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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe207f8 | When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 62f10d6 | Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| fd2da4b | Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?" Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before." "And I hope I never breathe it again." | Gordon Korman | ||
| ea24e46 | We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please." | dan-cahill humor ian-kabra venice | Gordon Korman | |
| 94b5b2d | Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he? | harry-potter uncle-vernon | J.K. Rowling | |
| 54a2565 | Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d8a3e53 | Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bf6d324 | All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 578593a | I will if you go out with me, Evans | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2e3e014 | You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff." | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 84510ef | It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were. | dignity fulfilling honor life love sorrows | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 8aa3e2a | Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it. | inspirational | Nicholas Sparks | |
| ce46160 | The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f338c8f | I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 222022c | Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times... | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 31730f4 | From the look on your face, I'd say you know him." I nodded. "Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school." Connie grunted. "Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d6aebc2 | Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 548195a | I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. "Thought you weren't into internal pollution," I said. Lately Ranger'd been on a health food thing. "Props," Ranger told me. "Didn't want to look out of place." I didn't want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn't look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c111118 | I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 5f93086 | O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. | god holy-spirit jesus psalm savior | Anonymous | |
| aa17633 | Thou shalt not stand idly by | bible | Anonymous | |
| f371dc2 | On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk among bare oaks and birch. Nothing much was going on. Scarlet sumac had passed and the bees were dead. The pond had slicked overnight into that shiny and deceptive glaze of delusion, first ice. It made me remember sakes and conjure a vision of myself skimming backward on one foot, the other extended; the arms become wings... | buddhism christianity mysticism nature nature-writing spirituality | Mary Rose O'Reilley | |
| 71c9766 | Memories are forever. | the-giver | Lois Lowry | |
| 3d58777 | And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular. | Lois Lowry | ||
| e7a522f | It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy | Zadie Smith | ||
| 3813a03 | I'd say..." Petra crossed her legs, tucked a wayward strand of hair behind her ear. "I'd say, I am too fucking fabulous for one gender. Oh, and can we please get rid of the cheesy dance numbers? It's like torture step-ball-change." "I'd say I am not a race. I am an individual," Nicole said. Sosie moved her fingers gracefully, but no one understood. She waited for a moment. "I would say, learn to hear me in my own voice. I'm hearing impaired.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 121951b | He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself. | Libba Bray | ||
| 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 |