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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c90f459 | All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 5d66b55 | Her glass wings are gone. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ddd543b | I tell, therefore you are. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ceff338 | I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e95589d | Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along. | relationships | Margaret Atwood | |
| 6d14af0 | If you love people, you take them on trust. | Dodie Smith | ||
| c60bb2a | Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. | Dodie Smith | ||
| 7a7c9a3 | Are you wowed?" Her pause is debilitating. "Yes," she says a little breathlessly. "I'm wowed." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 02556c4 | You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With your permission, I would like to answer him." "You have it," Alec replied. "Andrew," she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, "my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer hi.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 30ede75 | Nick?" "I'm still here, Laurant." -"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?" "No, but you just did. He's standing right here." She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 22f9a50 | Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 60e554c | His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you won't be alone, Tansy. I'm strong. I'll find your mind and I'll bring you back." "Last time I broke into a million pieces." "I'll find each one." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 33e65ab | I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can't see what everyone else sees in me. I don't feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it's devastating, Jonas. I don't want you to think it's vanity, it isn't. I can't see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I'm like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my.. | love-yourself relationships self-esteem | Christine Feehan | |
| 541b683 | You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities. | Barack Obama | ||
| 38b5245 | Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.... | legacy manhood | Barack Obama | |
| 2a7ea69 | We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee. | synchronicity | C.G. Jung | |
| 1faaaa4 | Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| c8a7aff | This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern. | kafka veganism vegetarianism | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 50bf345 | I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 097b637 | How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2ad869a | She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 4f8aab0 | But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper. | Ian McEwan | ||
| a96efcc | I'll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn't touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 7ca8f02 | beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. | Ian McEwan | ||
| e30aecd | Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 491f9be | Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)" | Milan Kundera | ||
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friedrich-nietzche friedrich-nietzsche love milan-kundera neitzsche novel philosophy philosophy-of-life political psychological psychology religion religion-and-philoshophy sex sociology اجتماع جنس حب علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته ميلان-كونديرا نيتشه | ميلان كونديرا | |
| 51ef357 | Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders. | milan-kundera | Milan Kundera | |
| c6fcd2a | There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. | Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| a31e6e0 | My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 454da8a | He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone. | sad void | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7771c16 | Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only. | clarity colours prose rain spirit | Haruki Murakami | |
| 57fbcfc | Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4ffc06a | Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4172409 | He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1a8ae29 | I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| e6f2cf8 | My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. | you-re-not-the-boss-of-me | Walker Percy | |
| 94ff120 | Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. | Walker Percy | ||
| b1fb6a1 | Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7d18f7d | Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward. | Chris Gardner | ||
| fc18990 | I want to live," he said, "So I have to die." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e3259b1 | I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth. | learning-the-truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 063fe9a | A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. | god marriage | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4bf0d19 | We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never .. | parenting | Jodi Picoult |