories past real remembering surreal | Haruki Murakami | |
| 2b7a7cc | I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 7ebab24 | Eccentricty had flowered into madness. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 87388ad | If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. | funny | Stephen Clarke | |
| 60f2af2 | There are few takers for the quiet heart. | Steve Martin | ||
| 083e478 | What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great. | microsoft | Walter Isaacson | |
| d81022f | don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6ba10c8 | Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow -- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 33acb0f | What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. | Charles Frazier | ||
| bb1b740 | Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against his chest. "Why, why why!". Because I was afraid!" He got hold of my wrists and threw me backward so I fell across the bed. He stood over me, fists clenched, breathing hard. I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!" ~~~~~~~~~ You should have told me!" | romance | Diana Gabaldon | |
| e5e99ac | Any piece of good music is in essence a love song. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8457c41 | That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a0db3e1 | If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 590090e | I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then... | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5e63b90 | He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?" | randy-briggs | Janet Evanovich | |
| 4323888 | I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees. | Tom Robbins | ||
| f5eb9ac | It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. | Harry G. Frankfurt | ||
| e288cdb | When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, "Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I'm going in again"--my gut reaction is, "What a badass." | Brené Brown | ||
| 7d75fc7 | Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ff14630 | Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 945a572 | After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| ba40d76 | The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 1bdc5e5 | I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the .. | antisemitism atheism christianity christians einstein freud humans islam jesus jews marx messiah moses muhammad muslims myth prophets religion theism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4aaced0 | As much as I cared about him, I wasn't a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend. | arguments awesome-quotes bandaids best-friend-love best-friend-quotes best-friends bitterness fate first-aid friend friend-quotes friends friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love friendship-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship hurt ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend j-m-richards life-quotes longing mazing-quotes pain quotes-about-life real-friends real-friendship so-true tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol | J.M. Richards | |
| de380d3 | Vamos al rincon oscuro, donde yo siempre te quiera, que no me importe la gente, ni el veneno que nos echa. | escapar prejuicio querer veneno | Federico García Lorca | |
| 73591f3 | I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; B.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 045c518 | There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. | drinking liquor relationships relief | Graham Greene | |
| 9e73ddc | Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter?" demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. "Your secretary?" "I employ him to read my letters," explained his lordship.(Alverstroke) "Not those written by your nearest and dearest!" "Oh, no, not !" he agreed." -- | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 45c6854 | Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodi.. | conservation fossil-fuels gasoline | Carl Sagan | |
| 4944141 | Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying. He didn't make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks. I hadn't seen him cry in years, not even when Mom and Dad had been killed. (I remembered the funeral. I had sobbed in spite of myself; Soda had broken down and bawled like a baby; but Darry had only stood there, his fists in his pockets and that look on his face, the same helpless, pleading look that he was wearing now.) In.. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| a7304b0 | I'd rather have anybody's hate than their pity | pity | S.E. Hinton | |
| bc8d952 | time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| d5ca3cc | What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| d595e8e | Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem | James Hillman | ||
| b6a327e | The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 86b3066 | DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 84cb154 | If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| d201971 | To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 629f33b | The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d927ce6 | Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. | Oscar Wilde |