Project Gutenberg
"The Gray Wolf's Daughter" by Gertrude Warden is a novel likely written in the late 19th century. The story unfolds in a tapestry of drama and intrigue, centering on the characters of Dr. Ernest Netherbridge, Lady Clare Cranstoun, and her husband, Sir Philip, as they navigate the tumultuous waters of personal conflicts, societal expectations, and hidden familial ties. The narrative examines themes of identity, love, and betrayal against the backdrop of Victorian society.
Sam Wise Gamji
- Good in this World
I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?
March 5
Sorry, I'm not interested. With a curious look, he pleasantly rejected me under the streetlights that cold concert night. I asked for his name, and he told the truth.
Apollo 11 Mission Transcript
- The Eagle has Landed
Drifting right. Contact light. Okay, engine stop. ACA out of detent. Modes control both auto, descent engine command override, off. Engine arm, off. 413 is in. Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.
Anonymous
- My Favorite Superhero
My favorite superhero is Tank Man. We don't know his back story. We don't know his fate. We don't know his real name. We just know him as Tank Man and remember his courage. Tiananmen Square, 1989.
camuscase
- On lexical tapestries
There is an inherent magic in the act of expanding one's vocabulary, whether intentional or unintentional. Your vocabulary can serve as a mnemonic as well as memetic record of your life experiences and of the people who have affected you deeply. To this day, I still remember when and where I learned the word 'melancholy' as if those memories are still fresh in my mind; I was a little boy in the fourth grade reading the novel 'Because of Winn-Dixie.'
Rifftrax dot com
- The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Travolta plays Todd Lubitch, a boy who was born without any immunities and cannot venture outside his sterile environment, lest he slip on a banana peel and end up on America's Funniest Home Videos. He observes the girl next door's every move through his binoculars, and she responds how all females would in this situation: by finding this cute and falling in love with him.
Jackie Chan
American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance. But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
Penny Lane - Almost Famous
- Record Stores
Never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously, you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends. - Penny Lane.
Mad hatter
- Typing your own quote
It feels pretty weird to type your own quote. Also typing your own quote is the most difficult thing to do for some weird reason. Blah-blah. Please accept this quote.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Garden
He had never caught even a glimpse of the boy and had heard a dozen exaggerated stories about his uncanny looks and ways and his insane tempers. The thing he had heard oftenest was that he might die at any moment and there had been numerous fanciful descriptions of a humped back and helpless limbs, given by people who had never seen him.
Mary Oliver
- Don't Hesitate
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins.
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I really enjoy this site, but one thing I wish to change is the repeat of quotes. I know there are other quotes out there and I wish to see them and test my skills on them. Show me all the quotes!
A Teacher
- Fish in a Fish Tank
There was a piece of glass put in the middle of the tank dividing it in two. Then the fish were placed in one side. They soon learned that they could not swim all through the tank, but only in one part. After a while the glass was removed. The fish were not thrilled to have the whole tank to swim in. They didn't know. They continued to stay in their customary part of the tank.
Lizzy McAlpine
- Pushing It Down and Praying
I wanna feel guilty, I wanna feel that it's wrong. I wanna feel peace again, wanna sing a different song. I want you to need me. I need to want something more. He gives what he can, but now I don't know what he's giving for.
Erik Larson
- The Devil in the White City
That night the exposition illuminated the fairgrounds one last time. "Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and somber," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead."
Television Without Pity
Wilson calls Mary, who doesn't want to pick up the phone at first. She gives in, though, and yells at him for advising her to showcase her uncomedic talents at her interview, since her nonstop joking made the employer think she didn't take the job seriously. Well, duh, Mary. I told you not to listen to anything Wilson says.
Zach L Bryan
- Leaving
Until the leaving leaves this house, no we ain't going out until I make some promises that I can't keep. And I wish I could explain how the toxins in my brain, get me so damn down that sometimes I can't speak. And you'll try to understand why I can't be a better man. But it's hard when I'm yelling at you in the street. So if leaving comes to staying, and you walk yourself away, leave knowing that no one could love you more than me.
Publius
Russia is the largest country in the world. It is about 28 times the size of Ukraine. Russia's population is about 4 times the number of Ukrainians. Russia has 1.5 million more military personnel than Ukraine. Russia is significantly better off economically and is able to spend much more on their military than Ukraine is. It's not a fair fight. But Ukraine is still hanging on. I stand with Ukraine.
Nunemakers Parable
There was a wanderer who found his way to God, or maybe it was Lucifer under some false facade. Broken down and tattered, compound fractures in his sleeves, shoe soles nailed together, but he never seemed to bleed. With one desperate push his poor diaphragm forced out a plea. He said: One home burned down, one fell apart, one met a flood, and one was nothing from the start. Weapons built against me, well they all seem to fail, but weapons built against my home, they always will prevail.
