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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a174ed3 | I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 6181ba3 | I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 5e735a0 | I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can't quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is,.. | self-hatred | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 8d45af6 | Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. | inspirational | Jim Henson | |
| 46bee04 | According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people | inspirational thought-provoking | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7fc6b5d | The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4145f14 | falling in love could be achieved in a single word--a glance. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 8d7ff6d | People should say what they mean and not make other people stumble around. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 01d252e | It's easy to talk about things we hate, but sometimes it's hard to explain exactly why we like something. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 44a6307 | Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. | memories tales share lose remember | Mitch Albom | |
| bc191d1 | Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. | literature sacredness quality | Günter Grass | |
| 341bdef | I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f534819 | I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are. | harry-potter humor molly-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6423592 | If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. | on-writing | Stephen King | |
| 25a54d0 | What the hell is ? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain particularly instantaneous. | truth | John Green | |
| b82734a | I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born. | inspirational | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 77d6993 | You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 7cd5e30 | Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. | wanda | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 57b26f3 | I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. | humor disgruntlement | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 7bd734c | The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 450e9e0 | Love simply is. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d288ac9 | It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed.. | feelings depression love outrage emotions forgiveness | Andrew Solomon | |
| 59ce071 | She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would've done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out--your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboa.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a3f0782 | My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 4b5b400 | Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. | Erich Fromm | ||
| c788590 | I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| afeb182 | This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I thought Helios and Selene were the sun and moon gods. How come sometimes it's them and sometimes it's you and Artemis?" "Downsizing," Apollo said. "The Romans started it. They couldn't afford all those temple sacrifices, so they laid off Helios and Selene and folded their duties into our job descriptions. My sis got the moon. I got the sun. It .. | artemis nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| 22ec68e | We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one. | life inspirational | Tom Hiddleston | |
| 1e894f6 | When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 22e3feb | The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom. | suicide | Sylvia Plath | |
| c757074 | Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7c8ee71 | I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. | love longing | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 42aabd9 | I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1963d8d | Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 376c9c3 | You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus." | names the-fault-in-our-stars perception | John Green | |
| 7127472 | He forced his fists to unclench. "Look, lady, we're not going to go all Hunger Games on each other. Isn't going to happen." | rick-riordan leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 2c42a9f | Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic. | son-of-neptune heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson hazel-levesque | Rick Riordan | |
| 3d1fdfe | If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. | seasons winter life inspirational appreciation adversity spring hardship prosperity | Anne Bradstreet | |
| 0c1282c | Anything under God's control is never out of control. | jesus relationship god hope inspirational | Charles Swindoll | |
| 9393ca4 | Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain | inspirational common-sense | Henry Ford | |
| 1336b14 | 4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty & singularity of opinion... shake off all the fears & servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. . You will naturally examine first, the religion of your own country. Read the Bible, then as you would read or . The facts which are within the ordinary course of nature, you will .. | inspiration science book-of-joshua examine joshua livy tacitus critical-examination contradiction divine-inspiration new-testament inquiry testimony evidence probability supernatural | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 3fea6f5 | There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry - This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll - How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul. | words literature reading poetry | Emily Dickinson | |
| 0b60528 | The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3a522af | I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity. | Paul Auster |