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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7844c6a | if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 798ae63 | living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b17d83c | You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 5e42417 | I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube. I'm the little shrine the family gathers to adore.' 'You're the television? Or someone in the television?' 'The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.' She raised two fingers, blew imaginary gunsmoke from the tips. Then she .. | television | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1ee1d27 | Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it. | satanist tea | Neil Gaiman | |
| 430de75 | It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2a7cd24 | Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4b7a4bb | We have eyes and we have nerveses We have tails we have teeth You'll all get what you deserveses When we rise from underneath. | lyrics gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| d886a1c | It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e1ca4e4 | You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself. | nightmares | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0e01159 | I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 65506cd | A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don't try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable. | risk | Robert Greene | |
| 6cd3f27 | If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person's actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It's a no-win situation. It's a death penalty really. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 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. | self-knowledge marriage relationships love truth | Alain de Botton | |
| 267c9e0 | And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 81932bf | The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 02fef84 | Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath: And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die | fragility-of-life | William Blake | |
| d764dfa | Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's noth.. | drugs | Irvine Welsh | |
| e5fbd19 | Same rules apply. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 48ffb25 | I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by lim.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 53d13f5 | You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| dd81962 | the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light. | violence light despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 09d5f5f | Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| ceafeeb | if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people. | David Mitchell | ||
| 673a699 | Miss Rogers waved a hand. "But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all!" "Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels?" "These are rebels, young man. They have !" "That's no guarantee of sanity!" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5e21e35 | It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you." -- | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 41e9814 | the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. | bible-interpretation lgbt | Dan Savage | |
| 1b22bc7 | Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 709f64f | Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers | sustainability animal-welfare animal-rights | Peter Singer | |
| 6655384 | We should free ourselves from the narrowness of being related only to those familiar to us, either by the fact that they are blood relations or, in a larger sense, that we eat the same food, speak the same language, and have the same " common sense." Knowing men in the sense of compassionate and empathetic knowledge requires that we get rid of the narrowing ties of a given society, race or culture and penetrate to the depth of that human re.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 5980f5c | The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7a7f7ff | But suppose your daemon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a daemon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up. | self-awareness self | Philip Pullman | |
| e7bde90 | If I lose control, you'll be the first to know." "I'm quite perturbed by the idea." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5ebdf56 | Any activity?" Robert asked. "Not in the lasssht ten minutesh. Before that, very exshiting. I shaw Wolf Beta run by. There were vampiresh chassing her. She was yelling, 'Bill me, bloodshuckers!" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| bd2531f | My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 542819f | You think he's got 'government badass' tattooed on his chest?" I murmured. A faint grimace skewed Luther's mouth. "And 'I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you' on his ass." | luther magic-slays kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3345813 | Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the part where I faint in fear?" Luther bit his lip. "He might also accept falling to your knees and holding your hands in humble supplication. Makes it easier for him to slap the cuffs on." | luther severe-stare magic-slays shane kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4e801a5 | Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 74d0de1 | Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| c042382 | When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules. | writing | Umberto Eco | |
| b02e383 | I was secretly entranced with the idea of a lady novelist. I should dearly love to be one. Or maybe a goblin-fighting-pirate-queen. It was difficult to choose sometimes. | Alyxandra Harvey |