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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f742b4 | Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!' he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. 'You aren't nearly through this adventure yet,' he added, and that was pretty true as well. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| eaca1dc | Coloured people don't like . Burn it. White people don't feel good about . Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ee5c0e3 | Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| f0a8ae4 | There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. | brave courage deception eyes fortitude grace inspirational kind kindness life love precious stewardship world | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 1dbc171 | Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| dcfd40a | I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 761db6d | The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt." | art complexity writing | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 1670f1c | There are chapters in every life which are seldom read, and certainly not aloud. | Carol Shields | ||
| 8ff2c5c | You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up. | vampire | Anne Rice | |
| 7113850 | Yes," I said "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?" He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| cde8b18 | mn byshtr b shkhst yftgn Hss hmdrdy mykhnm t b mqdsyn. gmn mykhnm khh mn qhrmny w tqds r zyd nmypsndm. anchh brym jlb st nsn bwdn st. | Albert Camus | ||
| b3a6068 | A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again. | Stephen King | ||
| 41584d0 | Life turns on a dime. | Stephen King | ||
| 9a04b42 | Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. | writing | Stephen King | |
| cd41800 | Strange world isn't it? | world | Stephenie Meyer | |
| d0f1ca9 | She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. | Paul Bowles | ||
| c9ae865 | People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| cae6b0b | We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings -- Sue Monk Kidd" | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 8fc7b63 | In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop." | Caitlin Doughty | ||
| ba75bc5 | Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you. Men wear clothes that have never been worn by anyone else before. (Okay, m.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ee22099 | I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 7479728 | Solitude is the playfield of Satan. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 9b16687 | If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| b379d18 | Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple--these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| d619650 | We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| a31e2f6 | The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 27533d8 | Alas, I was unable to transcend the simple human fact that whatever spiritual solace I might find, whatever lithophanic eternities might be provided for me, nothing could make my Lolita forget the foul lust I had inflicted upon her. Unless it can be proven to me -to me as I am now, today, with my heart and my beard, and my putrefaction- that in the infinitue run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl-child names Dolores Haze ha.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| dfaed6d | Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me. | Vladimir Nabokov Lolita | ||
| de9e1b3 | I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 13cdaad | The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for. | afterlife calm common-sense cradle darkness death eternity existence life life-after-death light man | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| df5eb97 | My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 3725b35 | Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van's arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual's life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, d.. | fog life nabakov perfect real-things things towers | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| ab5e493 | do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| c3cf64c | dirty birdy | Stephen King | ||
| 6cd6321 | Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way. | Stephen King | ||
| 5e9c4c6 | Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. | heroin | Stephen King | |
| 7551d4d | Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty. | charlie decker grace king rage richard stanner stephen | Richard Bachman | |
| ae929a4 | Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. | Stephen King | ||
| 939286a | Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started. | Stephen King | ||
| f5cc777 | For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves? | leaves words | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 0851c9d | The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn't now, then where did it go ? | time | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 54aae4c | Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| d1042f7 | Arrange your face | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 8c653f6 | I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering. | Alan Paton |