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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f27d87 | No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 438fc4a | Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world alway.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0b31394 | It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. | evil | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 6cc0ae9 | You met me at a very strange time in my life. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2cd450b | This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5cff754 | On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6f7495d | History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. | hero heroes history uncertainty villain villains | Ian Fleming | |
| f34f0e8 | Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words. | learning-by-doing writing | P.D. James | |
| 20888f9 | Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 3793d90 | T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) | family humanity life living | Karen Armstrong | |
| e5b85ea | Sarai had treasured every stage of Rachel's childhood, enjoying the day-to-day normalcy of things; a normalcy which she quietly accepted as the best of life. She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon.. | life | Dan Simmons | |
| 16513de | Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 32998e7 | He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c39ce21 | From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 15b40d7 | Trusting the one you love always brings good results. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8eedd8d | Don't think about what you'll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 844f29e | It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ea0ec87 | But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing. | negativity | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1429d59 | now that she realized she had been waiting for him--she did not like that. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cf1c1ed | Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fee63ec | That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 47b62bb | However contradictory the coroner's report -- whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death -- isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 9a21c8a | Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 18e1e9f | The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ae03f98 | I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 9e31f38 | Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 6d247d5 | At forty-five, I feel grateful almost daily to be the adult I wished I could be when I was seventeen. I work on my arm strength at the gym; I've become pretty good with tools. At the same time, almost daily, I lose battles with the seventeen-year-old who's still inside me. I eat half a box of Oreos for lunch, I binge on TV, I make sweeping moral judgments. I run around in torn jeans, I drink martinis on a Tuesday night, I stare at beer-comm.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 4df4b1d | What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 40b5994 | Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 21ed98a | Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 16b8967 | Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 76aef5d | our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 867e081 | Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 744fb40 | The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b80f053 | So, yes, I was jealous of him--because it will always be easy for him. And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6358331 | Her rage took her to a place where she only knew three things: that Chaol had been taken from her, that she was a weapon forged to end lives, and that if Chaol was hurt, no one was going to walk out of that warehouse. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9ed9e99 | I knew another women who lost as much as you. And do you know what she did with it-the loss?' He could barely stop the words from pouring out, could barely think over the roaring in this head. 'She hunted down the people responsible for it and obliterated them. | aelin-ashryver-galathynius aelin-galathynius chaol chaol-westfall throne-of-glass throne-of-glass-series tower-of-dawn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 77950e9 | Manon rose in the saddle, sliding a leg under her, body tensing to make the jump ahead. And she said to Abraxos, touching his spin, "I love you." It was the only thing that mattered in the end. The only thing that mattered now." | manon-blackbeak sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6a38cd7 | Aelin would have been beside herself with glee. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c022232 | Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party for you. And I care enough that I'd attend a thousand more like it so I can spend a few hours with you when you aren't looking at me like I'm not worth the dirt beneath your shoes. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5e8fcf8 | Kaltain Rompier had just turned the tide of this war. Dorian had never been more ashamed of himself. He should have been better. Should have better. They all should have. | kaltain-rompier pg548 | Sarah J. Maas | |
| aee4bb7 | You're back," Sam said, as if he couldn't quite believe it. She lifted her chin, stuffing her hands in her pockets. "Obviously." He tilted his head slightly to the side. "How was the desert?" There wasn't a scratch on him. Of course, her face had healed too but... "Hot," she said. Sam let out a breathy chuckle." | celaena-sardothien cute funny sam-cortland | Sarah J. Maas | |
| afde2be | But when she reached in, toward the place in her chest where that monster dwelled, she found only cobwebs and ashes. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 585ca60 | Would I have loved her if I had know from the start what she is?" He shook his head. "If I had met her now... my first instinct would be to protect Dorian from her. Celaena was a fraction of Aelin - both good and bad. But Aelin... she is Celaena, and she is queen, and she is the Fire-Bringer. I fell in love with a facet, and I panicked when I realized it was a fraction of the whole - when I saw that power, that heritage, and... it was not a.. | Sarah J. Maas |