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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
ff1ef50 | I think it would be easier to fight in a dress," says Marlene, tapping her chin. "It would give your legs freer movement. And who really cares if you flash people your underwear, as long as you're kicking the crap out of them?" Lynn goes silent, like she recognizes that as a spark of brilliance but can't bring herself to admit it. "What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in." | Veronica Roth | ||
b4ffcf4 | And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave? | Veronica Roth | ||
ac439de | The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her. | hafiz | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī | |
bba24e7 | there ain't no journey what don't change you some. | travel inspirational journey | David Mitchell | |
ff7f9f6 | Oh, yeah." Carissa nodded. "They were googley-eyed in class on Friday. It was pretty steamy, the whole 'I'm screwing you with my eyes' thing they had going on." I choked on my drink. "That was not what we were doing. We were talking!" -- | daemon katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
30cb629 | You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
ca5985e | I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. | love parenting | Anne Lamott | |
237385c | The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial. | Dan Brown | ||
0543522 | Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. | Jack Kerouac | ||
51c0d17 | Thirty minutes later, Rowan was still staring up at the ceiling, teeth gritted as he calmed the roaring in his veins that was steadily shredding through his self-control. That gods-damned nightgown. Shit. He was in such deep, unending shit. | celeana-sardothien rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
bf8ebb5 | No one is ever the villain of their own story. | malcom-fade emma-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
eaf683e | There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. | john-green tfios | John Green | |
709764e | Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. | inspirational | Albert Schweitzer | |
7a7c436 | To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. | writing philosophy inspirational | Aristotle | |
04f50ac | This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing. | Ian McEwan | ||
4193c97 | If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. | Sylvia Plath | ||
7bec2c7 | The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, "Love is the only rational act." | Mitch Albom | ||
1614483 | No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John | love nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
1b67f69 | There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. | suffering wisdom revelation proverb | Libba Bray | |
4703847 | It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of ever.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
1428b40 | it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there. | Charles Bukowski | ||
ae10bd4 | nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls | Charles Bukowski | ||
c11f92a | We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. | loneliness lies isolation misunderstanding | Rudyard Kipling | |
7cf83b6 | People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. | morality | Stephen King | |
619bb67 | He's my whole world." "Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
2b1f918 | Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts. | wizards | J.K. Rowling | |
31fbea2 | Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right. | action inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life truth inspirational startup act do doing start right | Roy T. Bennett | |
307e782 | Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
f2b1bc1 | What do you despise? By this are you truly known. | princess-irulan | Frank Herbert | |
9f6f9fe | May the hair on your toes never fall out! | hobbit-talk | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
f9d4269 | In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there.. | spiritual philosophy brahma ganges indra vishnu hinduism sacred reverence priest gods intellect respect | Henry David Thoreau | |
765f957 | You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but most of your friends do not see it at all, and often wonder why, liking this, you should also like that. Again, you have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been looking for all your life; and then turned to the.. | literature | C.S. Lewis | |
a9f4fa7 | But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan. | C.S. Lewis | ||
6b12ffe | It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? | philosophers perspective | Isaac Asimov | |
c6460fe | That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?" | simon-lewis sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
e69353f | I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want. | want obsession | Sara Gruen | |
8d5e261 | Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. | influence giant persona poetry colossus dishonor grave julius-caesar petty | William Shakespeare | |
459eeda | Find me now. Before someone else does. | Haruki Murakami | ||
a9f7e9b | Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after." | Roald Dahl | ||
7fd9626 | We both got our Point Zero wishes--each other. He said he wished for me every time. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
2d4de95 | I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. | men equality women superiority gender | William Golding | |
b12b72c | Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word that I wasn't previously aware of. | safety-in-numbers semantics safe wordplay word | Douglas Adams | |
bcb9464 | I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it. | William Goldman | ||
0f4864d | Can I come back and see you sometime?" "Long as you bring me some chocolate," Gramma said, and smiled. "I'm partial to chocolate." "Gramma, you're diabetic." "I'm old, girl. Gonna die of something. Might as well be chocolate." | Rachel Caine |