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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 82a1df5 | It's easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 867aabf | Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 686e219 | Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. | men courage women sexism | Isabel Allende | |
| 939831a | For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right. | Yann Martel | ||
| e1f8b3c | Tina: Oh, keep him? We don't keep them! Mr. Scamander, do you know about the wizarding community in America? Newt: I do know a few things, actually. I know you have rather backwards laws about relations with non-magic people. That you're not meant to befriend them, that you can't marry them, which seems mildly absurd to me. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 453b0d1 | Hay que tener un gran valor para enfrentarse a nuestros enemigos, pero se necesita aun mas valor para enfrentarse a nuestros amigos. | harry-potter spanish | J.K. Rowling | |
| c7b72da | They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a31c64f | Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven. | lord-voldemort mad-eye-moody | J.K. Rowling | |
| d1491f5 | I think I'd better do the actual stealing," Hermione continued in a matter-of-fact tone. "You two will be expelled if you get into anymore trouble, and I've got a clean record. So all of you need to do is cause enough mayhem to keep Snape busy for five minutes or so." | hermione ronweasly | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9a85e26 | Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c0ed782 | But she's ditched Dean! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 131c9e0 | I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them." "I didn't want --" "-- to worry or frighten them?" said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. "Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away." | friends | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3634be5 | It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left. . . .I've seen what you'll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . ." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0f81970 | HARRY: "Oh, Draco . . . we can't. We can't use it." Draco looks up at Harry, and for the first time -- at the bottom of this dreadful pit -- they look at each other as friends. DRACO: "We have to find them -- if it takes centuries, we must find our sons --" | harry-potter draco-malfoy harry | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3c2c4b6 | Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3df52b4 | You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| df873a5 | He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 298f52f | I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ef164fd | She couldn't read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he'd seemed to glide through the sand the first time she'd ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister's wedding. And she heard again the words she'd said to him on the day they'd said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions--desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet wha.. | novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 39f2271 | Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the treasure will be found. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 118ca6d | Valerie was crying, too. She was laughing and sniffling back sobs. "I'm going to marry my snuggy wuggums," she said. Morelli paused, his fork halfway to the roast chicken platter. He slid his eyes to me and leaned close. "If you ever call me snuggy wuggums in public I'll lock you in the cellar and chain you to the furnace." -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 055bffa | Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 84e999e | You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym." | sex humor mirror | Janet Evanovich | |
| 3e0dc9e | Does your mother know that you're carrying a gun? I'm going to tell her. I'm going to call and tell her right now." She sent me a look of utter disgust and slammed the front door. I was 30-year-old and Mrs Morelli was going to tell my mother on me. Only in the burgh." | stephanie | Janet Evanovich | |
| 7e7a513 | Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. Tha.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| fd6562b | Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3b8b7c2 | lktb@ tut`b, wlknh twsy | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 069b726 | It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. | goodness hope inspirational blessings sherlock-holmes flowers | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| f32cc6d | The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it. | method-acting role-playing disguise sherlock-holmes pretense | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| b0dbdd1 | Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 62bae86 | But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and I wouldn't have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took a part." The Giver sighed. "You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me - and you - to lift that burden from themselve.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 3b145ba | I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment. | Zadie Smith | ||
| cae9345 | That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time. | gutter | Zadie Smith | |
| d9df51a | USURY: Everybody's looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. Self-employed nirvana. A lot of artists like to think of themselves as uncompromising; a lot of management consultants won't tell you what they do until they've sunk five pints. I don't think anybody should give themselves air just because they don't have to hand over a pound of flesh every day at 5pm, and I don't think anyone should beat them.. | writing | Zadie Smith | |
| c813783 | While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became. | Zadie Smith | ||
| c351a7f | Will you punish me forever? | Libba Bray | ||
| 1b30a26 | Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses." -- | men women temptaion power | Libba Bray | |
| 0588620 | A hedgehog flies from the safety of a bush, startling me. It darts past us in a terrible hurry. Kartik nods toward the furry little thing. "Don't mind him. He's off to meet his lady friend." "How can you be sure?" "He has on his best hedgehog suit." "Ah, I should have noticed." I say, happy to be playing this game-any game-with him. I put my hand on the tree's trunk and swing myself around it slowly, letting my body feel gravity's pull. "An.. | libba bray | ||
| 46ee506 | She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight." | gemma-doyle gorgon fight | Libba Bray | |
| 21e3da9 | The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness. | Libba Bray | ||
| d90aa36 | Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High." | Libba Bray | ||
| 1414c0f | Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art. | Libba Bray | ||
| 4980f07 | That's some moon" "Stop talking about my ass, you beast." | Libba Bray | ||
| 860f421 | There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. | Ann Patchett |