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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
6e37d65 | Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars. | Haruki Murakami | ||
94af872 | You have my whole heart. You always did. | love fidelity | Cormac McCarthy | |
0f6c6f5 | Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. | equivocation gildor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
9dfd713 | There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. | Herman Melville | ||
940b868 | Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said. | quietness | Nicholas Sparks | |
c0893a2 | Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
da24122 | Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. | Paulo Coelho | ||
13dd19e | There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely." "Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school." | humor medical paranormal-romance vampires | J.R. Ward | |
b9cb079 | Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something." "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows. "They are brought into being by sheer force of will," the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. "Didn't you know that, Tobias?" "No, I wasn't aware." He grins. "My apologies." | tobias-eaton | Veronica Roth | |
cbc4408 | But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again th.. | grief sadness happiness love inspirational forbidden quietness laws | Arundhati Roy | |
ebb0988 | I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. | Robert Frost | ||
82c3c6d | Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after. | Annie Dillard | ||
a1456ea | You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure." | projection misogyny sexism | John Berger | |
72efc02 | I love you," I said, and stabbed him." -- | love stabbed tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
a0eb025 | And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face. | percy-weasley ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
102b7cf | Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor !' 'But you Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him .... | harry-potter humor hogwarts jk-rowling nineteen-years-later neville epilogue professor later deathly-hallows school | J.K. Rowling | |
9d133b4 | Every real story is a never ending story. | Michael Ende | ||
023b2f2 | I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably quest.. | reason 9-11-01 99-percent fox-news globalism media-barons media-of-the-united-states nostradamus occupy-wall-street outsourcing rupert-murdoch proud-ignorance predictions evangelicalism future-prediction prediction atheism media reality-tv mysticism | Carl Sagan | |
21415a7 | I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. | lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft | |
1ebb8ca | The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company. | John Green | ||
fe019e0 | And, whoa!" He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way!" Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. "The wine dude?" "Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine!" "My figurine." "In my game, Mythomagic. And holofoil card, too! And even though you've only got like five hundred attack points and everybody thinks your the lamest god card, I totally think your powers are sweet!" "Ah." Mr.D seemed truly perplexe.. | humor mythomagic nico-diangelo dionysus | Rick Riordan | |
dcdee52 | Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?" | Rick Riordan | ||
2e79628 | Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. | shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
acee8fa | To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. | trying learning 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 fearless | Roy T. Bennett | |
f011e65 | Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. | life inspirational | Sarah Kay | |
aa3c129 | That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. | inspirational unusual weird random | L. Frank Baum | |
b932d81 | The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine. | apotheosis inspirational | Dan Brown | |
9f5f257 | Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running--that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's .. | happiness | Jack Kerouac | |
be882b6 | When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back. | darkness acomaf feyre | Sarah J. Maas | |
d32eed8 | A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward.. | James Joyce | ||
eec6566 | I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should. | love-story die | John Green | |
0405034 | So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost | poetry | John Green | |
3d5a639 | We look up at the same stars and see such different things. | George R.R. Martin | ||
6e715b1 | We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're v.. | suicide | Michael Cunningham | |
6de30c6 | I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months' time, I'll be far away and he'll be just a memory, but I couldn't stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit... Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meeting are waiting for .. | youth | Paulo Coelho | |
39c6926 | Instructions for freedom": 1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions. 2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go. 3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go. 4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in th.. | life let-go | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
18c08c0 | A kiss from the Captain would probably melt my central processor." Thorne winked at her. "Oh trust me. It would." | thorne | Marissa Meyer | |
6bfa73d | Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker | memory | Bram Stoker | |
12a400e | He knew he was being overbearing as hell, but he couldn't help it. He was a bonded male. With his pregnant female. There were few things on the planet more aggressive or dangerous. And those bastards were called hurricanes and tornadoes. | bonded zsadist mates | J.R. Ward | |
5568531 | I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really." | Rick Riordan | ||
8f2800e | The lady doth protest too much, methinks. | William Shakespeare | ||
88bdc54 | It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires | inspirational | Clarissa Pinkola Estés | |
40fc615 | Insanity is contagious. | Joseph Heller | ||
21e99a8 | War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba" | war | Khaled Hosseini |