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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3bc596e | So go ahead and make your way Back from the edge of yesterday No one knows what Can't be known 'Cause when you start You're all alone But take enough steps Take enough steps Take enough steps And someday Someday you'll be home ---Heather Wells, Untitled | own-song size-12-is-not-fat | Meg Cabot | |
| e0177df | There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon. | inspirational | Jimmy Buffett | |
| ac75ed1 | When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE. | war strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| bb871bb | Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation. | war strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| 68548ef | Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3e15f8f | Form follows emotion | life inspirational | Walter Isaacson | |
| 816cc76 | He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d2780ab | I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 11804bc | How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers." | canada | Sara Gruen | |
| e8cf31a | Listen, when some asshole pulls a gun on me, he loses his right to a warm milky drink and fucking cuddles, okay? | Warren Ellis | ||
| e3489fd | For every wound, the ointment of time. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 485ed80 | one must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle --and mystery | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| dc6e08a | Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| f876272 | And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 8f4805d | Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f63f5ea | Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3f4030f | The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows. | Agatha Christie | ||
| ffeeae5 | Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 9bea21f | The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 5305c78 | The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference. | Georges Simenon | ||
| d1c8cdd | Don't be afraid," she said, coldly, " as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don't be afraid, John." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 8e4edc0 | I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually. | exhaustion powerlessness tried power | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 34e04ef | The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken. | Rob Bell | ||
| 653b7a2 | There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 530ffec | I want more of this feeling - fire and wings. | wings | Jean Rhys | |
| 6f5cbe7 | You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326) | Brandon Mull | ||
| 06eb9ce | A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. | humor manners | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| ce74eeb | We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become. | search seeker knowledge | Louis L'Amour | |
| 0ffb5f2 | I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared. | past life-experience | Anne Brontë | |
| b2ca5e4 | To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 147cda9 | No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest | the-fool robin-hobb fitz | Robin Hobb | |
| f5ae23f | The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some.. | understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul | Robin Hobb | |
| f24490f | You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will | Robin Hobb | ||
| de9ed80 | I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it! | Charles Simic | ||
| 9554f3e | I was stained by failure. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2381dfd | How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cf1b925 | We raise girls to see each other as competitors--not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing--but for the attention of men. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3c947f4 | As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod" | jeod morzan christopher-paolini eragon inheritance-cycle kill | Christopher Paolini | |
| 44fdd6b | Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 2999871 | I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery. | erotica delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| bdd4b13 | The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 38adb88 | some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 06d1b88 | Love trumps logic. And when it comes to you, love, I can be extremely irrational. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0817d5c | Or you're told that you're "in your head too much," a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there's another word for such people: thinkers." | Susan Cain |