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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56735f4 | Screw it. Let the fates decide | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 703e809 | Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger I could never be as fangalicious as you'd want me to be.-Fang | James Patterson | ||
| df647d7 | Pain fades," I said slowly. "But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?" The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu's face blazing with fury." | James Patterson | ||
| 7e2d3d9 | I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic."-max" | James Patterson | ||
| 11a57a4 | You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don't protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you." I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her." | Maya Angelou | ||
| cffc877 | To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents | Maya Angelou | ||
| 0a5a9ff | It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 3c250f4 | It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now. | Charles de Lint | ||
| d716e62 | Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. | magic | Charles de Lint | |
| 4d46827 | Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do. | William Goldman | ||
| 4cec7a5 | Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think. | morgenstern panic rhymes | William Goldman | |
| b6066c5 | It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 78bd5ec | Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day. | love romantic | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| f1f8f89 | The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of stimulating and gratifying our appetites and our senses, the over-elaborate foods of the rich, which inflame and overwhelm them with indigestion, the bad food of the poor, which they often go withotu altogether, so hat they over-eat greedily when they have the opportunity; those late nights, excesses of all kinds, i.. | man nature | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| a01db11 | Dear God, teach me to be careless. | hanif-kureishi intimacy | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 8bd83a4 | It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 955f1f9 | The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow. | sorrow tears | Hannah Hurnard | |
| c613c69 | Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 9cd622b | He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn't believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I .. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 351f9df | The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes"." | insight nonconformist quentin-fore | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 3f6c30a | A mirror mirroring a mirror | self-referential strange-loop | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| d1c7fd2 | Modesty is Vanity's craftier stepbrother. | David Mitchell | ||
| ac3a21c | over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6ebbf30 | I elbowed my way into the grubby cafe, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1d513b9 | If only,' Shiroyama dreams, 'human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders. | David Mitchell | ||
| daa9588 | Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortuna.. | damaged | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 1bb3e4a | Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| a47c82e | Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed." ~ A thought by Lessa ~" | greed | Anne McCaffrey | |
| cbc82c1 | Which is scarier-- lust or temptation? | Craig Thompson | ||
| 764b755 | The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell... So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love. | Craig Thompson | ||
| a80e851 | People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy. | Peter Singer | ||
| 2daba24 | Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what's is this - my death. | suicide | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 30a97c8 | How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the same time! For even in love the slave is always the master in disguise. The man who must conquer the woman, subjugate her, bend her to his will, form her according to his desires--is he not the slave of his slave? How easy it is, in this relationship, for the woman to upset the balance of power! The mere threat of self-dependence, on the wom.. | master-and-slave | Henry Miller | |
| 7b7175d | The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. | Henry Miller | ||
| 7d6282f | To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 13a0f64 | I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. | philosophy | Henry Miller | |
| 498c922 | In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours. | Michael Jackson | ||
| bfe3396 | The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6050a99 | You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 8ed96b4 | You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected .. | aristocrats poor | G.K. Chesterton | |
| c20dcd8 | They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say and every move she didn't make. She was tense with uncertainty, quivering with irresolution. She might not be leaning into him, but she wasn't pulling away, either. | night-jasmine uncertainty | Lauren Willig | |
| 4e92db4 | Fuck easy, Ceri. If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f43962c | She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops. | humor kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| b8109a2 | You're like a crazy cat lady, but you collect killers instead of fluffy cats." "I don't collect killers." "Yes, you do, and those who aren't killers turn into killers by the time you're done. You made Julie into a maniac. That child has more knives on her than a squad of the PAD." | Ilona Andrews |