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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e86912a | I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight .. | marriage romance | Sylvia Plath | |
| 4dc785a | Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. | palahniuk narrator | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| b9645d2 | Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell. | aelin-galathynius queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5f76101 | That man is such a damn turd monkey." "Grandma!" I said. "Oh, Zoeybird, did I just call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?" | P.C. Cast | ||
| fa0ab21 | If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. | gratitude love soul loyalty | James Herriot | |
| bc2ff68 | I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 7fac71f | All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 9d91f94 | My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. | happiness inspirational salvation | Ayn Rand | |
| 5e74bde | That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ig.. | meaning | Donna Tartt | |
| 153e500 | Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside." He smiled the.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 449627a | Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. | terrifying vile | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 0958e2b | I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. | susanna-kaysen talent survival | Susanna Kaysen | |
| f22a7dd | The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. | time passage-of-time | Neil Gaiman | |
| f10ec92 | All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered. | obsession | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8dda4a2 | There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange wo.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 26ea2ba | How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened." | James Patterson | ||
| a0eb220 | For even the very wise cannot see all ends. | unanticipated prophecy | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d990d43 | How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back." | humor mothers | Neil Gaiman | |
| 48b42c9 | Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to. | John Green | ||
| fade7c4 | Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is." | Veronica Roth | ||
| c71cdd0 | Don't play," said Hermione at once. "Say you're ill," said Ron. "Pretend to break your leg," Hermione suggested. " break your leg," said Ron." -- | J. K. Rowling | ||
| c42a2bf | Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach. 'Ouch -- ow -- gerroff! What the -- ? Hermione -- OW!' "You -- complete -- arse -- Ronald -- Weasley!" She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione advanced." | humor ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8695fbb | Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher. | inspirational | Oprah Winfrey | |
| 02025a2 | It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4b42d69 | CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler. MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing. CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing. MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged. CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed. MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed. CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying. MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floa.. | hope wisdom outwit cunning insight | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0939bf0 | You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. | inspirational | Deepak Chopra | |
| 1417946 | There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the.. | faith bible inspirational christian | Charles Spurgeon | |
| cfcf02a | A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. | great-quotes inspirational creativity | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | |
| ed3efde | Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 671e753 | Magic Sandra's seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself. | magic poem humor life goblin leprechaun make-magic mermaid troll witch | Shel Silverstein | |
| 927e2e2 | This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. | kindness morality life philosophy inspirational temple brain simple ethics | Dalai Lama XIV | |
| a19cd13 | Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now. | truth | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 56cb879 | Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 4e53844 | We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4c289ce | The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story? | world thinking | Yann Martel | |
| 0615554 | When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass - may pass in the first half hour - into erotic love. Indeed, unless they are physically repulsive to each other or unless one or both already loves elsewhere, it is almost certain to do so sooner or later. And conversely, erotic love may lead to Friendship between the lovers. But.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 06ded5f | If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside. | scout jem | Harper Lee | |
| 2dc62e6 | I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1fcbe5f | The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. | sea | Cornelia Funke | |
| 3ba14c6 | There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind... | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 8b44bfc | My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 431999e | So the dickhead had a name. Daemon--seemed fitting. And of course his sister would be as attractive as him. Why not? Welcome to West Virginia, the land of lost models. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2951aae | And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. | time man life plight | Milan Kundera | |
| ca4ee83 | A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. | war truth | Tim O'Brien |