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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 77c308c | The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 1ed5e53 | Why do I care so much about him, and why do I wish I didn't? How can one person make me so confused all of the time? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 53ab87b | talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. | hard-work humility talent | Patrick Süskind | |
| d531f82 | Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a0c99f2 | Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2cb1263 | It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ee1cea5 | You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 18ba9ac | Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do? | cinder marissa-meyer | Marissa Meyer | |
| 643a7c7 | There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0dd3126 | Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful. | inspirational metamorphosis | Sarah Ockler | |
| 76a7a1c | I've had many enemies over the years. If there's one thing I've learned, it's never engage in a fight you're sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you're in a position of strength--even if you no longer need to strike back. | inspirational enemies-and-opposition | Steig Larson | |
| d16981d | Always be yourself, there's no one better! | inspirational | Selena Gomez | |
| c681dff | The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves. | Roald Dahl | ||
| d593e10 | Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another. | love respect | Simone Elkeles | |
| fbf31db | When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cc28d29 | Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as...amazing somehow. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9b7ecf2 | And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 5d88a5d | If I must fall, may it be from a high place. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 17718a2 | Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. | psyche | Paulo Coelho | |
| ec82f9a | I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. | truth wisdom self-destruction self-mutilation | Hermann Hesse | |
| f29d935 | If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 62239c4 | O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude... | poetry rectitude minds invisible dead memory | George Eliot | |
| e2c6467 | The Genius Of The Crowd there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach peace do not have peace those who preach peace do not have love beware the preachers beware t.. | genius | Charles Bukowski | |
| 250a332 | No, not you two. Stay here.' 'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.' 'You really want to go first?' 'Of course no. But I'd like the chance to to go first. | morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 62b4f04 | Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and l.. | library writing bible science bitter childish-beliefs guides invade uneducated unimaginative unthinking guide childish leader leaders imagine ignore home resentment ignorance shame thought the-bible school | Isaac Asimov | |
| a04e2c5 | You don't have to stay anywhere forever. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7bc3a5f | High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up. | Stephen King | ||
| 52bd60f | Entropy increases. Things fall apart. | John Green | ||
| 3a7f8e3 | Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered--all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who had pulled the night watch. Frank's Vancouver Winter Olympics shirt was inside out. Percy wore pajama pants and a bronze breastplate, which was an interesting fashion statement. Hazel's hair was all blown to one side as though she'd walked through a cyclone; and Leo had accidentally set himself on f.. | piper-mclean percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena frank-zhang hazel-levesque the-heroes-of-olympus leo-valdez fashion | Rick Riordan | |
| a5312a5 | The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 27fe44e | A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. | inspirational oscar-wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
| 65a06cd | Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. | inner-peace | Thomas Jefferson | |
| faa8ad4 | So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ac0d8a7 | I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ , Oct. 10, 1842]" | nature sunshine | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| fed39c3 | God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change. | strength serenity-prayer | Dan Brown | |
| b62f603 | I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours. | love pronouncements-of-love | Jane Austen | |
| 105b2af | Life is wasted on the living. | inspirational | Douglas Adams | |
| e02500b | We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered. | travel | Kahlil Gibran | |
| d6512a4 | That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them. | loneliness | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 5dd9db7 | Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| ce02025 | Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan. | sex relationships romance | David Sedaris | |
| 10a4837 | and you invented me and I invented you and that's why we don't get along on this bed any longer. you were the world's greatest invention until you flushed me away. now it's your turn to wait for the touch of the handle. somebody will do it to you, bitch, and if they don't you will - mixed with your own green or yellow or white or blue or lavender goodbye. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 0190e1c | Come on, Iko." Iko was still hiding, hugging herself self-consciously. "Is he looking?" Kai raised an eyebrow. "He's not looking," said Cinder. A hesitation. "Are you sure?" Cinder gestured exasperatedly at Kai. "You're ." He cast his eyes to the ceiling. "Oh, for all the stars." Crossing his arms, he turned his back on them." | iko kai | Marissa Meyer | |
| 4eae0d5 | My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. | truth | Charlaine Harris |