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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5681000 | Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth." | dan-cahill dates nellie-gomez romance saladin the39clues venice | Gordon Korman | |
| 3f2133f | She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more | earth lost sleep suicide | Alan Brennert | |
| b366b64 | Detention, Saturday night, my office," said Snape. "I do not take cheek from anyone, Potter . . . not even " | severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 698e6c6 | Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7dcf028 | As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did. | fantasy | J.K. Rowling | |
| ac761f5 | This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote. | malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7a2c90f | There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you- | luna | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5c15bb2 | If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you," said Ron, "but no pressure." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cedaf93 | Oliver, calm down!" said Fred, looking slightly alarmed. "We're taking Hufflepuff very seriously. ." | humour | J.K. Rowling | |
| a23c138 | Course Dumbledore trusts you," growled Moody. "He's a trusting man, isn't he? Believes in second chances. But me -- I say there are spots that don't come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?" | mad-eye-moody severus-snape trust | J.K. Rowling | |
| cac977d | It's best to know what the enemy are saying. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b990892 | You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7f4d7e9 | When Rose came up to me today in Potions and called me Bread Head I almost hugged her. No, there's no almost about it, I actually tried to hug her, and then she kicked me in the shin. | rose-granger-weasley scorpius scorpius-malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 168b099 | I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If, at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up, then battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman, and child who has tried to conceal you from m.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4a538ae | People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 31b51c6 | It's easy to joke when you don't care any more. I'm not saying it didn't hurt me, because it did. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8c5958a | See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2df5e69 | I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1782a45 | Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 58a19d3 | The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a12ca26 | I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my head, and he cleared his throat. It's okay,' I said. 'I know I'm blue.' It caught me by surprise,' he said. 'I didn't want to seem rude. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 214085d | It's fucking hard to be classy | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9288a1a | It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due." Carl Costanza - Seven Up" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 424a956 | a) Are the skies you sleep under likely to open up for weeks on end? (b) Is the ground you walk on likely to tremble and split? (c) Is there a chance (and please check the box, no matter how small that chance seems) that the ominous mountain casting a midday shadow over your home might one day erupt with no rhyme or reason? Because if the answer is yes to one or all of these questions, then the life you lead is a midnight thing, always a ha.. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 29605f7 | Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend. I've never known a braver girl," he says." | Libba Bray | ||
| 03b13d4 | Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough." | fight gemma-doyle meaning power rebel | Libba Bray | |
| f9af4cd | The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves. | Libba Bray | ||
| 73fa1bd | I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two. | Libba Bray | ||
| d899451 | My cholera's acting up again. | Libba Bray | ||
| 36d25db | She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 3667647 | There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you. | chuck palahniuk | ||
| 4f9943f | You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depres.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 19063c2 | Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c292c8b | I would pay snakes to bite her. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| eb52b12 | The more things you own, the more they own you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 11ea1e3 | When You don't know what to do, just do whatever comes next and go from there. | Madeleine Brent | ||
| fb19285 | I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e854816 | I'd spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a2518bc | You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he cannot dismiss your sin, but because of his love he cannot dismiss you. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, he punished himself on the cross for your sins. God's justice and love are equally honored. And you, God's creation, are forgiven. | Max Lucado | ||
| 402633d | Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1e8ff8e | We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all. | common-sense truth universe way-of-life | Paulo Coelho | |
| 4432e71 | When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e00b13a | If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence | inspirational luck quote the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| eed6634 | Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God. | Paulo Coelho |