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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6541052 | I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep. | ego | Simone Elkeles | |
| 81168f4 | I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 1623f1b | I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 1b37f4f | You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 78bfe19 | I want to be wherever you are. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2301513 | Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 8ecad06 | How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 6e39f3b | Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| b63a2e5 | They are but beggars that can count their worth. | wealth worth | William Shakespeare | |
| a5d4b86 | LUKE --But O, what now? What light through yonder flashing sensor breaks? | Ian Doescher | ||
| 3b681ab | Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. | death fool humor love marriage olivia twelfth-night wedding | William Shakespeare | |
| 6c04dc7 | Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 37a487c | When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element: but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. (Ophelia) | William Shakespeare | ||
| fd759f8 | Nice customs curtsy to great kings. | custom tradition | William Shakespeare | |
| 0f9a2f5 | DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d753272 | Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 48ec3b0 | Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. | mercutio pain | William Shakespeare | |
| 3008640 | Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 0176686 | O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 11d000f | When Rosencrantz asks Hamlet, "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your grief to your friends"(III, ii, 844-846), Hamlet responds, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, .. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 88b310e | Let me play the lion too: I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8aa478b | I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me. | William Shakespeare | ||
| bd87eae | Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love tha.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d33a99f | Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? | William Shakespeare | ||
| ed8d404 | Ready to go but never to return. | William Shakespeare | ||
| ff74795 | Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous | William Shakespeare | ||
| 0884161 | This too shall pass | William Shakespeare | ||
| 749036a | But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b90956e | A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! | William Shakespeare | ||
| be870f3 | Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? | honesty | William Shakespeare | |
| b0c3903 | Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. | life | Henry James | |
| aa11744 | And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 79a680b | Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experie.. | conscience culture story | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 26fe387 | Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. | death-to-life destruction redemption sanctification transformation | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| ac8dfc3 | I want my life to be a celebration of slowness. Walking through the sage from our front door, I am gradually drawn into the well-worn paths of deer. They lead me to Round Mountain and the bloodred side canyons below Castle Rock. Sometimes I see them, but often I don't. Deer are quiet creatures, who, when left to their own nature, move slowly. Their large black eyes absorb all shadows, especially the flash of predators. And their ears catch .. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 64d5bb2 | In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep." -- | flowers garden looking-glass talking wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| f9c84bf | Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 36f1bee | Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 6bfd757 | The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning poin.. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 4271d6d | women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1d24f9f | And for the first time since coming home, i'm completely happy. It's strange. Home... to be here, in my technical house, and discover now someplace different... Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?... For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9f5fc9f | I'm not even embarrassed to hug my parents in public. Except when Nathan wears a sweatband when he goes running. Because really! | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| f19d6cc | But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? I thought honesty made people strong. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| abdfd39 | Callipygian: Having shapely buttocks. | humor | Stephanie Perkins |