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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 282fdd6 | When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow. | poetry swoon | Penny Reid | |
| 2e6def4 | Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. | love inspirational janie sweet | Penny Reid | |
| 85e8c04 | Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business. | leadership | John C. Maxwell | |
| 25fe2ce | The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others - not yourself - first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better? | leadership self-discipline | John C. Maxwell | |
| 31d92a1 | The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. | contemplation thinking | John C. Maxwell | |
| 5dcf22a | wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate | e e cummings | ||
| 36361c6 | Nu crezi dumneata in iubire? Nu te atrage iubirea?... - Ba da, ma atrage... Poate ca e singurul rost al unei vieti marginite, comune, cum e viata noastra. Si-mi place... dar stiu ca nu dureaza... ca nu corespunde unei realitati... Imi place mult sa privesc o noapte cu luna... si uneori stau vreme indelungata la fereastra mea, privind, dar stiu bine ca luna e altceva decat ceea ce pare... Nu intind mana s-o prind... E mult si ceea ce da, far.. | Camil Petrescu | ||
| 949479e | Ma leg pe tine, pamantule, ca eu voi fi a lui Allan, si a nimanui altuia. Voi creste din el ca iarba din tine. Si cum astepti tu ploaia, asa ii voi astepta eu venirea, si cum iti sunt tie razele, asa va fi trupul lui mie. Ma leg in fata ta ca unirea noastra va rodi, caci mi-e drag cu voia mea, si tot raul, daca va fi, sa nu cada asupra lui, ci asupra-mi, caci eu l-am ales. Tu ma auzi, mama pamant, tu nu ma minti, maica mea. Daca ma simti ap.. | Mircea Eliade | ||
| 7237662 | Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height." | profound thought-provoking | Umberto Eco | |
| d478cb5 | All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. Certainly that was my conviction back in the summer of 1968. Tim O'Brien: a secret hero. The Lone Ranger. If the stakes ever became high enough--if the evil were evil enough, if the good were good enough--I would simply tap a secret reservoir of courage that had.. | cowardice | Tim O'Brien | |
| f61b067 | We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors. | Miranda July | ||
| 30bfcbe | Colin : "Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women." Sugar Beth : "Well, that sure does leave me out." Colin : "Exactly. With agreeable women, I'm unendingly considerate. Gallant even." Sugar Beth : "But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?" Colin : "I wouldn't exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded." She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap." | susan-elizabeth-phillips | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | |
| 6cf2f76 | The Drake farmhouse was like the chimpanzee enclosure at the zoo when feeding time was late. You know, if all the chimpanzees were undead. And insane. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| ef3cc6b | He kissed me as if we had all the time in the world, as if it weren't cold outside, as if winter weren't coming, or the dawn, or any of the dangers that waited for us outside this field. I kissed him back as if he were right, as if there were only the two of us, as if the only worry we had were my curfew. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| cb4c024 | With her long dark hair and green eyes, she was pretty as a doll. You know, the kind of doll that came to life at night to kill monsters. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 534ddf5 | My brothers are idiots. Anyone can see that under the scars and the attitude, Isabeau is more fragile than she looks. And as a reclusive Hound princess, her first introduction to the royal family shouldn't be a dose of Hypnos and four idiots gawking at her. If I'd managed not to gawk, they sure as hell could have. She was beautiful, fierce, and utterly unlike anyone I'd ever known. It was really hard not to gawk. Much better to pace outside.. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 92f7996 | There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. | books death ways-to-die hiroshima wwii japan world-war-ii | John Hersey | |
| 9bb36f4 | The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other. | people behavior | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 03e83ec | The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try | fantasy wisdom arthurian-saga the-last-enchantment mary-stewart merlin | Mary Stewart | |
| 538a03c | Is it crazy right now to say I love you?" She didn't even pause. "Given that I just stabbed you? Seems a little weird, yeah." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 0d8f57f | You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer? | Rachel Caine | ||
| 5a3bd2c | You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter." | funny shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 9f100fe | The ringtone was a dead giveaway, emphasis on dead . . . creepy organ music. She didn't even have to glance at the image of fanged bunny slippers on the screen to know who was calling. She just sighed, thumbed it on, and held it to her ear. "Claire! I need you here immediately. Something's wrong with Bob." Myrnin, her mad-scientist, blood-addicted boss, sounded actually shaken. "I can't get him to eat his insects, and I used his favorites. .. | Rachel Caine-Last Breath | ||
| 9c2399f | What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him. | domestic-violence stalkers claire-danvers morganville-vampires stalker stalking | Rachel Caine | |
| 4a546b4 | Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end. | war life caine morganville morganville-vampires fighting peace vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 5e8d200 | Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive. | goodbyes morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| a74cfff | Mirnin: Where's Shreve? | mirnin eve-rosser morganville-vampires rachel-caine | Rachel Caine | |
| 6326768 | If he had any kind of a clue, he wouldn't be caught dead with that stuff. See what I did there? I crack myself up." Eve sipped more coffee she probably, at this point, didn't need." -- | eve-rosser morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 44a864f | Keys," she repeated, and slowly stepped back. "What do you mean, keys?" "Car keys. As in, give them up. Now." Shane had that look -- hard, and no bullshit. "We don't have time for your drama, Monica. Nobody does." | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 9749326 | From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: "What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her." Myrnin. "Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 43f128b | Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| fa695da | The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| c17ccdd | But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn't dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I'd managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I'd been in years. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 0f5ad38 | For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy. What could be expected of us now that we were stowed away in a loony bin? | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 9ca8c97 | As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too. | writing | Cornelia Funke | |
| 8ed6c1b | You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 382b1dd | luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose, the reason why luxury cruises and great hotels are full of fatheads who, when they express an opinion, seem as though they are from another planet. It was also my experience that one of the worst aspects of travelling with wealthy pe.. | wanderlust | Paul Theroux | |
| 764b48a | What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know? | William Saroyan | ||
| 4cbc7ed | We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| cf5bc84 | Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| e3579b9 | Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f09e30c | And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain's million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twi.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 1635912 | and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| a0744b7 | Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now. | enlightenment heaven kindness meaning living-outside-yourself fulfillment salvation purpose | Jack Kerouac |