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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1ff11b8 | Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| e98426b | The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill." | equality feminism beauty body-image sexual-violence cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| e8d244d | Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all. | religious | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 5b1149a | One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice from being killed. "Is this true, daughter?" Thomas Bowman had rumbled, his gaze filled with ire as he stared at Daisy. "It could be," she had allowed. "But there is another explanation." "And what is that?" Bowman had asked sourly. Her tone turned congratulatory. "I think we are hosting the most inte.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| a69633f | I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes." | men | Lisa Kleypas | |
| a8adcaf | I want to give you whatever elusive, impossible, goddamned mysterious thing it is you need in order to be happy. Does that frighten you? Well, it frightens the hell out of me. Don't you think I'd stop feeling this way if I could? It's not as if you're the easiest woman in the world to--" He checked himself suddenly." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| eca3db8 | I know when something is too important to be decided by logic. | romance love logic | Lisa Kleypas | |
| f86e2af | But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 62ddcff | I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you down with me." My hand crept up to caress the rigid line of his jaw. "Why'd you change your mind?" I whispered. "After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured . . . I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| b6978a8 | I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1bbd3dd | The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b1dce83 | He wondered how the Attolians thought Eugenides had managed to become king if he was the idiot they assumed him to be. Perhaps because they had never seen him as the Thief, with his head thrown back and a glint in his eye that made the hair on the back of a man's neck rise up. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 1f94e51 | Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn't touch them, not really. They're having an adventure. It's like: What's next? And then there's other people who are just trying to live quietly, they stay out of trouble, they're maybe ten year.. | life | Michel Faber | |
| 4361e88 | History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women. | Michel Faber | ||
| 0d73daf | Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear. | kushiel-s-dart | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 5d637c0 | Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing | hollow | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 31aabb3 | I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 5045b9d | The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 57c6d94 | The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them , for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 25b422c | Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e16560c | Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 0c2c8ed | Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 5bdc569 | How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? " -- | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 53ca47e | Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures. | Irving Stone | ||
| e98bd59 | We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. | symbols | Gene Wolfe | |
| 3a3a9ee | Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8ac0a9a | If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious | smart-as-hell tyrion | George R.R. Martin | |
| 377485b | Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ca4e8c0 | He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is. | restlessness | Edward St. Aubyn | |
| 4bd6626 | I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to my parents. I treat my girl right... take her out and buy her stuff. And I go to church every Sunday, But I've decided that just once I wanna do a really bad thing. I mean a really seriously bad thing. 'cause, ya know, like, we're put on this earth with free will. We can choose to do this or that. We can choose to be good or bad. But sometimes.. | good morality | Alan Moore | |
| f838581 | Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names? | Julian Barnes | ||
| 265e918 | Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity. | Julian Barnes | ||
| b83a20a | The history of the world? Just voices echoing in the dark; images that burn for a few centuries and then fade; stories, old stories that sometimes seem to overlap; strange links, impertinent connections. We lie here in our hospital bed of the present (what nice clean sheets we get nowadays) with a bubble of daily news drip-fed into our arm. We think we know who we are, though we don't quite know why we're here, or how long we shall be force.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| f45ebb5 | You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... | Julian Barnes | ||
| a3da5c8 | This is what those who haven't crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn't mean that they do not exist. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9669ce1 | The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. | kiss salt tears | George R.R. Martin | |
| f93db2b | It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? | prayer death love crown | George R.R. Martin | |
| 661aa52 | Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 429d5fd | One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9f64337 | If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love's not always wise, I've learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don't we, Mother? | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c85de33 | It was justice," Stannis said. "A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. You were a hero and a smuggler." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d4b4618 | Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie. Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all. Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fal.. | littlefinger varys game-of-thrones chaos | George R.R. Martin | |
| b52b68a | These Kingsguard knights are as useless as nipples on a breastplate. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 827a1d0 | For just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king. | tyrion-lannister a-song-of-ice-and-fire king | George R.R. Martin |