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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c521fb6 | The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d007452 | Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f92e5e7 | I'm looking for Fat Hoochie Prom Queen," I declared. He did not respond. "It's a book," I said. "Not a person." Nope. Nothing. "At the very least, can you tell me the author?" He looked at his computer, as if it had some way to speak to me without any typing on his part. "Are you wearing headphones that I can't see?" I asked. He scratched at the inside of his elbow. "Do you know me?" I persisted. "Did I grind you to a pulp in kindergarten, .. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| dfa49f3 | No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 72cd6e0 | In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle. | Rachel Cohn & David Levithan | ||
| 0dd08b1 | Aesthetic and utilitarian considerations aside," I said, "Those mittens don't particularly make sense. Why would you want to hitchhike to the North Pole? Isn't the whole gimmick of Christmas that there's home delivery? You get up there, all you're going to find is a bunch of exhausted, grumpy elves. Assuming, of course, that you accept the mythical presence of a workshop up there, when we all know there isn't even a pole at the North Pole, .. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 1d2cdd5 | but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going. | lovesickness sad-but-true | J.R. Ward | |
| e852bb0 | Man, you cannot be real," the human said softly. "Why not?" "You just can't." She laughed a little. "Well, I am." He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin. "Mind if I ask you to prove it?" "How?" "Can I touch your hair?" | J.R. Ward | ||
| b2e5e56 | No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common." Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay." | qhuay qhuinn-and-blay qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| 3b1a6f9 | Whither thou know'est thy ass from thy elbow | J.R. Ward | ||
| 727003d | Butch put his hand on his roommate's nape and murmured, "I'll do the saving until you get your head back, how about that? I'll keep you safe." | butch-vishous black-dagger-brotherhood j-r-ward lover-revealed vishous butch | J.R. Ward | |
| 66da0aa | The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 57f6050 | We're vampires," he said. "Not fairies." "Sometimes I'm not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?" "He's nearly blind." "Which explains why he hasn't hanged himself in that pastel train wreck." "I thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?" "I free-associate." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 03e4c70 | In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 59b5f1f | They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for there are people - and this had been my case since youth - for whom all the things that have a fixed value, assessable by others, fortune, success, high positions, do not count; what they must have is phantoms. They sacrifice all the rest, devote all their efforts, make everything else subservient to the pur.. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 266a7b9 | But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 96faba2 | And it is because they contain thus within themselves the hours of the past that human bodies have the power to hurt so terribly those who love them, because they contain the memories of so many joys and desires already effaced for them, but still cruel for the lover who contemplates and prolongs in the dimension of Time the beloved body of which he is jealous, so jealous that he may even wish for its destruction. For after death Time withd.. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 750db8d | For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 46a0c72 | Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological | social | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| ae0c461 | If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 850454a | When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters--first and foremost--how they behave. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| be4025f | I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| 8178eb8 | Your hands weren't meant to take peoples lives. They were meant to save them. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 2869553 | It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now. | John Green | ||
| be3df12 | Television is a passivity. | John Green | ||
| a564872 | I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish" I explained." | john-gree hazel-grace tfios | John Green | |
| 125691c | For some reason, I wanted to tell him the truth. "Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant." "That's a pretty good life motto," he said." -- | John Green | ||
| 39a9aed | I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on. | John Green | ||
| 74cc7e9 | You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints. | page-267 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| 6cece84 | I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout out into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I'm in love with you. | love augustus cuteness | John Green | |
| 4e34985 | You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. | John Green | ||
| 56d845d | I'm full of shit. I'm never myself. I've got a Southern accent around the oldsters; I'm a nerd for graphs and deep thoughts around you; I'm Miss Bubbly Pretty Princess with Colin. I'm nothing. The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. | John Green | ||
| 0c564a0 | I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father. | John Green | ||
| caa5ae9 | Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... | John Green | ||
| 36e813b | The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her | moving-on old-friends reminisce looking-back | John Green | |
| a247f23 | The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not. | John Green | ||
| 54d414a | But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. | imagining john-green paper-towns | John Green | |
| 19bc06d | The minister said, "Let us pray," but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, "We gotta fake pray," and bowed his head." | John Green | ||
| 91f5dca | You're joining us for dinner, I hope?" asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. "I guess?" I said. "I have to be home by ten. Also I don't, um, eat meat?" "No problem. We'll vegetarianize some," she said. "Animals are just too cute?" Gus asked. "I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for," I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself." | vegetarianism | John Green | |
| 83caed7 | She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't. | John Green | ||
| 0176516 | I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.' 'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish? | John Green | ||
| e5c0882 | And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night. | John Green | ||
| 3423137 | What a slut time is. She screws everybody. a | John Green | ||
| 0005090 | Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die." | funny lawe-s-justice threat | Lora Leigh |