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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f9fbfc | Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive. | rain love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 2fe6d8a | No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I wan.. | mourning loneliness grief loss fear restlessness | C.S. Lewis | |
| 7285220 | But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the.. | love from pray | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c5abc82 | If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 5df8463 | Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 7834024 | The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 1818727 | Annabeth's voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her--a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without. | percabeth percy | Rick Riordan | |
| 2af2a56 | But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d9e195c | The cruelest lies are often told in silence. | silence | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| ce72460 | We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1520b14 | My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. | sex | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 7922a6a | You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer." | diplomacy | Jim Butcher | |
| e9569d3 | It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that? | Meg Cabot | ||
| f130840 | That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 002e130 | You're such a pain in the ass. (Butch) Said the SIG to the Glock. (V) | humor vampire | J.R. Ward | |
| 8a0c748 | Can I ask why you're throwing knives at cheese?' 'Caleb came by to discuss something,' Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. 'And knife-throwing just came up somehow.' 'As it so often does,' I say, a small smile inching across my face. | Veronica Roth | ||
| f93ef76 | In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh . . . ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue?] | Rick Riordan | ||
| bc661d4 | But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily | beauty love inspirational | Rick Riordan | |
| 2dc802d | You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory. | challenged denied discouraged history destiny motivational inspirational beaten defeated betrayed victim hurt | Steve Maraboli | |
| d525996 | The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think? | crowd lonely | Christine Feehan | |
| 30236fc | Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about my.. | memory | Haruki Murakami | |
| b7899b5 | We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine. | light life | E.M. Forster | |
| 314c0e1 | The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d190bed | Yeah, but the lost diadem," said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, "is , Luna. That's sort of the point." | humor michael-corner ravenclaw luna-lovegood lost | J.K. Rowling | |
| b67b01a | Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four. | prisoner-of-azkaban j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| d0f5cfe | But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. | life inspirational thoughtful | George Eliot | |
| aa37bf8 | It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. | Mary Stewart | ||
| b45ae59 | Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing? | philosophy | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| fb46759 | If what's always distinguished bad writing--flat characters, a narrative world that's cliched and not recognizably human, etc.--is also a description of today's world, then bad writing becomes an ingenious mimesis of a bad world. If readers simply believe the world is stupid and shallow and mean, then [Bret] Ellis can write a mean shallow stupid novel that becomes a mordant deadpan commentary on the badness of everything. Look man, we'd pro.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| fd338d1 | A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." | universe poetry meaning purpose | Stephen Crane | |
| 513af98 | So okay-- there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. | writing | Stephen King | |
| 24fb515 | Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 7f8c0af | She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b224fae | Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation- the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "im.. | hopelessness intelligence ambivalent implausible inner-conflict opposing-views impossible hopeless | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 9360ad5 | I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 31c134f | The only French word I know is oui, which means "yes," and only recently did I learn it's spelled o- u- i and not w- e- e." | humor | Stephanie Perkins | |
| b26f33f | A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. | society | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| a64f7a0 | For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words. | Tolkien J.R.R. | ||
| bf253e3 | Dance with me, Celaena," he said again, his voice rough. When her eyes met his she forgot about the cold, and the moon, and the glass palace looming above them. The secret library and the king's plans and Mort and Elena faded into nothing. She took his hand and there was only the music and Chaol." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| fd86929 | I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time. That I did not have time with you, Nesta. I will find you in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. I promise. | nesta | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 03f618f | L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. | true-love passion love | Dante Alighieri | |
| 4bea617 | The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| ff7267b | There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pur whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay down, do you want t.. | charles bukowski | ||
| 8f81c64 | The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. | wisdom life-experience | William Blake |