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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bf55c20 | When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e62ee1c | Art was a union of the father and mother worlds, of mind and blood. It might start in utter sensuality and lead to total abstraction; then again it might originate in pure concept and end in bleeding flesh. Any work of art that was truly sublime, not just a good juggler's trick; that was filled with the eternal secret, like the master's madonna; every obviously genuine work of art had this dangerous, smiling double face, was male-female, a .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 22661db | Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0bd8ff6 | No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through night or day, cathedral or the cave We pass forever, craving form that binds. | transience | Hermann Hesse | |
| 42cea85 | We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen. | choice ears eyes | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| e89d4c9 | To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed. | guilt | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f362f53 | We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la meme chose, plus ca change. | fiction imagination | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7b49987 | There is no kingdom like the forests. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 46b05bf | There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. | nature living | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 50f4c5c | Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible... It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 413193b | His pupils flared. "Is there a reason you do that, Princess?" "Is there any reason not to?" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 906c2df | I think you will leave a lasting imprint on Ansel's heart. You spared her life, and returned her father's sword. And maybe when she makes her next move to reclaim her title, she will remember the assassin from the North and the kindness you showed her, and try to leave fewer bodies in her wake. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 26e8e70 | Mother hold you. May you pass through the gates; may you smell that immortal land of milk and honey. Fear no evil. Feel no pain. May you enter enternity. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ffc5060 | What are you planning?" "Something very stupid, I think." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0150f36 | We'll find that place, then," he said quietly. "What?" Her brows narrowed. "I'll go with you." And though he hadn't asked, they both knew those words held a question. He tried not to think of what she'd said last night--of the shame she'd felt holding him when he was a son of Adarlan and she was a daughter of Terrasen. "What about being Captain of the Guard?" "Perhaps my duties aren't what I expected them to be." The king kept things from h.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cec196e | Where are our allies, Aelin? Where are our armies? | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 628034e | Chaol took one step toward her, though. One step, then he said, "I love you." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 35df28e | You were worth it. All these years, all the waiting. You're worth it." He'd known the moment she had looked up at him as she stood before his execution block, defiant and wicked and wild." -- | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e5d4d03 | Sam glanced at her, a hint of amusement shining in his eyes. Celaena smiled at him, and the world, for one flickering heartbeat, felt right. | love the-assassin-and-the-empire sam-cortland | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 30d2f69 | Magic makes people dangerous. | magic fantasy book-4 throne-of-glass queen-of-shadows sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| c361795 | This will be the great war of our time," Kashin said quietly. "When we are dead, when even our grandchildren's grandchildren are dead, they will still be talking about this war. They will whisper of it around fires, sing of it in the great halls. Who lived and died, who fought and who cowered." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9b95031 | Aelin did not expect them to come for her. She, who had come for them, who had found them all. She had arranged for everything to fall into place when she yielded her life. When she gave up a thousand years to save them. And Rowan knew she believed they'd make the right choice, the wise choice, and remain here. Lead their armies to victory--the armies she'd secured for them, guessing that she wouldn't be there to see it through. She did not.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0a840a6 | But I lived in that moment - my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8a5bb80 | You gave up on me," I said a bit more loudly. "You were my friend. And you picked him--picked obeying him, even when you saw what his orders and his rules did to me. Even when you saw me wasting away day by day." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1d5ad6f | I have no interest in prisioners or battling today," Manon said. The Queen of Terrasen gave her a grin. "Good." Manon turned away, barking at her Thirteen to get to their mounts. "I suppose," the queen went on, "that makes you smarter than Baba Yellowlegs." Manon stopped, staring straight ahead and seeing nothing of the grass or sky or tress. Asterin whirled. "What do you know of Baba Yellowlegs?" The queen gave a low chuckle, despite the w.. | witch-killer manon | Sarah J. Maas | |
| fb1116a | Having Aelin help him the first time had been awkward enough that he couldn't even go until she started singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs and turned on the sink faucet, all the while helping him stand over the toilet. | family two-side-of-the-same-coin the-ashryver-cousins aelin-ashryver-galathynius | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 1e8e5ea | No matter what I do, I really do love you Celaena." The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd never said that word to her before. Ever. A long silence fell between them. Arobynn's neck shifted as he swallowed. "I do the things that I do because I'm sacred ... and because I don't know how to express what I feel." He said it so quietly that she barely heard it. "I did all of those things because I was angry with you for picking Sam." Ar.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0591a87 | Nesryn supposed that was why she liked the queen: there were plans so long in the making that for someone who let the world deem her unchecked and brash, Aelin showed a great deal of restraint in keeping it all hidden. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0911d72 | But I promise," she breathed into the soil, "I promise that I will stop him. I promise that I will never forgive, never forget what they did to you. I promise that I will free Eyllwe. I promise that I will see your father's crown restored to his head." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 429346d | She was definitely more covered-up than the courtesans around him. But sometimes there was more allure in not seeing everything. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c979636 | It'd just been a relief to think that for a moment he might have been as lonely as me. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 263903e | I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust--and reach out." | strength kindess mor morrigan | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f5e7e20 | But Aelin, crowned and glowing, only said, "Walk with me." She gestured to the gates behind her. "All of you." This day did not belong to her alone. Not at all. And when they all balked, Aelin walked forward. Took Yrene Westfall by the hand to guide her to the front. Then Manon Blackbeak. Elide Lochan. Lysandra. Evangeline. Nesryn Faliq. Borte and Hasar and Ansel of Briarcliff. All the women who had fought by her side, or from afar. Who had.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 62a6f8c | You marry the person you love--and none other," he said, and she laughed. "You're mocking me! You're laughing in my face!" "You deserve to be laughed at for such foolish thoughts! I spoke from my soul; you speak only from selfishness." "You're remarkably judgmental." "What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgments?" "What's the point in having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgme.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9cd330d | I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword. | love protection | Tite Kubo | |
| 2730f9b | The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. | universe humanism justice | Roger Zelazny | |
| 71704f8 | What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. | knighthood custom | Tamora Pierce | |
| 0385c52 | Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. | truth | Tamora Pierce | |
| 59dfcf5 | So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| ecf4e54 | Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!" And I'd say, "I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you." | responsibility dog-handler scent-hound talking-to-animals trailing-a-scent partners | Tamora Pierce | |
| 411f2a0 | Funfunfunfunfun! | joy | Tamora Pierce | |
| f2c1c31 | EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, STAYS HAPPENED. "What kind of philosophy is that?" THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 060c31c | If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0d0687e | The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the .. | Terry Pratchett |