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| 4c019e3 | Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know .. | Libba Bray | ||
| 54b5df8 | You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and growing mold, branched with arms and legs. Other events--the ones you can't digest--they poison you. Those worst parts of your life, those moments you can't talk about, they rot you from the inside out. Until you're Cassandra's wet shadow on the groun.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7487bb8 | Now," those Plumbago lips say, "You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night." That Brandy queen points a long bony finger at me. "When you understand, " Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can crumble it up and throw your past in .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 85e1ce5 | Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you. | invisible-monsters past past-and-future | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| aa0b365 | Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child. Despite the fact most parents don't recognize this function, they still practice the exercise. Rant also saw how resolving the illusions is crucial to how the child uses any new skills. A child who is never coached with Santa Claus may never develop an ability to imagine. To him, nothing exists except the literal and tangible. A child .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e9a67ec | It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. | power | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 8eaed45 | Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 26b86c4 | There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, w.. | good the-devil | Ian Fleming | |
| 811f294 | It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by. | doll life | Rumer Godden | |
| 38a73c5 | Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 6f5eea6 | I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 6a83e3a | We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world. We need myths that help us to create a spiritual attitude, to see beyond our immediate requirements, and enable us to expe.. | myths revolution spirituality | Karen Armstrong | |
| e02d03c | Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender" | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| f6a3a38 | A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d97338c | People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3b5640e | Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth. If a lunatic were to ask me w.. | slavery tie | Paulo Coelho | |
| e46b7de | So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1c3f4b4 | What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not what I am. The Other believes that it is our obligation to spend our entire life thinking about how to get our hands on as much money a possible so that we will not die of hunger when we are old. So we think so much about money and our plans for acquiring it that we discover we are alive only when our days on earth are practically done. And then i.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| dae9c95 | I controlled the jealousy I feel because of you, and I'm happy with that. You know why? Because I always have to show I'm worthy of your love. I have to fight for our marriage, for our union, in ways that have nothing to do with our children. I love you. I would endure anything, absolutely anything, to always have you by my side. But I can't stop you from leaving one day. So if that day comes, you are free to leave and seek your happiness. .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 686b753 | I only invoked what you already knew. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7733e78 | Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 79fb381 | To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. | inspiration life motivation | Paulo Coelho | |
| 24c5d3a | Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won't suit you, aren't becoming to you. You'll begin to know your true .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 554b34c | Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5d5f4a5 | No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true. | humor politics | Ann Coulter | |
| d976ff6 | The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect or confined at a point somewhere along a gradual pathway toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| befb0a4 | Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 423deb7 | I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. | knowledge siddhartha unity world | Hermann Hesse | |
| e4b767c | We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution as far back as the fish and even much further, so we bear everything in our soul that once was alive in the soul of men. Every god and devil that ever existed, be it among the Greeks, Chinese, or Zulus, are within us, exist as latent possibilities, as wishes, as alternatives. If the human race were to vanish from th.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 586d4d0 | Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ae1b637 | Not even need and love can defeat fate... | love need | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4af1955 | The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. | journey metaphorical research travel | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4115f74 | Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things? | monstruous | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 42b8aba | Arobynn hit her-her ribs, her jaw, her gut. And her face. Again and again and again. Careful blows, meant to inflict as much pain as possible without doing permanent damage. And Sam kept roaring, shouting words that she couldn't quite hear over the agony. The last thing she remembered was a pang of guilt at the sight of her blood staining Arobynn's exquisite red carpet. And then darkness, blissful darkness, full of relief that she hadn't se.. | sam | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 3e454d2 | Rumor has it she was your Champion this fall. Do you wish to deal with this?" Dorian said smoothly, "You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her." ... Aelin and Aelin looked at each other. The one in black grinned up at the newcomer. "Oh, you ARE gorgeous, aren't you?" ... Aelin and Lysandra fixed the warrior with an unimpressed look that would have sent lesser men running." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3ff08c9 | She never bothered to look down. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c615bd1 | You would be surprised by how closely the healing of physical wounds is tied to the healing of emotional ones. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 797abaa | His smile faded into something awed, something......reverent, and I reached out to cup his face in my hands- To find my skin glowing. Faintly, as if some inner light shone beneath my skin, leaking out into the world. Warm and white light, like the sun-like a star. Those wonder-filled eyes met mine, and Rhys ran a finger down my arm. "Well, at least now I can gloat that I can literally make my mate glow with happiness." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6db641d | The Queen of Flame and Shadow, the Heir of Fire, Aelin of the Wildfire, Fireheart . . . She burned through each title, even as she became them, became what those foreign ambassadors had hissed when they reported on a child-queen's growing, unstable power in Terrasen. A promise that had been whispered into the blackness. | pg522 | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 549e4ac | She paused, frowning at him. But his eyes drifted to the small wooden door just a few feet away. A broom closet. She followed his attention, and a slow smile spread across her face. She turned toward it, but he grabbed her hand, bringing his face close to hers. "You're going to have to be very quiet." She reached the knob and opened the door, tugging him inside. "I have a feeling that I'm going to be telling you that in a few moments," she .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8698b1b | Because I am from Terrasen and believed my queen dead. And now she is alive, and fighting, so I will fight with her. So that no other girls will be taken from their homes and brought to Morath and forgotten. | eos spoilers | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ff1b537 | She had believed she could love Sam and not pay the price. Everything has a price, she'd once been told by a Spidersilk merchant in the Red Desert. How right he was. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 346ff7e | Those two in the antechamber," he added, eyes sparkling, "might not be on that list of people you should bother knowing, if they keep banging on the door like children." Another pound, emphasized by the first male voice saying, "You know we can hear you, prick." "Secondly," Rhys went on, "in regard to the two bastards at my door, it's up to you whether you want to meet them now, or head upstairs like a wise person, take a nap since you're s.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 46d5380 | You and this city helped wake me up--helped bring me back to life." His eyes flickered as I smiled up at him. "I will fight with everything I have, too, Rhys. Everything." He" | Sarah J. Maas |