The Pale Queen's Literary Quotes

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Wed, 30 May 2012 19:35:32 -0400

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble...

Wed, 30 May 2012 19:32:27 -0400

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” - Helen Keller

“If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” -Judith Martin

Wed, 30 May 2012 19:18:00 -0400

“If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.”

-Judith Martin

"Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of..."

Wed, 30 May 2012 02:21:50 -0400

“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”

- -Rachel Naomi Remen (via ancora-imparo)

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Tue, 29 May 2012 21:09:26 -0400

“It’s not so much that I like him as a person, God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.”...

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:56:27 -0400

“It’s not so much that I like him as a person, God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.”

-Judy Blume

“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give...

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:17:23 -0400

“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

-A.M. Homes

“Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is...

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:01:00 -0400

“Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn’t really care.”

-Roger Ebert

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Sat, 26 May 2012 13:33:27 -0400

“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this...

Sat, 26 May 2012 13:25:48 -0400

“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don’t I ever learn? Why don’t I ever do anything different?”

-Charles Yu

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought...

Sat, 26 May 2012 13:18:27 -0400

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”

― Michael Ondaatje

"I loved her enough to forget myself, my self-pitying despairs, and be content that something she..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:19:10 -0400

“I loved her enough to forget myself, my self-pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.”

- -Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via litverve)

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Wed, 23 May 2012 18:24:56 -0400

“And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart,...

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:20:47 -0400

“And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.”

-Lauren Groff

“The air between them seemed to accumulate energy.” -Anthony Doerr

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:08:00 -0400

“The air between them seemed to accumulate energy.”

-Anthony Doerr

“And now here’s the thing. It takes a time like this for you to find out how sore your...

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:07:28 -0400

“And now here’s the thing. It takes a time like this for you to find out how sore your heart has been, and, moreover, all the while you thought you were going around idle, terribly hard work was taking place. Hard, hard work, excavation and digging, mining, moiling through tunnels, heaving, pushing, moving rock, working, working, working, working, panting, hauling, hoisting.”

-Saul Bellow

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Tue, 22 May 2012 23:56:11 -0400

"Men don’t take the time to end things, they ignore you, until you insist on a declaration of hate."

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:54:00 -0400

““Men don’t take the time to end things, they ignore you, until you insist on a declaration of hate.””

- Joan, Mad Men (via madamedevalmont)

"My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance."

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:44:00 -0400

“My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.”

- -William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside (via iliketoread)

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Sat, 19 May 2012 13:58:47 -0400