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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b8aafa2 | The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. | lies truth | Holly Black | |
| 410f599 | We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. | David Mitchell | ||
| ce88092 | It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. | inspirational | Ray Bradbury | |
| f6ff96a | I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. | humor pessimism | P. G. Wodehouse | |
| 24584db | Max!' Nudge cried, rushing over to hug me. Her thin arms gripped me tight, and I hugged her back, scratching her wings where they joined her shoulders, the way she liked. 'We were so worried--I didn't know what had happened to you, and we didn't know what to do, and Fang said we going to eat rats, and--' 'Okay, okay. Everything's okay,' I told her. I met Fang's eyes over her shoulder and mouthed silently. A flicker of a grin crossed his l.. | James Patterson | ||
| eef0ad2 | I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don't talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me. A place that I hate. I am alone. Alone here and alone in the world. Alone in my heart and alone in my mind. Alone everywhere, all the time, for as long as I can remember. Alone with my Family, alone with my friends, alone in a Room full of People. Alone.. | James Frey | ||
| 8584012 | It's the choosing that's important, isn't it? | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0c92f10 | I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air." | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 0b4c628 | Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. | living eating eating-disorders | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 320044b | Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us--long-range radar, still not in sight." Piper leaned over the console. "Are you sure they're Roman?" Leo rolled his eyes. "No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they're Roman!" | piper-mclean percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena the-heroes-of-olympus leo-valdez sarcasm | Rick Riordan | |
| 603bc92 | He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato. | sex | Terry Pratchett | |
| 578617d | Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them. | keep-your-promises leadership trust inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational consistency leader leaders | Roy T. Bennett | |
| ba2c2b5 | As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's. I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most horses. I told him. The horse said. I protested. Usually this gets me VIP treatment in the equestrian world, not this time. The horse agreed enthusiastically. The other horses chi.. | humor horse seafood poseidon percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 86821e5 | This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me. | writing creative-imagination inner-world world-building creative-process | Kafka Franz | |
| 00c2e17 | I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge? I am supposed to love Nick despite all his shortcomings. And Nick is supposed to love me despite my quirks. But clearly, neither of us does. It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love sh.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b84485c | You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. | poetry strength | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 982a1f9 | The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3112702 | That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 285b341 | Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. | Betty Smith | ||
| 1aa4f14 | It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ffbe1a0 | Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 025a5f4 | Shane looked down at the staked vamp at his feet. 'Claire?' 'Yes?' 'You staked a vampire with a number two pencil.' 'I didn't actually check the number.' 'Have I told you lately how freaking awesome you are?' She tried to smile, but her heart was fluttering in her chest now, and not in a good way. 'Compliments later. We really need to get out of here and get to the car. Any ideas?' 'Find another pencil and I'll pin this one down, too,' Mich.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 581c87a | I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect. | respect | Mary Balogh | |
| 830ada3 | I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| c8011b9 | I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. | romance | Stephen Chbosky | |
| f1fae94 | There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow. | storm | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 78a0650 | Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? | relationships family parents | Rick Riordan | |
| 8c4410f | Progress just means bad things happen faster. | philosphy humor life truth | Terry Pratchett | |
| 60ca149 | For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. | learning life inspirational learning-by-doing doing practice | Aristotle | |
| db9fb6d | Laughter is carbonated holiness. | laughter humor inspirational | Anne Lamott | |
| 96d6ba1 | To be in your children's memories tomorrow | inspirational parenting | Barbara Johnson | |
| 6f73239 | Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e81c34c | Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 44dd592 | How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ca293b1 | I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2f5384d | Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 733df0d | Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right. | Libba Bray | ||
| 612e9d8 | The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good." -- | tragedy war hitler | John Fowles | |
| 4d39439 | What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? | environmental-protection possessions environment materialism | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4c13dbb | I wished she'd never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me. | hugging | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 0a0a386 | love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die | E. E. Cummings | ||
| 2bd4107 | I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me. | religion solipsism arrogance atheism modesty | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 590d4fc | God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often | King Stephen | ||
| f23c604 | The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely. | philosophy mental-illness | John Green |