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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aef05cc | I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3068dde | The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves. | night pretty-words winter | Neil Gaiman | |
| ee45a59 | Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. | god life lonely | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 8c89af6 | I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e3b25e8 | There was a pier filled with thousands of people, men and women, fathers and mothers and children--so many children--children from the past and the present, children who had not yet been born, side by side, hand in hand, in caps, in short pants, filling the boardwalk and the rides and the wooden platforms, sitting on each other's shoulders, sitting in each other's laps. They were there, or would be there, becuause of the simple mundane thin.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b2e3434 | There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. | family food love passion r | Laura Esquivel | |
| 1d8b459 | If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| afe1981 | I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 433f9a4 | I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f93d370 | kln nslm blmwt b'lsntn 'm qlwbn ftrmy bh l~ mwD` fy lzmn qSy. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 45c08e9 | nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5e789da | Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, "My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0cc3ac4 | I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e6793d8 | There is still hope. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8be9917 | The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh. | Scott Adams | ||
| 05794e9 | Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 33b9dfe | You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| b2c6a06 | You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. | shame talk time | Raymond Carver | |
| a1ac57e | It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out their tongues, for noon. It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl, Nor fire, for just my marble feet Could keep a chancel cool. And yet it tasted like them all; The figures I have seen Set orderly, for burial, Reminded me of mine, As if my life were shaven And fitted to a frame, And could not breathe without a key; And I w.. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 400b0ee | A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ec2bcf6 | If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers. Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected, And your first gift is making stone out of everything. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c78ae7a | Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? | death life self | John Updike | |
| 4c4b1b0 | But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. | imagery inspirational love lovers metaphor suggestive | Updike John | |
| 411d863 | Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents | randomness | Orhan Pamuk | |
| ff5bad8 | Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 3b339ca | You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 35496f0 | To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. | Aimee Bender | ||
| f68ca4f | Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 2ceb452 | The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable. | hurt pain panic | Robert Ludlum | |
| bfd1f5a | As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 037a84f | Wiggin really doesn't care as much about himself as he does about these other kids who aren't worth five minutes of his time. And yet this may be the very trait that makes everyone focus on him. Maybe this is why all those stories Sister Carlotta told him, Jesus always had a crowd around him.Maybe this is why I'm so afraid of Wiggen. Because the alien, not me. He's the unintelligible one, the unpredictable one. He's the one who doesn't do.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 63ae272 | Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 59f6938 | Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?" -- | Robin McKinley | ||
| c09a009 | I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9f00879 | We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People t.. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| 975c01f | To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. | devastated easier | Anthony Burgess | |
| 2afb3e9 | He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 751a28f | Aiden moved so quickly that one second I was in his lap, and the next I was on my back and he was hovering above me. He lowered his head so that his lips brushed mine softly. That one all-too-wuick touch nearly undid me. "I love you," he said, and those were the last words spoken for quite some time." | alex love | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| d400cd7 | Tink appeared in the open door again, his wings rapidly moving, and in his hands he held a... slingshot? Oh sweet baby Jesus take the wheel. Where did he get a slingshot? Off of Amazon? That didn't matter. The brownie had taken the time to paint his face. One half was red, the other blue. He looked like he wandered off the set of Braveheart. I mouthed the word no at him. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7fe723e | My uncle recovered first, stepping forward. "Are you okay, Alexandria?" "Other than the fact I just spewed out two gods like a drunk college chick? I'm feeling fabulous." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4557b5c | More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read." "Doesn't mean I won't get more books." I smiled at is incredulous expression. "I haven't been able to read a lot lately, but I will, and then I won't be out of anything new to read." | deamon-black katy-swartz lux-series onyx opal reading | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 3d6f44c | I had no idea how we were going to figure this out. but women had been having babies since the beginning of time without doctors. Couldn't be that hard, right? I sort of wanted to punch myself in the face after that though. Childbirth scared the crap out of me. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 983690f | He seemed to be staring at the chain hanging from the ceiling fan. Seconds later, he confirmed this by reaching out and tugging the chain. Light clicked on. He tugged the chain again. Light went off. Oh for gods' sake, he had a mean case of ADD sometimes. "Apollo," I snapped." | funny random seth the-return titans | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 2f108fe | He stepped aside, allowing me back into the hallway. As we headed to another elevator, he was glued to my hip. "As close as you're riding me, man, I feel like I need to take you out to dinner or something. At least I should get your name." | daemon-black-pov humor | Jennifer L. Armentrout |