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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 36874bb | Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. | willful-ignorance | John Steinbeck | |
| 64588ca | Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? | temptation morality religion steadfastness doctrine law ethics principles soul | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 1a694d7 | Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much." "Dick. That's not what you said last night." "Bite me." | morganville-vampires gay | Rachel Caine | |
| d37ffe0 | Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed. | Mary Oliver | ||
| ba79ab8 | Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!" | humor olympians | Rick Riordan | |
| 7b8ed87 | Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams | dreams inspirational | R.J. Palacio | |
| 23d6148 | You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times | never-giving-up living life inspirational horse falling | Bear Grylls | |
| 21cef78 | Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| af7d0ff | If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. | self-respect | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| af2e404 | Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 9ec7435 | She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e627106 | Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. | Red in Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King | ||
| 88a84af | If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand... | Frederick Douglass | ||
| cba6d84 | no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa | John Green | ||
| ea6b772 | You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister." "Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure." "I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whis.. | humor dwarfs tyrion-lannister jon-snow king sarcasm | George R.R. Martin | |
| f290bc2 | Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his fighting. Even the Ares kids thought he was pretty cool. Hey, show up with an army of undead warriors to save the day, and suddenly you're everybody's best friend. | Rick Riordan | ||
| c314aa7 | No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one! | a-beautiful-beginning a-new-beginning inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspirational endings-and-beginnings the-end new-beginnings endings | C. JoyBell C. | |
| d2c421d | So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent. | independence hurt uniqueness | Haruki Murakami | |
| e10014b | I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a74a595 | The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. | kindness deeds | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 1fe30a2 | The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving a.. | David Levithan | ||
| c655dfb | That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people. | the-hollows trent | Kim Harrison | |
| 315ad6a | I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there. | regret | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| a522939 | I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. | hopes dracula sea | Bram Stoker | |
| 3d90f86 | I'm Draco Malfoy, I'm Draco, I'm on your side!" Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry Stunned the Death Eater as they passed: Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his savior, and Ron punched him from under the cloak. Malfoy fell backward on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused. "And that's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!" Ron yelled." | harry-potter humor ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9f608e2 | The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 7d72880 | You become what you think about all day long. | inspirational obsession | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| d968802 | Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. | poetry eternity | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 0a687df | It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. | guns power | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 74c03b2 | Tell my I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and Wise Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the TRUTH. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| d2fa2c4 | Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain. | pain freedom comfort contrast meals | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2141a16 | Say something in Mandarin," said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: "Ni hen piao liang." "What did you say?" Tessa was curious. "I said your hair is coming undone -- here," he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness o.. | tessa-gray jem-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3799b5c | What don't kill me... Had better start running! | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a0fd926 | I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself ... I can't love her." I want to scream. But not because I'm angry, because I'm afraid he's right. My hands shake and I grab the hem of my shirt to steady them. He touches his forehead to mine and closes his eyes. "I believe you're still in there," he says against my mou.. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 7eaf948 | Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. | inspirational | Harriet Tubman | |
| f827da4 | You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too. | religion love | James Joyce | |
| e0518c0 | She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ddb2add | The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 68a2d09 | Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]" | j-r-ward lover-unbound jane vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 662a83b | Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans..." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| eb4a9f5 | We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. | christianity faith religion inspirational | Martin Luther | |
| fcfc514 | I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do." | romance | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6d5f48b | Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 67bddbc | My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world." | rebellion mind stagnation sherlock-holmes mystery | Arthur Conan Doyle |