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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a9617e8 | For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda" | inspirational | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 2f8b79f | I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again... | Philip Roth | ||
| 0adea2a | I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear. | Philip Roth | ||
| 0c72a8e | My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. - | poison wantonness woman | Charles Baudelaire | |
| f24cee4 | Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat. | fat | Caroline Kettlewell | |
| a5bfe1b | No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy | love poem | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 115b82f | These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a4d9d22 | The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| be56089 | You are in favour of the common people?" said Dragon mildly. The common people?" said Vimes. "They're nothing special. They're no different from the rich and powerful except they've got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I've got to be on their side." | law policing | Terry Pratchett | |
| ec6cc06 | If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2fd1ab8 | YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d5639e9 | It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King. | gender kings queens | Terry Pratchett | |
| 404cabc | Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 15a9b05 | Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. | flag night-watch treason | Terry Pratchett | |
| b784add | He'sh mad?" "Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money." "Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric." | eccentric mad rincewind twoflower | Terry Pratchett | |
| b67d1a6 | THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b5ea2d4 | Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze. | names | Terry Pratchett | |
| e8a19ea | There is a curse. They say: May you live in interesting times. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bb3c28a | She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly . Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother", everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"..." | motherhood mothers | Terry Pratchett | |
| 26d1a9e | People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0cd3fa4 | Now that's what I call magic--seein' all that, dealin' with all that, and still goin' on. It's sittin' up all night with some poor old man who's leavin' the world, taking away such pain as you can, comfortin' their terror, seein' 'em safely on their way...and then cleanin' 'em up, layin' 'em out, making 'em neat for the funeral, and helpin' the weeping widow strip the bed and wash the sheets--which is, let me tell you, no errand for the fai.. | granny-weatherwax terry-pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| c9546ac | Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d6585a9 | Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b5f36c5 | TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 56df5da | You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape - the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes - we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. | dark-humor dragons morality | Terry Pratchett | |
| b36c2d0 | Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there. | support | Terry Pratchett | |
| 88da8d1 | A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 5a169a2 | Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e5d5e27 | In the heat of an argument, my mother once told me, "Someday you can go to a therapist and tell him all about how your terrible mother ruined your life. But it will be your ruined life you're talking about. So make a life for yourself in which you can feel happy, and in which you can love and be loved, because that's what's actually important." You can love someone but not accept him; you can accept someone but not love him. I wrongly felt .. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 555056f | Established religion is like established anything else. It's easy. It offers answers you can get prepackaged and predigested, right off the shelf, and the same for everybody. No thinking required, much less hard thinking. Like a board game--you follow the rules, you go to heaven. That's why established religion gets the assholes. They aren't "good" Christians. I rather doubt they ever gave up a thing they valued for any reason or anybody. P.. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 7e1f1f0 | We looked at each other and just laughed; everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were swinging on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 11d5db8 | She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3dde83f | Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely. | repression | Donna Tartt | |
| 85cc0fd | Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e9e5dd3 | But though I knew just how lucky I was, still it was impossible to feel happy or even grateful for my good fortune. It was as if I'd suffered a chemical change of the spirit: as if the acid balance of my psyche had shifted and leached the life out of me in aspects impossible to repair, or reverse, like a frond of living coral hardened to bone. | Donna Tartt | ||
| f274e1a | And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone el.. | kissing love lovers time | Alan Lightman | |
| ef3a9e0 | First Emma. Now Thad. Regin was sick and tired of non-evil vampiric creatures messing with her millennium's worth of scathing animosity for their species... | Kresley Cole | ||
| 555f16a | My heart doesn't fucking work right without you. | Kresley Cole | ||
| a71a24d | You know, do nice shite for her. Buy her things. Really think about what she likes and what makes her happy and make it happen. She'll come around. And if she doesn't, you can cut off your horns for her. Chicks dig that." (Cadeon)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 31a277a | Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do. | Robert Crais | ||
| 99afa18 | Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2f3ba48 | It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. | perspective | Edward Albee | |
| 4a64e18 | I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7f2e4c1 | Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real. | Jeanette Winterson |