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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 89e3278 | When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you. | James Frey | ||
| 1e7d0ce | I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done." | sociability social-anxiety | Jane Austen | |
| 37e7631 | All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5037ffd | Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e78e0af | Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating. | humor p-e physical-education gym humiliation | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 5c334b2 | Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. | humor intelligence hobbes | Bill Watterson | |
| cc98a49 | Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. | Stephen King | ||
| f10ea9d | V was half way down the hall when he heard a yelp. He hightailed it back, barging through the door. "What? What's ..." "I'm going bald!" V whipped back the shower curtain and frowned. "What are you talking about? You've still got your hair..." "Not my head! My body, you idiot! I'm going bald!" Vishous glanced down. Butch's torso and legs were shedding, a rush of dark brown fuzz pooling around the drain. V started laughing. "Think of it this.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 6cb9455 | There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| e6bdb07 | Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. | philosophy | Alexandre Dumas | |
| b45a45c | If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want. | be-yourself inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living inspiring life inspirational who-you-are authentic-self authentic-living authenticity | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 6852ef9 | Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. | faith inspirational christian-behavior | Beatrix Potter | |
| 8714df7 | Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational curiosity | Roy T. Bennett | |
| b19ed6b | The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. | imagination fantasy dreams life | Ian McEwan | |
| c49585e | I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 75cae70 | Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory. | inspirational victory | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 5162df1 | Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you--even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Religions are places to stand an.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| bc4bab2 | Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 39512ec | The staircase that was revealed was lit with a soft red glow. I feel like I'm walking down into a porn movie," V muttered as they took the steps with care. Wouldn't that require more black candles for you," Zsadist cracked. At the bottom of the landing, they looked left and right down a corridor carved out of stone, seeing row after row of...black candles with ruby color flames. I take that back," Z said, eyeing the display. We start hearin.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| da3e42b | What's your favorite book? "The last one I read." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 68c712d | But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5c87271 | Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. | orson-scott-card personhood introduction | Orson Scott Card | |
| e3d843c | Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey. | soul | John O'Donohue | |
| be7230f | I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ... | Nick Hornby | ||
| 3ff5f83 | People are too complicated to have simple labels. | people | Philip Pullman | |
| e209c92 | I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it's a kind of power that snares people and reels them in. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| aae8ac2 | You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn't realize we lived in that web of magic, connected by silver filaments of chance and circumstance. But I knew it all along. When I was twelve years old, the world was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present and into the future. You probably did too; you just don't recall it.. | magic | Robert R. McCammon | |
| 7ab9e65 | Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5ae6bf8 | She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| fb24fca | It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7e991e7 | I wasn't going to kill him, you buffoon. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 87fece3 | You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn't realize we lived in that web of magic, connected by silver filaments of chance and circumstance. But I knew it all along. When I was twelve years old, the world was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present and into the future. You probably did too; you just don't recall it.. | magic | Robert R. McCammon | |
| 63687e3 | i think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'i don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, .. | David Levithan | ||
| d53adda | I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. | William Blake | ||
| f28dfee | I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, .. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 554f22c | It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8c4d4a1 | But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 455588e | Be silent and safe -- silence never betrays you | true silence poetry friends trust work motivational inspirational praise advice judgement safety | John Boyle O'Reilly | |
| 8ba10b5 | You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously. | motivational success life inspirational purpose-of-life greatness self-empowerment fearless | Steve Maraboli | |
| f9a05b5 | I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. | metaphor silence | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7150364 | We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 71ad0e3 | Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends. | madness friendship insanity | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 1ec3cb1 | But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you. | seasons september fall summer | Stephen King | |
| 0b43baa | Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire. He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it. But you do it anyway. And then... Well. Then you burn. | carry-on favorites | Rainbow Rowell |