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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5df537b | You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. | reminding | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 7a55de1 | We can't stop here, this is bat country! | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a9a74d9 | I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. | moving-on understanding | Nicholas Sparks | |
| d112a72 | People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. | past human-nature | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 9918760 | If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever. | David Sedaris | ||
| 66491c4 | You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ae81ffb | Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3c3801e | I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded." -- | independence self-worth | Virginia Woolf | |
| 04a23d0 | All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. | history revolution | David Mitchell | |
| a9aa4dd | When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'? | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 5f3d2bb | And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. | freedom | Dr. Seuss | |
| b5a3f7e | I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence? | melancholy | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 3e91d5e | A quiet conscience makes one strong! | integrity morality spirituality strength peace | Anne Frank | |
| 139c1f3 | I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard. | perseverance sorrow life weeping pessimism | Charles Bukowski | |
| dafad75 | Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.' Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly. | people living humor guess kinds kinds-of-people challenge dead | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8150e38 | Congratulations | success humor inspirational | Dr. Seuss | |
| 21674db | To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. | success life inspirational | Sir Winston Churchill | |
| ec67968 | No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins. | life-lessons ender-wiggin ender | Orson Scott Card | |
| bdbf6a4 | Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The pain is an anchor, mooring me | pain | Haruki Murakami | |
| 054290c | More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding. | understanding satisfaction willful-ignorance | Richard Dawkins | |
| b22f774 | If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. | compensation hope inspirational failure disappointment | Henry David Thoreau | |
| e916b5c | There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. | savages | Mark Twain | |
| 467f4a1 | The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."-- Madame Dorothea" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0009d77 | She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0cf8fc0 | You know that feeling," she said, "when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside." | reading tessa-gray will-herondale reading-books | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9f26c53 | The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms. | relationships inspirational healing self-help | Pandora Poikilos | |
| 62d429e | Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 38e0181 | I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. 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 | Lewis Carroll | |
| a0c492b | That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man si.. | poverty wealth sorrow greed cring fables tears | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6636af5 | and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment... | soulmates | Plato | |
| 19c5acc | love means to see the one you love happy | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 304a17d | Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings | tact | David Sedaris | |
| 7d0a540 | she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 3508d71 | Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled-- to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even | Mary Oliver | ||
| a16a9fb | Very early in my life it was too late. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 643bf36 | The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 739d5dc | Oh, please don't go--we'll eat you up--we love you so! | Maurice Sendak | ||
| e2a9a12 | People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. | David Levithan | ||
| be725a9 | The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart--hearts are made to be broken--but that it turns one's heart to stone. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fc01871 | Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b8daff4 | I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3292dba | Do you always try to kill people when they blow their nose? | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1f85264 | I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been. | past love intimacy memory | Raymond Carver | |
| dbc08e7 | Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. | Stephanie Perkins |