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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6bc71e3 | You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5933b37 | Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 0123c39 | I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy... | recovery | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 9f49591 | We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write. | writing write readers stories | Neil Gaiman | |
| 4bc82ba | Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too. | geography sunset sun | S.E. Hinton | |
| dcb9a1a | And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't. | humor inspirational | Stephen Chbosky | |
| e53f5ed | Only the gentle are ever really strong. | inspirational actor movies | James Dean | |
| 75fc63f | If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? | inspirational | RuPaul | |
| df81585 | Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| a3b300c | If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying. | scarlett unrequited-love | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 136251d | You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7854347 | Ask us no questions and we'll tell you no lies. | humor fred-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 84177dc | Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst." | Voltaire | ||
| 51369e0 | When Kai fell silent, she risked a glance at him. He was staring at her hands [which she always holds mechanic gloves over to hide her...you know, cyborg hands]... "Do you ever take those off?" he asked. "No." Kai tilted his head, peering at her as if he could see right through to the metal plate in her head..."I think you should go to the ball with me." She clutched her fingers..."Stars," she muttered. "Didn't you already asked me that?" ".. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| c43692b | A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. | men women guesses certainty gender | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 7ed3c7e | We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. | love four tris touch | Veronica Roth | |
| 07a031e | It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4dba5f0 | Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 11ee596 | I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference | selfish-love obsession | Ayn Rand | |
| 64b1a38 | Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. | pain suffering withstand | James Frey | |
| acb3f39 | You must be the best judge of your own happiness. | Jane Austen | ||
| 2858828 | Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6e76d1a | Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me--" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times--" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand--" | harry-potter humor hermione-granger ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| d53c246 | I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 5acac0e | Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel. | inspirational | T.S. Eliot | |
| 522c637 | Do your best and let God do the rest. | god inspirational best | Ben Carson | |
| e9211f5 | How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. | relationships love | Margaret Atwood | |
| a2452bb | He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion." | lion | C.S. Lewis | |
| 9489b55 | So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 9c47795 | Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 99a978b | She had lied to him. She had wanted to save lives, yes. But she had gone out there with no intention of saving her own. | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e30e781 | I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 58630cb | You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail. | David Levithan | ||
| fed88c4 | Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 5239cac | She's got an indiscreet voice," I remarked. "It's full of-" I hesitated. "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| ba1fe92 | Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up." | Rick Riordan | ||
| b781c25 | Apollo?" I guessed... He put a finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." A god named Fred?" | olympians gods percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 148e1f2 | I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet. | inspirational | Natsuki Takaya | |
| dcd7e10 | A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. | Jane Austen | ||
| 21ddacb | Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. | youth life the-rescue nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 7186957 | I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English .. | humorous boring-books | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| d8a1c1f | I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had be.. | america humor truth fourth-commandment profane the-lord country sabbath profanity new-hampshire minister church secular superstition | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 6e375d1 | Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody -- but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. | individuality | e.e. cummings | |
| 9134ca2 | If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;! | philosophical ataraxy fathers-and-sons coming-of-age | Rudyard Kipling |