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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4ffad9d | No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things | old-man-and-the-sea | Earnest Hemingway | |
| cfb3a99 | Man is not made for defeat. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| eaf7a3e | Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude. | intrude private souls | Mary Balogh | |
| 9bc686b | The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. | life pain | Mary Balogh | |
| 7ca9c95 | Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journe.. | moment next | Mary Balogh | |
| d12b990 | The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?...There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too--how I want to think I feel. | naivete reality | Chuck Klosterman | |
| b255d7d | He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| a9235bc | I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation. | sex | Rachel Cohn | |
| d67b2cb | I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 414b442 | A dream deferred is a dream denied. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 95cde29 | Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward | tips writing | J.R. Ward | |
| 86a93cd | I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience." "I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little." "Aren't you lucky." The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split second. Then he smiled. "No... all the rest of you are fortunate." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 392d74e | You have given me something ... I didn't even know I needed. It's the greatest gift I will ever receive--it's, like, completing me already in places I wasn't aware were empty. And yet ... in spite of all that? I don't love you one bit more. You are as important to me as you've always been." He curled down and pressed a kiss to the loose shirt she was wearing--it was one of his, actually, and wasn't that great. "I was wholly bonded to you be.. | pregnancy | J.R. Ward | |
| d9f29fe | Our boy looks impressed." "Should be," Rhage muttered as he jacked the belt on his robe. "We are awesome." Multiple groans at that point. Rolled eyes. "At least he didn't pull out the 'totes amazeballs,'" somebody muttered. "That's Lassiter," came an answer. "Man, that son of a bitch has got to stop watching Nickel-fucking-odeon." | J.R. Ward | ||
| c2ee700 | Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter anthem echoed in his head-and though he'd always like the song okay, he'd never truly understood what it meant. Kind of wished that were still the case. Life goes on...long after the thrill of living is gone... | J.R. Ward | ||
| bd76cb1 | I ejaculated about ten minutes ago and the stuff was black. So everything is not normal." Silence greeted that happy little announcement. Man, if he had hauled off and sucker-punched V, he would have gotten less of a shocked-out reaction." | friendships humor sex | J.R. Ward | |
| 89b6dd6 | Trust me, son. The pair of you are going to do this from time to time, and you might as well start to deal with it rationally now. Took me a good fifty years of making shit worse till I figured out a better way to handle arguments. Learn from my mistakes." John's head cranked over, and he started to mouth, I love her so much. I'd die if anything happened to h-- When he stopped short, Tohr took a deep breath through the pain in his chest. "I.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 2a6cbc4 | Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 584276e | I always root for the monster. | J.R. Ward | ||
| bd0ccb8 | Oddly, she felt safe... as if the patient would protect her because of the vow he'd given her, and Red Sox would do the same because of his bond with the patient. Where the hell was the logic in that, she wondered. Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK. The patient leaned down to her ear. "I can't see you as the cheerleader type. But you're right, we both would slaughter anything that so much as sta.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 032bd5c | He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage. Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden. -Wrath's thoughts | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3e06f55 | He stared right back at Blaylock and let everything he had in his heart show in his face. He just let that shit fly. Because there was a lesson in this Fade ceremony tonight: You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye - and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren't thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You thought of all the reasons that kept you together. And, no doubt, how you wished you'd.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| aa1aaa9 | In the context of the English language, there were many more important words than "in." There were fancy words, historic words, words that meant life or death. There were multi-syllabic tongue-twisters that required a sort out before speaking, and mission-critical pivotals that started wars or ended wars...and even poetic nonsensicals that were like a symphony as they left the lips. Generally speaking, "in" did not play with the big boys. I.. | blaylock | J.R. Ward | |
| af160ad | Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them. | Marcel Proust | ||
| a3deed8 | For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which--by means of a sort of snapshot--we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it. | Marcel Proust | ||
| cb94e20 | Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| fc0531f | If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? | John Green | ||
| 27db930 | It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58) | paper-towns strings | John Green | |
| bbffa21 | Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett" | poetry turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| d20ec63 | I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.... | John Green | ||
| 44c93c3 | My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along. | comedy film life movie movies romance romance-movie star | John Green | |
| 7bc758d | Life is not a wish granting factory. | John Green | ||
| cb2199c | El amanecer brilla en sus ojos, que se pierden | un-dolor-imperial | John Green | |
| 2461783 | Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then. | John Green | ||
| 1d8f684 | We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus... | John Green | ||
| f87c2fe | Pero yo creo en el amor verdadero, ?sabes? No creo que todos deben tener vista o no enfermarse de lo que sea, pero todo el mundo deberia tener su amor verdadero, y por lo menos deberia durar tanto como su vida | John Green | ||
| 64ba67c | My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster. | John Green | ||
| 6841148 | A drink this good deserves one's best posture. | John Green | ||
| db186cf | I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well--but never quite perfectly, you know? | John Green | ||
| c9afeb7 | Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked bac.. | love people unrequited-love | John Green | |
| c0630e3 | Yeah, Pudge is adorable / but you want incorrigible / so Jake is more endurable / 'cause he's so - damn. Damn. I almost had four rhymes on adorable. But all I could think of was unfloorable, which isn't even a word." - Takumi" | John Green | ||
| 20da22e | But we can't know better until knowing better is useless. | John Green | ||
| b3d0953 | Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. | John Green | ||
| 6fdb1ff | I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in, and my mom grabbed Bluie from the shelf and hugged him to her stomach, and my dad sat down in my desk chair, and without crying he said, 'You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade. You are amazing. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young r.. | love parents-and-children sickness | John Green |