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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6d725a | We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able. | lies friendship love chances intstalove-done-right scarlet lunar-chronicles wolf protection | Marissa Meyer | |
| fc91e3b | Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. | religion fundamentalism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| afaf12f | You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 3804528 | Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude of your own room, you should awaken and the drunkenn.. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 35b16d9 | These violent delights have violent ends. | wisdom suddenness | William Shakespeare | |
| d75e1ca | Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars. | stars light hope inspirational hopeful-and-encouraging hopeful | Carrie Hope Fletcher | |
| 6ebf849 | Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves. | James Joyce | ||
| ad93431 | Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. | abuse carefree child-abuse nightmares childhood soul | Dave Pelzer | |
| ad52d54 | For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d866eb1 | But how," said Charles, who was close to tears, "how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?' Henry lit a cigarette. "I prefer to think of it," he had said, "as redistribution of matter." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1442cec | I was with book, as a woman is with child. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 5802cc4 | If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. | universe meaning | C.S. Lewis | |
| 97a001c | Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact! | eve-rosser michael-glass morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 019bce1 | Hell,' Shane spit in disgust. 'I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.' He tossed her the bat. | violence-towards-women monica morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 77a7320 | My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads. | reading | A.J. Jacobs | |
| 5e7b53f | It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 9fa4148 | 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. -Aphrodite | love inspirational | Rick Riordan | |
| ab3d0ba | What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 101525b | If you have to dry the dishe | inspirational | Shel Silverstein | |
| ecb7372 | Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy --the joy of being Salvador Dali-- and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dali going to accomplish today? | be-yourself humor inspirational art | Salvador Dalí | |
| dc38328 | I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 575bd5d | I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.' | understanding writing spirituality spiritual difficulty possibility atheist sarcasm | Philip Pullman | |
| e959f2d | When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. | revenge | Jodi Picoult | |
| d5c4917 | Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you. | love | Francine Rivers | |
| 0016d82 | Fang's hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair again, so softly, and then trailed across my neck and shoulder and down my back, making me shiver. I looked up. 'What the heck are you ' 'Helping you change your mind,' he whispered, and then he leaned over, tilted my chin up, and kissed me. | maxride | James Patterson | |
| dded11e | Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. | work vacation rest break peace | Maya Angelou | |
| 5edc0d6 | Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand. | Dan Brown | ||
| 9075ded | If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. | bell hooks | ||
| 6a4d04c | Black as night, sweet as sin. | coffee boys | Neil Gaiman | |
| 584bd0a | I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done. | John Green | ||
| a8aa3ad | Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 1c7eb37 | What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you. | be-yourself inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living life-philosophy | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 833e66c | Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. | inspirational | Brandon Sanderson | |
| 166081d | The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. | inspirational | Abraham Verghese | |
| 896a014 | God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one | faith love inspirational confusion | Rumi | |
| d1e379a | Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. | happy happiness inspirational | Hafez | |
| be3b370 | Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2c66172 | He was hers and she was his and they had found each other across centuries of bloodshed and loss, across oceans and kingdoms and war. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f0addb7 | I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 76d013c | Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. "All right- PLEASE." "NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage." | harry-potter funny humor please peeves | J.K. Rowling | |
| a9c4503 | whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 8e7c42a | I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread. You never bake bread, he wrote, and we were still joking. Then it's like I woke up and baked bread, I said, and we were joking even then. I wondered will there come a time when we won't be joking? And what would it look like? And how would that feel? When I was a girl, my life was music that was alw.. | growing-up | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| cde7806 | I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. | leave-a-mark van-houten-being-a-douche scars | John Green | |
| f112ae4 | Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |