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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e17fd53 | There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach | sex shakespeare magic rain poems romance sacrifice death dreams music songs life carrack cityisle cityspire desolate fedora haunts horace-walpole mannequins phillip-k-dick puddles specters spectre amnesia androids haunting greek-mythology waking damnation count emily-dickinson magick tempest apocalypse reflections storms masquerade empty science-fiction gothic jazz ships ghosts water piano | Nathan Reese Maher | |
| f2a7095 | Love comforeth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun. Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain; Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done. Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4578f1c | You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! | insult senselessness | William Shakespeare | |
| 417f837 | In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote; Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast* with thee alone*: But my five wits* nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 3c9446a | Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. | virtue ice forgiveness sin | William Shakespeare | |
| 97a4a27 | What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9988145 | If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. Give me a case to put my visage in: A visor for a visor! what care I What curious eye doth quote deformities? Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 2af923c | The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. | William Shakespeare | ||
| dccf0d0 | Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me. | marriage self-determination independence empowerment happiness love marriage-proposal matrimony dignity courtship husbands wooing pleasure | William Shakespeare | |
| 68ecd40 | How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7c2898f | So quick bright things come to confusion. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 60ff1a1 | Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 3343b57 | If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come--the readiness is all. | fate the-readiness-is-all | William Shakespeare | |
| 8464101 | he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. | Henry James | ||
| 0652e5f | Whenever I get dumped, I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it's like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you're Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- so.. | heavy-metal jack-goldenberg femme-fatale | Henry Rollins | |
| e5e1bea | A good river is nature's life work in song. | song river | Mark Helprin | |
| 1945dd7 | to be paid for one's joy is to steal. | Mark Helprin | ||
| e8581ee | The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same g.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| e3a86eb | My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty. | uncertainty voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 97ac602 | I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 1476caf | Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 4b7df10 | Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8966ed7 | If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f3ebcc6 | Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! | jabberwock jabberwocky jaws | Lewis Carroll | |
| 8f64aef | If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take. | cheshire-cat direction cat path | Lewis Carroll | |
| 2355a95 | I would far rather convey grace than explain it. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e72fc8d | Cricket Bell." I smiled into my phone. "How did you get so wise?" -- | wisdom | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 04b4754 | People are confusing. They say one thing and mean the other. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e17c5e5 | When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops. | James Redfield | ||
| dfcecdc | He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars. The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone. "You're . . . ," he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. "Such a pain," he concluded. "What?" I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one of Fang's hands held the b.. | jealousy pain kiss feelings funny friendship love brb-dying pals holding-hands confusion best-friends weird wings otp lol night | James Patterson | |
| e492570 | I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me,i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions. | James Patterson | ||
| b301c1e | Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains. | James Patterson | ||
| 8abbe10 | Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it. | villains | James Patterson | |
| d10508f | Time for bed." I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure." | James Patterson | ||
| ebc82a3 | For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. | James Patterson | ||
| a0950c7 | Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die. | James Patterson | ||
| 740c340 | Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's what they tell us in school and the New York Book Review. | James Patterson | ||
| 06d4419 | tnmw lHqyq@ `ndm yrwy dm lshrf l'rD klmTr lGzyr, 'm dm l'`d fl ybd` shyy'an, nh dm `qr, fsd ytbkhr dwn 'n ytrk 'thran | Maxim Gorky | ||
| dcf51a6 | Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. "Remember I advised against this way," he instructed. "Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet." -- | yrael | Garth Nix | |
| 516a1d3 | Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?" -- | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b8c04ab | You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself. | Charles de Lint | ||
| aa75254 | Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up. | reading disagree opinions disagreements | Joel Salatin | |
| a877136 | A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 9906ef8 | raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such as the one that power can be understood without applying it, or that joy is totally removable from unhappiness, that peace can exist in the total absence of war, or that life can be understood without death. --ERASMUS, | philosophy duality | Brian Herbert |