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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ff15da2 | Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight. | insurgent divergent veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 5cd7c45 | We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 3749201 | Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? | Tennessee Williams | ||
| 405a65c | It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. | self-discovery drugs | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 03d8448 | When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries. | soulmates | Paulo Coelho | |
| 29801d4 | His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord. | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5603566 | But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account." "Really?" "It did for me," said Harry. He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 211c9fe | When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help. | murder | Thomas Harris | |
| 5c3f03b | If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like .. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| f1db038 | I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits | living strength life experience | Anaïs Nin | |
| fc0598c | In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. | words prayer inspirational christian | John Bunyan | |
| 5259c3e | The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. | life inspirational | Albert Einstein | |
| 933c4bb | Not in this lifetime, buddy," I said finally. "Resistance is futile, Kitten." "So is your charm." "We'll see." | katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 2f95c01 | I want to marry you because I'm with you, Kat. I will be in love with you. That's not going to change today or two weeks from now. I will be just as in love with you in twenty years as I am today. | jennifer-l-armentrout lux origin | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 669f350 | By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7d0a8d4 | People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963" | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9269f30 | My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and bo.. | reading parents child children | Anne Fadiman | |
| 240749b | Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. | religious | Arthur Miller | |
| a777590 | Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, lea.. | Rick Warren | ||
| 3b4a302 | Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 1275fb0 | Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken. | pain personality treasure life love dancing neil-gaiman the-graveyard-book name pleasure | Neil Gaiman | |
| f455d72 | She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing... "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim." | funny kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 95e716b | Stupid rock gods!" Leo yelled from the helm. "That's the time I've had to replace that mast! You think they grow on trees?" Nico frowned. "Masts from trees." "That's not the point!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1c25ff6 | Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear. | reality return | Margaret Atwood | |
| ebd7b70 | It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 22becb0 | Har. Bloody. Har." He smiles. "Oh, I see. Known me less than a day and teasing me about my accent. What's next? Care to discuss the state of my hair? My height? My trousers?" Trousers. Honestly." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| dabab89 | Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it, but because I didn't say it in French. What is wrong with this school? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| fcfbe21 | There was something I needed to say. "Sorry. About before." Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He looked back out at the water. I didn't expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- "You almost gave me a heart attack," he said quietly. "When I saw you, and all that blood . . ." He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. "I'm sorry." "Don't do it again," he said. I swallowed h.. | maxride | James Patterson | |
| 051f3c4 | You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 4f64d35 | Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. | Mitch Albom | ||
| bc09302 | You can't save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don't appreciate your interfering with the drama they've created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don't want to change. | sympathy kinsey-milhone poor-baby sue-grafton drama | Sue Grafton | |
| edfe1e7 | I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3c5e1e3 | Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. | food-safety non-fiction vegetarinism | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 533fdd8 | Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used. | John Green | ||
| 4e6f81b | To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 51b897e | Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed. | piper-mclean heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 6a4b29f | Once the others were below, Hazel and Leo faced each other awkwardly. They were alone except for Coach Hedge, who was back on the quarterdeck singing the theme song. The coach had changed the words to: , and Leo really didn't want to know why. | humor pokemon heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena hazel-levesque leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 674d159 | Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. | time nature beauty science inspirational clouds grass rest idleness trees sky water summer | John Lubbock | |
| 9dbd65c | Embarrassed someone would see you and think you're capable of reading?" "I do have a reputation to maintain." "And what a lovely reputation that is." | katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| cb631cd | In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which are frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you...And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certain.. | reading | Italo Calvino | |
| cb6e37a | I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a lon.. | fear | Franz Kafka | |
| 4905964 | Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open." Have you been watching Oprah again?" | James Patterson | ||
| 33abfd1 | I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 2deeede | If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. | woman love memoirs | Arthur Golden |