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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fbe3aa4 | The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them. "Wangoballwime?" "Sorry?" said Cho. "D'you -- d'you want to go to the ball with me?" said Harry. Why did he have to go red now? " | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5c5839a | Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him. | harry-potter hp | J.K. Rowling | |
| 358112a | Yo nunca fui prefecta -comento alegremente Tonks- El jefe de mi casa decia que me faltaban ciertas cualidades indispensables. -?Como cuales? -pregunto Ginny. -Como la capacidad de portarme bien. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8fcb26c | And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 17ce1d5 | Fred and George exchanged looks. "You don't mind if we don't kiss you, do you, Ron?" said Fred in a falsely anxious voice. "We could curtsy, if you like," said George. "Oh, shut up," said Ron, scowling at them." | funny harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 16f5ec8 | Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8793a14 | They could hear people complaining; one surly voice said, "I can't see no gas..." "That's because it's colorless," said Ginny in a convincingly exasperated voice, "but if you want to walk through it, carry on, then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who didn't believe us..." | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6384e41 | A good first impression can work wonders | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 28c62ed | Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us, as inevitable as the fact that we all write poetry and the fact that every single one of us thinks that he knows everything that there is to know. We are all hospitable to strangers, we all are nostalgic for something, our mothers all treat their grown sons like babies, our sons all treat their mothers a sacred and bea.. | greeks | Louis de Bernières | |
| 9ed0312 | And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end | math | Mark Haddon | |
| 993aab2 | Mrs. Forbes said that hating yellow and borwn is just being silly. And Siobhan said that she shouldn't say things like that and everyone has favorite colors. And Siobhan was right. But Mrs. Forbes was a bit right, too. Because it is sort of being silly. But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it i.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| bce3fbf | Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 6ee8741 | When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6e7358c | Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d4608ac | It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2ca5a2c | One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9776a14 | Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| dc65d9f | I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again." | love romance | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 07a8e89 | That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3415334 | the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 0b1ab2c | Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.' Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without .. | maturation society | Lois Lowry | |
| 3962bbf | The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. | world-war-2 | Lois Lowry | |
| cba0a45 | Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie" | ranger stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| f0df9ae | We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli | hard joe morelli | Janet Evanovich | |
| 320c19e | I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9858891 | I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. "Killing is wrong." "We kill chickens," Mr. Wexler said. "We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers." It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| cff277b | I buy wine according to the bottle design. After I get down the first glass it all tastes okay to me so I figure you go for something classy to look at on the table | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 29a3512 | A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a2c0572 | lmdh yktb lmr n lm ykn mn 'jl 'n yjm` lqT` m` b`Dh b`Dan? | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 13b4161 | Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| da16970 | One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in r.. | empowerment social-entrepreneurship | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| 3beebe7 | He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away. | Zadie Smith | ||
| b2384e8 | We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. | white-teeth | Zadie Smith | |
| eacedf5 | Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity. | Zadie Smith | ||
| aeca267 | We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side. | Libba Bray | ||
| d16868b | Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia, | Libba Bray | ||
| df5fb38 | Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real shy, won't cop a feel, / 'cause I'm your virgin crush, your supersafe deal. / Let those other guys keep sexing. / You and me, we be texting / 'bout unicorns and rainbows and our perfect love. / Girl, we fit together like a hand in a glove. / Now I don't mean that nasty, tell your mum don't get mad. / I even wrote 'You're awesome' on .. | Libba Bray | ||
| ad33fc1 | Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion. | women | Libba Bray | |
| 025d2c2 | It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle. | Libba Bray | ||
| e3419ea | She wants me to take what magic I have left and blot every memory of this evening from their minds. To make them forget so that they can carry on as before. There will always be Cecilys, Marthas, and Elizabeths of the world - those who cannot bear the burden of truth. They will drink their tea. Weigh their words. Wear hats against the sun. Squeeze their minds into corsets, lest some errant thought should escape and ruin the smooth illusion .. | Libba Bray | ||
| c43e7bb | Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am?" What do you mean?" I mean would you still care for me, no matter what you came to know?" What a thing to ponder. I don't know what to say." The answer is no. He does not need to say it. With a sigh, Simon digs at the fire with the iron poker. Bits of the charred log fall away, revealing the angry insides. they flare orange for a moment, then quiet down again. A.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 13bb750 | His hand was a claw, sharp enough to open her. She would be like all the others--Ruta Badowski, in her broken dancing shoes. Tommy Duffy, still with the dirt of his last baseball game under his nails. Gabriel Johnson, taken on the best day of his life. Or even Mary White, holding out for a future that never arrived. She'd be like all those beautiful, shining boys marching off to war, rifles at their hips and promises on their lips to their .. | Libba Bray | ||
| 398f55e | Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested. | Libba Bray | ||
| 46fc6bf | No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth. | Ann Patchett |