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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c4a7674 | It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat | Truman Capote | ||
| a085206 | It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, 'The other man's grass is always greener.' The Shaltanac race of Broopkidren 13 had a similar phrase, but since their planet is somewhat eccentric, botanically speaking, the best they could manage was, 'The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more ma.. | inspirational | Douglas Adams | |
| 703fc98 | Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait--' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate-- 'let it be. It won't be long.' Richard stared in disbelief. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?' The Professor looked blankly at him. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 1667377 | Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me. | pippin tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 406b339 | If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. | bittersweet costs | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2f1c79b | There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience. | lord-of-the-rings sam-gamgee | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| af71cef | Don't tell us about dreams - dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d0d8f0b | Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 76959af | The Balrog reached the bridge. Gandalf stood in the middle of the span, leaning on the staff in his left hand, but in his other hand Glamdring gleamed, cold and white. His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings. It raised the whip, and the thongs whined and cracked. Fire came from its nostrils. But Gandalf stood firm. 'You cannot pass,' he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ae57c07 | The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it. | running | Ray Bradbury | |
| 88e7930 | When we claim and constantly reclaim the truth of being the chosen ones, we soon discover within ourselves a deep desire to reveal to others their own chosenness. Instead of making us feel that we are better, more precious or valuable than others, our awareness of being chosen opens our eyes to the chosenness of others. That is the great joy of being chosen: the discovery that others are chosen as well. In the house of God there are many ma.. | god-s-love philia | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 68be75a | A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| cd4a0ba | You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0b5b1fc | Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented... | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 74eecbd | Making me choose? Darling, we live with the guy. We share a house, bank accounts, even vacations. We're never alone and I've never heard you utter one word of complaint. You have asked me to choose, and you have no idea how grateful I am for that, because if I ever had to pick, it would be you, no matter what that meant for the Pack. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 2297ae6 | I didn't need to be rescued." "Sorry, but my sword outranks your..." she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet." | jamie-vegas | Kelley Armstrong | |
| fd892f2 | But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me -- me, Jenny Gluckstein -- like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing -- recognition is something else. | love | Peter S. Beagle | |
| fd4867a | song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone.. | old-age peter-s-beagle song-of-elli-old-age-elli-s-song the-last-unicorn | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 02133b1 | One must imagine Sisyphus happy. | Albert Camus | ||
| 5d84f2e | I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be. | twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 65896fa | You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can't all be saints and martyrs. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 250ddaa | Good or Bad? Good. That's what I thought | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d31fb62 | Just because we've been dealt a certain hand doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of destiny that none of us wanted. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9bed7ee | We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 912aff3 | Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| eaabc34 | Regrets don't help anything. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 38f5c08 | I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation. | help | Samuel Beckett | |
| ba47c47 | Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 56ea76a | I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 46eda3b | There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you. | Stephen King | ||
| 3e91798 | The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside. | Stephen King | ||
| 2d4ef07 | They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America. | high-school young-love | Stephen King | |
| b7334a4 | Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every chil.. | Stephen King | ||
| bb261d4 | Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. | directing musicals plays teens | Stephen King | |
| 626f0c6 | May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest. | revenge | Stephen King | |
| e74c358 | I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. | writers writing | Stephen King | |
| 68f2503 | When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving. | Stephen King | ||
| 52068c0 | Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. | Stephen King | ||
| 81b00d0 | See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam. | eddie the-dark-tower | Stephen King | |
| 9f44f54 | We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know. | Stephen King | ||
| 30147db | When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story," he said. "When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story." | Stephen King | ||
| 76b84d0 | She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace. | memory nostalgia | Stephen King | |
| 5710d48 | Shit don't mean shit | inspirational life | Stephen King | |
| 61f12cb | What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self! | Nathaniel Hawthorne |