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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4a18ec9 | This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. | death job child | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 4007c77 | The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that m.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 406238b | Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 92f253e | I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 6a59a85 | I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 6fda3b2 | When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| d3d649b | In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out. | mortality death life | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 3c56711 | Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 2cd3095 | He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f511767 | Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f69536b | The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| a9cea5f | In the morning they came up out of the ravine and took to the road again. He'd carved the boy a flute from a piece of roadside cane and he took it from his coat and gave it to him. The boy took it wordlessly. After a while he fell back and after a while the man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin. The man turned and looked back at him. H.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| e0d3ddd | Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 57090cf | He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed. The tales of which were suspect. He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. He tried to remember the dream but he could not. All that was left was the feeling.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 4011771 | I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. | purpose | Annie Dillard | |
| 7766b6b | After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 10e2b41 | I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 572a5b7 | One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Si.. | Annie Dillard | ||
| dc7792c | If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. | writing writer-s-block | Anne Lamott | |
| f62a8bc | Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 74a24f1 | I expect I shall feel better after tea. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| b995072 | That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false. | Amy Tan | ||
| a4278ca | A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. "Don't be scared," I tell those fishes. "I am saving you from drowning." Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 3eaca49 | I've never seen anythin' sexier in my life, and she's not even naked yet. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ed21a5f | What's the use in having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then? | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 6ad4f2a | Now I understand all those chick flicks I made fun of. 'Cause now I'm the sappy dork willing to risk it all for the girl. Estoy enamorado...I'm in love. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| e47d43b | When they're together, the world could fall apart around them and they'd never notice or care as long as they have each other. | humour romance young-adult-romance young-adult-fiction | Simone Elkeles | |
| dfbc6d3 | I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 174db42 | Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos? | kiara-westford trouble | Simone Elkeles | |
| 3195052 | What you were is forever who you are. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 94c9f13 | The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 28e80a9 | The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 055bda0 | Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1ec887f | Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b56a02c | Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth .. | puck | William Shakespeare | |
| d4ad157 | Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. | jealousy pessimism | William Shakespeare | |
| cd21c90 | Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded. | Henry James | ||
| 7acfd76 | My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all - whey then you're beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down. | Henry James | ||
| 2ba3110 | at any rate, there's no harm in trying. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 5a6a8b9 | I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.' 'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked. | cheshire-cat king | Lewis Carroll | |
| b3e33f9 | Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 79aa5ef | Something deep inside me lurched. The stirring was as startling and unpleasant as it was thrilling and revolutionary. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5cefc49 | I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I blink at him. "Neruda. I starred the passage. God," he moans. "Why didn't you open it?" | romance ya | Stephanie Perkins | |
| edc43d5 | Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No." | James Patterson |