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ea20ff4 To live is to love, to love is to live. Libba Bray
6d9feb8 We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth. Libba Bray
9ea682b You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off. Chuck Palahniuk
26f96cc Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away? Chuck Palahniuk
4a13dd8 But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'. Ian Fleming
c340a27 Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket. Ian Fleming
160b6c6 There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead. Nicole Krauss
ed556c0 Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. When they were ten he asked her to marry him. When they were eleven he kissed her for the first time... For her sixteenth birthday he gave her an English dictionary and together they learned the words. Nicole Krauss
c9a7b99 We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to. Bill Bryson
355699a Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. E.L. Konigsburg
8499ccf Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble. max-lucado nonfiction Max Lucado
a2193b5 The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that. boast boasting christian christianity faith god god-s-love Max Lucado
e63d0d1 A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing -- a flower in the process of expressing its potential. Paulo Coelho
3d424f4 They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them. Paulo Coelho
d9aa01b She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her. Paulo Coelho
1fa330a I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself. Paulo Coelho
fa1b76b That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear. Paulo Coelho
e620aa6 If Evil exists, it's to be found in our fears Paulo Coelho
105ea48 A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. Paulo Coelho
9b8275b When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish. Paulo Coelho
52c1b55 A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other," my mother's voice was saying. "They decided to become engaged. And that's when presents are always exchanged. The boy was poor-his only worthwhile possession was a watch he'd inherited from his grandfather. Thinking about his sweetheart's lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette. The girl had no money herself to buy him a present. She went to the.. Paulo Coelho
5dfff1d That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them" Paulo Coelho
b714dee I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while--I admit it--but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them. J.D. Salinger
c46d7b3 You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all. J.D. Salinger
a983bf4 If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. I.. J.D. Salinger
582d85c I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. J.D. Salinger
bc053a4 Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive- my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. integrity isolation reading self-knowledge social-change Jonathan Franzen
d1515df Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed. equilibrium life Ursula K. Le Guin
545f62d To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. mind religion spirit Ursula K. Le Guin
c16bef2 To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free. To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Ursula K. Le Guin
2283cf9 And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me. dark depressing dreary fae falling-apart immortal sad trauma wounded Sarah J. Maas
d13e860 Her heart was raw and trembling, and the darkness faded. throne-of-glass Sarah J. Maas
2f4b29f He stared at her; she stared right back. Unyielding, unbreakable. They'd been cut from the same cloth. Aedion loosed a breath and looked at their joined hands - then opened his to examine her scarred palm, crisscrossed with the marks of her vow to Nehemia and the cut she'd made the moment she and Rowan became carranam, their magic joining them in an eternal bond. 'It's hard not to think all of your scars are my fault.' Oh. Oh. aelin-ashryver-galathynius queen-of-shadows Sarah J. Maas
34b7226 No, Celaena Sardothien certainly did not exist anymore. That woman--the woman he had loved ... Perhaps she'd drowned in the vast, ruthless sea between here and Wendlyn. Perhaps she'd died at the hands of the Valg princes. Or maybe he'd been a fool all this time, a fool to look at the lives she'd taken and blood she'd so irreverently spilled, and not be disgusted. Sarah J. Maas
2e599c9 She lifted her chin. "I've been shouting for you." Sam shrugged, sauntering over to her. "I figured you could wait a few minutes, given that I saved the day and all." His brows rose high on his ash-covered face. "Some hero." She gestured to the ruin of the tower around them. "I've never seen such sloppy work" Sarah J. Maas
7c60de7 I think she was a god... I never learned her name. She only left a note with two lines. "For wherever you need to go - and then some. The world needs more healers." - Yrene, about Aelin" Sarah J. Maas
bac4625 Deep inside me, rising with every swirling flake, a sparkling, crisp power stirred. I was High Lady of the Night Court, Sarah J. Maas
f20495a We need hope as much as we need bread and meat," he interrupted, his eyes clear for a rare moment. "We need hope, or else we cannot endure." Sarah J. Maas
9ed5a05 He forgot Gavriel and Lorcan as he bolted for her--the gold and red and blue flames utterly hers, this heir of fire. Spying him at last, she smiled faintly. A queen's smile. Sarah J. Maas
37ef712 All Rowan now had to offer his queen were the strength of his sword, the depth of his magic, and the loyalty of his heart. Such things did not win wars. love rowan-whitethorn Sarah J. Maas
f893629 We're all broken," Mor said. "In our own ways - in places no one might see." acotar acowar feyre-archeron inspirational mor sjm truth-of-life Sarah J. Maas
e6a10a1 mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse sex E.E. Cummings
1ffc55b Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) Vince Flynn
a3dd765 If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings." In medieval societies, the biggest buildings were its churches and palaces; using Campbell's method, we can assume these were feudal cultures that revered their leaders and worshipped God. In modern Western cities, the biggest buildings are the banks--bloody great towers that dominate the docklands--and t.. Russell Brand