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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 02ed548 | why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. | time | Mark Haddon | |
| f16277d | I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then yo.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 6b954a2 | In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4f4c849 | Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1264373 | A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. | marriage | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 43c45f7 | Because that was the night I knew I loved you. That I'd really and truly fallen in love. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bf3b556 | I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 77d230a | Ronnie:" I guess I'm okay with that.But it's not going to be easy for you. They don't have a lot of fishing or mudding around here. Will:" I figured." Ronnie" And not a lot of beach volleyball,either. Especially in January." Will" I guess I'll have to make some sacrifices." Ronnie."Maybe if you're lucky, we can find you some other ways to occupy Your time." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a8aebd4 | Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| e84f388 | As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 29f414c | I don't believe this," Morelli yelled. "I don't fucking believe this. What do you do, sit in bed at night and think about ways to fuck up my life?" | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| ffe2569 | Stephanie] That's not the point. I can't just let monkeys loose in Trenton. [Lula] Why not? There's all kinds of crazy shit loose in Trenton. | new-jersey | Janet Evanovich | |
| eb49324 | You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire. Do you really think so?' Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.' | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a63cc3b | I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur" -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 76cfb66 | Ranger cradled my face in his hands, using his thumbs to wipe the tears from my eyes. "The ceremony is over. Can you make it back to the car?" I nodded. "I'm okay now. Am I red and blotchy from crying?" "Yes," Ranger said, brushing a kiss across my forehead. "I love you anyway." "There's all kinds of love," I said. Ranger took me by the hand and led me back to the SUV. "This is the kind that doesn't call for a ring. But a condom might come .. | lust | Janet Evanovich | |
| 94891f9 | When I was a little girl I wanted to be a reindeer-the flying kind. I spent a couple years galloping around looking for lichen and fantasizing about boy reindeer. Then one day I saw Peter Pan and my reindeer phase was over. I didn't understand the allure of not growing up, because every little girl got boobs and go steady. I did understand that a flying Peter Pan was better than a flying reindeer. Mary Lou had seen Peter Pan too, but Mary L.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 7e9a2f0 | His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| cca9f72 | People aren't poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they're poor. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 83c4544 | And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 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 traps trap trapped | 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. | lies honesty truth lie | 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. | truth first-words iowa | 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 |