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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3cc070f | Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge | J.R. Ward | ||
| c400bb5 | Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. | Veronica Roth | ||
| e33711b | I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on. | sleep rain sadness | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9cfd592 | I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a9ac608 | I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. | sleep sylvia-plath soul | Sylvia Plath | |
| d7c1d2b | Education is a system of imposed ignorance. | public-education homeschooling ignorance | Noam Chomsky | |
| ab682b7 | Sleep is God. Go worship. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0f90f6b | I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. | life trials growth | Daphne Du Maurier | |
| dd4640e | The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| e62ed66 | A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 541101c | How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?" Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and .. | religion science god cosmology epistemology organized-religion | Carl Sagan | |
| c1676a3 | Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering--this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work--and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a83efa9 | If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead. | Dorothy Parker | ||
| f6c80ea | Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| b038c23 | The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came. | love inspirational dating-advice | Jonathan Antin | |
| 1e073bb | I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. | poetry rhythm | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 00845d2 | Don't ever leave me again," I said in a tiny voice. I won't," he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. "I won't. Not ever." | maxride | James Patterson | |
| 53014a0 | There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. | politics philosophy misattributed-milton-friedman misattributed-robert-a-heinlein tanstafl thermodynamics tanstaafl | Pierre Dos Utt | |
| edb36ec | She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. | love mr-darcy | Jane Austen | |
| 1bb29fa | Trust me. I'm a genius. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 268a121 | They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 9179e8b | You've got a lot of responsibility now," Jace said to Julian. "You'll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her." Julian was strangely white-faced. Maybe he was feeling the effects of the ceremony, Emma thought. It had been strong magic; she still felt it sizzling through her blood like champagne bubbles. But Jules looked as if he'd been slapped. "What about me?" Emma said, quickly. "Don't I have to make sure Jules winds .. | responsibility lady-midnight parabatai jace-herondale the-dark-artifices emma-carstairs julian-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2244055 | Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles | shatter-me young-adult hate love inspirational dystopia | Tahereh Mafi | |
| 5a3a089 | Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 8b95210 | De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in. Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked." | James Patterson | ||
| 09bb0b5 | Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. | men-and-women | Ayn Rand | |
| e330644 | I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3129a72 | Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 119c076 | I'm thinking," he said, following the flick of my tongue over my bottom lip, "that I look at you and feel like I'm dying. Like I can't breathe. I'm thinking that I want you so badly I can't concentrate half the time I'm around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 721a67c | If you worship money and things -- if they are where you tap real meaning in life -- then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already -- it's been codified as myths, proverbs, cliches, bromid.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 58d133c | I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 988cace | Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| bb2d708 | It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be. | future learning 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 happiness life inspirational live-in-the-present worry | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 33fd2a0 | Step follows step | courage-builder inspirational victory | Gail Carson Levine | |
| bcaf488 | If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. | light education inspirational teaching | Romain Rolland | |
| c2c98ed | You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. | life inspirational | Bill Ayers | |
| 7e35def | A truth should exist, it should not be used | poetry truth | Margaret Atwood | |
| 3e48aca | You fit into me like a hook into an eye | relationships | Margaret Atwood | |
| 9fdf855 | I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4e13400 | The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 8fcb6db | Fang: "There is one bright side to this." Max: "Yeah? What's that?" The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? Fang: *grins* You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much. Max: My shriek of appalled rage would probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii." | James Patterson | ||
| daa59df | You don't speak much, do you?" ter Borcht said, circling him slowly. Fittingly, Fang said nothing. Vhy do you let a girl be de leader?" ter Borcht asked, a calculating look in his eye. She's the tough one," Fang said. I thought proudly. Is dere anysing special about you?" asked ter Borcht. "Anysing vorth saving?" Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica." | James Patterson | ||
| cd8da1b | It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves. | Jane Austen | ||
| 46be5fa | There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart. | Charles Dickens |