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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e395f04 | Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey! | Lemony Snicket | ||
| 4ec0cfc | At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 64512d7 | What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 48ce266 | You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?' 'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember. | cormac-mccarthy remembering | Cormac McCarthy | |
| b4cbf47 | I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. | author-quotes creative-process earning-a-living gift humor inspirational-quotes quotes self-confidence self-support talent writing writing-life writing-quotes | Cormac McCarthy | |
| c3d5249 | The truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 352afef | In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seem.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 5585069 | That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the grass and the wildflowers out of the ground and the flowers ran all blue and yellow far as the eye could see and in the dream he was among the horses running and in the dream he himself could run with the horses and they coursed the young mares and fillies over the plain where their rich bay and their rich chestnut colors shone in the sun and.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 9b46f1e | Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. | names story | Cormac McCarthy | |
| a7aa964 | Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I wont do it again. I wont push my chips forward and stand up and go out to meet him. It aint just bein older. I wish that it was. I cant say that it's even what you are willin to do. Because I always knew that you had to be willin to die to even do this job. That was .. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| b4a75fe | What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 50b2cdd | The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful? | Annie Dillard | ||
| 62c3450 | Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past? | Anne Lamott | ||
| 76d668b | Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. | church inspirational music singing | Anne Lamott | |
| 33f1907 | About novel by Anne Lamott. Q: What does the title "Imperfect Birds" mean? | Anne Lamott | ||
| e52897c | You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. | Mary Roach | ||
| b2e0d74 | From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short. | humor mission pg-wodehouse writing | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| eb78206 | Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Paradise, where i grew up, wasn't paradise either. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist. --Caleb to himself | Simone Elkeles | ||
| d4c9845 | Kiss me to see if we still have it. 'Cause you own my heart,soul,and everything else in between. | ellis | Simone Elkeles | |
| 66b8095 | A garter. You're supposed to take it off and keep it as a memento. K-k-kinda like a trophy for going far sexually with a girl. It's stupid, really. And kind of d-d-degrading if I think about it too m-m-much." "I know what it is," he says, amusement evident in his voice. "I just wanted to hear your explanation." | kiara-westford | Simone Elkeles | |
| 068e6aa | Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal." "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4f1e659 | Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7e75710 | Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 433d072 | Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will. | romance | William Shakespeare | |
| a5cfeea | Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 722d119 | Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head | William Shakespeare | ||
| 88abc33 | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? E'en in Australia art thou still more hot Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May (Since that's your winter it don't mean a lot) Sometimes too bright the eye of heaven shines And bushfires start through half of New South Wales Just so, when I do see thy bosom's lines A fire consumes me and my breathing fails But thine eternal summer shall not fade This is in no way due to global warming; Nay, fro.. | romance | Manny Rayner | |
| a7b85d9 | Hi," I whisper. He peels off my hands and turns toward the aisle. "Please don't make this any harder than it already is," he whispers back." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ab2dd41 | It's midnight, it's sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that's him. The him. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 8a91b86 | For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home. | stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| e62a93e | And it totally depresses me, but the ladies eat it up. They love my father's books and they love his cable-knit sweaters and they love his bleachy smile and orangey tan. And they have turned him into a bestseller and a total dick. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 713f639 | Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 83cea0a | Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f5bafaa | And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 30270dd | I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair. | James Patterson | ||
| f1791d9 | Angel is right,"said Dr. G-H quickly. "This is my clumsy way of demonstrating." "Demonstrating what?" I was barely able to keep a snarl out of my voice. "How to get yourself beat up in one easy step?" | max | James Patterson | |
| 20342fd | Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you. | James Patterson | ||
| d30a251 | The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible." | Maya Angelou | ||
| 65139ea | Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear." | inspirational | Emily Brontë | |
| 204db00 | There's never an easy route to the things that matter. | east-route joe-crazy-dog never onion-girl things-that-matter | Charles de Lint | |
| 19e920d | It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 39e8561 | Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 368919f | Looking more closely at Earth's atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 0b6f200 | Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate. | love marriage relationships self-knowledge truth | Alain de Botton |