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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce3caae | I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. | peace-on-earth | E.M. Forster | |
| e9d68e3 | What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these.. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 6510f3f | Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 45cc6b7 | The phone rang in the comm. center. Ian consulted the monitor. "It's Dan." He pressed a button. "Kabra here." Dan's voice crackled through the attic. "Don't say it like that," he complained. "Your name still gives me heartburn." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 5d4d2b7 | No se puede encontrar a quien no quiere ser encontrado | Isabel Allende | ||
| d804787 | I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive. | soul voldemort | J.K. Rowling | |
| cf9799a | This is how it is - this is why you're not in the Order - you don't understand - there are things worth dying for! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 08cdbe5 | Whoops - My wand is a little over excited! | snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| da8020e | Si quieres saber como es alguien, mira de que manera trata a sus inferiores, no a sus iguales"." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 59464fb | Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts -- I did -- still do, 'smatter of fact. | inspirational | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5c1707a | Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| adfb53c | What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1fb3895 | Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d908b0f | In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you. | mind | J.K. Rowling | |
| dfbe618 | Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own? Five points will be taken from Gryffindor for this," said Professor McGonagall. "I'm very disappointed in you." Hermione left. Professor McGonagall turned to Harry and Ron. "Well, I still say you were lucky, but not many first years could have taken on a full-grown mountain troll. You each win Gryffindor five points." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fbb2e0a | But I had to meet you in the end . . . eleven years old, and you were so brave. So good. You walked uncomplainingly along the path that had been laid at your feet. Of course I loved you . . . and I knew that it would happen all over again . . . that where I loved, I would cause irreparable damage. I am no fit person to love . . . I have never loved without causing harm. A | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 166af89 | The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 88b2452 | Hogwarts isn't actually that pleasant a place when you don't fit in. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5a0ce50 | Are you sure that's a real spell?' said the girl. 'Well, it's not very good, is it? I've tried a few simple spells just for practice and its all worked for me. Nobody in my family's magic at all. It was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, I mean, it's the very best school of witchcraft there is, I've heard - I've learnt all our set books off by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough - I'.. | introductions | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9f03b32 | It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b6d4e89 | Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing. | homecoming-dance puke | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 2315821 | There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the lon.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7e52838 | Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile. | love romance | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 3423782 | Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 11f39a4 | Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 201b06d | Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 153648f | People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again. | ember | Jeanne DuPrau | |
| e106a1c | how monstrous the people you loved could be. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 5ff1010 | There were two doors that opened off the hallway. The doors were labeled PUSSY and MOTHERFUCKERS. "I'm taking the Motherfuckers door," I said to Ranger. "No way. That's my door." "Well, I'm sure as hell not taking the Pussy door." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1211b90 | Next time I fall in love it's going to be with someone who isn't an expert in fibbing." "You're in love with me?" "You didn't know that?" "I did, but it's nice to hear." "Scares the hell out of me." | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 77e2437 | Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?' Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.' Superheroes are make-believe.' Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| dd4f643 | wlkn `l~ jdr, fy mkn m, ykhrbsh 'Hdhm: 'n l 'ryd mjrd lbq Hyan 'ryd 'n '`ysh | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 9b5fae0 | All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals | Antonio Gramsci | ||
| 206abad | The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. | crisis modernity | Antonio Gramsci | |
| 5a18090 | Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape. | wonder | Lois Lowry | |
| a6b0128 | There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship | Lois Lowry | ||
| a786c4a | Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. | Lois Lowry | ||
| eb83a7a | Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 53a6a3f | And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found. | love | Libba Bray | |
| be604e5 | It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 7fccc63 | Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| de62f27 | I fainted....and you ate my ass? You fed me my own ass? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0359bd9 | The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9bd9e5e | The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back. | Chuck Palahniuk |