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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc2f76a | I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up. | live suicide tired | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 5504f74 | I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall - I dove. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 0c4684d | HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! | Samuel Beckett | ||
| f7694a5 | If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c1378a9 | I felt bad for Lulu because I've been Lulu. It's really hard when you realize the guy you've been dating is basically a high schooler at heart. It make you feel like Mary Kay Letourneau. It's the worst. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 00023d4 | At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him. | leadership | Richard Adams | |
| 01f22a7 | I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.... Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. | memory | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 40e925c | How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! | recollection | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 96ad59d | I am sentimental,' she said. 'I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 7d063ec | Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged ve.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| ff0cac6 | There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 9ef8479 | He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| d0bdd6e | Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| df97603 | In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 6af17ee | Memory is the basis of every journey. | journey memory stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 73d7a08 | And then the world exploded. | Stephen King | ||
| 00fda87 | They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. | Stephen King | ||
| 84eb735 | I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity. | life | Stephen King | |
| b9d7fb8 | Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe. | Stephen King | ||
| 2d4dc6d | Once again there was the desert, and that only. | chambers dark deschain desert gunslinger jake king man roland stephen tower | Stephen King | |
| 60b4d4e | Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing. | loneliness lonely | Stephen King | |
| 3acde22 | In these silences something may rise | Stephen King | ||
| 29b308c | Beyond the reach of human rage A drop of hell, a touch of strange ... | Stephen King | ||
| fa3337f | One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal. | Stephen King | ||
| 8121287 | Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 6a2269a | There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain. | Jim Morrison | ||
| b16ab59 | Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 8d40b9c | Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. | faith relationships | Erin McCarthy | |
| f107f91 | The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| b52e007 | I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| fbcbd9c | Every fear hides a wish. | David Mamet | ||
| 9745644 | The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. | life-lessons spirituality wisdom | Annie Dillard | |
| d9c5bc6 | Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3769aa0 | Death. It doesn't have to be boring. | Mary Roach | ||
| c2c18ab | Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way. | survival | Mary Roach | |
| 46f7112 | A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin. | mothers simple | Amy Tan | |
| 2c34714 | In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. | books | Anne Fadiman | |
| 2b885d4 | I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 0642e52 | It's not Brittney's face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9a3813a | My history defines who I am. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 930d73a | Picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| d27e168 | In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| ccc9f4f | Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become . . . That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-por.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 79c9f13 | To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to. | Carlos Castaneda |