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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a205ca | If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies. | ashes attack badass confidence death end-of-the-world girl-power kangaroos kingdom-come self-defense strength threat wallabies | Haruki Murakami | |
| a279f50 | She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines. | lifestyle wine | Haruki Murakami | |
| ef1fcd4 | An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7a47f82 | People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 14750a5 | Well, think of what I'm doing to you right now. For me I'm the self, and you're the object. For you, of course, it's the exact opposite--you're the self to you and I'm the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally." "I still don't get it, but it sure feels good." "That's the whole idea," the girl said." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bf0efc8 | From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 090e761 | Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 1bfd8a8 | I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous. | men women | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| f6f085f | Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die bef.. | death fellowship god man nature the-count-of-monte-cristo | Alexandre Dumas | |
| ccf3707 | There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you. -Maximilien Morrel | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 53b49d5 | One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 3b7052f | How many people have never raised their hand before? | Steve Martin | ||
| 7202f64 | For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self. | Steve Martin | ||
| 4b20029 | It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a32631e | I don't care if my love is requited or not, because being with you and the very thought of you makes me happy. The point I'm trying to make is that you are loved because I love you, Adam. Please, don't do it. Please, don't jump because I need you. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a58473a | Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It's sad, but it's life. So you go to this ball, Holly and you embrace the fact that you had someone whom you loved and who loved you back. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 50f5290 | You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are. | life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| e7d4986 | there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8d6513f | If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3423462 | Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. | cluelessness | Jodi Picoult | |
| d70ae53 | I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ad11547 | You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e2e9955 | Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6282101 | When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else. | marriage | Jodi Picoult | |
| a428f24 | I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2513bfc | A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 48e56bc | If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever. | writing | Jodi Picoult | |
| 0e649ef | Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 403a2b1 | That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on | Charles Frazier | ||
| 75bf8bf | There aren't any answers, only choices | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 94fd38d | He blinked , and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height. "My God," he croaked. " " | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b895609 | Are you alright?" "No, I bumped my head." Rubbing the spot, I looked dazedly around the bare hallway. "What did I bang it on?" I demanded ungrammatically. " head." he said, rather grumpily, I thought." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| be50675 | Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all. | shreve | William Faulkner | |
| fcdaf77 | Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. | cowardice | William Faulkner | |
| 6cc9f89 | Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. | James Joyce | ||
| 0a9a625 | if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. | James Joyce | ||
| b249588 | Everyone gets the devil he deserves. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 7cf081a | Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting? | Wallace Stegner | ||
| b0d4143 | my candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light | Roald Dahl | ||
| 7621564 | Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| b2c9aa5 | I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen. | Ken Kesey | ||
| b0e044c | I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 04d04c5 | qwly lh : n lnsn l ymwt `ndm yryd , bl ymwt `ndm ystTy` . | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9628390 | lqd ql lh fy 'Hd l'ym shyy' lm tstT` tSwrh:n lmbtwryn yHswn alm wkhdr wdGdG@ fy 'rjlhm lty m`dw ymtlkwnh. whdh msh`rt bh hy mn dwnh.. knt tsh`r bwjwdh Hyth lm y`d lh wjwd. | المبتورين | Gabriel García Márquez |