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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f808ff9 | What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together. | inspirational | Beth Revis | |
| ed5cf4a | You want to just dump me in space?" My voice is low, but not for long. "It's not like I've done anything wrong! I didn't wake myself up, you know!" Eldest shrugs. "It would be by far the simplest solution. You are, after all, nonessential." "We can't do that," the doctor says, and I totally forgive him for being creepy and threatening me with drugs." | Beth Revis | ||
| af9f29f | Wannagogardenwime?" I ask all in one breath. My eyes grow wide. What came over me? Why would I blurt that out like that? ~Elder" | Beth Revis | ||
| 8717d07 | I can get closer. | Beth Revis | ||
| c4567a4 | I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger." "You can be terribly offensive sometimes, do you know that?" "Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do." | David Eddings | ||
| c2c30b5 | Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king. | fate merlin | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 548f705 | Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e2c2c7a | In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege? | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| f1daa5c | There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means "to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over the body to conceal it" | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| d9d5414 | He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand." | life fast nonconformity | Hilary McKay | |
| 707a0c9 | She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see. | soul | Myla Goldberg | |
| 31e5319 | This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing at all besides other wars - the last or the next." -- | war spy | John le Carré | |
| 06973c1 | He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ff66f6a | The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 7b23617 | She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c4efcec | I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of their lives have done to them. If they're anything like me, their moments have held them up and shot them down. Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. That's when the s.. | wonder fighters written underdogs real-world streets hunger desire stories | Markus Zusak | |
| ddb7c90 | Rudy handed it back. "Speaking of which, I think we're both slightly in for it when we get home. You especially." "Why me?" "You know- your mama." "What about her?" Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty." | Markus Zusak | ||
| acea77e | She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0584ec5 | The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go to a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness! | women | Gustave Flaubert | |
| d3ac49e | He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust. | George Eliot | ||
| a6d10e7 | A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. | George Eliot | ||
| dba6a7d | Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! | religion | Virginia Woolf | |
| a9929dd | I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances an.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4e446d9 | Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among the breadcrumbs and the stained napkins again. That knife is already congealing with grease. Disorder, sordidity and corruption surrounds us. We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds. It is with these greasy crumbs, slobbering over napkins, and little corpses that we have to build. Always it begins .. | virginia-woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| d153ca5 | Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| c12d7f6 | We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. | silence death life thought | Virginia Woolf | |
| 07490d7 | Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?" | truth semblance | Virginia Woolf | |
| 9771f6c | Would there be trees if we didn't see them? | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0a45e73 | One must love everything. | love | Virginia Woolf | |
| 5538350 | When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 19ca7b0 | Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 6a096df | There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 87b8f26 | Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 477d410 | So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. | seamus heaney | ||
| ae9975a | What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. | parenting-tip parenting-advice parenting | Joseph Chilton Pearce | |
| 7c01968 | I'm waiting for her to say "Craig, what you need to do is X" and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I had incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I want t.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 05376b7 | What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dd17114 | the only thing you need to | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7e6b675 | There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as the great 21st century European metropolis. Will it be London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally. But Rome, it should be said, has not bothered to join the race for status. Rome doesn't compe.. | life old rome | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 2b25351 | Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents (eating the couch, digging a hole through the living room floor, biting the mailman, etc.). It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I a.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 735dea3 | We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. | inspirational creativity | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e003276 | What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4795c77 | Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 5c0b2ea | Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. | men weakness | Simone de Beauvoir |