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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aadd7ea | People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 318f97c | Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 73fff3c | There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 60bcd0a | Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world of life (or whatever) is this place where everything is (or is supposed to be) basically logical and consistent.... It's like when you put instant rice pudding mix in a bowl in the microwave and push the button, and you take the cover off when it rings, and there you've got rice pudding. I mean, what happens in betw.. | fate life | Haruki Murakami | |
| 9eefc2c | It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7237881 | What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 519b0f9 | Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never .. | life love people | Haruki Murakami | |
| 5d56159 | I'm not very good at giving anyone a clear no. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d87d471 | Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1c9e043 | We have a soul at times. No one's got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without it. Sometimes it will settle for awhile only in childhood's fears and raptures. Sometimes only in astonishment that we are old. It rarely lends a hand in uphill tasks, like moving furniture, or lifting luggage, or going miles in shoes that pinch. It usually steps out whenever meat needs chopping or forms have to be filled. For every.. | wislawa-szymborska | Wisława Szymborska | |
| a2e0ba8 | Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| ea9363a | Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 14d3b62 | May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises." | oliver | Jodi Picoult | |
| f3b131b | That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7828c5e | And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ae32020 | D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| bc497af | Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cf7500e | It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister. | regret sisters | William Faulkner | |
| 366817b | Thought is the thought of thought. | James Joyce | ||
| fd5e0e8 | The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be .. | isolation loneliness modern-society noise peace shallowness silence stillness technology | Wallace Stegner | |
| a8d7b77 | I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl. | mrs-wormwood | Roald Dahl | |
| 422f6fe | We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 9828d6d | Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 0083921 | I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 5477896 | I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." | cain damnation fratricide worldview | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 7a7cc03 | If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is like a blade | Tite Kubo | ||
| be56ab0 | Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| d279297 | In other words? The bitch had it coming. And I am that bitch. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 90c5d74 | What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is. | self-esteem strength | Iyanla Vanzant | |
| e71ec40 | Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 50b2d2f | The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throb.. | life youth | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 0bf68a3 | Hey dickhead, you should know something. You attack my brother, you really piss me off. (Vane) Hot damn, Daimon food. Hey Vane, you want the white meat or dark? (Fang) How about I grab one leg, you grab the other and we make a wish and pull? (Vane) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e2b0acc | You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron) Confucius? (Talon) No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 146b602 | What were you thinking? You just met him. (Selena) I know. It's so not like me, but I couldn't help myself. It was just like that weird magnetic force that grabs me when I'm walking past the Frostbyte Cafe and makes me swerve in to get a triple scoop of Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey. The power of temptation was just too much, Selena. I couldn't resist it. He was a Chunky Monkey container and all I could think was, 'Someone give me a spoon.'.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 54f82f8 | How do you feel? (Maggie) Like I got hit by a bus that decided to back up a few times and make sure it finished the job. I think it must have ground its tires on my ribs during the last run. You know, just in case I might actually want to breathe again in my lifetime. (Wren) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 75200a1 | Keep your shirt on," she said with a laugh at her bad joke. "Your clothes are at the laundry. They'll deliver them as soon as they're ready." "And in the meantime?" "Looks like you're naked." His jaw worked as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "I beg your pardon?" "Beg all you want, you're still going to be naked." Tabitha paused at the wicked image in her mind. "Come to think of it, a gorgeous, begging, naked man... that's the st.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 17e4c2f | And I don't want his body touching something I wear. He'll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You're four hundred years old and you're acting like a whelp. It's not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0647bc0 | I don't have to do nothing you say, you old heifer cow. And you are old. Really, really old. And a cow, too. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 32aa634 | You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f5fa0f6 | You really are here. (Thanatos) Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it's your turn. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9d4d953 | We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny, or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Reve.. | blasphemy charles-francois-dupuis christian-world divine-inspiration dupuis england europe examination genesis intolerance massachusetts new-testament old-testament persecution recherches-nouvelles religious-violence revelations stake volney | John Adams | |
| ae9dd3c | What a way Oak had, she thought, of enduring things. Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple lesson which Oak showed a mastery of by every turn and look he gave--that among the multitude of interests by which he was surrounded, those which affected his personal well-being were not the most absorbing and important in his eyes. Oak meditativ.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 90a0f3b | The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river. | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 52e8006 | I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. | Graham Greene |