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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f3ef6e | The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8582517 | All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning | inspirational life love meanings paulo-coelho reason sufferings understand | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1144c75 | bltHdyd fy llHZ@ nfsh lty knt qd `thrt fyh `l~ jmy` l'jwb@ .. knt kl l'sy'l@ qd tGyrt .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 08089b7 | It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights... | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4776d0c | That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't | holden-caulfield | J.D. Salinger | |
| 071ff54 | I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 08e39ce | John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on. | more poetry see | J.D. Salinger | |
| 2feb193 | I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 77757df | Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 04bf0ae | I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| e418803 | Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ff7439b | The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 8185006 | Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 296d896 | Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace | calmness desiring imitiating light peace repose seeking striving | Hermann Hesse | |
| 10999d5 | There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. | perfection perfectionism perfectionist truth | Hermann Hesse | |
| 432f153 | At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one. | hermann-hesse ideals war | Hermann Hesse | |
| 9ee3607 | War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to "a war against" whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off. This is puerile, misleading, and degrading. In stories, it evades any solution but violence and offers the reader mere infantile reassurance. All too often the heroes .. | morality morals right-and-wrong war | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| b711524 | I heard what you told him," he said. "That you thought it would be easy to fall in love with him. You meant it, too." "So?" It was the only thing I could think of to say. "I was jealous--of that. That I'm not ... that sort of person." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| bf5b67e | If it's any consolation," Rhysand confided to him, "she would have been the one for you - and you might have gotten away with it. A bit late, though. She's more stubborn than you are." | rhys rhysand stubborn tamlin the-one | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b4cc82b | There are different kinds of darkness," Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. "There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful." I pictured each. "There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0587881 | The feeling that passed between them, so powerful there was no language to describe it... It was not mere friendship, but something born of and strengthened by it. | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 04dc96e | Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?" "No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 07f80ec | So Aedion leaned in, and kissed Lysandra, kissed the woman who should have been his wife, his mate, one last time. "I love you." Sorrow filled her beautiful face. "And I you." She gestured to the western gate, to the soldiers waiting for its final cleaving. "Until the end?" Aedion hefted his shield, flipping the Sword of Orynth in his hand, freeing the stiffness that had seized his fingers. "I will find you again," he promised her. "In what.. | kingdom-of-ash lysandra throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8a654aa | I once lived in fear of other people. I let other people walk all over me just because I was too afraid of the consequences for refusing. I did not know how to refuse. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 93fd2c6 | When you shatter the chains of this world and forge the next, remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time. I have amassed enough money in my miserable life to not need any more--so you will understand me clearly when I say that wherever you set your throne, no matter how long it takes, I will come to you, and I will bring music and dancing. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ce60d7b | She said softly, "You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live." He didn't have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss. So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0cce7f9 | Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 20e93a9 | Seed biscuits and milk! I hated Mrs. Mullet's seed biscuits the way Saint Paul hated sin. Perhaps even more so. I wanted to clamber up onto the table, and with a sausage on the end of a fork as my scepter, shout in my best Laurence Olivier voice, 'Will no one rid us of this turbulent pastry cook? | Alan Bradley | ||
| e964ce6 | Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone. | Miranda July | ||
| 95b9f6c | When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, ... Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, | Walt Whitman | ||
| 8a3b34b | You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now?" "No, I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you, Mikey." | ghost-town michael morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| acf47d3 | Because you know, I'm your best friend, but you're just not that badass, man. | Rachel Caine | ||
| aa7389c | Michael, don't," Eve said. "He won't hurt us." Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 5572be2 | Eve cupped her ear at Claire. "I'm sorry, was that an apology? Because it didn't sound like one." "Don't push it." "I'm not, but you're acting like a drama princess." "Drama queen." "Hello, no. You need a lot more practice at door slamming, flouncing, and pouting before you can even pretend to deserve my throne, bitch. But you're coming along." Eve paused and fixed her with a long, serious look. "That wasn't a compliment, by the way. In cas.. | eve-rosser | Rachel Caine | |
| 029ad33 | Her phone rang again. "What?" she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. "Are you on your way?" "No!" "Claire, there are things to do." "Here, too," she said. "And I'm staying here, believe me." Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you." "Bob the spider?" "He looks at you like a mother, you know. I'm surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for--" She hung up on.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 562c2a6 | I'm not leaving," Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. "Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two." | Rachel Caine | ||
| eeec77e | Did you bring me a hamburger? Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd never asked for that before. Coffee? It's late. Doughnuts? No. What good are you then? | Rachel Caine | ||
| 179e93c | As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that. | Louise Rennison | ||
| 87a7358 | To spin the web and not be caught in it, to create the world, to create your own life, to rule your fate, to name the grandmothers as well as the fathers, to draw nets and not straight lines, to be a maker as well as a cleaner, to be able to sing and not be silenced, to take down the veil and appear: all these are the banners on the laundry line I hang out. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 6d3e9d0 | Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 1bb1e15 | The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| e7657be | Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| fb9730d | Perhaps it's that you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| b9241dd | Bah!" Magnus scoffed. "Humans always blame dwarves. A baby goes missing and it was a dwarf that stole it. A princess runs off with a second son of a king and it was a dwarf who lured her to a deep prison. And when they find her with the prince--lo, she was rescued! "A king is stabbed in the back in his own chapel, and a princess's tower is turned into a death trap," Royce called back to them. "Friends are betrayed and trapped in a prison--y.. | Michael J. Sullivan |