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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 573c41d | She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. | elderly youth | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 41d4543 | I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now? | romantic | Catherine Marshall | |
| 0a44ec5 | I stare at the stars... And even though there are so many and they look so close together, I know they are light years apart. The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning. , I tell myself. . | love stars together togetherness | Beth Revis | |
| da481de | I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. | control love overcoming power strong | Beth Revis | |
| 9f6ecac | I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before." "You're a fortunate man," Wolf said. "She's a great beauty," the man said admiringly. "And has a temper to match," Wolf told him. "I noticed that," the guard said. "We noticed you noticing," Silk told him slyly." | David Eddings | ||
| 0cca254 | My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. | love prayer | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 0c9486f | The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 19a9771 | It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f9b0d8b | It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know. | i-don-t-know lives remember time wonder | Markus Zusak | |
| 2d24475 | She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 840c814 | Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 96a94ba | She slid a book from the shelf and sat with it on the floor. She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words lttered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be ant of this. What good were the words? The book thief stood and waled carefully to the library door. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 7280afa | I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ba338d3 | Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 089ab8c | Because lascivious or venal lips had murmured the same words to him, he now had little belief in their sincerity when he heard them from Emma; they should be taken with a grain of salt, he thought, because the most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest feelings - as though the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow into the emptiest phrases, since no one can ever express the exact measure of his needs, his conceptions, or hi.. | gustave flaubert | ||
| 03e3fad | Because, dear, trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing; the people we love are taken from us, and we can joy in nothing because they are not with us; sickness comes, and we faint under the burden of our feeble bodies; we go astray and do wrong, and bring ourselves into trouble with our fellow men. There is no man or woman born into this world to who.. | George Eliot | ||
| c325d2b | Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 1e3f3de | But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily...he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 2e9cf8e | After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9aa1264 | She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was how Paunceforte would have seen it. But then she did not see it like that. She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel; the light of a butterfly's wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral. Of all that only a few random marks scrawled upon the.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| c42c3ae | She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 17dc5cb | One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin. | colour writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| 57e666b | At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 779d1d1 | It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific pro.. | love men-and-women | Virginia Woolf | |
| 47b5ab0 | Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters. | Gogol Nikolai Gogol | ||
| af21eb8 | The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual i.. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 4301e15 | I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7a95072 | I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 505f23f | That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 4817156 | Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cab16f8 | Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a79b43a | All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 41518d7 | I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. | marriage truth | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1f865c0 | Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 10e1bf7 | It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 29cb6fd | It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7699056 | Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head? | knowledge-education love love-hurts | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ccca78f | If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 841da41 | Well, child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering," Hanneke said mildly. "It belongs to you. But I shall tell you what I do with mine. I grasp it by the small hairs, I cast it to the ground, and I grind it under the heel of my boot. I suggest you learn to do the same." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5983e7c | Ask yourself, 'Who are the secure ones, the comfortable, the eternally cheerful?' I'll tell you the answer: only those with dull vision-the common people and the children | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 02d4230 | My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| a1f297d | To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 5c4d1b8 | He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple. | spunky | Neil Gaiman | |
| f807f91 | It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black. | darkness | Neil Gaiman |