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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 852648a | I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other. | John Green | ||
| 33afecf | My grandmother always told me that she loved my prayers. She believed my prayers were more powerful, because I prayed in English. Everyone knows that Jesus, who's white, speaks English. The Bible is in English. Yes, the Bible was not written in English, but the Bible came to South Africa in English so to us it's English. Which made my prayers the best prayers because English prayers get answered first. How do we know this? Look at white peo.. | Trevor Noah | ||
| f6d6eb5 | If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 5d17521 | I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care .. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 9e3321e | If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away. | personality | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 72f8def | Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 89aa6cd | She had somehow given over the thinking to him, and in his absences her every action seemed automatically governed by what he would like, so that now she felt inadequate to match her intentions against his. Yet think she must; she knew at last the number on the dreadful door of fantasy, the threshold to the escape that was no escape; she knew that for her greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson bu.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| c853c96 | The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame. | pain | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 8754e68 | I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| ba2c381 | There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. | drinking intoxication partying | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| b5e4f47 | You'll be wearing nothing but your Cadogan medal and a smile, Sentinel." "Is that a prediction?" "It's a promise." | Chloe Neill | ||
| a714765 | Like an angel of justice taking them down with his giant sword of righteousness?" "That sounds like the tagline for a bad porn flick." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 0b1c808 | And our safe word?" "Wonderwall." Lindsey turned around and cast Luc a sardonic look. " Your safe word is the name of an Oasis song?" "Blondie, I am the arbiter of all things fashionable in this House. Why not music?" "Spoken by a man wearing cowboy boots. I mean, seriously. Who wears cowboy boots ?" | Chloe Neill | ||
| c4f9284 | His eyes widended again, then flicked to something behind me. He shook his head, looked back at me. His voice low, intimate, insistent. "Come back from this, Merit. You don't want to fight me." "I do," I heard, in a voice that was barely mine. "Find steel," she advised him. We advised him. He stood there a long moment, silently, still, before nodding. Someone offered him a blade, a katana that glinted in the light. He took it, mirrored my s.. | Chloe Neill | ||
| edd10b5 | It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. | humility inspirational love self-deprecating wooing | T.H. White | |
| 7aca306 | I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back. | T.H. White | ||
| ac20b6e | I want Sam to stop liking Craig. Now I guess maybe you think that's because I am jealous of him. I'm not. Honest. It's just that Craig doesn't really listen to her when she talks. I don't mean that he's a bad guy because he's not. It's just that he always looks distracted. It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took .. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b17a952 | The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds | art-criticism critics insight knowledge music-criticism music-journalism wisdom writers writing | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 0a6406f | Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 86f1a2b | The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wondering when the mutation in Semitic blood occurred, as though God parted the Red Sea and said: "Okay, you rude ones, keep wandering toward the Promised Land. The rest of you can stay here and rot in the desert, saying 'welcome, most welcome' a.. | friendliness israel jews middle-east palestine promised-land | Tony Horwitz | |
| 03f7f4d | Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it. | media-studies | Henry Jenkins | |
| 541cd8e | I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy | Alison Bechdel | ||
| e3bb048 | Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious. 'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?' 'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.' I thought the top of my head would pop off... (Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family) | paranormal sookie-stackhouse vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| da2d433 | You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?" "I'm not that clever, Eric." "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile." | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 347b987 | Third-level, life-long relationships are generally few because "their existence implies that those involved have reached a stage simultaneously in which the teaching-learning balance is actually perfect." That doesn't mean, however, that we necessarily recognize our third-level assignments; in fact, generally we don't. We may even feel hostility toward these particular people. Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 7ca459d | I'm going to go fishing next summer. And I'm going to try French fries dipped in ice cream. And, when I have s'mores, I'll make an extra one for you. When I hear our favourite songs, I'll dance for you. I'll do anything for you. I'll do it all for you. | Lisa De Jong | ||
| 0138697 | I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since... | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 306bc31 | Westcliff thinks that St. Vincent is in love with you." Evie choked a little and didn't dare look up from her tea. "Wh-why does he think that?" "He's known St. Vincent from childhood, and can read him fairly well. And Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent's heart. He says a girl like you would appeal to...hmm, how did he put it?...I can't remember the exact words, but it was something lik.. | fantasy friendship innocence lillian-bowman love sebastian-st-vincent secret-desire | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 7d0401a | It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth. | John Irving | ||
| 628fe58 | That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 01840b4 | All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 2595c70 | Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking. Though they're not old enough to be valuable for their age alone, nor important enough to be sought after by collectors, my charges are dear to me, even if, as often as not, they are as dull on the inside as on the outside. No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead on.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| e000f80 | Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ac668f4 | There's no love without pain. | Irving Stone | ||
| a588f22 | How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone. | Richard Llewellyn | ||
| f76acba | It was bitingly cold up here, and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 50c2566 | When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height .. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 3935896 | Half-truths are worth more than outright lies. | lie truth | George R.R. Martin | |
| b840257 | Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 7819cca | It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 25c6d12 | Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 0d67c72 | Lady Danbury leaned forward. Even Hyacinth leaned forward, and she was holding the book. | gareth-st-clair hyacinth-bridgerton it-s-in-his-kiss julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 5f88fc2 | The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity. | Alan Moore | ||
| a8449f4 | Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day--while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. | dr-manhatan realization tired | Alan Moore |