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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9532f43 | Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown! | morganville-vampires the-dead-girls-dance | Rachel Caine | |
| 51e5278 | I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine. | consequences decisions responsibility the-dead-girls-dance | Rachel Caine | |
| 2b37959 | May I bring you a drink to go with those warm nuts, Mr. Sedaris?" this woman looking after me asked - this as the people in coach were still boarding. The looks they gave me as they passed were the looks I give when the door of a limousine opens. You always expect to see a movie star, or, at the very least, some better dressed than you, but time and time again it's just a sloppy nobody. Thus the look, which translates to, Fuck you, Sloppy N.. | David Sedaris | ||
| f609f55 | I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather thanput the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, .. | animal-rights animal-testing science vegan vegetarianism vivisection | Michael Tobias | |
| 2aa282b | A beautiful day might bring disaster, while a day that begins trapped inside an ancient toom, might be the best one of your life. If you don't abandon hope on pleasent days, why do so on those that begin poorly? | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 3c30933 | Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes? | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| c280221 | You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give. | William Saroyan | ||
| 14326d4 | I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on. | humor | Christopher Moore | |
| a57d82e | Ten Best Song to Strip 1. Any hip-swiveling R&B fuckjam. This category includes The Greatest Stripping Song of All Time: "Remix to Ignition" by R. Kelly. 2. "Purple Rain" by Prince, but you have to be really theatrical about it. Arch your back like Prince himself is daubing body glitter on your abdomen. Most effective in nearly empty, pathos-ridden juice bars. 3. "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. Insta-attitude. Makes even the clums.. | Diablo Cody | ||
| 3f2bd41 | Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off. | relationships | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 3084a60 | Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 287f090 | My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again. | Sam Harris | ||
| 2f67d29 | all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened. | José Saramago | ||
| e341946 | the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. | egoism egotism self-centeredness self-preservation | José Saramago | |
| 224e690 | Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 03b98f9 | You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue! | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| caddd2d | You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 5fc60da | I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her. | cleansing devout fasting hunger hypocrite letting-go yearning | Mohsin Hamid | |
| dda082c | The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. | Richard Bach | ||
| efbc49e | If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we stop and talk awhile, That's a conversation. If we understand each other, That's communication. If we argue, scream and fight, That's an altercation. If later we apologize, That's a reconciliation. If we help each other home, That's cooperation. And all these ations added up Make civilization. (And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is t.. | poem | Shel Silverstein | |
| 960b6f2 | Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy. | happiness ideal-love ideal-lover jellyfish love marriage other-half peace perfection relationships soul-mate soul-mates true-love unconditional-love | Gillian Flynn | |
| 282e205 | I don't even want to ask,' he said. 'You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f17f93c | When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself--it's a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation. On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart. But I thought about Diane, and her coming home to my s.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a77ab7e | my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he .. | abusive abusive-parents anger broken-home childhood childhood-memories communication divorce emotional-abuse family father fight fighting fights fury heartbreak heartbroken love love-lost malice mental-abuse mother parenthood parents parents-and-children rage scared sexism silence terror | Gillian Flynn | |
| dadcb05 | He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: they try to make it sound like you are the cool girl so you will bow to their wishes. Like a car salesman saying, how much do you want to pay for this beauty? When you didn't agree to buy it yet. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 33f03f8 | Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. | Joan Didion | ||
| 9ec7834 | Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She's never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it." | Alice Sebold | ||
| 6b8cf94 | The more you read, the more you calm down. | reading | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 8c3d589 | She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 7670f3f | She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c4b67d8 | A "collective" mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent - who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the "whole" and accept humbly that the "whole's" verdict - we don't get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind." | group-think | Ayn Rand | |
| 55a3af9 | A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. | integrity people | Ayn Rand | |
| 74f70e8 | If you want to keep a friend, never test him. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f3ea055 | And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. | pain | Arthur Golden | |
| 5c81a28 | Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls. | nora roberts | Nora Roberts | |
| 04ab180 | The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave. | Nora Roberts | ||
| b7502b5 | Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. | Dan Brown | ||
| f15440d | Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)" -- | James Frey | ||
| bb40c1c | Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. | creativity inspirational writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| fa80e70 | As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be. | love possibilities | Anne Carson | |
| 31ddc78 | If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet. | Jung Chang | ||
| db55475 | But, - and there it is, - we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality. | Jack London | ||
| bc239df | such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7a455ff | She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him. | charles-dickens elopement entrancement reading | Eudora Welty |