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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ff36095 | Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information? | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ba65240 | I lean back. "What the hell are you doing?" "What do you mean?" she asks, innocently batting her eyelashes against the hot sun beaming down on us. Is she kidding me? "Where's you toungue?" I ask stupidly. Her wet little eyebrows furrow. "In my mouth. Why, where's it supposed to be?" | humor maggie-armstrong | Simone Elkeles | |
| 5529ba6 | Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise. | maggie | Simone Elkeles | |
| d41d843 | It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. | past | Salman Rushdie | |
| ff7d8ab | because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f1e0239 | More matter with less art. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4557462 | See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals... | fakes falseness people phonies | Arthur Miller | |
| 53a68d2 | If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 272f433 | Badassery: 1. (noun) the practice of knowing one's own accomplishments and gifts, accepting one's own accomplishments and gifts and celebrating one's own accomplishments and gifts; 2. (noun) the practice of living life with swagger : SWAGGER (noun or verb) a state of being that involves loving oneself, waking up "like this" and not giving a crap what anyone else thinks about you. Term first coined by William Shakespeare." | Shonda Rhimes | ||
| cce09cc | O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excell.. | death grief soliloquy | William Shakespeare | |
| 506e6b6 | The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. | William Shakespeare | ||
| e1b17a0 | Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d1aee3f | My stars shine darkly over me | William Shakespeare | ||
| d97134e | Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 421a176 | O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; | mistress | William Shakespeare | |
| fe1a6ff | A plague on both your houses. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9a4c238 | When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them. | Isak Dinesen | ||
| 3d49eb7 | Here I am, where I ought to be. | Isak Dinesen ( Karen Blixen ) | ||
| d960d2b | These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 1c41f65 | The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inabili.. | compromise conversation creativity diversity left middle right | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 76f4a24 | I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths. | isla-and-the-happily-ever-after kissing | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 9ec1d60 | He closes his eyes. Our lips brush lightly. "If you ask me to kiss you , I will," he says. His fingers stroke the inside of my wrists, and I burst into flames. "Kiss me," I say. He does." | kiss romantic-suspense | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 1b93a23 | People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever. | James Patterson | ||
| e466679 | Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences. | James Patterson | ||
| 3688bb5 | Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it. | James Patterson | ||
| 032fe32 | If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are .. | David Levithan | ||
| 66d5184 | It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. | friendship trufaxx weird | James Patterson | |
| 213d78c | Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 9c3ff37 | But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw) | vanity | Emily Brontë | |
| a4abc05 | From the first time he'd met her, he'd sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with ot.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 5d13973 | I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess. | William Goldman | ||
| c05cb90 | I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed." -- | gossip-girl | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 543f399 | the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be. | Jess Walter | ||
| 4452519 | You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you'll never know. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 3308255 | Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 338ab3f | I wanted you to see something about her - I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. | Harper Lee | ||
| c684f31 | I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period. I don't care about your economic background. I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, look.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| a159f97 | Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 27b071b | In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the altar, a couple would speak thus: "We accept not to panic when, some years from now, what we are doing today will seem like the worst decision of our lives. Yet we promise not to look around, either, fro we accept that there cannot be better options out there. Everyone is always impossible. We are a demented species." | Alain de Botton | ||
| 2d2bce0 | The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. | others self-doubt uncertainty value | Alain de Botton | |
| 075d50f | When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money. It is because we are meaning-focused animals rather than simply materialistic ones that we can reasonably contemplate surrendering security .. | collective-good connections impact jobs meaning work | Alain de Botton | |
| 8b90ba5 | The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. | inspirational | Edith Hamilton | |
| 56288bc | It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order. | love perseverance providence quest | H. Rider Haggard | |
| adff56b | He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. | knowledge science | William Blake |