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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 34ded0f | Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 84bbc57 | Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house. | insult | William Shakespeare | |
| 62bd6d7 | Love is holy. | shakespeare love quotes-to-live-by quotes | William Shakespeare | |
| e59b339 | My drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7412cb5 | Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts? | William Shakespeare | ||
| 49967d1 | Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time. | time nights passage-of-time | William Shakespeare | |
| 6678954 | BEATRICE Is he not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5fe54b2 | The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d4d29cf | I have supped full with horrors. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4a3f558 | She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. | fiction truth knowledge | Henry James | |
| 047a494 | He hated it as if he were about to love it--unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 281996a | A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage. | spirit self shadow | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| bfaba64 | I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. | self-knowledge | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 992e377 | If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk. | risk stand-back-up waves run survive survival running ocean | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 8fc1f3e | You couldn't have it if you DID want it. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| ca689ba | Well, it's no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real. I am real! said Alice, and began to cry. You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying, Tweedledee remarked: there's nothing to cry about. If I wasn't real, Alice said- half laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous- I shouldn't be able to cry. I hope you don't think those are .. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3e65c75 | What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands. | trying funny meaning jokes | Lewis Carroll | |
| 80c0a02 | Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 51b1ed5 | Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 9d96c3a | Josh is a romantic. He likes being in love, and he craves love to fill the void left by his absentee parents. Maybe our relationship didn't happen quickly because we're perfect for each other, but because we each got swept away by it - him because of this insatiable need, me because of my pre-existing crush. Did those three years of longing cloud my perception of reality? How well do I really know him? Since I've last seen him in person, I'.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| f701fe3 | Why doesn't he have the same effect on them that he has on me? Don't they see him? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| dd1b580 | It doesn't matter. I'm with you. I'm happy to be anywhere with you. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| cec95ac | How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 214b983 | Suddenly I register that St. Clair is shorter than Josh. Much shorter. It's odd I didn't notice earlier, but he doesn't carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly and-- | short self-confidence | Stephanie Perkins | |
| f41fcfd | But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else. | relationships love stephanie-perkins lola-and-the-boy-next-door | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 808c3bb | He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet."You looove me," he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,"You love me this much." | James Patterson | ||
| 419bda8 | and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it? | James Patterson | ||
| dd7298b | you'll see, jane,' he promised her. 'you'll forget me, and it won't hurt tomorrow. besides, you said it yourself: love means you can never be apart. so we'll never be apart, jane, because i love you so much. i'll always, always love you. | James Patterson | ||
| 3dc1262 | If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. | James Patterson | ||
| c4e9df5 | Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head."-max" | James Patterson | ||
| 085bbfe | Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 1ff7ef8 | I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction | poetry | Maya Angelou (Author) | |
| e2f1990 | Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N." | inspirational our-shared-shelf | Maya Angelou | |
| 2a07ad3 | Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity. | identity fantasy | Garth Nix | |
| fc322b5 | I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel" | Garth Nix | ||
| 4c3c58a | Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 0592ebe | I have learned,' said Lymond, 'that kindness without love is no kindness. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| d80594b | The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes." | Charles de Lint | ||
| 2a30f90 | Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes. | Charles De Lint | ||
| aec9193 | When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to.. | geology | John McPhee | |
| ac8f4de | Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime. Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 6c08b20 | I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I've always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I've always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it's so like me. | sadness | Marguerite Duras | |
| 058bc74 | In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 3f9f30b | There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver" | Robert Louis Stevenson |