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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 826fe53 | Stop it." Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake's edge. "Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If we don't stick together in the Seelie Court, we're dead." "But I haven't-," Clary started. "Maybe you haven't, but the way you let those two act..." Isabelle indicated the boys with a disdainful wave of her hand. "I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start u.. | faerie-queen feminine isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 87d7648 | she thought. ...One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong. But not today. It could not be today. | sorrow | George R.R. Martin | |
| 0208c23 | By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. | suicide optimism | Warren Ellis | |
| 3c22a09 | If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. | leadership inspirational entrepreneurship | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 25325b9 | Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance. | self | Ian McEwan | |
| 01ccc7f | As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad? | Anne Frank | ||
| 3e0844b | CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. | spanish humor school | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| c8fcf17 | Do not dare not to dare. | inspirational | C.S. Lewis | |
| f3a21d2 | After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-" "Okay, that was so not my fault-" "-which wiped out two-thirds of the human population." "I'd like to remind you that you don't like humans." "They smell bad when they're dead." "All you mortal types do." | fiction romance fallen-angel paranormal-romance vampires | J.R. Ward | |
| 20121db | I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d7565b6 | I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d8fd9a7 | Everyone enjoys being acknowledged and appreciated. Sometimes even the simplest act of gratitude can change someone's entire day. Take the time to recognize and value the people around you and appreciate those who make a difference in your lives. | gratitude inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational grateful value | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 82a5fcc | Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know. | death inspirational | Richelle Mead | |
| 5fde740 | You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind. | follow-your-heart follow-your-inner-voice follow-your-intuition gut-feeling listen-your-inner-voice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking spiritual optimism life inspirational inner-voice intuition awareness soul | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 8c09d2c | Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! | romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting | Jocelyn Soriano | |
| 52ea533 | It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. | religion truth inspirational | Jiddu Krishnamurti | |
| 693e1e9 | Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. | philosophy inspirational | Stephen King | |
| f49ede1 | I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 83fdcb4 | Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ad37329 | Some people--and I am one of them--hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 6d37151 | Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5ba1de3 | The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. | meaning friendship inspirational | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 99d416a | My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy. | reading | Markus Zusak | |
| 526b69e | While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 128e2d5 | If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter. | human peter-pettigrew rat | J.K. Rowling | |
| bece3db | Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who w | inspirational | David Mitchell | |
| c7954fe | In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! | bravery courage inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living inspiring life inspirational chances second-chance taking-chances belief chance second-chances | C. JoyBell C. | |
| ee0bffd | Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for you.. | love | Toni Morrison | |
| 5f15f19 | Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own. | life | Julian Barnes | |
| 704679a | Fair speech may hide a foul heart. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 96496ed | Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. | life | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 27626f1 | Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. | suffering life | Thomas Hardy | |
| 57f294a | How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong." | clockwork-angel | Cassandra Clare | |
| 924b0a9 | The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you, and I know he hit you- don't even try to pretend he didn't." A flicker of a smile ghosted across Jace's face. "Only on alternate Thursdays." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c900ca2 | Jesus." Blake rubbed his throat. "You have anger management problems. Its like a disease." "There's a cure and it's called kicking your ass." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5c2f7fd | If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. | understanding | Haruki Murakami | |
| 1a0311b | I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. | Truman Capote | ||
| b4000aa | The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! | loneliness kindness friends family insincerity pretense | Edith Wharton | |
| 6822fce | The so-called is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in . Less well known is the : . -- In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as l.. | reason science philosophy criminal intolerance plato tolerance force | Karl Raimund Popper | |
| 9ebd496 | What does the brain matter compared with the heart? | love | Virginia Woolf | |
| b5d0136 | Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. | generation fashion | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4f14999 | my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" | motherhood pain love facade | Charles Bukowski | |
| dd75af3 | Have you given any thought to your wedding vows?" Kai snorted. "Delete anything that has to do with love, respect, or joy, and I'll sign on the dotted line." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| f7c3beb | Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?" | irony epitaph snape | J. K. Rowling |