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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b98ced5 | Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together. | Richard Ford | ||
| 5d626d0 | Why?" she whispered. "Why should I dance with you?" "Because I love you. Because I love you so much I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time."... "Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted to not be married to you. Because all these men out here dancing with their wives can't possibly love them as much as I love you. Because for me, there is only one woman, and I'm sorry to break it to you,.. | husband husbands love wife wives | Erin McCarthy | |
| b87519b | There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: A people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and self-aware; a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer; who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death. It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once u.. | Annie Dillard | ||
| f8cafe0 | It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. | Annie Dillard | ||
| a1a63d8 | Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 6a1102b | Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d5d0e2b | This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 68a94af | It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo. | novels writing | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| b3ad8dd | What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. | wodehouse | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 155f13e | What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking. | uncle-tom wooster | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| cdb3d83 | Chaos is the penance for leisure. | Amy Tan | ||
| 07c4965 | There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do. | Amy Tan | ||
| 8ebf5f6 | Writers turn dreams into print. | James A. Michener | ||
| bdd5d24 | So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d72e882 | The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f5b3763 | Julian, sometimes girls are like junk food. They look good, and they sure taste good... but you know they're not healthy for you and cause cavities so it's better to just leave 'em alone. Got me? | Simone Elkeles | ||
| cd01577 | You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know... I'm never giving it back." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 6922716 | Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat." -- | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4203993 | An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 3286cae | The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell. | Arthur Miller | ||
| e32e40e | The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. | misery necessity need | William Shakespeare | |
| 6f6d503 | The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7da20a3 | And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d87b921 | I] must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 47610b8 | You tell me I'm beautiful,and that you like my hair and you like my smile. You rest your leg against mine in darkened theaters,and then you act as if nothing happened when the lights go up.You for three nights straight,and then you just...blew me off for the next month.What am I supposed to do with that,St. Clair? You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone,but I've been here this whole time. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 44d76ff | Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er. | crushes cute isla josh stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ca7a9c8 | I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years. Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha!" | maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 02fcf30 | I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. | Emily Brontë | ||
| c0f223a | The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer. | philosophy | Maxim Gorky | |
| 75c769a | I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it! | love | Garth Nix | |
| 69f66b1 | Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you. | grieving inspirational stories | George R.R. Martin | |
| c1c5ef5 | The northern girl. Winterfell's daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leathery wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window. | purple-wedding sansa-stark winterfell | George R.R. Martin | |
| 07af0e9 | That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies? | Mira Grant | ||
| 9a98d44 | You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.) | people | William Goldman | |
| 3b0cc56 | Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. | passion | Mario Puzo | |
| b7be21b | Life is Beautiful | Mario Puzo | ||
| db3a49f | Revenge is a dish which taste best when served cold. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fb3c0bf | I cook better than you," Nick corrected absently. "I think monkeys can probably be taught to cook better than you." "I'd like to have a monkey that cooked for me," said Jamie. " I would pay him in bananas. His name would be Alphonse." "I agree, that would be awesome." Mae said. "People would come for dinner just to see the monkey chef." "You're raving," Nick said, defrosting chicken in the microwave. Mae was a bit impressed with how he seem.. | monkeys | Sarah Rees Brennan | |
| 3ee54d8 | of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her c.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 9aeeb91 | The word 'slavery' and 'right' are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish." | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 291eb3c | I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody... | Harper Lee | ||
| 2a9becf | Finders were keepers unless title was proven. | Harper Lee | ||
| f2df499 | Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery--the frontier that drives the economies of the future--would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and ther.. | intellect intelligent-design reason research | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 0d0734a | the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness. | Jean Baudrillard |