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Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start.
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.
It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
Language is ever on the move, and most days, I check out the 'Urban Dictionary' where anyone can invent a new and useful word or phrase.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?
He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.
Are you crazy? Flirting with Eli Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood’s house, while eating Belissa Norwood’s cupcakes?
Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.
The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.
Everyone has to put clothes on in the morning, and it's interesting to see how much people's personal histories come into that decision.
Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.
Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —
There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)
Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don’t have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)
She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn’t the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.’ (Nick)
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.
What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit.
The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you—and there's nothing you can do about it!” “That's all I needed to hear.
I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.