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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7656794 | Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 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. | simplicity-imagination occams-razor | Agatha Christie | |
| ee2819e | I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing--when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 7a37d47 | You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. | wealth positive-thinking motivational mind-power new-thought worthy self-help | Stephen Richards | |
| ea30b24 | Oh, I think not," Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. "Power is a curious thing, my lord. Perchance you have considered the riddle I posed you that day in the inn?" "It has crossed my mind a time or two," Tyrion admitted. "The king, the priest, the rich man--who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword." "And yet he is no one,.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ca7830a | Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3786dad | You're that lady," Leo said. "The one who was named after Caribbean music." Her eyes glinted murderously. "Caribbean music." "Yeah. Reggae?" Leo shook his head. "Merengue? Hold on, I'll get it." He snapped his fingers. "Calypso!" | caribbean leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 5481bed | I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste. "As much as I dislike certain upstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on - it is that you were a TERRIBLE father." | olympus siblings terrible-father kronos nico-diangelo | Rick Riordan | |
| b415d9f | To care about your outward appearance is important, but what's more important is to have a beautiful soul. | spirit inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism heart life inspirational soul | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 940948b | I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. , , , , are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God. [ ] | baron-d-holbach condorcet d-alembert jean-le-rond-d-alembert marquis-de-condorcet platonic-christianity d-holbach denis-diderot diderot paul-henri-d-holbach protestant platonic deism | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 8a2b89e | Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too. | romance love | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 6d6ec9b | I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day. | individuality self-expression | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 453b5f8 | Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. | inspirational | Jon Krakauer | |
| 3942335 | Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 28e22ab | A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. | writing beginning end creative-process storytelling | Graham Greene | |
| 35efd73 | Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way. | sexual thought | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| b646829 | Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent | Robert Greene | ||
| c71fea3 | He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. "You're the shape-changer, aren't you?" he said. "Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say." Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. "No. No mark." He grinned around his fork. "I do suppose they've looked everywhere?" "I'm sure Will's tried," said Jessamine in a bored tone." | tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 98d7734 | Your boyfriend's crazy," he said to Clary. "Yeah, but he's hot," said Clary. "So there's that." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 734853d | Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Als.. | disney-world hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| fd515ac | People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. | ideals | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 021c697 | What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! | love bill-weasley fleur-delacour | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5c41aae | Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time. | time inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 9ade0a1 | Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. | attributed present unsourced life inspirational | Thich Nhat Hanh | |
| e3851cb | If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it. | religion god | Haruki Murakami | |
| 93c7949 | Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. | life | Haruki Murakami | |
| a9c5458 | What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? From " Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", 1962" | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f2dadf1 | So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. | steadfastness gandalf truths | J.R.R Tolkien | |
| 24123db | He: What's the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her." | depression | Jeanette Winterson | |
| cc0a005 | Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy. | life | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 77b803a | He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. | suffering paradox suffer | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 913f488 | You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way." | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3f737a6 | May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift." | god peace | Veronica Roth | |
| 2cdd40b | I've met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day. | humor embarrassment kronos | Rick Riordan | |
| 3e50f9d | Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. | funny humor inspirational | Thomas Bernhard | |
| db30731 | Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n. | rebellion inspirational revolt satan lucifer | John Milton | |
| 938c80a | Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. | inspirational psychology | Viktor E. Frankl | |
| 51821c0 | The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 75b8349 | People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. | memories | Haruki Murakami | |
| d16fc18 | I moan with pleasure. "Did you just have a foodgasm?" he asks, wiping ricotta from his lips. "Where have you been all my life?" I ask the beautiful panini." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| de2807c | Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c2d713b | your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 95edddc | But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I? | Leo Tolstoy |