Words

"What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love!"

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:32 -0400

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love!”

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:14:43 -0400

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not exchange greetings, they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of miles, they lived by gazing at each other.”

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved...."

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:11:58 -0400

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people dare say nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than the great shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.”

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:36:51 -0400

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

- Anaïs Nin

"There is no one who wants to be asleep always - for every sound judgement holds that it is best to..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:54:41 -0400

“There is no one who wants to be asleep always - for every sound judgement holds that it is best to be awake - yet a man often postpones the effort of shaking himself awake when he feels a sluggish heaviness in the limbs, and settles pleasurably into another doze even though he knows he should not, because it is time to get up. Similarly I regarded it as settled that it would be better to give myself to Your love rather than go on yielding to my own lust; but the first course delighted and convinced my mind, the second delighted my body and held it in bondage. For there was nothing I could reply when You called me: ‘Rise, thou that sleepest and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee;’ and whereas You showed me by every evidence that Your words were true,there was simply nothing I could answer save laggard lazy words: ‘soon,’ ‘quite soon,’ ‘give me just a little while.’ But ‘soon’ and ‘quite soon’ did not mean any particular time; and ‘just a little while’ went on for a long while.”

- Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:09:00 -0400

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Arthur inched up the hallway as if he’d rather be yarding down it."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:29:59 -0500

“Arthur inched up the hallway as if he’d rather be yarding down it.”

- Douglas Adams (via iwalkthelinelikejohnnycash)

"For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:20:58 -0500

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a ‘fiancé,’ why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.””

- The Stranger by Albert Camus

"Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:53:00 -0500

“Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.”

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"That beggar,” said the Thenardiess, “has dared to touch the children’s..."

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:45:56 -0500

““That beggar,” said the Thenardiess, “has dared to touch the children’s doll.”
“All this noise about that?” said the man. “Well, what if she did play with the doll?”
“She touched it with her dirty hands!” continued the Thenardiess, “with her awful hands!”
Here Cosette sobbed all the harder.
“Shut up!” cried the Thenardiess.
The man walked straight to the street door, opened it, and walked out.
As soon as he was gone, the Thenardiess took advantage of his absence to five a severe kick under the table to Cosette, who shrieked in response.
The door opened again, and the man reappeared, holding the fabulous doll we have mentioned, which had been the admiration of all the youngsters in the village since morning; he stood it up before Cosette, saying, “Here you are, this is for you.””

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:50:45 -0500

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"…Why would I have to know your name? Besides, before you told me, I knew it.” The man..."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:46:00 -0500

““…Why would I have to know your name? Besides, before you told me, I knew it.”
The man opened his eyes in surprise. “Really? You knew my name?”
“Yes,” answered the Bishop. “Your name is my brother.””

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:17:00 -0500

“What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime and contemplation at night? Was this narrow enclosure with the sky for a background not space enough for him to adore God in His most beautiful, most sublime works? Indeed, is that not everything? What more do you need? A little garden to walk in, and an immensity to reflect on. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in heaven.”

- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:16:00 -0500

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.”

- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read."

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:10:37 -0500

“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read.”

- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I know your heart belongs to someone you’ve yet to meet.

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:56:05 -0500

I know your heart belongs to someone you’ve yet to meet.

typewrittenword: Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry submission...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:48:00 -0500

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Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

submission from kwistie

"‘Oh yes, brothers and sisters, we are members of one another. The difference, beloved,..."

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:42:31 -0500

“‘Oh yes, brothers and sisters, we are members of one another. The difference, beloved, ain’t in who is and who’s not, but in who knows it and who don’t.’”

- Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

"And here is a wonder. I maybe never loved him so much or yearned towards him so much as when I was..."

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:40:02 -0500

“And here is a wonder. I maybe never loved him so much or yearned towards him so much as when I was mad at him. It’s not a simple thing, this love.”

- Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

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Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:42:03 -0500