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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 5e42576 | I'm not laughing." I was actually crying. "And please don't laugh at me now, but I think the reason it's so hard for me to get over this guy is because I seriously believed David was my soul mate. "He probably was. Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you bac.. | Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat Pray Love. | ||
| c8cae74 | She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is. | David Levithan | ||
| dd34a60 | If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| e02be85 | Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house." -- | John Green | ||
| 1fb8630 | Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| c62f8c9 | Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?" "Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do." | Veronica Roth | ||
| bc3e7df | If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 31f0c7b | She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly--our painful souvenir from holding Atlas's burden. There was a lot I'd wanted to say to Annabeth, but Athena had taken the confidence out of me. I felt like I'd been punched in the gut. "So," Annabeth said. "What did you want to tell me earlier?" The music was playing. People were dancing in the streets. I said, "I, uh, was thinking we got i.. | athena percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 5f36ccc | People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. | good-and-evil temptation wickedness | Terry Pratchett | |
| e8d256b | I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that's not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn't long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, .. | inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspirational | C. JoyBell C. | |
| b75e12d | Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time. | inspirational | Rabindranath Tagore | |
| 3f0688c | The doubters said | bruce-lee doubters inspirational | Bruce Lee | |
| f04bf72 | I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2432fb2 | Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. | Italo Calvino | ||
| fabc9ac | She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a03593e | Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8206d1b | They lived and laughed and loved and left. | James Joyce | ||
| 5f6e3ee | I Am Vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up minerals and motherly love So that each March I may gleam into leaf, Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted, Unknowing I must soon unpetal. Compared with me, a tree is immortal And a flower-head not tall, but more startling, And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring. Tonight, in th.. | tree | Sylvia Plath | |
| fe52039 | Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 46d7aa3 | This is home. The two of us. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| a824746 | There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. | travel openmindedness | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 9b8a1b1 | when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. | pain memory pleasure | Jane Austen | |
| 88128ae | According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, rig.. | thought-provoking | Haruki Murakami | |
| 95f97c6 | 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." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a9ed738 | Memory is the happiness of being alone. | memory | Lois Lowry | |
| 0daa615 | He'd known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not. | heartbreak sad | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ca83128 | You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony. | humor harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 200bd55 | People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b7f6d1d | Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. | prejudice reason | Harper Lee | |
| a83290d | But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all." | hope cheshire impossible | Marissa Meyer | |
| a0d3904 | I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 5404301 | Blessed are the dumbfucks. | Christopher Moore | ||
| efc1123 | What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. | inspirational | Richard Bach | |
| f4df8f4 | It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5799042 | Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?" "Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was..." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 181fc4c | It must be because you're so approachable,' I say flatly. 'You know. Like a bed of nails.' He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice. Heat rushes into my cheeks. What will happen when this tension breaks? But he just says, 'Careful, Tris. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 30f77ee | I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. | stars truth | Natsuki Takaya | |
| e69a511 | In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. | literary-criticism | Terry Pratchett | |
| dc7a139 | You're tearin' my guts out, Claire. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c9edef5 | Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper,.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| a54f590 | Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood.. | tolkien theoden | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bb7a0df | TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. | Douglas Coupland |