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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 72d4aa0 | You've always been there for me. Always. Even when I..." V "Even when you what?" B "You know." V "What?" B "Fuck. Even when I was in love with you. Or some shit." V Butch clasped his hands to his chest. "Was? Was? I can't believe you've lost interest." He threw one arm over his eyes, all Sarah Bernhardt. "My dreams of our future are shattered--" B "Shut it, cop." V Butch looked out from under his arm. "Are you kidding me? The reality show I.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| dca6ab9 | You want to poof it or ride back with me? | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 3cd8453 | As the two of them came up against each other, Qhuinn's mouth dropped open. But not because he was shocked and not because he wanted in on the action. He simply couldn't breathe. It was as if his ribs had frozen along with his heart. No . . . no, goddamn it, no . . . | J.R. Ward | ||
| 8ff9f28 | Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. | inspiration life wisdom | Marcel Proust | |
| 0fa19df | Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose. | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| 52831d8 | Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 31f07d1 | Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. | kurt-vonnegut maturity | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| ca1e734 | Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare. This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that .. | clemens-vonnegut freethinker funeral science skeptic | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 419823e | What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. | dark death favourite-quote truth | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| d0d3793 | We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed. | harvard history kids repeating-the-past | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| ea2c459 | the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. | psychology | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 899b5ea | We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| bd4a7a0 | You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?" | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c036bbd | Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat... or a girl? | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| daf53dd | Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas." | quentin-jacobsen | John Green | |
| ed95968 | The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive | john-green-looking-for-alaska looking-for-alaska quotes | John Green | |
| f5876cd | If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor.. | cancer cancer-kids children-with-cancer illness | John Green | |
| 60843b4 | A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced .. | argument cover divinity-of-jesus excuse hell infinite mystery | John Adams | |
| 369a200 | Darling-- I love these velvet nights. I've never been able to decide whether the night was a bitter enemie or a "grand patron" --or whether I love you most in the eternal classic half-lights where it blends with day or in the full religious fan-fare of mid-night or perhaps in the lux of noon. Anyway, I love you most and you 'phoned me just because you phoned me tonight-- I walked on those telephone wires for two hours after holding your lov.. | love-letter zelda-fitzgerald | Zelda Fitzgerald | |
| f97a2b3 | And that's why we're sending Boobs McGee." I slowly swiveled my head to glare at Catcher. "Seriously. You're, what, twelve now?" *** "Then I guess that settles that," I agreed. "My boobs and I will go." | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 6db1cfc | I stood there for a moment, playing emotional catch-up.He drove down from the Navarre House just to surprise me with flowers.And not It's -Valentines's Day-and-I-feel-olbligated flowers.These were just-because flowers. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 090068c | Home is where the heart is... not necessariliy where you sleep. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 17f0464 | Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither.. | John Piper | ||
| 6ed1471 | I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when it's peaceful outside, and you're seeing things move, and you don't want to, and everyone is asleep. And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And you know that if you looked at these when you we.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 16a7e10 | What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves. | dating dating-advice internet men-and-women modern-life modernity | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 40591dd | Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn't introspect, doesn't exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the "victims" of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather. Finally, a thought. He who has never sinned is less reliable than he w.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 2c2601e | Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated--the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 6759e6a | La muerte no se reparte como si fuera un bien. Nadie anda en busca de tristezas. | muerte tristeza | Juan Rulfo | |
| 656303f | One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting every.. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| d3336b1 | A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. | social-movements | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 419d11c | You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh that sounds just perfect. Let me do just that, or I'll lose track." Sure, glad I could help." Oh, you surely did." We beamed at each other, just two nice women. I had to fight an impulse to say "I have a tortured vampire in my trunk," out of sheer giddiness." | humor | Charlaine Harris | |
| 192fdf1 | We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 845cbfd | The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact from her lover. If he appreciates her face and body because it is hers, that is next to worthless. It is very neat: The myth contrives to make women offend men by scrutinizing honest appreciation when they give it; it can make men offend women merely by giving them honest appreciation. It can manage to contaminate the sentence .. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| baafa54 | cruel to ? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1707ddb | Beatrix," Amelia said over her shoulder as they proceeded through the hallway. "Perhaps you should reconsider your attire. Poor Captain Phelan may find it somewhat shocking." "But he's already seen me like this," came Beatrix's voice from behind Christopher, "and I've already shocked him. What is the point in changing clothes? Captain, would you feel more comfortable if I took my breeches off?" "No," he said hastily. "Good, I'll keep them o.. | hathaways humor | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 94fa997 | Love me?" Madeline asked with a faint smile. "It used to be love." He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. "Now there's no word for it." "You once told me that you thought love was a weakness." "I was wrong," he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. "I've discovered it's my only strength." | love romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| c49a46a | I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one. | good-advice logic | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 5e6fe69 | Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| e5f2c95 | I'm sorry, Dite." Dite shrugged away the apology. "You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me escape from the cesspit of my family and this court. You know what it means to me, to make music in the court of Ferria. You've put a purse and an impossible dream in my hand. I don't know why you should apologize." "Because I am exiling you, Dite. I intend to raze your patrimony and salt its earth. You emphat.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 0c2f66a | For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. | time | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 5d59bd2 | Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e98df84 | Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a secure position. I have been like this ever since the age of seven when, sitting on a high wall and reading The Water Babies, I was so seduced by the descriptions of underwater life that I unconsciously relaxed my muscles. Instead of being held buoyant by the water that so vividly surrounded me in my mind, I plummeted to the groun.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| f24fdeb | There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 20aef93 | And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below ground in chambers smaller than mine was, in their millions of millions? There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men - all are dead. Their bodies repose in caskets, in sarcop.. | Gene Wolfe |