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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2256950 | The realization is surprising, but the one that follows stuns me even more. I'm not in love with him anymore. Instead, looking at him makes me feel...hollow. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 924aa63 | I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you." | honesty i-love-you kissing lola-and-the-boy-next-door lola-nolan love romance whispering | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 6baa4eb | Anna Oliphant Etienne St. Clair Uncommon Prostitues I have nothing to say about prostitues (other than you'd make a terrible prostitute,the profession is much too unclean), I only wanted to type that. Isn't it odd we both have to spend Christmas with our fathers? Speaking of unpleasant matters,have you spoken with Bridge yet? I'm taking the bus to the hospital now.I expect a full breakdown of your Christmas dinner when I return. So far .. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1beb2e6 | Finally, thank you to Jarrod Perkins. I'm crying now just because I typed your name. I love you more than anyone. Ever. Times a hundred million billion. Etienne, Cricket, and Josh--they were all you, but none of them came even close to you. You are my best friend. You are my true love. You are my happily ever after. (author's acknowledgments) | dedication love | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 8a5cbed | For half a century now, a new consciousness has been entering the human world, a new awareness that can only be called transcendent, spiritual. If you find yourself reading this book, then perhaps you already sense what is happening, already feel it inside. It begins with a heightened perception of the way our lives move forward. We notice those chance events that occur at just the right moment, and bring forth just the right individuals, t.. | James Redfield | ||
| 1fe6199 | That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge! | James Patterson | ||
| 8becc4c | His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings." "Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!" "Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly. Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ... | James Patterson | ||
| 9d1b0f7 | Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to | life | James Patterson | |
| df4fb77 | My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right? | James Patterson | ||
| aac3378 | I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all." | James Patterson | ||
| d70465b | I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would... WHAT? | James Patterson | ||
| 6345c8b | Fang! Angel?" i yelled, not even trying for stealth. i was storming the castle, not stealing the jewels." | James Patterson | ||
| 478ec6f | I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with." "So of course you immediately came down." | James Patterson | ||
| a068690 | I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.' "I don't want anything to happen to you," he said urgently. "What you want does not matter here," I said slowly and carefully. I hoped Dylan was sensitive enough to read between the lines, to the subtext of: Let go of me or I'll kill you." | James Patterson | ||
| a70810c | Save your world. Love it,protect it, respect it, and don't let the haters represent it. | maximum-ride never-more | James Patterson | |
| 9aaf121 | All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others. | James Patterson | ||
| 1366f2e | Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much--too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream... | feelings happiness happy ice-cream ice-cream-is-love love | James Patterson | |
| 72554f6 | All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake | beverly cleary | ||
| 1d103b9 | It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.. | quirks-of-life | Jeffrey Archer | |
| b396f15 | The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle | only-time-will-tell | Jeffrey Archer | |
| feb9b3c | He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his. | Maya Angelou | ||
| c46d174 | In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. | fear freedom life lonliness love pain poetry | Maya Angelou | |
| 5b97a6f | One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 10c41e9 | May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle? | Garth Nix | ||
| 78dd025 | The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble. | Garth Nix | ||
| 44e0d08 | Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death. | old-one | Garth Nix | |
| 68b80d2 | just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 631d2f4 | Perfectly prepared to be an eavesdropper but unwilling to look like one, Philippa backed quickly towards the door and collided, hard, with an unseen person striding forward equally fast into the room. There was a hiss, more than echoed by herself as the breath was struck from her body. Then two cool, friendly hands held and steadied her, one on her shoulder and one on her flat waist, and a low voice said, 'Admirable Philippa. I always enter.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 0900e5c | Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked. | naked wrestling | George R.R. Martin | |
| 1a19270 | Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too." "I'm not so sure of that," he says. "What does it feel like?" "Having a soul?" I look at Maxine, but she only shrugs. "I don't know," I tell Pelly. "I don't have anything to compare it to- you know, what not having a sould would feel like." We fall into a kind of awkward silence. I don't know about the others, but I'm working on what a soul is and not coming up with a who.. | soul thoughts | Charles deLint | |
| 99f8987 | That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die! | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 47c2e30 | I am not alone in this. I only let him do to me what men have ever done to women: march off to empty glory and hollow acclaim and leave us behind to pick up the pieces. The broken cities, the burned barns, the innocent injured beasts, the ruined bodies of the boys we bore and the men we lay with. The waste of it. I sit here, and I look at him, and it is as if a hundred women sit beside me: the revolutionary farm wife, the English peasant wo.. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| cf8f70c | There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 027741e | I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home. | passion | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 05aa2a9 | All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. | harpist morgon patricia-mckillip riddle-master | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 4589a33 | To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly." | silence silent voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| a8c90be | You give me a great desire to love. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| aea5a1b | They laid me down again while somebody fetched a stretcher. As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was done for. I had never heard of a man or an animal getting a bullet through the middle of the neck and surviving it. The blood was dribbling out of the comer of my mouth. 'The artery's gone,' I thought. I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut; not many minutes, pres.. | George Orwell | ||
| de90221 | At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war. | humor the-princess-bride war | William Goldman | |
| 1a112d5 | We are men of action. Lies do not become us. -- Westley | William Goldman | ||
| cd53424 | At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret? | Jess Walter | ||
| ce68803 | All we have is the story we tell. | Jess Walter | ||
| e9dbcc6 | We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters. | clone-wars darman-skirata etain-tur-mukan karen-traviss republic-commando self-sacrifice star-wars | Karen Traviss | |
| 8dccaea | Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you turned twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time. | Heather O'Neill |