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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b937c7 | So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max" | maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 79e5e54 | You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3525693 | For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more te.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| f07509b | Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. | Libba Bray | ||
| 1b28af3 | there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personali.. | ellis | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 5c78852 | It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed | philosphy mystery soul | Thomas Moore | |
| bc21a20 | The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 06157b2 | People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. | marriage nature force-of-nature matrimony self-deception pleasure | Thomas Hardy | |
| 820ccab | Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know? | John Green | ||
| 2dad68d | If you come, you better come in force because I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake, my aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die." I jammed my knife into the table and walked out." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9ff7fea | And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her. | divergent tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 830015d | What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory .. | humanity | Michael Crichton | |
| 0289df7 | Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. | faith | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 0a0ac5c | I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments. | fiction personal-insight rob-gordon dark-humor | Nick Hornby | |
| 9e69a22 | The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out. | right-thing obvious | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 4065e8d | Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feat.. | Jane Austen | ||
| 3206aa4 | All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death. | gender-roles | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7af5284 | You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. "Above such brutality, are you?" "We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom," Dumbledore said calmly. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit --" "There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" snarled Voldemort. "You are quite wrong," said Dumbledore, speaking as lightly as though they were discussing the matter over .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2083705 | Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 20e5f3c | Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. | time philosophy impermanence mujō 無常 stillness insight | David Foster Wallace | |
| b0bd938 | You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why. | love | John Green | |
| 8a68abc | They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. | leaving final regret | John Irving | |
| 9b032bd | The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing. | love inspirational timing | Joshua Harris | |
| ae5fb5b | There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what t.. | inspirational | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 30b60a4 | There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first. | magik power-of-words | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2b8aa43 | Dawson shifted, dropping his head into his hand. "Do you ever stop talking?" "When I'm sleeping," Blake replied. "And when you're dead," Daemon threw back. "You'll stop talking when you're dead." Blake's lips thinned. "Point taken." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cd43961 | Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route. | Tom Robbins | ||
| f56f0b8 | With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ce3b242 | Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? | want more palahniuk dissatisfaction lullaby consumerism | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 6643e9c | I don't like lollipops. | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| baa913c | There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind. | William Goldman | ||
| 5fb528f | The key to a successful relationship isn't just in the words, it's in the choice of punctuation. When you're in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations. | David Levithan | ||
| b94ff23 | Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 584d430 | When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect y.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 84d5e42 | The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 01f28a1 | Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked....You're not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as tryin.. | not-baz-luhrmann not-kurt-vonnegut think | Mary Schmich | |
| 1a3226f | We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| b8f2646 | Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much? | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 0c24917 | You're not getting away from me. Never again." - Percy" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 18fdf62 | To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| f1f2fee | Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky | John Grogan | ||
| 4c4a61f | It is not such a hard thing, is it - to die for your friends. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3e07206 | So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon'tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I'veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme.... There was a time when it wasn't uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to the.. | love poignant | Nicole Krauss | |
| 78e43f2 | This world is but canvas to our imaginations. | Henry David Thoreau |