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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 964e194 | Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?" "I do indeed, sir." "Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be .. | pain relationship sickness | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 0771f6e | You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl. | Markus Zusak | ||
| b855ca0 | You'll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| aefcc18 | It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one." | city-of-bones clary-fray isabelle-lightwood jace mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3c1687c | I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'. | purpose-of-art rock rock-n-roll the-beatles | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| 4503666 | Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" | love promises the-fault-in-our-stars truth | John Green | |
| 0f70aea | Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots. | John Green | ||
| d8df4fd | It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really. | humor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 9f73c5c | Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are. | inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking who-you-are | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 48d3036 | You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8db1a21 | There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8cd55f7 | At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. | dexterity men poise superiority women | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 0395885 | It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing. | chaol sardothien westfall | Sarah J. Maas | |
| dba21b9 | Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying." | howl-pendragon humor insuferable lazy sophie-hatter | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| da39bee | What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. | friends friendship life proust-questionnaire rushdie | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 16215d3 | There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?" | David Foster Wallace | ||
| c3058a7 | That's because we keep in the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1ad0e48 | Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 2801a41 | Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. | James Patterson | ||
| f06ae0e | Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - | Emily Dickinson | ||
| b530dba | But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let's say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards--and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perha.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c2f1f94 | I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c35d30d | You have to promise you won't fall in love with me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c5ff541 | What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. | fantasy sarah-j-maas trilogy | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 00d233b | Demon pox, oh, demon pox, Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh, demon pox I had it all along-- No, not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song-- For I was right, and you were wrong! | will | Cassandra Clare | |
| c3b8945 | She pulled away. "That doesn't make any sense." "Neither does this," he said, "but I don't care. I'm sick of trying to pretend I can live without you. Don't you understand that? Can't you see it's killing me?" | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| d28e665 | Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend." | James Patterson | ||
| 70634fc | Daemon pressed his forehead against mine. "Oh, I still want to strangle you. But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why. We just make crazy together." | funny romantic | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 443503f | I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how .. | love marriage | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 3337556 | Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend." -- | James Patterson | ||
| 1ea6735 | Faith -- acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. | Dan Brown | ||
| 6fa4386 | We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged .. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c78a487 | What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? | death fellowship love marriage memory relationship sadness sorrow | George Eliot | |
| 381a0ef | I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that | tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0cbdf87 | Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more horrifying__Isabelle's date with Simon. "I can't believe he took you to an actual restaurant." Jace was on his feet now, putting away the floor mats and training gear while Isabelle leaned against the wall and played with her new gloves. "I assumed his idea of a date would be making you watch him play World of Warc.. | clary-fray jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| f4fd986 | Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. | readers readers-and-writers reading reading-books reasons-for-reading inspirational | Alberto Manguel | |
| 9814f1f | It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you | Bob Marley | ||
| 084df20 | People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop. | action change determination empowerment inspirational life motivational success | Steve Maraboli | |
| 07057e7 | Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grow | dignity discipline inspirational self-respect | Abraham Joshua Heschel | |
| 166bc74 | They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!" | erasers flying maximum-ride wings | James Patterson | |
| 5bb055c | You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated | Ayn Rand | ||
| 30cedb2 | Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. | lies truth | Khaled Hosseini | |
| ca74dcb | Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them. | india mumbai | Gregory David Roberts | |
| bd604e0 | Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time." | hurt life love woman | Mario Puzo |