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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4ac044c | Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? ...But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone, , love me? | John Green | ||
| 1dfb049 | We should do something," I said. "Can the something be play blind-guy video games while sitting on the couch?" "Yeah, that's just the kind of something I had in mind." So we sat there for a couple hours talking to the screen together, navigating this invisible labyrinthine cave without a single lumen of light. The most entertaining part of the game by was far trying to get the computer to engage with us in humorous conversation: Me: "To.. | death humor comic-relief video-games | John Green | |
| b03bc21 | And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 62295e5 | My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake." | Lora Leigh | ||
| e61a8ff | It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young. | Muriel Spark | ||
| dc35d90 | The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| da8e817 | My head was full of misty fumes of doubt. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 505a8e5 | For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival. | survival | Christine Feehan | |
| 3999020 | From a House of vampires to a house of politicians," he muttered as we walked to the front door. "Said the most political of vampires," I reminded him, and got a growl in response." -- | Chloe Neill | ||
| 54da5f8 | Ethan: You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won't be far behind you. No. I will never be far behind you. | Chloe Neill | ||
| dd9feb3 | Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up? | dark-elite hexbound | Chloe Neill | |
| 11ae0ad | The ultimate good of the gospel is seeing and savoring the beauty and value of God. God's wrath and our sin obstruct that vision and that pleasure. You can't see and savor God as supremely satisfying while you are full of rebellion against Him and He is full of wrath against you. The removal of this wrath and this rebellion is what the gospel is for. The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory and the removal of every obsta.. | John Piper | ||
| bd3d1d4 | America today is a "save yourself" society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from one set of diseases: tuberculosis, malnutrition, pneumonia, parasites, typhoid, cholera, typhus, etc. Affluent America has virtually invented a whole new set of diseases: obesity, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, strokes, lung cancer, venereal disease, cirrhosis of the liver, drug addiction, alcoholism, divorce.. | John Piper | ||
| acfc91e | Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance." "Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 0a90136 | And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb." Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2055477 | I'm trying not to think about it too much because that makes it worse. It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It happens very fast, and things start to slip away. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 61e1642 | Es mucho mas facil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene por nadie. Queria reirme. O quizas enojarme. O quizas sentir indiferencia por lo extrano que todos eran, especialmente yo. Creo que la idea es que cada persona tiene que vivir su propia vida y despues decidir compartirla con otras personas. No puedes sentarte ahi y poner la vida de todos por encima de la tuya y creer que eso cu.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8a096d1 | She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a "superior position" that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want. " | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 7b78707 | Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same. | inspirational | Stephen Chbosky | |
| be43c07 | It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| e8574a0 | Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c2f3b50 | I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!! | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 511e358 | Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method. | nonviolence | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 0229402 | Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| df81660 | In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return. | Allison Pearson | ||
| abdf269 | He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. | independence revolt | Mervyn Peake | |
| 63019c2 | If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the i.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 400d931 | If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 444b4ee | Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and--oh--tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair. | funny debbiepelt | Charlaine Harris | |
| df45dcd | Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!" | flirting | Charlaine Harris | |
| c42e535 | One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e3b58f0 | There's no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged. | philosophy | Charlaine Harris | |
| 87da9e0 | To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we're going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ae286fe | It's all right," the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. "My grandmother always told me 'Never try to turn back on a new road--you don't know what adventures await you." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| af8447e | I'm sorry." Her voice cracked. "McKenna-" "Not sorry enough." He pressed his wet face to hers, his mouth rubbing over her cheeks and chin in feverish, rough half kisses, as if he wanted to devour her. "Not nearly enough. You say you've had to live without your heart...how would you like to lose your soul as well? I've cursed every day I've had to live without you, and every night that I spent with another woman, wishing that it was you in m.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 621ca5d | Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 7bb2021 | I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| bfd997c | I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I realized the problem: no one I knew would have come up with that day for me. , I thought, . | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 2e0a601 | Heart of my heart, you need no man to give you away. Just come to me of your own free will. Love me for who I am... just as I love you for who you are... and our bond will last until the stars lose their shining. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| f808d4b | You can't learn everything you need to know legally. | learning life-lessons legality | John Irving | |
| 49433e3 | Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole. | John Irving | ||
| 607677d | Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed. | royalty | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 61ae1f2 | If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 098fc19 | A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. | motherhood | W. Somerset Maugham |