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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bcffe88 | 1. Italo Calvino 2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. Jim Henson and Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths 4. The creator of MySpace 5. Richard Brautigan 6. J.K. Rowling 7. The inventor of the children's toy Lite-Brite 8. Ann Sexton 9. David Foster Wallace 10. Gaugin and the Caribbean 11. Charles Schulz 12. Liam Rector | fantasy sadness | Shane Jones | |
| 7dfc6e6 | The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category--except for the category of familiarity. | gaza-strip gaza-war israel israel-united-states-relations israeli-palestinian-conflict united-states war-crimes | Noam Chomsky | |
| d9662a7 | And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . . | Simone Elkeles | ||
| b2a94cf | From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 19e1742 | Senior year is supposed to be a blast-easy and fun. So far it's been anything but. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 3f01eee | She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. "What if it means something?" She asks. "What if it does?" "Promise me it won't mean anything." I lean my head back on the couch. "It won't mean anythin'." Aren't I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules? "And no tongue," she adds. "Mi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee there's gonna be tongue." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7cab6b1 | Tuck holds out his hand. "By the way, I don't think we've been formally introduced. I'm Tuck. You know, rhymes with luck." "And fuck," Carlos adds. "Yep, that, too," Tuck says unfazed." | kiara tuck | Simone Elkeles | |
| 53fcb79 | A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 1de9382 | Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| ffa0fe2 | Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f645101 | To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 614e0ef | Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died." | Arthur Miller | ||
| ef3074c | Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 4dc1cde | What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? | sandman tempest | William Shakespeare | |
| eda77ea | The worst was this: my love was my decay. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8a3e28a | I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would | William Shakespeare | ||
| 939e64b | Nothing can come of nothing. | William Shakespeare | ||
| bdee976 | These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. | william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| e54b157 | Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 08c269d | Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7ece5df | Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it. | benedick grief wisdom | William Shakespeare | |
| 59985b2 | O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa | Ian Doescher | ||
| 28ef366 | therein lies the rub | William Shakespeare | ||
| eb0da5e | Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange. | William Shakespeare | ||
| e31d5ee | Done to death by slanderous tongue | eulogy insults-and-slander | William Shakespeare | |
| 2878cdc | We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. | William Shakespeare | ||
| cf6d513 | YODA Nay, nay! Try thou not. But do thou or do thou not, For there is no "try." | Ian Doescher | ||
| 444dccb | She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be. | Mark Helprin | ||
| dcf21c2 | And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful." | Mark Helprin | ||
| 046e4ae | But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| cece5c2 | Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| b234ff4 | The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed. | romantic stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 42d5bac | You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much. | ettiene-st-clair love romance ya young-adult-romance | Stephanie Perkins | |
| c8523ae | Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself. | life | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 88ab7cd | This is [her] soul group.' What do you mean?' It's a group of souls with whom she resonates closely. | soul | James Redfield | |
| 571188a | Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something | James Redfield | ||
| 73554b0 | I was breathless, talking as fast as I could. I was afraid if I stopped talking, even for a second, I'd start sobbing again. "Whoa, there." Fang smiled and reached up, tracing a hand down the side of my face, winding strands of my hair around his fingers. "Stop talking and let me just tell you how great it is to wake up staring at your face. Okay?" | love otp | James Patterson | |
| 591eacb | You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max. | James Patterson | ||
| fdbd0ca | I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!"-Iggy" | James Patterson | ||
| b984e99 | In a manner of speaking. As we intend for you to found a dynasty. And that dynasty will rule society until it has progressed enough to-" "Overthrow the dynasty in a revolutionary, blood filled coup!" Iggy said eagerly. We all looked at him. "Just saying." He sheepishly took a bite of cookie." -- | science | James Patterson | |
| c11267f | Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person. | James Patterson | ||
| f22b758 | I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. | strength-of-character | Maya Angelou | |
| 45ebf7a | Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift. | time | Maya Angelou | |
| 64ec365 | For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate. | Garth Nix |