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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 90376fc | Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine wa.. | grief life love | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 53386c8 | Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless." | real | Veronica Roth | |
| 4eb8f14 | Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. | inspirational | Ray Bradbury | |
| 5f18217 | This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 3609d27 | A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. | James Joyce | ||
| 3ca5d95 | Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?" | James Patterson | ||
| 811401c | To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| a68f35e | His first words to me-- not a lie at all, not a threat to keep those faeries away. | rhysand feyre | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 308a4ee | I just want to not be me. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f3503a2 | I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. | Richard Bach | ||
| 92bb95e | Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie. | true-love love carlos kiara | Simone Elkeles | |
| 855d346 | Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear." | love pg-234 jem-carstairs jace-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 91b52ac | There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| caa7da8 | Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are. | true-beauty beauty inspirational acceptance | Ellen DeGeneres | |
| 11cb078 | Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth. | John Green | ||
| 4e04d0d | It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. | romance friendship | Jane Austen | |
| c45f673 | Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| cf22cfd | But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e230609 | Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6394f31 | I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 865096a | Happy endings are a luxury of fiction. | truefacts | Trudi Canavan | |
| 90fa8a0 | When my died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to .. | true-love love ann-druyan cosmos sagan carl-sagan belief atheism superstition | Ann Druyan | |
| 40110e9 | I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?" | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 4993d53 | Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 38173b3 | I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you. | antolini inspirational catcher-in-the-rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| e2cada5 | Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. | religion god inspirational | Jodi Picoult | |
| 1418a39 | If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. | solitude reality | Jodi Picoult | |
| 19d9f1d | And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 55d6976 | Not one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down's-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of ki.. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 789efdc | Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March. ......... I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world...I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of forgetfulness...Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help. I spin and weave and knit my words and visions until a life starts to take shape. There is no magic c.. | eating-disorders recovery | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 547a20c | The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing | David Levithan | ||
| 016c254 | your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 54c6843 | And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust. | romance kisten rachel-morgan vampire supernatural | Kim Harrison | |
| f985ad9 | Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe--ever expanding. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 769e625 | Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. | moving-on inspirational | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| 1165168 | History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. | history scope-of-government | Thomas Jefferson | |
| fa53be9 | You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do. | relationships | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4246831 | One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. | Harold Pinter | ||
| 5003847 | It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much. | lindsey-lee-wells john-green | John Green | |
| 824af4b | We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see th.. | pain poetry freedom fear life love lonliness | Maya Angelou | |
| c83259c | Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. | reading writing storytellers storytelling novelists writers | Lisa See | |
| 639060c | Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| e1afaba | I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. | fear life | Daniel Keyes | |
| 997197f | Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it. | trust | C.S. Lewis |