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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8d02f3a | It wasn't a bluff; I heard it in his voice. He would do it. He would walk away. "You would leave all these people, all the bowing, and the . . ." His gray eyes looked into mine. "If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things, and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of me, because you love me. I love you too, Kate. If you ever became hurt, I would not le.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8c1b1c6 | Uncertainty is the normal state. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 69b9aa1 | Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. | Edward Sapir | ||
| 53c2547 | In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harming Flower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar. | buddhist flowers nonviolence v-49 | Anonymous | |
| 26685d1 | Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said "Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign", which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is "If it don't stink, marry it", which is slightly less romantic, but the .. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 31237ee | I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c29d2c8 | Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have." | foaly orion | Eoin Colfer | |
| 9f77a37 | This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other. | nightmare | Eoin Colfer | |
| 4a6a6f5 | The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. | Victor Hugo | ||
| db4e48d | It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b2dfc3c | Love is a fault; so be it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b470340 | Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand | leo-tolstoy life life-philosophy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a0076ee | What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c787b4c | I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e1ba693 | I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense." | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 2428b8f | No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?" | courtship dignity empowerment equality feminism gender independence inferiority integrity marriage marriage-proposal matrimony men self-awareness self-determination social-norms suitability women wooing worthiness | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 33cc0f9 | Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 48f01eb | If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a496332 | I open my mouth. I want o say: I'm breaking, and i need someone to hold me together. But no sound comes out. | beth-revis | Beth Revis | |
| c06a3bd | People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We're all spiraling out of control. | Beth Revis | ||
| 856a0cb | It's bad, being frozen, but it's better than waking up alone. | Beth Revis | ||
| 351f120 | Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it... --Eriond | David Eddings | ||
| 44a85e2 | The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 273d9cb | Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children. | Markus Zusak | ||
| d1158be | July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live. | war | Markus Zusak | |
| ab14bd8 | Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.' ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e35689c | You can only fit so many words into a postcard. Only so many in a phone call. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 67b4ea7 | It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people...Think of things in themselves. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| cfa23c9 | The poets leave hell and again behold the stars. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 0c7f13b | I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf | David Gemmell | ||
| 93e3da8 | Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it. Your problem is, you just can't let this one go. It's over, Groceries. David's purpose was to shake you up, drive you out of that marriage that you needed to leave, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light could get in, make you so desperate and o.. | let-go soulmates | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d6bf190 | In all our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Perhaps we long for that erasure because a particular day brought us such splintering sorrow that we can scarcely bear to think of it ever again. Or we might wish to blot out an episode forever because we behaved so poorly on that day - we were mortifyingly selfish, or foolish to an extraordinary degree. Or perhaps we injured another p.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7e6da8e | Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1cca4e8 | Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 11364ff | Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 45d0322 | The moonlight was enough. It would do. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d2dc724 | So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going." | laura shadow | Neil Gaiman | |
| 5068b04 | I was not scared of anything, when I read my book... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7d78bdd | Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4031601 | But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 64cb4a5 | I have a feeling,' he said, 'I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 29924cf | We have teeth and we have tails We have tails we have eyes We were here before you fell We will be here when you rise. | gaiman lyrics | Neil Gaiman | |
| 844a5e6 | I missed her, deeply, painfully. But life goes on. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f4458a4 | Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them. | fiction | Neil Gaiman |