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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b3108d7 | What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that. | Libba Bray | ||
| a41988d | There was such fear in the world. But love was everywhere if you looked. It was the best thing about humans. That they could stare into the abyss and still open up their hearts. A spit in the eye to fear. | Libba Bray | ||
| bcdf13e | I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6ab1e01 | The key holds the truth | Libba Bray | ||
| e81ab2f | I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm. | sex | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 79c0838 | and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4954570 | This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| af3272b | In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a7e2254 | What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c1ec83b | And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. | invisible-monsters trap trapped traps | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 81917e2 | Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's y.. | reality | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| aa4902d | Find what you're afraid of most and go live there. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 403dc95 | It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth. | honesty lie lies truth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 55216cf | The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. | P.D. James | ||
| b978a02 | No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 86c8475 | To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 7a6f0cf | But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget," Ray continued. "Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and sooner or later someone else comes along all over again. We go through our lives like that, and either we just accept the lesser relationship -- it may not be total understanding, but it's pretty good -- or we keep trying for the perfect union, trying and failing, leaving behind us a trail of broken hearts, our own.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 7b6b4d9 | The shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d440d22 | I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. | first-words iowa truth | Bill Bryson | |
| 537aece | Its hard to die. Harder to live | living | Dan Simmons | |
| 50f3789 | I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia | change growing-up running-away | E L Konigsburg | |
| b6a5fe7 | All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 0a6d432 | Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 00db113 | lkl ywm m`jzth. tqbl n`m@ llh, njz `mlk lfny lywm. Gd yhbk llh n`m@ 'khr~ | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2bd079f | I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4c4ba1f | I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| babb363 | You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love. | fate life love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 3ef40ea | because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith. | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| ea583f5 | lys hnk sw~ shy wHd ymknh 'n yj`l lHlm mstHylan..lkhwf mn lfshl | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4fe8c32 | The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don't understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9b2c692 | A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b277442 | I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished. | prayer wisdom | Paulo Coelho | |
| 3b5d538 | If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0850276 | when we release our dark side, it will completely overshadow the best in us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2b71789 | Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1f440ac | Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9fb61d1 | Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 10eaada | Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees | life-lessons | Paulo Coelho | |
| cdbe837 | Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c326cf9 | He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| a9e6750 | My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat. He's dead now. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 27ec5bd | ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Piece and Piece and twenty-.. | blood-red-lettering bret-easton-ellis | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| c57a405 | Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter. | ennui languor lassitude purpose uncertainty | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| d2a3906 | No," I start, hesitantly. "Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. Ensure a strong national defense, prevent the spread of communism in Central America, work for a Middle East peace settlement, prevent U.S. military involvement overseas. We have to ensure that America is a respected world power. Now that's not to belittle our domestic problems, which are equally important.. | Bret Easton Ellis |