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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0017096 | It was really dreadful to be so different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 69b9e44 | Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul. Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy; but a boy has his dreams as have others, and in Gilbert's future there was always a girl with big, li.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 29553f1 | These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 0e0add0 | Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind. | women | Barbara Taylor Bradford | |
| 613bec3 | As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters. | Erin Blakemore | ||
| 9cba07b | No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America. | equality america nature nature-vs-nurture | Thomas Jefferson | |
| aa9c89e | not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. | writing | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 18e2c76 | But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over. | politics thomas-jefferson government | Carl Sagan | |
| 349fa56 | This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time.. | drug-addiction addiction health drugs | Philip K. Dick | |
| 6ca4234 | What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? | humor lynne-truss sentence-structure english-language punctuation grammar | Lynne Truss | |
| 442f3bd | Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect. | sensitivity | Lynne Truss | |
| 3d9e10e | We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable. | punctuation language thinking | Lynne Truss | |
| 1954a23 | There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 54a86f8 | Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. | Nora Ephron | ||
| e54faa0 | Well well well. What makes, bratty. What gives, this fine bright middle of the nochy?" He said: "I'll give you just ten seconds to wipe that stupid grin off of your face. Then I want you to listen." "Well, what?" I said, smecking. "Are you not satisfied with beating me near to death and having me spat upon and making me confess to crimes for hours on end and then shoving me among bezoomnies and vonny perverts in that grahzny cell? Have yo.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| a6f5207 | I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 89f39b2 | You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture your features. You are Humanity and your face comes into my mind simply as man incarnate. You, our beloved fellowman, did not know who we might be, and yet you recognized us without fail. And I, in my turn, shall recognize you in the faces of all mankind. You came towards me in an aureole of charity and magnanimity be.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 482882b | Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 4c687cd | Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over ther.. | love tame | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| b2c7b21 | On one star I`ll be living. On one of of the stars I will be laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You- only you -will have stars that can laugh! | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 3fc6a5c | Don't ever touch her again," Hayden growled. Kurt looked up, eyes wide. "Are you threatening me-- over her? I'm like your brother, Hayden!" "Not anymore." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 41475ca | Nothing in this world is stronger than love. It should always be enough. No matter what. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a206c19 | Nancy was so thrilled, I thought she was going to kiss me--and I thought I was actually going to have to hit a chick. | humor | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 2d7c103 | If I continued, I would kill her. Stopping would be going against my nature. Arum were killers. And I didn't hide from what I truly was, even if I was the DOD's bitch boy. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 9848274 | Even with all the crazy stuff happening recently, beneath the sorrow and the anger, I was still a red-blooded, twenty-three-year-old woman sitting in front of a man, who may not be a hundred precent human but had to have caused a panty-dropping crisis across the universe. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8df9685 | I sensed a disturbance in the force," he said. I narrowed my eyes as I blew out an aggravated breath. "Did you seriously just quote Star Wars?" Apollo, the god of the sun and other annoyingly important things that made killing him virtually impossible unless one wanted to end the world, shrugged a shoulder. "Maybe I did." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4dc8efd | He swept me up in a kiss that was so soft, so tender, that tears filled my eyes. I didn't know I could be kissed like that. That kisses could be so heartbreakingly perfect that they could shatter you forever. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 654cf39 | I forgot about everything. Because it wasn't that important. Something else was. Living life with. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 779c235 | He gave her a slight, tight-lipped smile. The smile he typically gave people before he ate them alive. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c308da9 | Please tell me that I undressed myself last night." A half-smile formed. "Is that what you want to hear?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f66761e | I was worried that we'd broken you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| bd8e3cc | No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 0784650 | There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 1302770 | Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. | poe endormi rêve french | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 78308ab | We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire. It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow; and why? There is no answe.. | work perversity procrastination | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| f630401 | To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 0d26e3f | Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 35ea9fc | The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice | H.G. Wells | ||
| 3698285 | Then set the hounds loose, boy - it's time to kick demonic ass! | humor | Darren Shan | |
| 0405dd7 | Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot! | Rick Riordan | ||
| b628bdd | You want us to fly off to save the world on Happy The Dragon? | piper-mclean percy-jackson jason-grace leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| bbb1389 | Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie." | Rick Riordan | ||
| ab384cb | Whasthat!" "Um ... those are the toilets." | Rick Riordan | ||
| b11db01 | Of course, most mortals can't see magic clearly, so I'm not sure what they they saw as we passed overhead. No doubt it caused many of them to adjust their medication. | Rick Riordan |