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| 80cfe26 | simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.... A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled.. | giftedness mediocrity | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| a7fa931 | A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4823eea | legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another. | legitimacy rules | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 25a4475 | It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone." | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 3f427e1 | When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him. | John Green | ||
| 75ba93a | But monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Appollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting. | John Green | ||
| 942bfb5 | It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere. "By 'it' do you mean herpes?" "You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book." | John Green | ||
| 945342c | Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves. | illness stars starcrossed sickness | John Green | |
| 0474f29 | Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox. | John Green | ||
| 1e98eb9 | If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers. | John Green | ||
| e5fb3a2 | Author's Note This is not so much an author's note as an author's reminder of what was printed in small type a few pages ago: This book is a work of fiction. I made it up. Neither novels or their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species. I appreciate your cooperation in this mat.. | John Green | ||
| 5b6b52c | Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. | gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 08728f8 | God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for y.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 104c72d | She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 0311d1d | Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time. | prayer | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| fdd4111 | I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. "Listen," she said, not unkindly, "up until now I would say that ninety-nine percent of all the narcotics you have taken in your life you bought from guys you didn't know, in bathrooms or on street corners, something like that. Correct?" I nodded. "Well these guys could have been selling you salt or strychnine. They didn't care. They wanted your money... | rehab drugs | Craig Ferguson | |
| f30bcc4 | He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more. "I keep having to remind myself that I can do that," he smirked." | kiss love reason-to-breathe emma-thomas evan-mathews rebecca-donovan sweet | Rebecca Donovan | |
| ffc5a20 | If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 5d0a3df | I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 860ee0a | I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. | the-great-gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 9f91b1b | Irresistible force. Immovable object. Choose the one you want to be, and do it. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 2d4b575 | If 'just' is all you can give me now, then 'just' is what we'll do. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 8a7fe29 | Where was a boom box when you needed one? | Chloe Neill | ||
| 522efd0 | Please don't hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy. Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for b.. | hate love | Daria Snadowsky | |
| a754f6a | Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us--a crucified God--must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. | cross | John Piper | |
| 5f7d668 | I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves | Ann M. Martin | ||
| f365680 | I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d808f2b | I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b6832e7 | We tend to use knowledge as therapy. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| a92ec75 | The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer was the soccer mom. He did not use the notion of the Procrustean bed, but he outlined it perfectly. His argument is that they repress children's natural biophilia, their love of living things. But the problem is more general; soccer moms try to eliminate the trial and error, the antifragility, from childr.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| f1de718 | This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 6c9569f | Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure? | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 58ebd35 | I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0434a28 | Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we're small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we're magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 53784f5 | cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 63bdec2 | For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexuality of children has begun to be shaped in response to cues that are no longer human. Nothing comparable has ever happened in the history of our species; it dislodges Freud. Today's children and young men and women have sexual identities that .. | equality feminism beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| 88856fd | Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life. Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lie.. | equality feminism beauty consumer body-image cosmetic-surgery diet-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality self-esteem | Naomi Wolf | |
| ba3bfde | We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie," Leo retorted. "After that, he said he needed to think." "About what?" Beatrix demanded. "What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?" "He's a man, dear," Amelia explained kindly. "Sustained thinking is very difficult for them." -- | men humor thinking | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 22c8563 | I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?" "For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 878694f | Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| e06f52e | A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting--no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 65aa379 | Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth. | John Irving | ||
| b3d24df | there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time. | John Irving | ||
| 96888f2 | Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?" she asked. Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son." "So have we all from time to time," Eddis said seriously." | Megan Whalen Turner |