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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 57ad90d | But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bb355de | For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ddc6638 | Jaime, you must be half-dead" He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm hand on the small of my back. "A lot more than half, Sassenach. I'm knackered, and my cock's the only thing too stupid to know it. I canna lie wi' ye without wanting you, but wanting's all I'm like to do." | jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 1ed715b | She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it. | William Faulkner | ||
| 8723729 | My, my. A body does get around. | William Faulkner | ||
| d9a37b5 | Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization. | power-of-music | Katherine Neville | |
| 08f8165 | You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped over your own feet. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 19734a1 | I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places. | depth familiarity home intimacy shallowness | Wallace Stegner | |
| bfcb621 | None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. If saying bullshit is somebody's thing, then he says bullshit. If somebody is an ass-kicker, then that's what he's going to do on this trip, kick asses. He's going to do it right out front and nobody is going to have anything to get pissed off about. He can just say, 'I'm sorry I kicked you in the ass, but I'm not sorry I'm an ass-kicker. That's what I do, I kick people in the ass.' .. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| d2bf3d1 | It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9aa7c2d | Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6db3bfb | As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8f174c7 | There is no shame in impulse. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| cd71080 | The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| a0ddb8e | The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson. | fool lesson magic myrrhtide | Tamora Pierce | |
| d614e34 | Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift | morality | Tamora Pierce | |
| fa722a3 | So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f65ad85 | 'qsm 'yh lsd@ 'n shd@ ldrk mrD - mrD Hqyqy khTyr | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d930b0a | One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bde461f | The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| e2330fa | Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. | curiosity discipline education | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 26b72f6 | What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. | conflict government history politics power | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4b29775 | Ash used his powers to lift Zarek from the floor and pin him roughly against the ceiling.) Stop pushing your luck, boy. I've had it with you. (Acheron) Have you ever thought of hiring yourself out to Disneyland? People would pay a fortune for this ride. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 367aaa2 | Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi | hearts love | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 22f355a | I like that Zarek. He quality people! He even gave me a can opener so I don't have to use my fangs. I like that. Metal is hard on the teeth. Pork and beans popsicle. Yummy! My favorite! (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a47e1f5 | It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos. | humor | Mel Odom | |
| b606d58 | To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover. | dissatisfaction drama-queen self-delusion unhappiness | Thomas Hardy | |
| b69cdec | A man kept his character even when he was insane. | Graham Greene | ||
| 66ba9c1 | You cannot love without intuition. | Graham Greene | ||
| 385131b | I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying. | Graham Greene | ||
| 9f31fd2 | Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. | love marriage | Graham Greene | |
| 917270c | I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 82ae69c | Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 153ce58 | Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. | debate education ignorance informed knowledge perspective rational | Carl Sagan | |
| 66be2b3 | But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha? | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 7e6bed3 | What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again? | Audre Lorde |