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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d47f887 | She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 59b5837 | If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I don't want to know. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| d91e188 | Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7df99fa | I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 9c9867d | Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 731aabd | I love you," he whispered, rubbing his jaw against her temple. "And you love me. I can feel it when you're in my arms." He felt her stiffen slightly and draw a shaky breath, but she either couldn't or wouldn't speak. She hadn't thrown the words back in his face, however, so Ian continued talking to her, his hand roving over her back. "I can feel it, Elizabeth, but if you don't admit it pretty soon, you're going to drive me out of my mind... | elizabeth ian judith-mcnaught | Judith McNaught | |
| d482131 | Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a880d21 | Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. | home physical want | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7463f91 | Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable." | Norton Juster | ||
| ce5addc | And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays." | Norton Juster | ||
| f779b98 | If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory plays in a human life, consider how relentlessly the water of memory refuses to break, how it impedes that journey into the air of time. Time: the whisper beneath that word is death. With this unanswerable weight hanging heavier and heavier over one's head, the vision becomes cloudy, nothing is what it seems... How then, can I trust my memory .. | mortality | James Baldwin | |
| 4032e02 | There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. | James Baldwin | ||
| 76d068a | All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. | James Baldwin | ||
| 89bfe03 | There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. | life | Willa Cather | |
| aba94ed | He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page. | news power-of-words words | Robert Cormier | |
| 1d8eb2e | Play the game, but don't believe in it - that much you owe yourself ... Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 28333a7 | Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit. | georgia job knitting life passion persistence work | Kate Jacobs | |
| 3199281 | I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?" -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b3a931c | I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables)" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2c813ef | But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun- carpeted stairs that September noon - the first bride of Green Gables, slender and shining-eyed, in the mist of her maiden veil, with her arms full of roses. Gilbert, waiting for her in the hall below, looked up at her with adoring eyes. She was his at last, this evasive, long-sought Anne, won after years of patient waiting. It was to him she was coming in the sweet sur.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ad4d40f | The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. | fascism laws | John Lescroart | |
| 10c4464 | I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, "Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight." My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: "When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town - to pack up and go (you can ev.. | healing pen remedy self-esteem self-recovery travel trust writers writing | bell hooks | |
| 7b8d1f6 | To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 8f19f74 | I'm remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I'd remarry you a hundred times until it stuck. | childhood-friends college-romance love-story | Krista Ritchie | |
| 9140e21 | But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3f4890e | And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| dacc44c | I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our disconte.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 5b3a851 | For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 134d2e1 | it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. | grieving-mother loss prayer reality | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 2c2f66e | A world without dragons is a world not worth living in. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 6aea718 | I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants. | discrimination maurice novel outcast pariah rejection | E.M. Forster | |
| a2e5713 | A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. | E.M. Forster | ||
| f5eede9 | Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. | love passion writing | E.M. Forster | |
| 3b601d5 | Behind every bad law, a deep fear. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| b7dca0f | I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period). | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 89685b6 | Shh! Listen! Someone's coming! I think -- I think it might be us! | time-travel time-turner | J.K. Rowling | |
| 18b0b03 | Harry uttered an inarticulate yell of rage: In that instant, he cared not whether he lived or died. Pushing himself to his feet again, he staggered blindly toward Snape, the man he now hated as much as he hated Voldemort himself -- " -- !" Snape flicked his wand and the curse was repelled yet again; but Harry was mere feet away now and he could see Snape's face clearly at last: He was no longer sneering or jeering; the blazing flames showe.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7ea40df | You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a14eb39 | Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1d8ae2e | Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b3a2fd7 | Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 526b997 | Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. | J. K. Rowling | ||
| f84f294 | Tina: Can you please tell me you took care of the No-Maj? Newt: The what? Tina: The No-Maj! No-magic -- the non-wizard! Newt: Oh sorry, we call them Muggles. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1432142 | You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains." | funny longbottom malfoy neville | J.K. Rowling |