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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c6232a0 | How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?" | inspiration love wisdom | Rebecca Solnit | |
| d2a8773 | A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. | labyrinth maps walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| a034068 | Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. | page-171 urban-planning walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| e6288ff | Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts. | italy page-178 urban-planning walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| f3454e2 | Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth--and in our minds, where it all begins and ends. That so much change has been made in four or five decades is amazing; that everything is not permanantly, definitively, irrevocably changed is not a sign of failure. A woman goes walking down a thousand-mil.. | feminism | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 9bc30d1 | It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals. | language | David Sedaris | |
| 60c9363 | my obsession with gratefulness. I can't stop. Just now, I press the elevator button and am thankful that it arrives quickly. I get onto the elevator and am thankful that the elevator cable didn't snap and plummet me to the basement. I go to the fifth floor and am thankful that I didn't have to stop on the second or third or fourth floor. I get out and am thankful that Julie left the door unlocked so I don't have to rummage for my King Kong .. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| f749194 | You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. | John Adams | ||
| 42f3222 | He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. "You will come, won't you? Promisse!" he whispered." | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 5ee14e3 | Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 5ad88c7 | I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 769b2d0 | I'll bet he was myrrh. Bastard, he brings the cheapest gift and now he wants to sodomize me. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 63791db | Heinous Fuckery, most foul! | Christopher Moore | ||
| eb33f9e | If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 365d725 | He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude | jean-claude | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| ba3c023 | Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 4d73647 | Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy. | life perspective | Richard Bach | |
| 1de64ad | Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! | Richard Bach | ||
| 2b6869d | I loved you when you were a snot-nosed kid, into so much mischief it's a wonder my hair didn't turn prematurely gray. I loved you when you were a teenager with long, skinny legs and eyes that broke my heart every time I looked at you. I love you now that you're a woman who makes my brain go soft, my legs go weak, and my dick get hard. When you walk into a room, my heart damn near jumps out of my chest. When you smile, I feel as if I've won .. | Linda Howard | ||
| 923d6cd | It's all the same to the clam. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 5913399 | I want..." he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. "I want one pure thing in my life," he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. "I want one thing I can point to and say, 'That is good, and it's a part of me." | Kim Harrison | ||
| a83521d | Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles. "Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened. "Welcome back, my itchy witch." | algaliarept big-al rachel-morgan the-hollows | Kim Harrison | |
| a67ad5e | You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for? | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 0f0e223 | The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything." | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| e6c630d | Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself. Your partner does nothing more than reveal your stuff to you. Your fear! Your anger! Your pattern! Your craziness! As long as you insist on pointing the finger out there, at them, you will continue to miss out on the divine opportunity to clear your stuff. Here is a meantime tip--we love in others what we love in ourselves... | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 56ff7e6 | Their issues are not your issues. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| ca07032 | The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. | racism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0b8c27e | There's always hope, Apostolos. Of all men, you know that. It's only when you stop trying to affect the outcome of your life that you're truly defeated. What will come will come. It's how we deal with the shit in between that shapes us. (Savitar) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4d145d4 | On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride" -- | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f1712e1 | He's a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 03face3 | Where are you going? (Nykyrian) To get a drink and kill Cruel...not necessarily in that order. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0515e68 | You are the Energizer Bunny for badasses. -Ash | humor | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 95953e8 | These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron) What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 71d7b42 | Zarek? (Astrid) What?! (Zarek) Don't use that tone with me. I like to know where people are in my house. Be nice, or I'll make you wear a cowbell. (Astrid) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a92cd87 | Look at her. She looks so harmless and meek, but inside she's a lion. Tory is an adrenaline junkie the likes of which you've probably never seen...everything from deep-sea diving to base jumping. Hell, she even jumps out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. (Pam) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6d9a23f | You don't like people who have money, do you? (Astrid) I'm not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0383007 | You know-my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn't even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.' (Zarek) Why do you love that book so? (Astrid) Because I want to hear the bells when I look up at the sky. I want to laugh, but I don't know how. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9ad0f22 | The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it's making peace with yourself. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ee14601 | Guy? Mister? Mr. Goth Man, would you please wake up so I can leave? I really don't want to hang out in a closet with a dead man any longer than I have to, okay? C'mon, please, don't make this a Weekend at Bernie's thing! (Amanda) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 694acf7 | When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out. | truth-of-life | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| c775fe6 | When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 26846c6 | Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 03de912 | O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! | on-writing | William Shakespeare | |
| 58a5cc8 | When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered. | Anthony Bourdain |