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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4cb835 | Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her..." | Willa Cather | ||
| 38142b6 | Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 84aab18 | It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| ca7298e | The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0ecd3cd | What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5de9e3a | Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e325122 | Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b72f8f1 | there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 355db12 | I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I'm going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. | Cornel West | ||
| 45ad6da | What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss. | John Berger | ||
| 4519392 | We're all assholes," Lo tells Garrison. "But one day, you'll meet an asshole that pushes you to be a better person. Those are the ones that stick with you." | Krista Ritchie Becca Ritchie | ||
| ada88d4 | But we're in Earth-616, love. We're going to have our happy ending. It just may take us awhile to get there. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| abad28a | The rest of us, not chosen for enlightenment, left on the outside of Earth, at the mercy of a Gravity we have only begun to learn how to detect and measure, must go on blundering inside our front-brain faith in Kute Korrespondences, hoping that for each psi-synthetic taken from Earth's soul there is a molecule, secular, more or less ordinary and named, over here - kicking endlessly among the plastic trivia, finding in each Deeper Significan.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 85dec4a | It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. | imagination theory | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| dab19c3 | Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of them alone together., their feet almost noiseless on the rusty carpet of pine needles. They walked without speaking, without touching, and yet they were as close as it is possible for two human beings to be. They climbed up through the woods, coming out into the brilliant sunlight at the top of the hill. A fe.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4136464 | There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2ab9b00 | Nine-year-old Laila rose from bed, as she did most mornings, hungry for the sight of her friend Tariq. This morning, however, she knew there would be no Tariq sighting. - How long will you be gone? - She'd asked when Tariq had told her that his parents were taking him south, to the city of Ghazni, to visit his paternal uncle. - Thirteen days - Thirteen days? - It's not so long. You're making a face, Laila. - I am not. - You're not going to .. | tariq | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 674f0db | We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole aim of our lives. | Alcoholics Anonymous World Services | ||
| aeff4d0 | When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I. | love parting-ways separation | E.M. Forster | |
| 8306222 | But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5453209 | She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time--the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved. If this world is not to our taste, well, at all events, there is Heaven, Hell, Annihilation--one or other of those large things, that huge scenic background of stars, fires, blue or black air. All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assume.. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 0c72e24 | My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 392724a | Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel -- Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. | pig wig | J.K. Rowling | |
| c9c01c3 | He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life. | relationships | J.K. Rowling | |
| 93d54fd | Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!" squeaked Dobby angrily." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ec0aaa7 | Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e084e8e | Be good now, Potty...Weasel King... | name-calling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 633d16e | We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ab90704 | Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon." | centaurs hagrid | J.K. Rowling | |
| b52c9ec | Uncle Vernon rounded on Harry. "And ?" "I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there," said Harry tonelessly. "Exactly," said Uncle Vernon nastily. At eight-fifteen--" "I'll announce dinner," said Aunt Petunia. "And, Dudley, you'll say --" "May I take you through to the dining room, Mrs. Mason?" said Dudley. "And ?" said Uncle Vernon viciously to Harry. "I'll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I'm not the.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7f3af15 | DELPHI/HERMIONE: What have you done? SCORPIUS/HARRY: I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has -- in all my years on this planet -- never been a particularly dangerous activity. The | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6ab9cd6 | Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4404d61 | What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9f6b867 | Books can be misleading | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 313f7ae | You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| dd60ef6 | Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. | fear | J.K. Rowling | |
| d616f48 | Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily. | love philothei | Louis de Bernières | |
| 80d9d46 | For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 8558a45 | Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a33f01c | Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion. | life | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 3d32730 | America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2a29fa4 | Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f8c557d | When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . . | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c172e6c | The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God." | cooperation freedom initiative man nature sympathy woman | Fulton J. Sheen |