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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a491fb | No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a0eabee | Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d54661f | As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company." "Friend?" he asked. She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is a better description. Or 'reluctant acquaintance', if you prefer." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e3d8a98 | A secret is a strange thing. There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at least two people for. One to keep it. One to never know. The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid. And th.. | Maggie Stiefvater | ||
| 1086842 | Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. | suffering raskolnikov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 73ea2d1 | It's a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery | Markus Zusak | ||
| cd6561d | Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We're supposed to be exercising. | humor | Meg Cabot | |
| acb8b0a | Want to play baseball?'" she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?'" "First base,'" she said. "You're already there.'" "I'm not running the bases.'" "Well, you could at least steal second.'" "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it." | morganvillevampires sweet | Rachel Caine | |
| 237af71 | If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. | humor | Albert Camus | |
| f03ab6e | She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I lef.. | John Green | ||
| 0757536 | My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 3c1114e | Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! | Jane Austen | ||
| 9b188b0 | We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! | humour doubt life uncertainty | Douglas Adams | |
| b3d0c12 | As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air. | shiver | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| a0d484b | Hardships make or break people. | perseverance courage life | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 8a6721e | You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. | stupidity malice | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 7281db1 | Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. | rebellion revolt innocence nostalgia | Albert Camus | |
| 818cd84 | Et tu, Brute? | shakespeare brutus julius-caesar | William Shakespeare | |
| bbe64e4 | Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. | opportunity problem inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational obstacle possibility | Roy T. Bennett | |
| d7e5ac8 | I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| fb361e6 | I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said. Adam Parrish, curled over himself in a pair of battered, greasy coveralls, asked, "Do you?" "Maybe I dreamt you," he said. "Thanks for the straight teeth, then," Adam replied." | blue-lily-lily-blue ronan-lynch the-raven-cycle maggie-stiefvater | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| 0e7aae7 | I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS. | words death the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 1fda5af | In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're . You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it . You don't need a . Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at t.. | humor ireland tea | C.E. Murphy | |
| f3e1fe3 | Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, That's one of my favorite things to say. | getting-over-it | Andy Warhol | |
| d58d4f8 | Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered." | travel wish | John Green | |
| 4e9540d | I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 6059925 | There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. | life | Tom Robbins | |
| 337b32d | All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. | life opinions logic | Douglas Adams | |
| f1ff158 | While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. | compassion brotherly-love charity | Chinua Achebe | |
| c2e6f2c | There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. | truth-telling truth on-fiction storytelling | Doris May Lessing | |
| 739af4b | Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?" Alec thought for a moment. "Spiders," he said. Clary turned to Luke. "Have you got a spider anywhere?" | city-of-ashes | Cassandra Clare | |
| 634c081 | As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. | silence | John Steinbeck | |
| 02b595c | Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4367569 | Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6f64c41 | The head is too wise. The heart is all fire. | gwenllian the-raven-cycle the-raven-king | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| 7776d57 | You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future." | camille-belcourt city-of-fallen-angels magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5177445 | I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry. | empathy pity | Jodi Picoult | |
| 5c7d195 | Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9662f09 | While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. | humour will-herondale sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
| d89d62a | Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. | J. K. Rowling | ||
| 54c268f | I was gonna be super pissed in the afterlife if I died a virgin in this crap hole. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8436b3d | Don't go where I can't follow! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 01e9a35 | LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish. | motivational | Robert Greene | |
| f113097 | It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love. | David Levithan |