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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46408c3 | She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| ff03cf3 | The Great Gatsby's my favorite book," he says. "F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated it to Zelda." "His wife?" I say. "Yeah. His crazy-ass wife who he had no business loving that much," he says, giving me a loaded look. "You know what their joint epitaph says? It's a quote from the book... Their kid picked it for them." I shake my head. "What's it say?" His eyes close halfway as he recites, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back cea.. | Rick Yancey | ||
| 1f72ce6 | They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a598c3a | that voice was a deathless song. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 8464d70 | Not bad for a 'common soldier,' hmm?" I quietly asked, then resheathed my katana and headed back toward the chapel. I could feel his gaze on my back as I walked away, so I decided to play it up. I paused at the sanctuary door, then looked back over my shoulder and smiled vampishly through hooded eyes. "Coming?" | Chloe Neill | ||
| d81a246 | You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. | John Piper | ||
| 71464f3 | Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me? | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d3b1de2 | The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9aad89c | I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 1efc621 | the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| a560fe6 | When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 00866a0 | Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 314ff2f | Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her." Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?" "No, I was thinking maybe next April. Then you could maybe give her a call, arrange a date..." He arched his eyebrow in question, and snapped, "Yes, NOW." | julius | Lynsay Sands | |
| 5b100c9 | Pero los caminos de ella eran mas largos que todos los caminos que yo habia andado en mi vida y hasta se me ocurrio que nunca terminaria de quererla. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 01fe05e | The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free." | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 52ae453 | But things don't just fall apart. People break them. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| cca5366 | I am clever enough to know that I am clever. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 96b5370 | Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. | wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| 6b3f0df | Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that--at the moment--I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 44ce901 | When we attach value to things that aren't love--the money, the car, the house, the prestige--we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 502fa4b | Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. | Richard Peck | ||
| 59d60c5 | I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said th.. | love-hurts | Lisa Kleypas | |
| a81b369 | The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis | handsome hardy sexy | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 39b859a | Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements-- a quintessence-- that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man's spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that's not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there's a little starlight in each of us. | human-spirit starlight | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 20fdc18 | Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo" | truth | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 5e54fb6 | It might have been preferable," Eddis admitted, dryly, "if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering." Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. "I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not su.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b3d23b7 | Lilies, I rule, heads, you do," he [the King] said, and threw the coin into the air. "Lilies, you rule, heads, you throw again," said Attolia. The coin dropped. Eugenides looked at it and then showed it to her. "No need," he said. The coin sat in his palm, obverse, showing the lilies of Attolia. He flipped it again and again and again. Each time it landed showing the lilies. ... (Relius) He wanted to dismiss the coin toss as slight of hand.. | eugenides relius | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 251a4bf | Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?" "Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 7e8894d | We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made" "Oh... In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 73c204b | History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. | Julian Barnes | ||
| feb4c4b | We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be? | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 58f7e6e | Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 064f0f3 | Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. | death gravestone science science-fiction stars universe | Clifford D. Simak | |
| 45cd67c | I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside. | hat spying suspicious | Julia Quinn | |
| 51e0a31 | Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 27743bf | Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 72e20a0 | Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that. | Meg Cabot | ||
| c2c21f3 | Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse's dead, too. | mediator meg-cabot suze-simon | Meg Cabot | |
| 9539345 | Have you tried this shrimp? It's freaking amazing. Would you get away from me? I hate you. You're so moody. Just because I kidnapped you and tried to force you to be my girlfriend. I thought you would be over that by now. | Meg Cabot | ||
| ccc1b51 | Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise." | Cressida Cowell | ||
| 2e574a0 | Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. "It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles." | rhys-trahaearn yasmeen | Meljean Brook | |
| 7cc1d02 | The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality. | Sun Tzu | ||
| f9fde6a | Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 36df218 | the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. | enemy opportunity strategy war | Sun Tzu |