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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6d71afc | If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 028e713 | I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect. | love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 91006a5 | You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ee20dd3 | When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e0c9eb4 | They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick. | p-33 | Jodi Picoult | |
| 05641e5 | Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7464793 | But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the so.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c686c44 | A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4481a90 | To this point, he could not really have said that he loved William. Feel the terror of responsibility for him, yes. Carry thought of him like a gem in his pocket, certainly, reaching now and then to touch it, marveling. But now he felt the perfection of the tiny bones of William's spine through his clothes, smooth as marbles under his fingers, smelled the scent of him, rich with the incense of innocence and the faint tang of shit and clean .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 952d16a | Jem made the little Scottish noise again, and Brianna looked sideways at him. "Are you doing that on purpose?" He looked up at her, surprised. "Doing what?" "Never mind. When you are fifteen, I'm locking you in the cellar." "What? Why?" he demanded indignantly. "Because that's when your father and grandfather started getting into real trouble, and evidently you're going to be just like them." | jamie-fraser jem-mackenzie roger-mackenzie scottish-noises trouble | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 1b8ee24 | Until I realized: this long expanse of free time to rekindle friendships is not real. We will never come home to each other again and we will never again have each other's undivided attention. That version of our friendship is over forever. And when I remember this, and it usually happens in those awful, quiet evening hours on Sunday nights, after dinner but before bed, I just lie on my sofa and cry for half an hour. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c79166d | England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn't read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew all this, but in the end One question drove him round the bend: He simply couldn't puzzle out What LIFE was really all about. What was the reason for his birth? Why was he placed.. | the-pig | Roald Dahl | |
| 5b88ecd | May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top! | gunslinger roland the-dark-tower | Stephen King | |
| 4045e54 | So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 6380a03 | We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue--only we've all been issued the wrong librettos. For a text, we're given the Bible. Or the Talmud or the Koran. We're given Time magazine, and Reader's Digest, daily papers, and the six o'clock news; we're given schoolbooks, sitcoms, and revisionist histories; we're given psychological couns.. | fact life meaning-of-life reality religion truth | Tom Robbins | |
| a362e7a | The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You've never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don't even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you'll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside. | creativity love relationships | Tom Robbins | |
| ae471d0 | Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends. | Brené Brown | ||
| 412f871 | Perfectionism is not the same thing has striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It's a shield. It's a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from flight. | perfectionists | Brené Brown | |
| bc2b5e8 | I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love-of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages-back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 16a312b | Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as witches, appeared suddenly on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A leaflet put out by WITCH in New York said: WITCH lives and smiles in every woman. She is the free part of each of us, beneath the shy smiles, the acquiescence to absurd male domination, the make-up or flesh-suffocating cl.. | women-s-liberation | Howard Zinn | |
| cc01aba | Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. | inaction pessimism self-fulfilling-prophecy | Howard Zinn | |
| 6844085 | A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| ae93011 | I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief." | gary george thief | Tamora Pierce | |
| 8393159 | He was overconfident", she told him. "And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they'd have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works." "You won because you were good" he corrected her. "I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 502cfb9 | We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 8479c39 | As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 53416fb | What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied." | comeback | Tamora Pierce | |
| 3337305 | 'SbHtu fj'@an l 'GDbu mn lns, bl m `dtu 'lHZu wjwdahm. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5bb972d | Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. | morality | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 5d31ea4 | If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down. | love romance | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 0c6644c | I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 467c2d1 | I want to change my life...except I sort of like it. I mean, I couldn't be more delighted every Monday night after Fletch goes to bed when I come downstairs, pull up the Bachelor on TiVo, drink Riesling, and eat cheddar/port wine Kaukauna cheese without freakign out over fat grams. I'm perpetually in a good mood because I do everything I want. I love having the freedom to skip the gym to watch a Don Knots movie on the Disney Channel without.. | funny weight | Jen Lancaster | |
| e2d4922 | 1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger's undisclosed reason for the 'tilt' was the supposed but never materialised 'brokerage' offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the co.. | 1971-bangladesh-atrocities 1972-nixon-visit-to-china 1973-chilean-coup-d-etat 1974 1975 assassination athens bangladesh bangladesh-liberation-war central-intelligence-agency chile china china-pakistan-relations civil-war coup-d-état cyprus democracy diplomacy doctors doctors-of-philosophy east-timor ecclesiastical-coup fascism foreign-policy foreign-policy-of-the-us greece greek-cypriots henry-kissinger india indo-pakistani-war-of-1971 indonesia indonesian-national-armed-forces international-law iran iran-iraq-war iraq iraqi-kurdistan israel israeli-lebanese-conflict jakarta junta kurdish-iraqi-conflict kurdish-people kurdistan lebanon makarios-iii marxism military-of-chile missionaries mohammad-reza-pahlavi monroe-leigh morality murder news-leaks pakistan pakistan-united-states-relations partition politics portugual portuguese-empire refugees rene-schneider richard-nixon saddam-hussein salvador-allende schneider-doctrine second-kurdish-iraqi-war shah sino-american-relations slaughter thomas-d-boyatt turkey turkish-invasion-of-cyprus united-states walter-isaacson war war-crimes yahya-khan | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 55330b4 | It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. | defensiveness noam-chomsky september-11-attacks | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 590d79d | I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst. | argumentation fallacy journalism leftism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9285481 | Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes. | Walter Kirn | ||
| d7be016 | Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1f013c8 | Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn't share us well. (Geary) Does this mean I'll have to fight him? (Arik) You'd never win. Mr. Cuddles cheats. You think he's just a pushover teddy bear, but he's vicious, I tell you. Vicious. (Geary) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2a93343 | Be a part of the world, but never in it. Because of what we do, we have to interact with people. But we must be unseen shadows who move among them. Never let anyone know you. Never give them a chance to realize you don't age. Move through the darkness ever watchful, ever alert. We are all that stands between the humans and slavery. Without us, they all die and their souls are lost forever. Our responsibilities are great. Out battles numerou.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| db84511 | Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face. A few minutes more and I'm sure your heart would have been on the attack...after it was ripped from your chest. (Kat) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6884cba | I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not until the moment you touched me in your store. My life is violent and dangerous. Its dark and twisted and no place for someone like you. I have more people wanting me dead than I can count. They will stop at nothing, and you.." He ground his teeth before he spoke again. "You'll never want again for anything.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b37a774 | Hush, self, let me think. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 034646f | I can't believe I'm mated to someone who's allergic to me. (Ravyn) You? I'm the one who should be having a hissy. How do I introduce you to people? Hi, this is my...what? Significant other? Mate? Pet? (Susan) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 3d4c39f | The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. | Sherrilyn Kenyon |