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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e2b5410 | There is truth in stories," said Arthur. "There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| cdba00f | Magnus took a deep breath and spoke gently. "Will. You asked me for my wisdom, as someone who has lived many lifetimes and buried many loves. I can tell you that the end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end of Jem's life is not what is important. It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him, you have never left him and never not loved him. is wh.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 478c499 | He leaned his head to me, his neck so close to my lips, I felt the heat coming off his skin. His breath was warm against my ear. His voice was a ragged snarl. "I miss you." This wasn't happening. "I worry about you." He dipped his head and looked into my eyes. "I worry something stupid will happen and I won't be there and you'll be gone. I worry we won't ever get a chance and it's driving me out of my skull." No, no, no, no......... We star.. | romantic kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3dcc72c | Sweets to the sweet. | shakespeare love | William Shakespeare | |
| 09c99c3 | To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. | inspirational | Charlie Chaplin | |
| e7dc036 | There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. | accomplishment inspirational achievement misattributed recognition modesty | Ronald Reagan | |
| b999ddf | So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 765a659 | The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. | friendship healing | James Frey | |
| ccd155a | It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others. | Julian Barnes | ||
| e553f87 | Because she is !" She screamed the last word so loudly it burned in her throat. "Because she is dead, and I am left with my life!" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 23d5f05 | I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 61a75a6 | He had heard about talking to plants in the early seventies, on Radio Four, and thought it was an excellent idea. Although talking is perhaps the wrong word for what Crowley did. What he did was put the fear of God into them. More precisely, the fear of Crowley. In addition to which, every couple of months Crowley would pick out a plant that was growing too slowly, or succumbing to leaf-wilt or browning, or just didn't look quite as good.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| dd9536a | Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, | T.S. Eliot | ||
| c6a67c3 | I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist. | lover-unbound jane vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 208ae7a | There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that's one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards. | humor life | John Green | |
| e377d26 | Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| cc1805f | The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a238d34 | You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need anymore of that sound. So if you're going to do it and can't stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can't hold it in, at least go by yourself across the forty fields and the forty dark inclines of rocks and water to the place where the falls are flinging out their white sheets like crazy, and there is a cave behind all that jubilation and water fun and.. | Mary Oliver | ||
| ef5579a | We teachers are rather good at magic, you know. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| df111fd | Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender? | ron-weasley | J. K. Rowling | |
| af27166 | Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational growth | Roy T. Bennett | |
| b23f653 | But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. | motherhood parenting | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 23c0c8b | Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself. | love | John O'Donohue | |
| 90d0709 | In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality. | reality | Haruki Murakami | |
| 656d31b | Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. | revenge love incurable retaliation wounds | Euripides | |
| 133041e | It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. | Jane Austen | ||
| fd120d6 | The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. | reality | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 9213155 | I had all the characteristics of a human being--flesh, blood, skin, hair--but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning | ellis | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| b4b7b63 | She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. | loneliness suffering comfort inspirational girls | Betty Smith | |
| de2e115 | It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 0ab6b31 | About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough--and even miraculous enough if you insist--I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in.. | existence morality faith religion god life secular-ethics supernaturalism meaning-of-life debate existentialism ethics materialism naturalism atheism respect self-respect | Christopher Hitchens | |
| f73daac | It is good to be a cynic -- it is better to be a contented cat -- and it is best not to exist at all. | suicide existence cynic | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| ccb543d | How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances." -- | algy calmness heartlessness oscar-wilde heartless muffins calm | Oscar Wilde | |
| b219f93 | One more thing." "What." "I think we're dating now." As V barked out a laugh, the cop shrugged. "Come on....I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started about the sponge bath afterward." "Fucker." "To the end." | j-r-ward vishous butch | J.R. Ward | |
| c09ca95 | The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. | underworld | Rick Riordan | |
| 2ed80ac | They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a little worried about the reindeer. "You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm ." | son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| 9626e89 | A villain is just a victim whose story hasn't been told. | inspirational | Chris Colfer | |
| 626ca58 | Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| e9d533a | Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. | time wasting-time | William Faulkner | |
| eca9bcc | Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn't dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the same to him; therefore, Max was still in it. | maxride | James Patterson | |
| 7446fcf | It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. | women | John Steinbeck | |
| 26a4687 | Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. | Mitch Albom | ||
| af381ba | I'm not married," he said softly, "because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul." | marriage | Sarah J. Maas | |
| bd073ea | When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. | C.S. Lewis |