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| 111fa2e | When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would ve.. | feminism history women writing witches empowerment dignity social-norms suppression misogyny women-writers gender persecution | Virginia Woolf | |
| 374d60f | It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. | truth holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| 545b4ef | See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2446701 | By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more l.. | romance sookie-stackhouse vampire | Charlaine Harris | |
| af4a54a | I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9691d41 | The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has its own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dre.. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4af8552 | I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you. | romantic love inspirational | Dee Henderson | |
| 1d9117f | Anything is possible. Anything can be. | inspirational | Shel Silverstein | |
| 2f8c6af | I am who I am and I have the need to be. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 89c2dff | These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it... | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 56d64da | Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. | truth wisdom noah | Simone Elkeles | |
| c56435d | I trail my fingers across his cheek. He stays perfectly still for me. "Please stop apologizing, Etienne." "Say my name again," he whispers. I close my eyes and lean forward. "Etienne." He takes my hands into his.Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so. "Anna?" Our foreheads touch. "Yes?" "Will you please tell me you love me? I'm dying here." And then we're laughing. And then I'm in his arms, and we're kissing, at first quickly--to make u.. | etienne anna-and-the-french-kiss | Stephanie Perkins | |
| bd00ad6 | Start with the end in mind. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| e2541e6 | Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cabbfaa | There is a reason God limits our days.' 'Why?' 'To make each one precious. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3b43635 | Can't hear... call back... good luck..." "Nix, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. "Why?" "It seemed less rude than the alternative." | pleasure-of-a-dark-prince | Kresley Cole | |
| cec206d | Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?" "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned." | ravenclaw luna-lovegood | J.K. Rowling | |
| 63be969 | Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. | sadness | Charles Bukowski | |
| cc9d73b | There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon. | humor | Christopher Moore | |
| f8f28a1 | The baby bat Screamed out in fright, | dark light fear humor | Shel Silverstein | |
| 7e866fa | Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one." | Thomas Hardy | ||
| e84c49b | If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0b7b36d | A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2e69861 | The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer ... They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated in turn the arc of heaven and the round face of the earth ... [Then the Creator said]: 'They know all ... what shall we do .. | earth heaven intelligence sight creation-myth gods knowledge | Anonymous | |
| 9d9671b | What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? | destiny johnnie-marcone | Jim Butcher | |
| 60606c0 | Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c266c36 | It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 757c081 | it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. | karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace | Daisaku Ikeda | |
| 7cffe37 | I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like. | forgive-yourself acceptance-of-oneself inspirational-life inspirational-quotes love inspirational forgiveness | C. JoyBell C. | |
| e048620 | LAW 2 | motivational inspirational dicta | Robert Greene | |
| 6e0b7ea | Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 10cbf48 | Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used. | lies truth max-brooks world-war-z falsity | Max Brooks | |
| 8945c37 | You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c4224ec | Oh phosphorescence. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within -- is the genius behind poetry. | words light poetry | William Luce | |
| 0cb71d5 | Anna prods St. Clair's shoulder. "Come on. Weren't you gonna show me that thing?" "What thing?" She stares at him. He stares back. She cocks her head toward Cricket and me. "Ah, yes." St. Clair stands. "That thing." They rush out. The door shuts, and St. Clair shouts, "Lola, Cricket wants to show you his thing, too-oo!" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 441bb9f | I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be. | Joyce Meyers | ||
| f7bcb40 | One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life. | persistence inspirational mistakes | Joyce Meyer | |
| 192d382 | A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. | lion sheep tywin-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| c9af1d7 | Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happ.. | depression anomie | Jonathan Franzen | |
| fd9bcc7 | We're all a broken, in our own ways - In places no one might see. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5b33b43 | Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on." | fun humor world-domination megalomania | Eoin Colfer | |
| f2c3cc7 | Our Headmaster is taking a short break,' said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e42d7ef | Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5cc1e3f | Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. | Joseph Campbell |