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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1406a75 | He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 8816958 | all success cloaks a surrender | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| cbdae53 | There are choices," she thought, when she had sat long enough. "There are always choices." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e7ff368 | If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b741b13 | You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand. | sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| b0179b0 | I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony. | immaturity marriage | Neil Gaiman | |
| 41d979a | Without our stories we are incomplete. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f1b951c | You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 7ba277d | Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. | Robert Greene | ||
| f0091eb | Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality. | present-minded | Robert Greene | |
| 72bb4f3 | Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware. | Robert Greene | ||
| aa919f1 | There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive. | Robert Greene | ||
| f12d3ef | Things change when you're not in danger anymore. | change danger life | Mitch Albom | |
| 3e2263e | Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz] | tuesdays-with-morrie | Mitch Albom | |
| 1b94aa9 | You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it cam.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| d94923f | We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole. | John Scalzi | ||
| df2f935 | There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 19a292a | lns ynswn lkhyr bsr`@ wlw knw mn Sny'`h, flshy' lwHyd ldh~ ykhld dhkrk hw lshr. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f1ea590 | Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. | science | Michael Crichton | |
| a3d74d0 | Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 51d4015 | Like I said...fine with me. | Alice Walker | ||
| 13b4d3e | It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. | humor misanthropy | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 21bc25a | I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit. | fix heart love mechanic swearing work | Raymond Carver | |
| 06cb272 | I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 08041ac | For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other's throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the .. | asher-lev hasidic hasidic-judaism jew jewish judaism pain paint painting suffering torment | Chaim Potok | |
| 48db066 | Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown | Chaim Potok | ||
| 6b0ea65 | Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.) | love | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 99fd9d7 | The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game. | politics secularism | Orhan Pamuk | |
| c34099b | Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| dca2321 | I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant. | Aimee Bender | ||
| ad0f5e4 | yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 094d706 | That's what it's going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere with your little droog Alex, suffering with him, and you have viddied some of the most grahzny bratchnies old Bog ever made, all on to your old droog Alex. And all it was was that I was young. But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes. But where I itty now, O my brother.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 2f02565 | Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. | violence youth | Anthony Burgess | |
| 07e4572 | I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 5037730 | Your arrogance is rooted in stupidity. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 22ebda5 | I would do anything to keep her safe. Kill. Heal. Die. Anything. Because she was my everything - Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5ca6d59 | It can't be that bad. I have to try it." I bit back a mad grin. I was so not going to stop her. "Uh, Ash, I really wouldn't suggest doing that," Daemon began. Party pooper, I thought, but Ash was a determined little alien." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4ce5b59 | I'll burn the world down to save her | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a746b0a | Throughout our lives, no one could figure out how we were so close, but when friendships begin with cupcakes--chocolate, at that--no truer bond develops. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 98e4b58 | Daemon's gaze slipped from his brother to me then back to his brother. "Are we having a slumber party? And I'm not invited?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f75f924 | What's wrong with you?" "I don't know. I probably got alien cooties." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d31ca02 | To Helen I saw thee once-once only-years ago; I must not say how many-but not many. It was a july midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe- Fell on t.. | edgar-allan-poe poetry romance | Edgar Allen Poe | |
| 5ad106b | And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 1747f69 | Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here." | Darren Shan |