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a3ddc59 A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out." Jean-Paul Sartre
5cc937b He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor. Raymond Chandler
1775558 Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckies.. Daniel C. Dennett
5e6dca1 Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural. Ted Dekker
61e6b5b I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. Karen Joy Fowler
8c2b8aa The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Dan Millman
2fc4d1f Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. darkness inspirational inspirational-quotes life-lessons light mama-chia wisdom Dan Millman
46bae57 It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water." -- puns water Douglas Adams
c9fea9b A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwe; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin. J.R.R. Tolkien
67e8e3c Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have. Jeffery Deaver
9c9668b In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. Herman Melville
dbbecff Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I ac.. Herman Melville
58fb955 For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught--nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! Herman Melville
23dad4e We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe arts creativity Ray Bradbury
5f15eb8 I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand. change death life maturing Ray Bradbury
0087b75 Sandwich outdoors isn't a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite. Ray Bradbury
7068314 Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassion.. Henri J.M. Nouwen
55b309e It feels good, honey, but it isn't love. Joyce Carol Oates
0612e10 Through thick and thin, we're brothers to the bitter end. And if you're going to hell, buddy, I'm driving the bus. Sherrilyn Kenyon
7c1dc5f Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace) It is, or was. (Julian) Can we keep it? (Grace) If you like. Why? (Julian) 'Cause, ooo baby, you are one hot tamale in that getup. This outfit alone will get you laid at least four or five times a day. (Grace) Sherrilyn Kenyon
94af231 There will never be peace between us. Ever. You shattered any hope of it when you watched your brother kill me and refused to speak up on my behalf. (Acheron) I was afraid. (Artemis) And I was butchered and gutted on the floor like an animal sacrifice. Excuse me if I don't feel your pain. I'm too busy with my own. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon
fc6a8ae It's a yes then? (Arik) No. I thought I'd walk through hell to reclaim you and carry your baby just for the heck of it. Who needs marriage. (Geary) I do! (Arik) Good. I can let you live another day. (Geary) Sherrilyn Kenyon
f865860 They won't get you without getting us and believe me, we're not about to make our enemies happy and die here. (Nykyrian) Damn straight. We have too many people to continue pissing off. (Syn) Sherrilyn Kenyon
550c01b What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me that you have never once in eleven thousand years done anything for me for free. The sheer fear factor of that realization alone has made me come seeking you. So what gives? (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon
ca16deb Alright, macho babe boy, I'm not some little ditz to bat my eyelashes at the buff stud in black leather. Don't try your he-man tactics with me. I'll have you know, in my office, I'm known as the ball-breaker. (Amanda) Sherrilyn Kenyon
556adb9 life isn't a puzzle to be solved. It's an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle to get in your way and stop you. Yeah, it'll be hard, but once you reach the summit of it, you'll be able to see the world for what it really is. And at the top, it never seems to have been as difficult a feat to climb there as you first made it out to be. Most of all, you'll know that you beat that mountain, an.. Sherrilyn Kenyon
d59eef6 How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing can withstand. Albert Camus
bc152f8 All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. Albert Camus
8e70994 An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. Iain M. Banks
6bc344f My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you. Stephenie Meyer
1600259 She looked around herself, disoriented, like she'd forgotten we were at lunch. Like she'd forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone in some private place. I understood that feeling exactly. It was hard to remember the rest of the world when I was with her. Stephenie Meyer
ce348ee You stupid jackass," Ian said. "Who's got the crush on a worm, bro? You gonna call me stupid?" Stephenie Meyer
27aae22 He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough. Stephenie Meyer
c0eb3e6 In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again. Sue Monk Kidd
f5e3de8 I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego. Vladimir Nabokov
cbe041d There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost.. Vladimir Nabokov
c0725ac The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free. Vladimir Nabokov
c4f692b Never test another man by your own weakness. test weakness weaknesses Joseph Conrad
8c25f97 If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long. roland-deschains stephen-king wolves-of-the-calla Stephen King
5b6fd47 Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in street look not just indeferent but ugly...perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant" the breathin.. nostalgic sickness Stephen King
c1bd03b A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. Stephen King
2aeedce Your hair is winter fire, January embers. ben-hanscom fire haiku hair it love love-quotes stephen-king Stephen King
6bd37d6 Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. Stephen King
2302a46 Another part of getting older: you forgot what you wanted to remember, and remembered what you wanted to forget. Stephen King