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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1359e7 | You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| bb4e988 | Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway." | heroes neptune zhang olympus olympians son jackson percy hazel | Rick Riordan | |
| d91378b | Try again. Fail again. Fail better. | inspirational existentialism failure | Samuel Beckett | |
| 9bd4398 | The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. | unhappiness | Tom Robbins | |
| f528340 | Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more. | love fair-play | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 9f7a348 | I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 82a76ce | Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise. | humor vampire paranormal-romance | J.R. Ward | |
| 3d8b013 | Can't this thing go any faster?" Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic." You both sound like my mother," I said. Shut up!" they both said in union." -- | hunters olympians zoe thalia percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 5787751 | Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand." | funny | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| e127190 | To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2b9246b | 25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?' 26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.' 27 And the Lord did not ask him again. | heaven god humor | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett | |
| d7ad7fa | Jem: Come in. Jace: Where's Brother Zachariah? Jem: I'm right here. Jace Herondale. And once more a Herondale is the object of my deliverance. I should have anticipated. | brother-zachariah deliverance jace-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 433c51f | Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. | women imagination proust | Marcel Proust | |
| 84bcbe2 | The man who fears losing has already lost. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3e45173 | Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bod.. | lover words earth poetry reason imagination fantasy love devils egypt helen lunatic madmen poet | Shakespeare William Shakespeare | |
| 9c2dd38 | Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. | personal-freedom freedom inspirational | Ronald Reagan | |
| 14e131e | All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. | Ken Kesey | ||
| bdfd222 | I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| eed97ad | To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder? | life self soul | Ayn Rand | |
| 330ed8d | Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. | inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| cd8c6fb | Bright star," Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. "Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you." | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3e822e8 | Eternity bores me, I never wanted it. From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962" | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d2d92df | Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. | integrity marriage feelings self-determination romance joy love matrimony duty | Jane Austen | |
| 811f6fb | CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? | religion life | Bill Watterson | |
| 94a2059 | I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. | pretexts justification mistakes | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 67b0fec | Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. | simile nearly-headless-nick | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6044ea6 | I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" -- a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or int.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0785d63 | Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn't desire his kiss, she won't be free. | fairies faerie | Cassandra Clare | |
| 868d775 | The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You | inspirational | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 53a9ac9 | You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe. | science life | Philip K. Dick | |
| 117e428 | May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there--not in heaven--not perished--where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sud.. | hate death love thwarted malediction obsession | Emily Brontë | |
| e83454d | I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 68ac543 | Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. "You don't knock now?" "It's my bedroom!" Alec spluttered." -- | Cassandra Clare | ||
| edc10c5 | Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace. | inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational inner-peace peace | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 129f96b | Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. | being-human humanism human humanity learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life love inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy human-nature | Roy T. Bennett | |
| d9f5401 | Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 69bc06c | What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 164fc0b | The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing -- to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from -- my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. | C. S. Lewis | ||
| ddd90ae | Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. | writing | J.D. Salinger | |
| 4438cc1 | Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact w.. | living religion life | James Baldwin | |
| f82e334 | You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that. | laughter love | Cassandra Clare | |
| fc5afbb | Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips t.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 95d98b3 | Feet, what do I need them fo | inspirational | Frida Kahlo | |
| 4c0aa8c | Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines. | life | Christine Feehan |