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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b4f990e | This fall I think you're riding for--it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gav.. | depression despair inertia | J.D. Salinger | |
| 6721215 | See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! | glove hand-in-glove longing love touch | William Shakespeare | |
| 910c83d | When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. | fools newborn stage | William Shakespeare | |
| 0d27ae3 | Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b672aa7 | How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| d8a34b3 | Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. | death humor taxes truth | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 7aa66a1 | I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. | Franz Kafka | ||
| c003606 | Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you. | love relationships sex | Haruki Murakami | |
| 5ccd084 | I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows. | libraries libraries-shadows security words | Roger Zelazny | |
| f1857ec | The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. | life nature universe | Joseph Campbell | |
| 889d746 | Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a75e33c | If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go. | england | Philippa Gregory | |
| ac8ec93 | She was fire, she was darkness, she was dust and blood and shadow. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| dfeffeb | But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest. | John Steinbeck | ||
| fcf3c74 | This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life. It won't matter. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to b.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 99dfc84 | Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 1a2fbcd | Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when-- | innuendo will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7ad3ff2 | One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. | life miracles tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 105c18e | It's like when you're excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you're happy, too. | yearning | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 5873717 | Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: 1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. 2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. 3 He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. 4 He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. 5 He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 6cfe07f | Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! | dumbledore funny the-philosopher-s-stone | J.K. Rowling | |
| c3f1767 | Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam. | nico-di-angelo percy-jackson test thalia-grace titan underworld | Rick Riordan | |
| c8d0d11 | And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found. | inspirational just-one-day | Gayle Forman | |
| cef0366 | If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. | inspirational | Jim Rohn | |
| 98fc46b | Celaena was the lost Queen of Terrasen. Chaol sank to his knees. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1f39723 | I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. | mental-illness poor poverty rich | Charles Bukowski | |
| c3b761d | I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? - Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill. .. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 7e576d3 | Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f7cea6b | It's pain that changes our lives. | Steve Martin | ||
| 60e9c85 | If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. | storytelling | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 4ab8099 | Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0d49bd4 | Clary wasn't sure what she'd expected -exclamations of delight, perhaps a smattering of applause. Instead there was silence, broken only when Jace said, "Somehow, I thought it would be bigger." Clary looked at the Cup in her hand. It was the size, perhaps, of an ordinary wineglass, only much heavier. Power thrummed through it, like blood through living veins. "It's a perfectly nice size," she said indignantly. "Oh, it's big enough," he said.. | isabelle jace mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| b5e0606 | Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds. Hugo?" Luke blinked. Hodge's bird. I think it was his bird, anyway. Maybe it was Valentine's." Hugin," Luke said softly. "Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean 'Thought' and 'Memory.'" Well they should mean 'Attack' and 'Kill,'" said Clary. "Hugo almost tore my eyes out." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| e11a971 | That's not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember? "I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible." | emma-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6e4d48c | But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. | feelings | Anne Frank | |
| 1c4299e | Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming. | life | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 98a7811 | We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. | life pain renunciation | Paulo Coelho | |
| 6a68040 | To whatever end. | fae queen-of-terrasen rowaelin rowan-whitethorn to-whatever-end | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ef1173a | Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths. | David Mitchell | ||
| fb7a294 | I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation. | death dreaming insomnia life lost place sleep | Raymond Carver | |
| 825e4bf | In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5941a4a | But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c275be8 | Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. | reading writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| 0a33301 | You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. | occams-razor simplicity-imagination | Agatha Christie |