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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 0fe1a9b | The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 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. | literature poetry reading words | Emily Dickinson | |
| 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 .. | book-of-joshua contradiction critical-examination divine-inspiration evidence examine inquiry inspiration joshua livy new-testament probability science supernatural tacitus testimony | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 94b2343 | With writing, we have second chances. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 5f30173 | You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn't do without you. The rub is that you don't always know who. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| dd16247 | I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. | augustus augustus-waters can-t have i love true why | John Green | |
| d30d21c | Aretmis gripped her bow. "Let us pray I am wrong." Can goddesses pray?" | goddess goddesses gods percy-jackson | rick riordan | |
| f0b4910 | If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to. | inspirational success work | Jim Henson | |
| af0c002 | Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. | inspirational lifelong-learning | Albert Einstein | |
| 577b92f | She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equi.. | Betty Smith | ||
| ed56804 | Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think." | sorry | Libba Bray | |
| 662b540 | I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5e6b764 | All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone! | Jane Austen | ||
| 9a62d8a | Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March) | hurt mean meanness | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 3e98058 | Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they will say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. Frodo was very brave, wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and th.. | tales | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 24cc82a | Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. | taoism | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| 9bd4f54 | One should never save cake for later when it can be eaten now. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| f9e54b4 | Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. | ernest-hemingway love | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 372415a | Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4701886 | The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever. | forever infinity love paradox time universe | Craig Ferguson | |
| 1dcc3c8 | Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain." Ditto." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 9a73e16 | Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 415cd23 | Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there. | authentic-living conviction enthusiasm inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes living-on-purpose motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic passion positive positive-affirmation | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 7fddb7d | It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are. | Agatha Christie | ||
| addcb4a | When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. | past | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 5880c1e | Without music, life would be a blank to me. | music | Jane Austen | |
| fece87e | Let us be elegant or die! | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 2ebf42c | When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways. | David Levithan | ||
| edf3d2d | But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 606f433 | Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember...I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things -- terrible, yes, but great. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| abdc7e5 | When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato' -- meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absol.. | beauty belief book books children-s-books offense philip-pullman value wisdom young-adult | Philip Pullman | |
| e0a934b | It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.... | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 27f9a61 | So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me. And the accident, the suicide, would never be anything else, and I was left to ask, Did I help you to a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I jsut assist in your willful self-destruction? .. | John Green | ||
| cdc858b | I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head. | muffin uriah | Veronica Roth | |
| 7decfc8 | At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. | literature reading words | Alberto Manguel | |
| 49e9a76 | Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?" "Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters." | funny humor leo-valdez love | Rick Riordan | |
| 724791d | One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. | influence inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 79a6793 | Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. | inspirational reading wisdom | Socrates | |
| 53e9fd6 | Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| cd74424 | If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 2725762 | I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger)" | jack-travis male manly sex sexy | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 4b5f701 | Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. | Jane Austen | ||
| 30d6759 | All's well that ends better. | J.R.R. Tolkien |