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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc57621 | Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| d1019c5 | She was so warm, her drenched clothes had almost dried. Her eyes were rolled back in her head. She started muttering, and I could've sworn she said, "Dung balls. Time to roll the dung balls." It might've been funny--except for the fact that she was dying. "That's Khepri talking," Setne explained. "He's the divine dung beetle, rolling the sun across the sky." I didn't want to process that--the idea that the girl I liked had been possessed by.. | dung carter-kane | Rick Riordan | |
| 69aa79d | The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years." "Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9011627 | Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. "Leave it to us, Uncle. I've got a plan." "That," I said, "sounds like very bad news." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0a0644c | Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham | Erik Larson | ||
| 821ffa7 | You're almost as good as Peabody." He stopped at the door, grabbed her up in a steaming kiss. "You can't get that from Peabody." "I could if I wanted." But it made her grin as he uncoded the locks. "But I like you better for sex." | sex peabody roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| a528627 | Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain? | Marian Keyes | ||
| 6e70988 | I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man. | Kurt Cobain | ||
| 12e5f18 | That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| e76635d | How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 82cde66 | Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 0406875 | The small details of life often hide a great significance. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 609a350 | He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d519e0f | Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt .. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 80d9926 | Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In such a face a lovely luminosity shines out into the world. It casts a tender light that radiates a sense of wholeness and wholesomeness. | John O'Donohue | ||
| c228dde | Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 571aaa2 | Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself. | women | Robert Jordan | |
| c38c404 | Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality. | pregnancy | Christine Feehan | |
| db94020 | Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. | Erica Jong | ||
| 0b4a58d | another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something.. | Barack Obama | ||
| 4a40d8e | I WANT her though, to take the same from me. She touches me as if I were herself, her own. She has not realized yet, that fearful thing, that I am the other, she thinks we are all of one piece. It is painfully untrue. I want her to touch me at last, ah, on the root and quick of my darkness and perish on me, as I have perished on her. Then, we shall be two and distinct, we shall have each our separate being. And that will be pure existence, .. | woman love manifesto | D.H. Lawrence | |
| ef6abec | Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you. | Alice Munro | ||
| 5bd64fe | And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why -- Why do we do this? Why don't we do that? -- and often there isn't a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn't true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood -- which is a good shame -- is that we want.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 92d1f46 | The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back. | bryoni daydreams | Ian McEwan | |
| 11f4cb5 | I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action. | unity | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| a11553d | There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 486201c | We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 93e7863 | If you think of someone enough, you're sure to meet them again. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 99524cb | I move, therefore I am. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 53269b8 | Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8fe7de9 | Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 33c2476 | I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 295455a | A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it's heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of the ocean... It takes on all kinds of different shapes--sometimes it's 'the nation,' and sometimes it's 'the law,' and sometimes it takes on shapes that are more difficult and dangerous than that. You can try cutting off its legs, but they .. | others society state | Haruki Murakami | |
| 26f31b6 | Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6c3f191 | Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there. | life | Haruki Murakami | |
| 327147c | The world is an inherently unfair place. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 798f9a5 | It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck. | life luck | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7a0410a | There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6427135 | You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2f7bd80 | Wherever there's hope there's a trial. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 966ba63 | The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant 'identity' ('this is your duty as an American', 'you must commit these acts as a Muslim', or 'as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement') is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or sh.. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 1abc389 | If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 10fa3ee | In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| aac3ed4 | I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?" | Jodi Picoult |