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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7bc8121 | Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 93a4113 | The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. | Dan Millman | ||
| 41dd0a2 | Never love a wild thing... you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up... . If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. | Truman Capote | ||
| 7489418 | Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase. | Truman Capote | ||
| 8d85e2a | It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 42856b4 | A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fef6567 | Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you shall each tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6c71ea8 | The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 31ebc32 | Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest. | lotr | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| f3e126f | Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 76b6bd7 | The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave .. | aragorn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| f0a2b73 | I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 8ccbec2 | Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 620e845 | Why love the boy in a March field with his kite braving the sky? Because our fingers burn with the hot string singeing our hands. Why love some girl viewed from a train bent to a country well? The tongue remembers iron water cool on some long lost noon. Why weep at strangers dead by the road? They resemble friends unseen in forty years. Why laugh when clowns are hot by pies? We taste custard we taste life. Why love the woman who is your wif.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b13b73b | The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. | dressing innovation introspection melancholy philosophical philosophy progress thinking thought | Ray Bradbury | |
| 3d6d64e | Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: "Who can take away suffering without entering it?" | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| aafa8e3 | Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| e79dd9f | the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 7428696 | If you label it this, then it can't be that. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 5901fb8 | You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. | sad | Marilynne Robinson | |
| a1a06b9 | Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 09a45fd | nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light | Carol Shields | ||
| 9f9e561 | When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, to register a strong protest against the word "depression." Depression, most people know, used to be termed "melancholia," a word which appears in English as the year 1303 and crops up more than once in Chaucer, who in his usage seemed to be aware of its pathological nuances. "Melancholia" would still appear to be a far more apt and evocative .. | William Styron | ||
| 48d4b2c | One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. | lestat-de-lioncourt | Anne Rice | |
| 436984b | The situation has a real Lovecraft feel to it. Though, you know, if you come over it'll be more of an Anne Rice situation. If you know what I mean." "Who's-" "Because you're gay." | David Wong | ||
| 2109889 | It was awful. It was, like, walk out to the woods, Change, stand there until enough time passed, Change back. It was about as much fun as taking a shit." "Nice analogy." | elena nick | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 3b79056 | He pulled back, barely a fraction, but I knew he was hurt. Why was it so easy to do that these days? For both of us. He wouldn't want to talk about something, and I'de be hurt. Or I wouldn't want to talk about something, and he'd be hurt. Or he'd invite me along with the guys, and I'd analyze every nuance of his voice and expression, worrying that he really didn't want me along, was only being polite. Or, like the other night, I'd want to c.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| c815a07 | A knock came at the door. Everyone looked up. Elena's nostrils flared and she leaned over to whisper something to Clay. "Fuck," he muttered. "Keep talking, Jaime. It's only Cassandra. She can wait. Forever, if we're lucky." "I heard that, Clayton," Cassandra said as she walked in. "Who the hell forgot to lock the door?" Clay said. "You were the last one in," Elena murmured. "Damn." | humor mistrust | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 221567c | Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| e7356f8 | Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. .. | guilt justice nostalgia rebellion revolution terror | Albert Camus | |
| bb015d7 | Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original." | religion | Albert Camus | |
| 66accad | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable. | happiness | Albert Camus | |
| 75a224a | We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| bfcb993 | Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you? | jacob-black sweet-talk | Stephenie Meyer | |
| b29ac17 | What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge? This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules - it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared. Or was it.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6cb3f67 | After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1a01633 | But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever - Bella Cullen | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 3633727 | I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| fdc0d1f | Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 0f43a7f | I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 94e9cf0 | Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| aa2f42b | Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| 6fc09ba | saying again if you do not teach me I shall not learn saying again there is a last even of last times last times of begging last times of loving of knowing not knowing pretending a last even of last times of saying | Samuel Beckett | ||
| f6bc07d | I've been thinking a lot about Adam Parrish and his band of merry men," Mr. Gray admitted. "And this dangerous world they tread." "That's a strange way of putting it. I would have said Richard Gansey and his band of merry men." He inclined his head as if he could see her point of view as well, even if he didn't share it." | Maggie Stiefvater |