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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c7de7d4 | Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that? | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 2e200c8 | Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d94f46c | Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 66c67d6 | Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. | life inspirational | Gerard Way | |
| 30a6ea1 | If you're happy in a dream, does that count? | happyiness | Arundhati Roy | |
| 4ceb42f | Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. | revenge grudges spite | Anne Lamott | |
| dc8602c | Q: You'er presented with a smooth-faced, eight-foot-high wooden wall. Your objective? Get over it. To, like, save comrades or something. How to accomplish this? A: Take a running start, brace one foot against the wall, throw one hand to the top, try to hang on long enough for a comrade to either grab your hand at the top or for another comrade to push your butt up from below. It takes team work! BKA (bird kid answer): Or you could just, lik.. | humor maxride | James Patterson | |
| 2f9a65c | Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. | rage serenity anger | Mitch Albom | |
| 6b45f36 | You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e60865e | Z: "You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck." Phury: "That was you?" Z:"You think it was Santa Claus or some shit?" | humor phury j-r-ward zsadist | J.R. Ward | |
| 87a362e | She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backwards, right into Nico's sword. "Nice one," Paul said. "When did you learn to fire a shotgun?" I demanded. My mom blew the hair out of her face. "About two seconds ago. Percy, we'll be fine. Go!" | gun | Rick Riordan | |
| fc4084d | It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0a6144e | There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors. | Jim Morrison | ||
| 9cdd07c | Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| aa964e4 | Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. | philosophy taggart objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| d6dea83 | All art is quite useless. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| f2d063a | When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c88628c | Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained. | starved tartarus underworld percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 6e87e8c | When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror. | man men inspiration inspirational-quotes inspirational romance-love boys | C. JoyBell C. | |
| b313d48 | It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational rainbows rainbow | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 47dc4a8 | You are -- your life, and nothing else. | life self | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 8dfd5fa | I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 493bd46 | He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind." | James Patterson | ||
| dd878ba | The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. | Philip Roth | ||
| ab9e1fa | What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4be05c7 | The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. | happiness giving selflessness selfishness | Gretchen Rubin | |
| 884e7cf | We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 7cb4603 | Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. | inspirational | Vincent Van Gogh | |
| 1ff581c | Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. | inspirational self-acceptance | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| 6dc4e34 | You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me." I hesitated, know that if I stopped now, I'd never be able to say it to anyone. "I love you," I whispered. "Did you ever imagine something like this?" she wondered aloud. "You and me , I mean?" "No," I said. "It scares me a little." My stomach flipped, and all at once, I was sure she didnt feel the same w.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5a98bd0 | Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. | Max Lucado | ||
| d1b365e | He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe. | relationships love | Paulo Coelho | |
| b89f713 | Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 38b1c62 | Don't fear failure. -- Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. | motivational | Bruce Lee | |
| 1fc4c72 | There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck. | rage | Cassandra Clare | |
| f84dfcb | We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?" | humor | Veronica Roth | |
| 147a8e4 | Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?" asked Scrimgeour. "No, I'm not," retorted Hermione. "I'm hoping to do some good in the world!" | ministry-of-magic hermione-granger law | J.K. Rowling | |
| deced4d | I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. | inspirational | anaïs nin | |
| c975a16 | Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they li.. | fish earth man loss nature world wonder past parable brooks glens environment trout mystery destruction creation maps | Cormac McCarthy | |
| fb50b5f | The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 4a3abf0 | If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. | men equality women work empowerment instruction jobs skills gender | Plato | |
| 9d869dc | I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment. | Libba Bray | ||
| ccc3006 | Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. | marriage idealism co-dependence the-rules-of-attraction victims-of-narcissists sociopathology divorce idealists narcissism | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 8813d31 | In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen. | Amy Sedaris |