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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b9f97e7 | We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world. | love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| eca1b06 | I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 99d7f77 | Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf. | isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 483f4d1 | A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better. | trying obstacles | George R.R. Martin | |
| afb1e10 | This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. | fancy raisins wordplay terrible | Dorothy Parker | |
| d2f205c | We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness. | inspirational four tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 9864b42 | It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. | words | Haruki Murakami | |
| c6a54db | Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c50579e | I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door. "Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over." | jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon | |
| b6ae32e | If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iow.. | war politics change happiness philosophy contests data popular brilliance taxation information motion questioning worry facts government peace ignorance thinking forget | Ray Bradbury | |
| 33f5b49 | Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality. | Richard Adams | ||
| d2946e8 | I think a lot, but I don't say much. | Anne Frank | ||
| f4e0078 | How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all? Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands jus.. | reality love only-forward | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| f0a971e | How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all? Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands jus.. | reality love only-forward | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| 2cc4200 | Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't. | fear neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| d80715d | I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. | immortality atheism | Carl Sagan | |
| 2e496ea | Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| fe7d482 | The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet. | inspirational | Stephen King | |
| 8c13ab3 | Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn. | Veronica Roth | ||
| a13fe77 | Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3ab2dc7 | Brevity is the soul of lingerie. | lingerie wordplay | Dorothy Parker | |
| 95d7100 | I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. | parting | Arthur Golden | |
| 38c65b0 | Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose. | purpose | Dan Brown | |
| 7be770a | A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. | man woman | Oscar Wilde | |
| 0a66f48 | I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness. | unfair | John Green | |
| 7058d5b | Tell me, what is it you plan to do | Mary Oliver | ||
| d2385a1 | Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them. | action dream-comes-true dreams-come-true take-actions take-action dream inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living positive-affirmation positive-life dreams inspiring positive-thinking positivity motivational life inspirational dreams-quotes motivational-inspirational living-life do | Roy T. Bennett | |
| aa4b979 | Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, bene.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c7cd892 | I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3f8209e | I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. | love | Richard Bach | |
| 0132be5 | But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about. | John Green | ||
| d91974c | Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me. "The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 78920f8 | Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. | shakespeare wisdom | William Shakespeare | |
| 884bd5f | The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| fb02b9c | I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 52fdda9 | Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he." | elementary sherlock-holmes simple | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 2d9749a | And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live. | Stephen King | ||
| eeebb67 | We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness." | inspirational tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| dd568c3 | Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her. | love daemon-black-pov katy-and-daemon katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f6ef009 | My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight? | midnight-sun | stephenie meyer | |
| 4bf76d2 | I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come. | existence | Salman Rushdie | |
| 3b0989e | When it's right, it's simple. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ad8a091 | So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 4545e54 | Well, that's an evil smile... | humor maxride smile | James Patterson |