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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | courtship dignity empowerment happiness husbands independence love marriage marriage-proposal matrimony pleasure self-determination wooing | 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.. | femme-fatale heavy-metal jack-goldenberg | Henry Rollins | |
| e5e1bea | A good river is nature's life work in song. | river song | 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. | cat cheshire-cat direction 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.. | best-friends brb-dying confusion feelings friendship funny holding-hands jealousy kiss lol love night otp pain pals weird wings | 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. | disagree disagreements opinions reading | 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, | duality philosophy | Brian Herbert | |
| e6ca1e2 | I can't really remember the days. The light of the sun blurred and annihilated all color. But the nights, I remember them. The blue was more distant than the sky, beyond all depths, covering the bounds of the world. The sky, for me, was the stretch of pure brilliance crossing the blue, that cold coalescence beyond all color. Sometimes, it was in Vinh Long, when my mother was sad she'd order the gig and we'd drive out into the country to see.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| b41a1cc | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw" | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 1aed6dd | You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and somethin.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| eca70be | Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you're doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out? You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone fo.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| b91e863 | Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. | labels milkweed name self | Jerry Spinelli | |
| aa36152 | I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859 | way-to-be | Deborah Heiligman |