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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6710527 | She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 32f0465 | Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 99cf8bc | A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a2e07af | It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 1e1c505 | I lived in the royal library, among all the books." "You resided in a... library?" "There suites inside and great balconies that overlooked the city, but yes. I was most content among those shelves, so one night, I simply never left." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 20cb61f | Regin had known the risk in coming here, but she wasn't fearful. As Lucia had also told her, "Sometimes I don't think you have the sense to be afraid when you should." Regin had interpreted that to mean, "You have no sense of fear, oh, great Reginleit." | dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 9378604 | The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself." -- | lostness the-outsider | Colin Wilson | |
| 26d887e | The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35) | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a658006 | She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. They way they looked and smelled; the way they felt in her hands; the way the pages seemed to murmur as she turned them. Everything there is in the world, she thought, is in books. | Betty Smith | ||
| 83a9d04 | After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there. | interior-life life-of-the-mind writers writing | Gertrude Stein | |
| bd94e5d | Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 6803d39 | Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. What.. | passion | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 481e823 | Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a619b18 | They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in ha.. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| c7e2343 | And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect. | lesbian love patricia-highsmith perfect right romantic sex the-price-of-salt | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 8fd9b28 | Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5a91447 | The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. | inspirational travel wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
| c9912a9 | But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| e17e4ac | Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| cf1a601 | I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page | reading | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 3231ee7 | I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 93e0909 | Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path--all they do is trip you up. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 8087738 | In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 4032f26 | Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story. | hopelessness love | John Fowles | |
| fbcb661 | There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. | loss teacher | Pat Conroy | |
| cab5c68 | Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth." | south south-carolina | Pat Conroy | |
| 654e7ad | Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn't! Then why should it make them nice to be loathed? While you're being persecuted, you hate what's happening to you, you hate the people who are making it happen; you're in a world of hate. Why, you wouldn't recognize love if you met it! You'd suspect love! You'd think there was something behind it--some motive--some trick. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 231b5e0 | You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| bac1ecc | I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f3a0473 | We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. | Norton Juster | ||
| 1f6a1b6 | Maureen clapped her hands together. "Oh," she said in her elfin little voice. "It's pretty." "Pretty?" Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. "Maureen, what the hell-" | sebastian-morgenstern simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| d102d97 | I guess life is full of maybes. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 1cd255f | I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. | Lynn Kurland | ||
| 7fcb5c7 | The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. | difference similarities uniqueness | James Baldwin | |
| c96a66c | Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated - in the main, abominably - because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires. | James Baldwin | ||
| 7f46676 | I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder. I think this is true even for normal children. I have watched little children learning to walk; they all struggle and fall down many time.. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| 8c7347a | If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place...although it is very interesting, anyhow...if people spoke out their real thoughts. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ceb65ab | In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecologica.. | change courage future hope inequalities justice race | Cornel West | |
| 7d4388d | Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion. | librarianship | Marilyn Johnson | |
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| b5aac71 | The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 63aec73 | Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 9efbe69 | Together we will be unstoppable. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 7223a62 | It is not enough to be happy, one must be content. | inspirational | Victor Hugo |