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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3caacaa | The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt? | physchotic-thriller | Robert Cormier | |
| fba97d7 | Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savoured of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity. They were, perhaps, all unconsc.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 37216e3 | There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. | life living living-life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 1f8e86d | I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 419cf24 | It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self. | individualism liberalism | bell hooks | |
| d160817 | Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be "just humans" within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism." | killing-rage | bell hooks | |
| 4f4b0a1 | I knew from the beginning that we'd be addicted after all." His amber eyes bore straight through me. "I just didn't know whether we'd be at a better place than we were before." . I don't even have to say the words. He knows the answer too. We're at the best place we've ever been, reaching a stasis together. It's beautiful up here, and even if I fear falling, it's nice to know I've been down that road before. And I can always walk to the to.. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 392bcc4 | The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| dc4fd2d | A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1d3184e | Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi | mirror-of-erised | J.K. Rowling | |
| f2816c1 | though nothing is damaged, everything is changed. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 4cd9535 | The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 667dfca | The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate." | cursing dan-cahill humor nellie-gomez the39clues | Gordon Korman | |
| e10e4d5 | Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'." | joke jonah-wizard mistake translation | Gordon Korman | |
| 146bd02 | Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others?" Dan snapped. "Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it ! Grace had a saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!" | cahill dan grace | Gordon Korman | |
| 12b1442 | Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5fb7c4b | The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 356406f | Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?" -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 397000c | Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c65a881 | Newt: I think you'll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts! Queenie: HOGWASH. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8f99eb3 | The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| adb85f2 | Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, "Daddy, look -- one of the gnomes actually bit me!" "How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!" said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna's outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. "Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today -- perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish -- do not repress .. | xenophilius-lovegood | J.K. Rowling | |
| ea1b5ed | How did you get here?" Harry asked. "Flew," said Hagrid. " " | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6f800dc | I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 31fad43 | How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don't know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1ed240b | For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c71690f | and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever. | knowing new-relationship | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 466fdec | Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 809bfd1 | A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 5817451 | Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. | spiritual | Anonymous | |
| 274a50d | One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. | misattributed-to-einstein paraphrasing-narcotics-anonymous | Anthony Kiedis | |
| 501bc21 | If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 9f3f924 | She loved you in the morning because the day was new. | Zadie Smith | ||
| a1aa098 | She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead. | fashion girls | Zadie Smith | |
| 2a7290e | As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall. | Libba Bray | ||
| 3f48270 | This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn. | Libba Bray | ||
| 9097715 | I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado. We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha. Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn tho.. | beauty-queens hawaii | Libba Bray | |
| 55a63fe | Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don't start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9bdf39b | Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e1751bf | This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ca38112 | That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we've grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 759e68e | I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace | quantum-of-solace relationships | Ian Fleming | |
| e07a868 | Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one." | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 7eb8eb6 | Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can commun.. | Bill Bryson |