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This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

Walker Percy

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

Walker Percy

Tags: loneliness

Think of your mother, who had no father. And your grandmother, who was abandoned by her father. And your grandfather, who was left behind by his father. And think of how Prince's daughter was now draf...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Think of your mother, who had no father. And your grandmother, who was abandoned by her father. And your grandfather, who was left behind by his father. And think of how Prince's daughter was now draf...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise and everybody thinks he has received a raw deal, but somehow after a tedious amoun...

Robert A. Heinlein

Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise and everybody thinks he has received a raw deal, but somehow after a tedious amoun...

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: discourse, political science, politics, understanding

Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become...

Timothy Ferriss

Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become...

Timothy Ferriss

Things had changed between them nevertheless. They were children of a time and culture which mistrusted love, 'in love', romantic love, romance , and which nevertheless in revenge proliferated sexual...

A.S. Byatt

Things had changed between them nevertheless. They were children of a time and culture which mistrusted love, 'in love', romantic love, romance , and which nevertheless in revenge proliferated sexual...

A.S. Byatt

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch br...

Jodi Picoult

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch br...

Jodi Picoult

They’ll want him to be mad, of course,’ Laszlo mused, not hearing me. ‘The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they’d like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the hea...

Caleb Carr

They’ll want him to be mad, of course,’ Laszlo mused, not hearing me. ‘The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they’d like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the hea...

Caleb Carr

They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow.'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

Kathryn Hughes

They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow.'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

Kathryn Hughes

Tags: inspirational, weeds, wisdom

They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork.

Terry Pratchett

They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork.

Terry Pratchett

They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

Tags: canto iii, inferno

They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to...

Colson Whitehead

They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to...

Colson Whitehead

They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved Beast the first time...

Holly Black

They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved Beast the first time...

Holly Black

Tags: david tennant, doctor who, eleventh doctor, matt smith, tenth doctor

They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled me at first, just as it had in the icy night air. After seeing it on the s...

Nicholas Christopher

They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled me at first, just as it had in the icy night air. After seeing it on the s...

Nicholas Christopher

Tags: faces, love, magic, reincarnation, verona, veronica

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tags: intimacy, sexual

They say you cannot love two people equally at once, she said. And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each...

Cassandra Clare

They say you cannot love two people equally at once, she said. And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each...

Cassandra Clare

Tags: epilogue, infernal devices, james castairs, jem, jem castairs, soul, tessa, tessa gray, the infernal devices, theresa gray

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Gore Vidal

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Gore Vidal

Tags: know thyself, knowledge of self, self knowledge

They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water.

Jonathan Safran Foer

They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water.

Jonathan Safran Foer

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are ba...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are ba...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tags: alexandria, caliph, caliph omar, gospel, gregory the great, intolerance, islam, koran, library, library of alexandria

They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.

Shashi Tharoor

They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.

Shashi Tharoor

Tags: humor, indian, mahabharata

They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?What did they mean about you?Whenever anyone ac...

Ayn Rand

They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?What did they mean about you?Whenever anyone ac...

Ayn Rand

Tags: cold, dagny taggart, emotions, feel, reason, unemotional
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