Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 14, 2007 14:11:15 GMT -5
"From an early age they knew what little value the world placed on books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar." -- from Middlesex
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Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 20, 2007 17:06:01 GMT -5
"All girls have dreams, even if our destinies are set."
"When people are alive, they love. When they die, they keep loving. If love ends when a person dies, that is not real love."
"What the body knows and what the mind chooses to believe are two different things." (a classic saying heard before, but I still like it)
***Sorry, I forgot to mention those are from Peony in Love
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Post by Isa on Oct 20, 2007 20:04:14 GMT -5
"But who knew what would happen once he got to Canada? Canada with its pacifism and its socialized medicine! Canada with its millions of French speakers!" ;D ;D ;D (Also from Middlesex)
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sagedautumn
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by sagedautumn on Oct 29, 2007 10:14:45 GMT -5
I promised to tell you how one falls in love (229) English Patient
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lostgirl
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Post by lostgirl on Nov 7, 2007 7:06:17 GMT -5
"So I'll need you to call Mr. X's office and find out when he could be scheduled to attend." ~The Nanny Diaries
Okay, now this may seem silly to me, but isn't it really a bad sign when you have to "schedule" time with your husband/father? Are there really families like this? Or am I just naive in thinking there aren't? Sadly there are. When I was about 10 I went to a schoolmate's house and she had to speak to hear parents via intercom
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sagedautumn
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by sagedautumn on Nov 8, 2007 8:00:15 GMT -5
That is really sad! There was an interview with this famous Asian actress and she was on the David Letterman show. And he got really jerkish and was really downgrading he said something to the extent of is it true that you still live with your parents? (She was probably thirty and not married and in Asian culture you usually live at home until you are married. It's not like the U.S. where as soon as you turn 18 parents kick you out of the house and you are on your own.) The lady basically said, "Yes, but at least I don't need an appointment to see my parents" I thought that was the single greatest thing that woman had said and it shut Letterman up!!! It's true though! I know people who see their parents once a year and they make it seem like such a chore, "ARGHHH....(GROAN, SIGH) I have to see my parents!" If your parents took that attitude with you I doubt you would still be alive. I just hate it when people make an obligation out of something that should be just natural!
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Nov 8, 2007 9:26:27 GMT -5
If your parents took that attitude with you I doubt you would still be alive. Haha. That's probably true. I do see visiting my parents as a chore a lot though. They only live across town so I am expected every Sunday for dinner. I think I mostly go for the free, home-cooked food. I love my parents, but I don't like being expected. I'm sure I'll feel differently after May when I only get to see them a few times a year though.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Nov 8, 2007 11:26:57 GMT -5
If your parents took that attitude with you I doubt you would still be alive. Actually, my parents do take that attitude with both my sister and I and we're doing just fine. Some families just aren't meant to be close with one another...
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Nov 9, 2007 15:47:30 GMT -5
"Show me a man anywhere in the whole wide world who knows and loves clouds more than I! Or show me anything more beautiful. They are a plaything and comfort to the eye, a blessing and a gift of God; they also contain wrath and the power of death. They are as delicate, soft, and gentle as the souls of newborn babes, as beautiful, rich, and prodigal as good angles, yet somber, inescapable, and merciless as the emissaries of death. They hover as a silvery film, and sail past smiling and gold-edged; they hang poised, tinged yellow, red, and blue. Darkly, slowly they slink past like murderers, roaring head-over-heels like mad horsemen, drooping sadly and dreamily in the pale heights like melancholy hermits. They assume the shapes of blessed isles and guardian angles, resemble threatening hands, fluttering sails, migrating cranes."
~Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse
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Paige
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Post by Paige on Nov 9, 2007 18:44:25 GMT -5
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." ~Milton's Paradise Lost, Book One
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Nov 11, 2007 14:06:32 GMT -5
"It would be presumptuous to compare what happened with what might have been." (p19) ~Peter Camenzind
"Once you've made a beginning, the rest always follows on its own." (p14) ~Peter Camenzind
"About the truth, if you give it to a person, then he has power over you. And if someone gives it to you, then they have made themselves your slave. It is a strong magic. You can never take it back" ~One Holy Night by Sandra Cisneros (p27)
"Kids, they's cute when they're little, but by the time they start turning ugly, it's too late, you already love them." ~Los Boxers by Sandra Cisneros (p130)
"Like some days you might say something stupid, and that's the part of you that's still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama's lap because you're scared, and that's the part of you that's five. And maybe one day when you're all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you're three, and that's okay...Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one." Eleven by Sandra Cisneros (p6-7)
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Nov 27, 2007 8:11:12 GMT -5
"As Bokonon says: "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
- from Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. Makes you want to become a Bokonist ;D
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Sunflower
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Post by Sunflower on Dec 4, 2007 0:58:09 GMT -5
~ This quote is from one of my favorite book called The Thorn Birds. This story is fabulous. I'm not sure if any of you read it. I'd totally recommend it to anyone.
Father Ralph de Bricassart- [telling the legend of the thorn bird to Meggie]: "There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the price of great pain...
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Post by Carma on Dec 19, 2007 12:13:54 GMT -5
so, I think this ne is super funny it's from the restaurant at the end of the universe (by douglas adams): 'Let me introduce myself. I'm Roosta, and this is my towel.' I think douglas adams was a genius!
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sarah23
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by sarah23 on Feb 10, 2008 18:39:03 GMT -5
"for you, a thousand times over" - the kite runner
"Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervor, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives, and it's up to me to interpret those signs" - 11 minutes
"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was sustenance, broken down and beating through your blood stream" - 19 minutes
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