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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 05f4e8a | I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them. | sadness | Arthur Golden | |
| 2ad828c | At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon -- the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal. | organized-religion | Dan Brown | |
| 9a8a474 | It is a fatal mistake to assume that God's goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns. | Rick Warren | ||
| c132dee | Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. | Rick Warren | ||
| 4795970 | When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain. | carson autobiography-of-red | Anne Carson | |
| b2e7464 | Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 2668176 | Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. | men louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| fdb22fe | Writing a novel-- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs-- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit. | Steve Hely | ||
| 6209f8e | Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 8b1edd4 | I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was. | depression | Jane Smiley | |
| 369668e | You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening. | revolution | Frank Herbert | |
| 6b096f3 | This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?" | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 9755f2c | This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research. | humor | Neal Stephenson | |
| 386bb5f | Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'. | Paul Murray | ||
| 755037d | There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. --Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995 | science | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 60ba5b9 | If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do. | free-will unconscious | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 20ed143 | Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. | writing treasure trash ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| b50b6ff | I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like. | Truman Capote | ||
| 8681fb6 | I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's. | Truman Capote | ||
| 6d36ccc | It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely.. | wisdom | Douglas Adams | |
| 85d8401 | She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care. | Douglas Adams | ||
| d272efa | Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old | bilbo-baggins misty-mountains the-hobbit dwarfs | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7448d78 | The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise. | grey-havens frodo | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0244065 | Now, therefore, I will sleep. I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men. | J. R. R Tolkien | ||
| 47eeed4 | And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6a09733 | Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 977a2fd | Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?' 'Po-ta-toes,' said Sam. 'The Gaffer's delight, and rare good ballast for an empty belly. But you won't find any, so you needn't look. But be good Smeagol and fetch me some herbs, and I'll think better of you. What's more, if you turn over a new leaf, and keep it turned, I'll cook you some taters one of these days. I will: fried fish and chi.. | sam-gamgee sméagol | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| da41a3d | Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 09bb3a7 | I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 942d5fb | Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 314ca21 | Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 3f8511c | If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| cdd92dc | I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| edd54b7 | How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How adroit to bus poor black youngsters into poor white neighborhoods, in a violent exchange of impoverished schools, while the schools of the rich remain untouched and the wealth of the nation, doled out carefully where children need free milk, is drained for billion-dollar aircraft carriers. How ingenious to meet the demands .. | politics oppresion | Howard Zinn | |
| 84c3027 | Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy! | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ab50ed5 | It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted. | life persecution | E.M. Forster | |
| d66dabe | There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 9a0b72a | Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 6ac7030 | High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5ad9f7c | How come the Muggles don't hear the bus?" said Harry. "Them!" said Stan contemptuously. "Don' listen properly, do they? Don' look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don'." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2a06889 | Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking! 'It's all right for him, he's an internationally famous wizard already!' But when I was twelve, I was just as much of a nobody as you are now. In fact, I'd say I was even more of a nobody! I mean, a few people have heard of you, haven't they? All that business with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!" He glanced at the lightning scar on Harry's forehead. "I know, I know -- it's not quite as good as winning Mos.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| be89abc | And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!" -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8d42407 | Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only one out of three, I'm afraid. I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don't want Harry dead. But I won't deny that I am a werewolf. | remus-lupin | J. K. Rowling | |
| 8c7d9c3 | You know mother, Malfoy?" said Harry "That expression she's got, like she's got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?" | J.K. Rowling |