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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62d15d6 | Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down you.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e839e78 | I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5459a7f | But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation. | injustice legal-system privilege law justice power | Howard Zinn | |
| ad4d1b4 | There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world. | injustice inspiration coruage popular-movements indignation | Howard Zinn | |
| 7f57259 | An impassioned spirit truly paints the gray world with color. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| a1a105a | I sincerely think that Connor is asexual. Like a sponge. He probably wouldn't even notice if you hit on him. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 4fb9ed5 | We've become something of a family. A dysfunctional, fucked up family. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 7a77659 | People say you can't describe love, but I have this theory that you can. It's just subjective. Do you want to know what love feels like for me? It's breathing and suffocating. Sobbing and smiling. Yearning and fading. To ache that much harder. To live that much larger. It's every moment. Every single, tiny one. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 254d667 | I love all of you. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 2623649 | Don't you ever fucking apologize for another guy's offense. | kiss-thesky ryke-meadows | Krista Ritchie | |
| 6a44777 | We're no longer welcome at that particular hotel...for eternity. Those were the manager's exact words." Connor loosens his bowtie. "I don't blame him for thinking we're immortal. In some preclassic civilizations, I'd be considered a god." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 0f53a79 | The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a53675d | I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I fill you with Naming. Be! Be, butterfly and behemoth, be galaxy and grasshopper, star and sparrow, you matter, you are, be! Be caterpillar and comet, Be porcupine and planet, sea sand and solar system, sing with us, dance with us, rejoice with us, for the glory of creation, seagulls and seraphim angle worms and angel host, chrysanthemum.. | dance | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| ce72ef2 | My heart is heavy, she thought. It's not just a saying. It is what is--heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness. | sadness heavy-hearted emptiness | Katherine Paterson | |
| b207e28 | Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 59ff907 | All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 84f41c9 | She considers for a minute before saying, "I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that. I should have been more kind." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 99dad33 | If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8fd69a5 | about cliches. Avoid them like the plague. | writing-advice | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6073668 | The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| cb761e7 | It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c4f02e3 | Things happen to people by accident. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b1c7928 | Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. | Andrew Weil | ||
| 4747ed6 | She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. | E.M. Forster | ||
| e387478 | When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves." | lock-away | Gordon Korman | |
| 097fb5e | Vrijeme je da se penje, da se napreduje za stepenicu vise, iako ni prethodna stepenica nije jos potpuno osvojena ni utvrdena kako treba. Govoriti malo, ne govoriti zlo, glupo, povrsno ni uzaludno, ili cak ne govoriti uopste. Sve su to stepenice na putu licnog napretka i usavrsavanja koje u toku zivota, kao teren u ratu, osvajamo, gubimo i ponovo osvajamo. S godinama, tacnije receno sa staroscu, koja nastupa polako i tiho kao sumrak na zemlj.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 9e851cd | You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. | love angel damnation ecstasy | Isabel Allende | |
| 2e7fe13 | La memoria imprime en blanco y negro, los grises se pierden por el camino. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 2f5c5bb | mn lm y`n ljw` lys lh lHq fy Tlq l'Hkm | judge novel | Isabel Allende | |
| 7e0feff | It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316" | Yann Martel | ||
| d2477b7 | A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely. | life-of-pi philosophy-of-life | Yann Martel | |
| fe516e4 | Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5daf660 | If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you! | religion | Yann Martel | |
| 33f316a | Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5fa2299 | Professor," Harry gasped. "Your bird -- I couldn't do anything -- he just caught fire --" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4be5c38 | You'll write to me, won't you?" Albus asked his parents immediately, capitalizing on the momentary absence of his brother. "Every day, if you want us to," said Ginny. "Not day," said Albus quickly. "James says most people only get letters from home about once a month." "We wrote to James three times a week last year," said Ginny. "And you don't want to believe everything he tells you about Hogwarts," Harry put in. "He likes a laugh, your .. | humor ginny the-end harry | J.K. Rowling | |
| bf0eb0b | The Prime Minister gazed hopelessly at the pair of them for a moment, then the words he had fought to suppress all evening burst from him at last. "But for heaven's sake -- you're ! You can do ! Surely you can sort out -- well -- !" Scrimgeour turned slowly on the spot and exchanged an incredulous look with Fudge, who really did manage a smile this time as he said kindly, "The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.".. | scrimgeour prime-minister | J.K. Rowling | |
| 361e927 | After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1736c48 | Bubotubers," Professor Sprout told them briskly. "They need squeezing. You will collect the pus --" "The ?" said Seamus Finnigan, sounding revolted. "Pus, Finnigan, pus," said Professor Sprout." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4ef23c7 | Hagrid howled still more loudly. Harry and Hermione looked at Ron to help them. 'Er-shall I make a cup of tea?' said Ron. Harry stared at him. 'It's what my mum does whenever someone's upset,' Ron muttered, shrugging. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ff027a3 | Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b31be6d | Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, "Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless -- discuss." | homework | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6f67ed2 | Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?' 'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry. | rudeness | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3eaa473 | Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now." "Wha -- Norbert's a girl?" "Oh yeah," said Charlie. "How can you tell?" asked Hermoine. "They're a lot more vicious," said Charlie." | J.K. Rowling |